Thursday of the Third Week of Lent

Reading I Jer 7:23-28 Thus says the LORD:  This is what I commanded my people: Listen to my voice; then I will be your God and you shall be my people. Walk in all the ways that I command you, so that you may prosper. But they obeyed not, nor did they pay heed. They … [Read more…]

Wednesday of the Third Week of Lent

Reading I Dt 4:1, 5-9 Moses spoke to the people and said: “Now, Israel, hear the statutes and decrees which I am teaching you to observe, that you may live, and may enter in and take possession of the land  which the LORD, the God of your fathers, is giving you.  Therefore, I teach you … [Read more…]

Tuesday of the Third Week of Lent

Reading I Dn 3:25, 34-43 Azariah stood up in the fire and prayed aloud: “For your name’s sake, O Lord, do not deliver us up forever, or make void your covenant. Do not take away your mercy from us, for the sake of Abraham, your beloved, Isaac your servant, and Israel your holy one, To … [Read more…]

Monday of the Third Week of Lent

Reading I 2 Kgs 5:1-15ab Naaman, the army commander of the king of Aram, was highly esteemed and respected by his master, for through him the LORD had brought victory to Aram. But valiant as he was, the man was a leper. Now the Arameans had captured in a raid on the land of Israel … [Read more…]

Third Sunday of Lent

Readings for the Scrutiny Year A Readings Readings for the Third Sunday of Lent Reading I Ex 20:1-17 In those days, God delivered all these commandments: “I, the LORD, am your God,  who brought you out of the land of Egypt, that place of slavery. You shall not have other gods besides me. You shall … [Read more…]

Third Sunday of Lent

Readings for the Year B Readings for the Third Sunday of Lent Reading I Ex 17:3-7 In those days, in their thirst for water, the people grumbled against Moses, saying, “Why did you ever make us leave Egypt? Was it just to have us die here of thirst  with our children and our livestock?” So … [Read more…]

Third 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 Committee … [Read more…]

Saturday of the Second Week of Lent

Reading I Mi 7:14-15, 18-20 Shepherd your people with your staff,     the flock of your inheritance, That dwells apart in a woodland,     in the midst of Carmel. Let them feed in Bashan and Gilead,     as in the days of old; As in the days when you came from the land of Egypt, … [Read more…]

Friday of the Second Week of Lent

Reading I Gn 37:3-4, 12-13a, 17b-28a Israel loved Joseph best of all his sons, for he was the child of his old age; and he had made him a long tunic. When his brothers saw that their father loved him best of all his sons, they hated him so much that they would not even … [Read more…]

Thursday of the Second Week of Lent

Reading I Jer 17:5-10     Thus says the LORD: Cursed is the man who trusts in human beings,     who seeks his strength in flesh,     whose heart turns away from the LORD. He is like a barren bush in the desert     that enjoys no change of season, But stands in a lava waste, … [Read more…]