Saturday, March 14,
2015
4th Sunday of LENT –
Year B
5:00 pm Novena to Our Lady
5:30 pm Sunset Mass in English
First Reading
Second Chronicles
36:14-17, 19-23
14 Furthermore, all the
leaders of Judah, the priests and the people too, added infidelity to
infidelity, copying all the shameful practices of the nations and defiling the
Temple of Yahweh which he himself had consecrated in Jerusalem.
15 Yahweh, God of their
ancestors, continuously sent them word through his messengers because he felt
sorry for his people and his dwelling,
16 but they ridiculed
the messengers of God, they despised his words, they laughed at his prophets,
until Yahweh's wrath with his people became so fierce that there was no further
remedy.
17 So against them he
summoned the king of the Chaldaeans and he put their young men to the sword
within the very building of their Temple, not sparing young man or girl, or the
old and infirm; he put them all at his mercy.
19 He burned down the
temple of God, demolished the walls of Jerusalem, burned all its palaces to the
ground and destroyed everything of value in it.
20 And those who had
escaped the sword he deported to Babylon, where they were enslaved by him and
his descendants until the rise of the kingdom of Persia,
21 to fulfil Yahweh's
prophecy through Jeremiah: Until the country has paid off its Sabbaths, it will
lie fallow for all the days of its desolation -- until the seventy years are
complete.
22 In the first year of
Cyrus king of Persia -- to fulfil the word of Yahweh through Jeremiah -- Yahweh
roused the spirit of Cyrus king of Persia to issue a proclamation and to have
it publicly displayed throughout his kingdom:
23 'Cyrus king of Persia
says this, "Yahweh, the God of Heaven, has given me all the kingdoms of
the earth and has appointed me to build him a Temple in Jerusalem, which is in
Judah. Whoever there is among you of all his people, may his God be with him!
Let him go up."'
“The
Word of the Lord”
PSALMS 137:1-2, 3,
4-5, 6
1 By the rivers of
Babylon we sat and wept at the memory of Zion.
2 On the poplars there
we had hung up our harps.
3 For there our gaolers
had asked us to sing them a song, our captors to make merry, 'Sing us one of
the songs of Zion.'
4 How could we sing a
song of Yahweh on alien soil?
5 If I forget you,
Jerusalem, may my right hand wither!
6 May my tongue remain
stuck to my palate if I do not keep you in mind, if I do not count Jerusalem
the greatest of my joys.
Second Reading
Ephesians 2:4-10
4 But God, being rich
in faithful love, through the great love with which he loved us,
5 even when we were
dead in our sins, brought us to life with Christ -- it is through grace that
you have been saved-
6 and raised us up with
him and gave us a place with him in heaven, in Christ Jesus.
7 This was to show for
all ages to come, through his goodness towards us in Christ Jesus, how
extraordinarily rich he is in grace.
8 Because it is by
grace that you have been saved, through faith; not by anything of your own, but
by a gift from God;
9 not by anything that
you have done, so that nobody can claim the credit.
10 We are God's work of
art, created in Christ Jesus for the good works which God has already
designated to make up our way of life.
“The
Word of the Lord”
Gospel Reading
John 3:14-21
14 as Moses lifted up
the snake in the desert, so must the Son of man be lifted up
15 so that everyone who
believes may have eternal life in him.
16 For this is how God
loved the world: he gave his only Son, so that everyone who believes in him may
not perish but may have eternal life.
17 For God sent his Son
into the world not to judge the world, but so that through him the world might
be saved.
18 No one who believes
in him will be judged; but whoever does not believe is judged already, because
that person does not believe in the Name of God's only Son.
19 And the judgement is
this: though the light has come into the world people have preferred darkness
to the light because their deeds were evil.
20 And indeed, everybody
who does wrong hates the light and avoids it, to prevent his actions from being
shown up;
21 but whoever does the
truth comes out into the light, so that what he is doing may plainly appear as
done in God.'
“The
Gospel of the Lord”
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