From the 9:30am Mass on Sunday, March 17, 2024 at the National Shrine of the Little Flower Basilica in Royal Oak, the Fifth Sunday of Lent, Year B (but using the Year A readings).

My three points:

1. Incredulity
2. Our Artificial Lives
   • Although I don't name him or directly quote him, the basis of these thoughts come largely from the book John Senior and the Restoration of Realism.
3. Reality, Life!

Other Resources Quoted:

• Scott Hahn's Hope to Die: The Christian Meaning of Death and the Resurrection of the Body, particularly pp. 1-2.
• Pete Townshend's The Age of Anxiety, particularly pp. 113 & 129.