Jesus is teaching the crowd and his disciples about following those who do not live up to the high ideals of their religious faith. Dr Martin Luther King spoke about an intellectual and spiritual blindness that afflicts even good people. Good people, religious people can be intellectually and spiritually blind. The Gospel reading today challenges us to look carefully at our lives in light of the Gospel.  This day we seek insight into the quality of our discipleship, in the light of the gospel demands, 

Prayer:
Saturday of the Fifth Week of Lent
O God, who have made all those reborn in Christ
a chosen race, a royal priesthood,
grant us, we pray, the grace to will and to do what you command,
that the people called to eternal life
may be one in the faith of their hearts
and the homage of their deeds.
Through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son,
who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit,
one God, for ever and ever.
Amen.