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4th Sunday of Lent of Sunday March 10, 2024

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(Cf. Isaiah 66.10-11)
Rejoice, Jerusalem, and all who love her. Be joyful, all who were in mourning; exult and be satisfied at her consoling breast.
 

Texts of the day

Texts of the day

Sunday March 10, 2024 Other dates
First reading

2 Chronicles 36.14-17a, 19-23

All the leading priests and the people were exceedingly unfaithful, following all the abominations of the nations; and they polluted the house of the Lord that he had consecrated in Jerusalem. The Lord, the God of their ancestors, persistently sent...

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Psalm

Psalm 137

By the rivers of Babylon — there we sat down and there we wept when we remembered Zion. On the willows there we hung up our harps. R. For there our captors asked us for songs, and our tormentors asked...

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Second reading

Ephesians 2.4-10

God, who is rich in mercy, out of the great love with which he loved us even when we were dead through our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ — for it is by grace you have been saved....

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Gospel

John 3.14-21

Jesus said to Nicodemus: “Just as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, so must the Son of Man be lifted up, that whoever believes in him may have eternal life. For God so loved the world that he...

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Beyond our imagination

That God loved the world so much as to send the Only-Begotten Son to save and not condemn the world is not as easy a message to receive as it appears. If it were, would not everyone by now have...

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