Fifth Sunday of Lent

Readings for the Year B Readings for the Fifth Sunday of Lent Reading I Ez 37:12-14 Thus says the Lord GOD:  O my people, I will open your graves  and have you rise from them,  and bring you back to the land of Israel. Then you shall know that I am the LORD,  when I … [Read more…]

Saturday of the Fourth Week of Lent

Reading I Jer 11:18-20 I knew their plot because the LORD informed me; at that time you, O LORD, showed me their doings. Yet I, like a trusting lamb led to slaughter, had not realized that they were hatching plots against me: “Let us destroy the tree in its vigor; let us cut him off … [Read more…]

Thursday of the Fourth Week of Lent

Reading I Ex 32:7-14 The LORD said to Moses, “Go down at once to your people whom you brought out of the land of Egypt, for they have become depraved. They have soon turned aside from the way I pointed out to them, making for themselves a molten calf and worshiping it, sacrificing to it … [Read more…]

Wednesday of the Fourth Week of Lent

Reading I Is 49:8-15     Thus says the LORD: In a time of favor I answer you,     on the day of salvation I help you;     and I have kept you and given you as a covenant to the people, To restore the land     and allot the desolate heritages, Saying to the prisoners: … [Read more…]

Tuesday of the Fourth Week of Lent

Reading I Ez 47:1-9, 12 The angel brought me, Ezekiel, back to the entrance of the temple of the LORD, and I saw water flowing out from beneath the threshold of the temple toward the east, for the façade of the temple was toward the east; the water flowed down from the right side of … [Read more…]

Monday of the Fourth Week of Lent

Reading I Is 65:17-21 Thus says the LORD: Lo, I am about to create new heavens     and a new earth; The things of the past shall not be remembered     or come to mind. Instead, there shall always be rejoicing and happiness     in what I create; For I create Jerusalem to be a … [Read more…]

Fourth Sunday of Lent

Readings for the Scrutiny Year A Readings Readings for the Fourth Sunday of Lent Reading I 2 Chr 36:14-16, 19-23 In those days, all the princes of Judah, the priests, and the people  added infidelity to infidelity,  practicing all the abominations of the nations  and polluting the LORD’s temple  which he had consecrated in Jerusalem. … [Read more…]

Fourth Sunday of Lent

Readings for the Year B Readings for the Fourth Sunday of Lent Reading I 1 Sm 16:1b, 6-7, 10-13a The LORD said to Samuel: “Fill your horn with oil, and be on your way. I am sending you to Jesse of Bethlehem,  for I have chosen my king from among his sons.” As Jesse and … [Read more…]

Fourth Sunday of Lent

Readings for the Year B Readings for the Scrutiny Year A Readings Year B Readings Scrutiny Year A Readings  – – – Lectionary for Mass for Use in the Dioceses of the United States, second typical edition, Copyright © 2001, 1998, 1997, 1986, 1970 Confraternity of Christian Doctrine; Psalm refrain © 1968, 1981, 1997, International … [Read more…]