March
10, 2016
Thursday
of the Fourth Week of Lent
Saint
of the Day: Saint Marie Eugenie of Jesus, Foundress of the Religious of the Assumption (1817-1898), The Forty Martyrs of Sebaste († c.320)
Reading 1
7The
LORD said to Moses, “Go
down at once to your people whom
you brought out of the land of Egypt, for
they have become depraved. 8They
have soon turned aside from the way I pointed out to them, making
for themselves a molten calf and worshiping it, sacrificing
to it and crying out, ‘This
is your God, O Israel, who
brought you out of the land of Egypt!’ The
LORD said to Moses, 9“I
see how stiff-necked this people is.
10Let
me alone, then, that
my wrath may blaze up against them to consume them.
Then
I will make of you a great nation.”
11But Moses implored the LORD, his God, saying, “Why, O LORD, should your wrath blaze up against your own people, whom you brought out of the land of Egypt with such great power and with so strong a hand? 12Why should the Egyptians say, ‘With evil intent He brought them out, that He might kill them in the mountains and exterminate them from the face of the earth’? Let your blazing wrath die down; relent in punishing your people.
11But Moses implored the LORD, his God, saying, “Why, O LORD, should your wrath blaze up against your own people, whom you brought out of the land of Egypt with such great power and with so strong a hand? 12Why should the Egyptians say, ‘With evil intent He brought them out, that He might kill them in the mountains and exterminate them from the face of the earth’? Let your blazing wrath die down; relent in punishing your people.
13Remember
your servants Abraham, Isaac and Israel, and
how you swore to them by your own self, saying, ‘I
will make your descendants as numerous as the stars in the sky; and
all this land that I promised, I
will give your descendants as their perpetual heritage.’
14So
the LORD relented in the punishment He
had threatened to inflict on His people.
Responsorial Psalm
19Our
fathers made a calf in Horeb and
adored a molten image; 20They
exchanged their glory for
the image of a grass-eating bullock.
R.
Remember us, O Lord, as You favor Your people.
21They
forgot the God who had saved them, who
had done great deeds in Egypt,
22Wondrous
deeds in the land of Ham, terrible
things at the Red Sea.
R.
Remember us, O Lord, as You favor Your people.
23Then He spoke of exterminating them, but
Moses, His chosen one, Withstood Him in the breach to
turn back His destructive wrath.
R.
Remember us, O Lord, as You favor Your people.
Verse
Before The Gospel John 3:16
God
so loved the world that He gave His only-begotten Son,
so
that everyone who believes in Him might have eternal life.
Gospel
31Jesus
said to the Jews: “If I testify on My own behalf, My testimony is not true. 32But
there is another who testifies on My behalf, and I know that the testimony He
gives on My behalf is true.[1]
33You
sent emissaries to John, and he testified to the truth. 34I do not accept human
testimony, but I say this so that you may be saved. 35He was a burning and
shining lamp, and for a while you were content to rejoice in his light.[2]
36But
I have testimony greater than John’s. The works that the Father gave Me to
accomplish, these works that I perform testify on my behalf that the Father has
sent Me.
37Moreover,
the Father who sent Me has testified on My behalf. But you have never heard His
voice nor seen His form, 38and you do not have His word remaining in you, because
you do not believe in the one whom He has sent. 39You
search the Scriptures, because you think you have eternal life through them; even
they testify on my behalf.[3]
40But you do not want to come to Me to have life.
41“I
do not accept human praise;[4] 42moreover,
I know that you do not have the love of God in you. 43I
came in the name of My Father, but
you do not accept Me;
yet
if another comes in his own name, you
will accept him.
44How
can you believe, when you accept praise from one another and
do not seek the praise that comes from the only God? 45Do
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.
46For
if you had believed Moses, you
would have believed me, because
he wrote about me. 47But
if you do not believe his writings, how
will you believe my words?”
Note on Readings:
[1] John 5:32 - Another: likely the Father, who in four different ways gives testimony to Jesus, as indicated in the verse groupings John 5;33-34, 36, 37-38, 39-40.
[1] John 5:32 - Another: likely the Father, who in four different ways gives testimony to Jesus, as indicated in the verse groupings John 5;33-34, 36, 37-38, 39-40.
[2] John 5:35 - Lamp: compare with Psalm 132:17 - "I will place a lamp for my anointed (=
David)," and possibly the description of Elijah in Sirach 48:1. But only for a while, indicating the temporary and
subordinate nature of John's mission.
[3] John 5:39 - You search: this may be
an imperative: "Search the scriptures, because you think that you have
eternal life through them."
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