March 12, 2016
Saturday of the Fourth Week of Lent
Saturday of the Fourth Week of Lent
Reading 1
Jeremiah 11:18-20
I
knew their plot because the LORD informed Me; at that time you, O LORD, showed me their
doings.
Yet
I, like a trusting lamb led to slaughter, had not realized that they were
hatching plots against Me: “Let us destroy the tree in its vigor; let us cut Him
off from the land of the living, so that His name will be spoken no more.”
But,
you, O LORD of hosts, O just Judge, searcher of mind and heart, Let me witness
the vengeance you take on them, for to you I have entrusted my cause!
Responsorial Psalm
Psalm
7:2-3, 9BC-10, 11-12
R.
(2a) O Lord, my God, in you I take refuge. O LORD, my God, in you I take
refuge; save me from all my pursuers and rescue me, Lest I become like the
lion’s prey, to be torn to pieces, with no one to rescue me.
R.
O Lord, my God, in you I take refuge.
Do
me justice, O LORD, because I am just, and because of the innocence that is
mine. Let the malice of the wicked come to an end, but sustain the just, O
searcher of heart and soul, O just God.
R.
O Lord, my God, in you I take refuge.
A
shield before me is God, who saves the upright of heart; A just judge is God, a
God who punishes day by day.
R.
O Lord, my God, in you I take refuge.
Verse Before The Gospel
Luke
8:15
Blessed
are they who have kept the word with a generous heart and yield a harvest
through perseverance.
Gospel
John 7:40-53
Some
in the crowd who heard these words of Jesus said, “This is truly the Prophet.” Others
said, “This is the Christ.” But others said, “The Christ will not come from
Galilee, will He? Does not Scripture say that the Christ will be of David’s
family and come from Bethlehem, the village where David lived?”
So
a division occurred in the crowd because of Him. Some of them even wanted to
arrest Him, but no one laid hands on Him.
So
the guards went to the chief priests and Pharisees, who asked them, “Why did
you not bring Him?” The guards answered, “Never before has anyone spoken like
this Man.”
So
the Pharisees answered them, “Have you also been deceived? Have any of the
authorities or the Pharisees believed in Him?
But
this crowd, which does not know the law, is accursed.” Nicodemus, one of their
members who had come to him earlier, said to them, “Does our law condemn a man
before it first hears him and finds out what he is doing?”
They
answered and said to him, “You are not from Galilee also, are you?
Look
and see that no prophet arises from Galilee.”
Then each
went to his own house.
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Dear Humanity,
I personally encourage everyone to emulate JESUS' values on LOVE, FAITH, HOPE
and CHARITY, as the humanity has been a failure; which resulted to the more than two (2) years of pandemic and its after-effects on economy, not only here in the Philippines but worldwide.
And the saddest part of it, is that, it affected the POOREST of the POOR to even extremely be more poorer, in exchange of the affluent to be more richer.
Thank you and may GOD bless you and the whole family to have an enjoyed life's journey at home, Church, schools/universities, corporate commitments, public and places of interest.