Saturday, March 07,
2015
3rd Sunday of LENT –
Year B
5:00 pm Novena to Our Lady
5:30 pm Sunset Mass in English
First Reading
EXODUS 20:1-17
1 Then God spoke all
these words. He said,
2 'I am Yahweh your God
who brought you out of Egypt, where you lived as slaves.
3 'You shall have no
other gods to rival me.
4 'You shall not make
yourself a carved image or any likeness of anything in heaven above or on earth
beneath or in the waters under the earth.
5 'You shall not bow
down to them or serve them. For I, Yahweh your God, am a jealous God and I
punish a parent's fault in the children, the grandchildren, and the great-grandchildren
among those who hate me;
6 but I act with
faithful love towards thousands of those who love me and keep my commandments.
7 'You shall not misuse
the name of Yahweh your God, for Yahweh will not leave unpunished anyone who
misuses his name.
8 'Remember the Sabbath
day and keep it holy.
9 For six days you
shall labour and do all your work,
10 but the seventh day
is a Sabbath for Yahweh your God. You shall do no work that day, neither you
nor your son nor your daughter nor your servants, men or women, nor your
animals nor the alien living with you.
11 For in six days
Yahweh made the heavens, earth and sea and all that these contain, but on the
seventh day he rested; that is why Yahweh has blessed the Sabbath day and made
it sacred.
12 'Honour your father
and your mother so that you may live long in the land that Yahweh your God is
giving you.
13 'You shall not kill.
14 'You shall not commit
adultery.
15 'You shall not steal.
16 'You shall not give
false evidence against your neighbour.
17 'You shall not set
your heart on your neighbour's house. You shall not set your heart on your
neighbour's spouse, or servant, man or woman, or ox, or donkey, or any of your
neighbour's possessions.'
“The
Word of the Lord”
PSALMS 19:8-11
8 The precepts of
Yahweh are honest, joy for the heart; the commandment of Yahweh is pure, light
for the eyes.
9 The fear of Yahweh is
pure, lasting for ever; the judgements of Yahweh are true, upright, every one,
10 more desirable than
gold, even than the finest gold; his words are sweeter than honey, that drips
from the comb.
11 Thus your servant is
formed by them; observing them brings great reward.
Second Reading
First CORINTHIANS
1:22-25
22 While the Jews demand
miracles and the Greeks look for wisdom,
23 we are preaching a
crucified Christ: to the Jews an obstacle they cannot get over, to the gentiles
foolishness,
24 but to those who have
been called, whether they are Jews or Greeks, a Christ who is both the power of
God and the wisdom of God.
25 God's folly is wiser
than human wisdom, and God's weakness is stronger than human strength.
“The
Word of the Lord”
Gospel Reading
JOHN 2:13-25
13 When the time of the
Jewish Passover was near Jesus went up to Jerusalem,
14 and in the Temple he
found people selling cattle and sheep and doves, and the money changers sitting
there.
15 Making a whip out of
cord, he drove them all out of the Temple, sheep and cattle as well, scattered
the money changers' coins, knocked their tables over
16 and said to the dove
sellers, 'Take all this out of here and stop using my Father's house as a
market.'
17 Then his disciples
remembered the words of scripture: I am eaten up with zeal for your house.
18 The Jews intervened
and said, 'What sign can you show us that you should act like this?'
19 Jesus answered,
'Destroy this Temple, and in three days I will raise it up.'
20 The Jews replied, 'It
has taken forty-six years to build this Temple: are you going to raise it up
again in three days?'
21 But he was speaking
of the Temple that was his body,
22 and when Jesus rose
from the dead, his disciples remembered that he had said this, and they
believed the scripture and what he had said.
23 During his stay in
Jerusalem for the feast of the Passover many believed in his name when they saw
the signs that he did,
24 but Jesus knew all
people and did not trust himself to them;
25 he never needed
evidence about anyone; he could tell what someone had within.
“The
Gospel of the Lord”
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