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Raul Garcia III 5th Sunday in Lent March 18, 2018 Let us pray: May the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be pleasing to you Lord, my rock and my redeemer. Amen. It’s interesting to read in our Gospel that they are having this festival and several groups have turned out and some of them want to see Jesus. As we read the gospel reading some Greeks came up to Philip and asked we wish to see Jesus. Even though they don't know in a few days Jesus will be crucified. But yet there were some people who still believed and thought Jesus was going to set up an earthly political kingdom. Others like the pharisees just disliked Jesus. Jesus was in the prime of his ministry. Blessings, miracles and all sorts of other things that people were taking notice. Makes you wonder why in the beginning of this Gospel text some Greeks wanted to see Jesus. They ask Philip, We wish to see Jesus. My feeling is that Jesus was striking a chord within different peo...