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2nd Sunday of Lent of Sunday February 25, 2024

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(Cf. Psalm 26.8-9)
Of you my heart has spoken: Seek his face. It is your face, O Lord, that I seek; hide not your face from me.
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(Cf. Psalm 24.6, 2, 22)
Remember your compassion, O Lord, and your merciful love, for they are from of old. Let not our enemies exult over us. Redeem us, O God of Israel, from all our distress.
 

Texts of the day

Texts of the day

Sunday February 25, 2024 Other dates
First reading

Genesis 22.1-2, 9-13, 15-18

God tested Abraham. He said to him, “Abraham!” And Abraham said, “Here I am.” God said, “Take your son, your only son Isaac, whom you love, and go to the land of Moriah, and offer him there as a burnt...

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Psalm

Psalm 116

I kept my faith, even when I said, “I am greatly afflicted.” Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of his faithful ones. R. O Lord, I am your servant. You have loosed my bonds. I will...

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Second reading

Romans 8.31b-35, 37

Brothers and sisters: If God is for us, who is against us? He who did not withhold his own Son, but gave him up for all of us, will he not with him also give us everything else? Who will...

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Gospel

Mark 9.2-10

Jesus took with him Peter and James and John, and led them up a high mountain apart, by themselves. And he was transfigured before them, and his clothes became dazzling white, such as no one on earth could bleach them....

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Trust and wait

In Scripture, mountains are places of encounter with God. As such, they are also often places of incomprehension. We can only imagine the anguish behind Abraham’s answer to young Isaac’s innocent question about the missing lamb. Abraham did not know...

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