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2nd Sunday in Ordinary Time—19 January 2020 (YEAR A)
Some of us remember the provocative and frightening 1991 film Silence of the Lambs. The image in the title refers to a childhood memory of CIA agent, Clarice Starling. In her interviews with the psychopath Dr Lecter, he gets her to talk about how she still wakes at night hearing the cry of the lambs as they were led to slaughter on her uncle’s farm. This is a pivotal moment in Thomas Harris’ book and the film. It is the leverage Dr Lecter needs to unsettle and unravel Clarice’s wellformed defences. Clarice is revealed as vulnerable, because of the grief
she carries from the violent deaths she has seen.