These reflections are a result of more than 40 years of ministry as a Roman Catholic priest. Most of these years I spent in the Diocese of Charlotte which covers Western North Carolina. Now I am retired, and live in Medellín, Colombia where I continue to serve as a priest in the Archdiocese of Medellín.

Friday, Week IV, Lent

So they tried to arrest him, but no one laid a hand upon him, because his hour had not yet come. (Jn 7:1-2, 10, 25-30)
https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/031524.cfm
What is this “hour” that the gospel speaks of? It is the hour of his glorification . . . the hour of his Passion when he is lifted up on the Cross and God’s redeeming love is revealed.