{"id":13022,"date":"2025-09-01T17:54:03","date_gmt":"2025-09-01T16:54:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prayerfulness.com\/?page_id=13022"},"modified":"2025-09-01T20:59:40","modified_gmt":"2025-09-01T19:59:40","slug":"march-25-sunday-readings","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/prayerfulness.com\/index.php\/march-25-sunday-readings\/","title":{"rendered":"March 25 Sunday Readings"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"761\" height=\"309\" src=\"https:\/\/prayerfulness.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/coloured-glass-menu-x5a6.png\" alt=\"Scripture\" class=\"wp-image-440\" style=\"width:219px;height:88px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/prayerfulness.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/coloured-glass-menu-x5a6.png 761w, https:\/\/prayerfulness.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/coloured-glass-menu-x5a6-300x122.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 761px) 100vw, 761px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center\">March 2025 Sunday Readings<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"186\" src=\"https:\/\/prayerfulness.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/glass-1-1024x186.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-302\" style=\"width:1020px;height:185px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/prayerfulness.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/glass-1-1024x186.png 1024w, https:\/\/prayerfulness.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/glass-1-300x55.png 300w, https:\/\/prayerfulness.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/glass-1-768x140.png 768w, https:\/\/prayerfulness.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/glass-1.png 1100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Scripture<\/strong> <strong>Readings for Sundays in March 2025<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Follow the Scripture readings for Sundays of the Year. Read and reflect on them as part of your daily prayer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Select Month:<\/strong>&nbsp;<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/prayerfulness.com\/index.php\/january-25-sunday-readings\/\">January<\/a><\/strong>&nbsp;\/&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/prayerfulness.com\/index.php\/february-2025-sunday-readings\/\"><strong>February<\/strong><\/a>&nbsp;\/&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/prayerfulness.com\/index.php\/march-25-sunday-readings\/\"><strong>March<\/strong><\/a>&nbsp;\/&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/prayerfulness.com\/index.php\/april-25-sunday-readings\/\"><strong>April<\/strong><\/a>&nbsp;\/&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/prayerfulness.com\/index.php\/may-25-sunday-readings\/\"><strong>May<\/strong><\/a>&nbsp;\/&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/prayerfulness.com\/index.php\/june-25-sunday-readings\/\"><strong>June<\/strong><\/a> \/&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/prayerfulness.com\/index.php\/july-25-sunday-readings\/\"><strong>July<\/strong><\/a> \/&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/prayerfulness.com\/index.php\/august-25-sunday-readings\/\"><strong>August<\/strong><\/a> \/&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/prayerfulness.com\/index.php\/september-25-sunday-readings\/\"><strong>September<\/strong><\/a> \/&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/prayerfulness.com\/index.php\/october-25-sunday-readings\/\"><strong>October<\/strong><\/a> \/&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/prayerfulness.com\/index.php\/november-25-sunday-readings\/\"><strong>November<\/strong><\/a>  \/&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/prayerfulness.com\/index.php\/december-25-sunday-readings\/\"><strong>December<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">_________________________________________<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center has-accent-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-2b323dea40c506df93f10ef09a40a868\"><strong>Sunday Mass Readings for<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center has-accent-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-2f8515958f087bf3ef51d29a9693aa9a\"><strong>March 2025&nbsp; &#8211; Year C<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/prayerfulness.com\/index.php\/march-25-sunday-readings\/#8thSunday\">Sunday 2nd March 2025 &#8211; 8th Sunday of the Year<\/a><br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/prayerfulness.com\/index.php\/march-25-sunday-readings\/#1stLent\">Sunday 9th March 2025 &#8211; 1st Sunday of Lent<\/a><br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/prayerfulness.com\/index.php\/march-25-sunday-readings\/#2ndLent\">Sunday 16th March 2025 &#8211; 2nd Sunday of Lent<\/a><br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/prayerfulness.com\/index.php\/march-25-sunday-readings\/#3rdLent\">Sunday 23rd March 2025 &#8211; 3rd Sunday of Lent<\/a><br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/prayerfulness.com\/index.php\/march-25-sunday-readings\/#4thLent\">Sunday 30th March 2025 &#8211; 4th Sunday of Lent<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">_________________________________________<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"8thSunday\"> <figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\" align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"10\" src=\"https:\/\/prayerfulness.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/band-1024x10.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9014\" srcset=\"https:\/\/prayerfulness.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/band-1024x10.png 1024w, https:\/\/prayerfulness.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/band-300x3.png 300w, https:\/\/prayerfulness.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/band-768x8.png 768w, https:\/\/prayerfulness.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/band-1536x15.png 1536w, https:\/\/prayerfulness.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/band.png 1699w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure> <\/p>\n\n <p><b>  Sunday 2nd March &#8211; 8th Sunday of the Year <\/b><\/p>\n\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"886\" height=\"886\" src=\"https:\/\/prayerfulness.