Monday of the Fifth Week of Lent, April 03, 2017. 1st Readg:Daniel 13:1-9, 15-17, 19-30, 33-62 In Babylon there lived a man named Joakim, who married a very beautiful and God-fearing woman, Susanna,the daughter of Hilkiah; her pious parents had trained their daughter according to the law of Moses. Joakim was very rich; he had … [Read more…]
Fifth Sunday of Lent, Year A, April 02, 2017. 1st Reading: Book of Ezekiel 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 open … [Read more…]
Saturday of the Fourth Week of Lent, April 1, 2017 1st Reading: Book of Jeremiah 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 … [Read more…]
Friday of the Fourth Week of Lent, March 31, 2017. 1st Reading: Wisdom 2:1a, 12-22 The wicked said among themselves, thinking not aright: “Let us beset the just one, because he is obnoxious to us; he sets himself against our doings, Reproaches us for transgressions of the law and charges us with violations of our … [Read more…]
“… His face fell and he went away sad, for he was a man of great wealth” v.22. “If I, then your Lord and Master, have washed your feet, you also must wash one another’s feet. I have given you an example so that you also should do as I have done” Jn. 13:14-15. “… … [Read more…]