Some weeks, the connection between the Sunday Mass readings is obvious. Perhaps the Old Testament reading is a clear foreshadowing or example of typology for the Gospel reading. Or all the readings point to a common theme, like the importance of a calling. Looking over the readings for this coming Sunday (Fourth Sunday of Lent, Year C), nothing immediately caught my attention. So I sat with them awhile.
In the first reading from the book of Joshua, the Israelites have just…