Saturday, April 01, 2017
5th Sunday of LENT –
Year A
5:00 pm Novena to Our Lady
5:30 pm Sunset Mass in English
First Reading
Ezekiel 37:12-14
12 So, prophesy. Say to
them, "The Lord Yahweh says this: I am now going to open your graves; I
shall raise you from your graves, my people, and lead you back to the soil of
Israel.
13 And you will know that
I am Yahweh, when I open your graves and raise you from your graves, my people,
14 and put my spirit in
you, and you revive, and I resettle you on your own soil. Then you will know
that I, Yahweh, have spoken and done this -- declares the Lord Yahweh."
“The
Word of the Lord”
PSALMS 130:1-2, 3-4,
5-6, 7-8
1 [Song of Ascents] From
the depths I call to you, Yahweh:
2 Lord, hear my cry.
Listen attentively to the sound of my pleading!
3 If you kept a record of
our sins, Lord, who could stand their ground?
4 But with you is
forgiveness, that you may be revered.
5 I rely, my whole being
relies, Yahweh, on your promise.
6 My whole being hopes in
the Lord, more than watchmen for daybreak; more than watchmen for daybreak
7 let Israel hope in
Yahweh. For with Yahweh is faithful love, with him generous ransom;
8 and he will ransom
Israel from all its sins.
Second Reading
Romans 8:8-11
8 and those who live by
their natural inclinations can never be pleasing to God.
9 You, however, live not
by your natural inclinations, but by the Spirit, since the Spirit of God has
made a home in you. Indeed, anyone who does not have the Spirit of Christ does
not belong to him.
10 But when Christ is in
you, the body is dead because of sin but the spirit is alive because you have
been justified;
11 and if the Spirit of
him who raised Jesus from the dead has made his home in you, then he who raised
Christ Jesus from the dead will give life to your own mortal bodies through his
Spirit living in you.
“The
Word of the Lord”
Gospel Reading
John 11:1-45
1 There was a man named
Lazarus of Bethany, the village of Mary and her sister, Martha, and he was ill.
2 It was the same Mary,
the sister of the sick man Lazarus, who anointed the Lord with ointment and
wiped his feet with her hair.
3 The sisters sent this
message to Jesus, 'Lord, the man you love is ill.'
4 On receiving the
message, Jesus said, 'This sickness will not end in death, but it is for God's
glory so that through it the Son of God may be glorified.'
5 Jesus loved Martha and
her sister and Lazarus,
6 yet when he heard that
he was ill he stayed where he was for two more days
7 before saying to the
disciples, 'Let us go back to Judaea.'
8 The disciples said,
'Rabbi, it is not long since the Jews were trying to stone you; are you going
back there again?'
9 Jesus replied: Are
there not twelve hours in the day? No one who walks in the daytime stumbles,
having the light of this world to see by;
10 anyone who walks around
at night stumbles, having no light as a guide.
11 He said that and then
added, 'Our friend Lazarus is at rest; I am going to wake him.'
12 The disciples said to
him, 'Lord, if he is at rest he will be saved.'
13 Jesus was speaking of
the death of Lazarus, but they thought that by 'rest' he meant 'sleep';
14 so Jesus put it
plainly, 'Lazarus is dead;
15 and for your sake I am
glad I was not there because now you will believe. But let us go to him.'
16 Then Thomas -- known as
the Twin -- said to the other disciples, 'Let us also go to die with him.'
17 On arriving, Jesus
found that Lazarus had been in the tomb for four days already.
18 Bethany is only about
two miles from Jerusalem,
19 and many Jews had come
to Martha and Mary to comfort them about their brother.
20 When Martha heard that
Jesus was coming she went to meet him. Mary remained sitting in the house.
21 Martha said to Jesus,
'Lord, if you had been here, my brother would not have died,
22 but even now I know
that God will grant whatever you ask of him.'
23 Jesus said to her,
'Your brother will rise again.'
24 Martha said, 'I know he
will rise again at the resurrection on the last day.'
25 Jesus said: I am the
resurrection. Anyone who believes in me, even though that person dies, will
live,
26 and whoever lives and
believes in me will never die. Do you believe this?
27 'Yes, Lord,' she said,
'I believe that you are the Christ, the Son of God, the one who was to come
into this world.'
28 When she had said this,
she went and called her sister Mary, saying in a low voice, 'The Master is here
and wants to see you.'
29 Hearing this, Mary got
up quickly and went to him.
30 Jesus had not yet come
into the village; he was still at the place where Martha had met him.
31 When the Jews who were
in the house comforting Mary saw her get up so quickly and go out, they
followed her, thinking that she was going to the tomb to weep there.
32 Mary went to Jesus, and
as soon as she saw him she threw herself at his feet, saying, 'Lord, if you had
been here, my brother would not have died.'
33 At the sight of her
tears, and those of the Jews who had come with her, Jesus was greatly
distressed, and with a profound sigh he said,
34 'Where have you put him?'
They said, 'Lord, come and see.'
35 Jesus wept;
36 and the Jews said, 'See
how much he loved him!'
37 But there were some who
remarked, 'He opened the eyes of the blind man. Could he not have prevented
this man's death?'
38 Sighing again, Jesus
reached the tomb: it was a cave with a stone to close the opening.
39 Jesus said, 'Take the
stone away.' Martha, the dead man's sister, said to him, 'Lord, by now he will
smell; this is the fourth day since he died.'
40 Jesus replied, 'Have I
not told you that if you believe you will see the glory of God?'
41 So they took the stone
away. Then Jesus lifted up his eyes and said: Father, I thank you for hearing
my prayer.
42 I myself knew that you
hear me always, but I speak for the sake of all these who are standing around
me, so that they may believe it was you who sent me.
43 When he had said this,
he cried in a loud voice, 'Lazarus, come out!'
44 The dead man came out,
his feet and hands bound with strips of material, and a cloth over his face.
Jesus said to them, 'Unbind him, let him go free.'
45 Many of the Jews who
had come to visit Mary, and had seen what he did, believed in him,
“The
Gospel of the Lord”
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