Episode 15: Lent 3 & 4, 2024

In this episode of Working the Lectionary, your hosts John Bottomley and Brendan Byrne utilize readings from the Gospel According to John for weeks 3 and 4 of the season of Lent. For week 3, we examine how the violent Jesus who clears the Temple is God's response to the idolatrous corruption that makes what should be a means to an end an end in itself; and how this reflects the corruption of both the economic world and the world of work. For week 4, we reflect on the graciousness of God who, in the person of Christ and notwithstanding the corruption of the world, still makes God-self present to the world as an act of love; and how this act of loving presence calls the Church to do likewise instead of being co-opted by the concerns and measures of the ideology of success.

TRIGGER WARNING: This episode does contain some discussion of self-harm, suicide, and work-related death.

Theme music: Work Undone by Pearce Roswell. Available through Epidemic Music. Used under license. 

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