Fourth Sunday of Lent
Jos 5:9a, 10-12/2 Cor 5:17-21/Lk 15:1-3, 11-32
“So if anyone is in Christ, there is a new creation: everything old has passed away; see, everything has become new! All this is from God, who reconciled us to himself through Christ, and has given us the ministry of reconciliation.”
2 Corinthians 5:17-18, NRSVCE
Monday
Is 65:17-21/Jn 4:43-54
“For I am about to create new heavens
and a new earth;
the former things shall not be remembered
or come to mind.
But be glad and rejoice forever
in what I am creating;
for I am about to create Jerusalem as a joy,
and its people as a delight.”
Isaiah 65:17-18, NRSVCE
Tuesday
Ez 47:1-9, 12/Jn 5:1-16
“When Jesus saw him lying there and knew that he had been there a long time, he said to him, “Do you want to be made well?” The sick man answered him, “Sir, I have no one to put me into the pool when the water is stirred up; and while I am making my way, someone else steps down ahead of me.” Jesus said to him, “Stand up, take your mat and walk.” At once the man was made well, and he took up his mat and began to walk.”
John 5:6-9, NRSVCE
Wednesday
Is 49:8-15/Jn 5:17-30
“Thus says the Lord:
In a time of favor I have answered you,
on a day of salvation I have helped you;
I have kept you and given you
as a covenant to the people,[a]
to establish the land,
to apportion the desolate heritage”
Isaiah 49:8, NRSVCE
Thursday
Ex 32:7-14/Jn 5:31-47
“Do not think that I will accuse you before the Father: the one who will accuse you is Moses, in whom you have placed your hope. For if you had believed Moses, you would have believed me, because he wrote about me. But if you do not believe his writings, how will you believe my words?”
John 5:45-47, NABRE
Friday
Wis 2:1a, 12-22/Jn 7:1-2, 10, 25-30
“Let us lie in wait for the righteous one, because he is annoying to us;
he opposes our actions,
Reproaches us for transgressions of the law
and charges us with violations of our training.”
Wisdom 2:12, NABRE
Saturday
Jer 11:18-20/Jn 7:40-53
“But, you, Lord of hosts, just Judge,
searcher of mind and heart,
Let me witness the vengeance you take on them,
for to you I have entrusted my cause!”
Jeremiah 11:20, NABRE
