Fifth Week of Lent
22nd March 2024 (Friday)
Psalter: Week 1
Reading of the Day
| First Reading | Jeremiah 20:10-13 |
| Response | In my anguish I called to the Lord, and he heard me. |
| Gospel | John 10:31-42 |
First Reading
Jeremiah 20:10-13
I hear many whispering. Terror is on every side! “Denounce him! Let us denounce him!” Say all my close friends, watching for my fall. “Perhaps he will be deceived; then we can overcome him and take our revenge on him.” But the Lord is with me as a dread warrior; therefore my persecutors will stumble; they will not overcome me. They will be greatly shamed, for they will not succeed. Their eternal dishonour will never be forgotten. O Lord of hosts, who tests the righteous, who sees the heart and the mind, let me see your vengeance upon them, for to you have I committed my cause. Sing to the Lord; praise the Lord! For he has delivered the life of the needy from the hand of evildoers.
Responsorial Psalm
Psalms 18:2-3a, 3bc-4, 5-6, 7 (R. see 7)
R/. In my anguish I called to the Lord, and he heard me.
Verse Before The Gospel
See John 6:63c, 68c
V/. Glory and praise to you, O Christ
R/. Glory and praise to you, O Christ
V/. Your words, Lord, are spirit and life, you have the words of eternal life.
R/.Glory and praise to you, O Christ.
Gospel
John 10:31-42
At that time: The Jews picked up stones again to stone Jesus. Jesus answered them, “I have shown you many good works from the Father; for which of them are you going to stone me?” The Jews answered him, “It is not for a good work that we are going to stone you but for blasphemy, because you, being a man, make yourself God.” Jesus answered them, “Is it not written in your Law, ‘I said, you are gods’? If he called them gods to whom the word of God came and Scripture cannot be broken—do you say of him whom the Father consecrated and sent into the world, ‘You are blaspheming,’ because I said, ‘I am the Son of God’? If I am not doing the works of my Father, then do not believe me; but if I do them, even though you do not believe me, believe the works, that you may know and understand that the Father is in me and I am in the Father.” Again they sought to arrest him, but he escaped from their hands. He went away again across the Jordan to the place where John had been baptizing at first, and there he remained. And many came to him. And they said, “John did no sign, but everything that John said about this man was true.” And many believed in him there.
