Saturday, March 12, 2016
5th Sunday of LENT –
Year C
5:00 pm Novena to Our Lady
5:30 pm Sunset Mass in English
First Reading
Isaiah 43:16-21
16 Thus says Yahweh, who
made a way through the sea, a path in the raging waters,
17 who led out chariot
and horse together with an army of picked troops: they lay down never to rise
again, they were snuffed out, put out like a wick.
18 No need to remember
past events, no need to think about what was done before.
19 Look, I am doing
something new, now it emerges; can you not see it? Yes, I am making a road in
the desert and rivers in wastelands.
20 The wild animals will
honour me, the jackals and the ostriches, for bestowing water in the desert and
rivers on the wastelands for my people, my chosen one, to drink.
21 The people I have
shaped for myself will broadcast my praises.
“The
Word of the Lord”
PSALMS 126:1-2, 2-3,
4-5, 6
1 [Song of Ascents]
When Yahweh brought back Zion's captives we lived in a dream;
2 then our mouths
filled with laughter, and our lips with song. Then the nations kept saying,
'What great deeds Yahweh has done for them!'
3 Yes, Yahweh did great
deeds for us, and we were overjoyed.
4 Bring back, Yahweh,
our people from captivity like torrents in the Negeb!
5 Those who sow in
tears sing as they reap.
6 He went off, went off
weeping, carrying the seed. He comes back, comes back singing, bringing in his
sheaves.
Second Reading
Philippians 3:8-14
8 Yes, I will go
further: because of the supreme advantage of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord, I
count everything else as loss. For him I have accepted the loss of all other
things, and look on them all as filth if only I can gain Christ
9 and be given a place
in him, with the uprightness I have gained not from the Law, but through faith
in Christ, an uprightness from God, based on faith,
10 that I may come to
know him and the power of his resurrection, and partake of his sufferings by
being moulded to the pattern of his death,
11 striving towards the
goal of resurrection from the dead.
12 Not that I have
secured it already, nor yet reached my goal, but I am still pursuing it in the
attempt to take hold of the prize for which Christ Jesus took hold of me.
13 Brothers, I do not
reckon myself as having taken hold of it; I can only say that forgetting all
that lies behind me, and straining forward to what lies in front,
14 I am racing towards
the finishing-point to win the prize of God's heavenly call in Christ Jesus.
“The
Word of the Lord”
Gospel Reading
John 8:1-11
1 and Jesus went to the
Mount of Olives.
2 At daybreak he
appeared in the Temple again; and as all the people came to him, he sat down
and began to teach them.
3 The scribes and
Pharisees brought a woman along who had been caught committing adultery; and
making her stand there in the middle
4 they said to Jesus,
'Master, this woman was caught in the very act of committing adultery,
5 and in the Law Moses
has ordered us to stone women of this kind. What have you got to say?'
6 They asked him this
as a test, looking for an accusation to use against him. But Jesus bent down
and started writing on the ground with his finger.
7 As they persisted
with their question, he straightened up and said, 'Let the one among you who is
guiltless be the first to throw a stone at her.'
8 Then he bent down and
continued writing on the ground.
9 When they heard this
they went away one by one, beginning with the eldest, until the last one had
gone and Jesus was left alone with the woman, who remained in the middle.
10 Jesus again
straightened up and said, 'Woman, where are they? Has no one condemned you?'
11 'No one, sir,' she
replied. 'Neither do I condemn you,' said Jesus. 'Go away, and from this moment
sin no more.'
“The
Gospel of the Lord”
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