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/8th-Sunday-2025.png\" alt=\"8th Sunday of the Year\" class=\"wp-image-13025\" style=\"width:280px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/prayerfulness.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/8th-Sunday-2025.png 886w, https:\/\/prayerfulness.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/8th-Sunday-2025-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/prayerfulness.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/8th-Sunday-2025-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/prayerfulness.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/8th-Sunday-2025-768x768.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 886px) 100vw, 886px\" \/><\/p> \n\n<b>  <p> \nA reading from the Book of Ecclesiasticus 27:4-7  <\/b>  <BR> \n\n<i>  Do not prasie a men before he has spoken  <\/i>  <\/p> \n\n<p>  In a shaken sieve the rubbish is left behind,  <br> \nso too the defects of a man appear in his talk.  <br> \nThe kiln tests the work of the potter,  <br> \nthe test of a man is in his conversation.  <br> \nThe orchard where a tree grows is judged on the quality of its fruit,  <br> \nsimilarly a man\u2019s words betray what he feels.  <br> \nDo not praise a man before he has spoken,  <br> \nsince this is the test of men.  <\/p>\n\n <p>  <b> \nPsalm: 91(92):2-3, 13-16  <\/b>  <BR> \n\nIt is good to give thanks to the Lord,  <br> \nto make music to your name, O Most High,  <br> \nto proclaim your love in the morning  <br> \nand your truth in the watches of the night.  <\/p> \n\n<p>  The just will flourish like the palm tree  <br> \nand grow like a Lebanon cedar.  <\/p> \n\n<p>  Planted in the house of the Lord  <br> \nthey will flourish in the courts of our God,  <br> \nstill bearing fruit when they are old,  <br> \nstill full of sap, still green,  <br> \nto proclaim that the Lord is just.  <br> \nIn him, my rock, there is no wrong.  <\/p> \n\n<p>  Who is the king of glory?  <br> \nThe Lord, the mighty, the valiant,  <br> \nthe Lord, the valiant in war.  <\/p>\n\n\n <p>  <b> \nA reading from the First Letter of St Paul the Corinthians 15:54-58  <BR>  <\/b> \n\n<i>  So let us thank God for giving us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.  <\/i>  <\/p> \n\n<p style='text-align: justify;'>  When this perishable nature has put on imperishability, and when this mortal nature has put on immortality, then the words of scripture will come true: Death is swallowed up in victory. Death, where is your victory? Death, where is your sting? Now the sting of death is sin, and sin gets its power from the Law. So let us thank God for giving us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.  <br> \nNever give in then, my dear brothers, never admit defeat; keep on working at the Lord\u2019s work always, knowing that, in the Lord, you cannot be labouring in vain.  <\/p>\n\n <p>  <b> \nA reading from the Gospel of St Luke 6:39-45  <BR>  <\/b> \n\n<i>  A man\u2019s words flow out of what fills his heart.  <\/i>  <\/p> \n\n<p style='text-align: justify;'>  Jesus told a parable to his disciples: \u2018Can one blind man guide another? Surely both will fall into a pit? The disciple is not superior to his teacher; the fully trained disciple will always be like his teacher. Why do you observe the splinter in your brother\u2019s eye and never notice the plank in your own? How can you say to your brother, \u201cBrother, let me take out the splinter that is in your eye,\u201d when you cannot see the plank in your own? Hypocrite! Take the plank out of your own eye first, and then you will see clearly enough to take out the splinter that is in your brother\u2019s eye.  <br> \n\u2018There is no sound tree that produces rotten fruit, nor again a rotten tree that produces sound fruit. For every tree can be told by its own fruit: people do not pick figs from thorns, nor gather grapes from brambles. A good man draws what is good from the store of goodness in his heart; a bad man draws what is bad from the store of badness. For a man\u2019s words flow out of what fills his heart.\u2019  <\/p><br>\n\n\n<p id=\"1stLent\"> <figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\" align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"10\" src=\"https:\/\/prayerfulness.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/band-1024x10.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9014\" srcset=\"https:\/\/prayerfulness.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/band-1024x10.png 1024w, https:\/\/prayerfulness.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/band-300x3.png 300w, https:\/\/prayerfulness.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/band-768x8.png 768w, https:\/\/prayerfulness.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/band-1536x15.png 1536w, https:\/\/prayerfulness.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/band.png 1699w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure> <\/p>\n\n\n <p><b> Sunday 9th March &#8211; 1st Sunday of Lent <\/b><\/p>\n\n<p><<img src='https:\/\/prayerfulness.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Lent-2024.png' alt='Lent' class='wp-image-10647' style='width:240px;height:auto'\/><\/p>  \n\n<b>  <p> \nA reading from the Book of Deuteronomy 26:4-10  <\/b>  <BR> \n\n<i>  The creed of the Chosen People  <\/i>  <\/p> \n\n<p style='text-align: justify;'>  Moses said to the people: \u2018The priest shall take the pannier from your hand and lay it before the altar of the Lord your God. Then, in the sight of the Lord your God, you must make this pronouncement:  <br> \n\u2018\u201cMy father was a wandering Aramaean. He went down into Egypt to find refuge there, few in numbers; but there he became a nation, great, mighty, and strong. The Egyptians ill-treated us, they gave us no peace and inflicted harsh slavery on us. But we called on the Lord, the God of our fathers. The Lord heard our voice and saw our misery, our toil and our oppression; and the Lord brought us out of Egypt with mighty hand and outstretched arm, with great terror, and with signs and wonders. He brought us here and gave us this land, a land where milk and honey flow. Here then I bring the first-fruits of the produce of the soil that you, the Lord, have given me.\u201d  <br> \n\u2018You must then lay them before the Lord your God, and bow down in the sight of the Lord your God.\u2019  <\/p> \n\n<p>  <b> \nPsalm: 90(91):1-2, 10-15  <\/b>  <BR> \n\nHe who dwells in the shelter of the Most High  <br> \nand abides in the shade of the Almighty  <br> \nsays to the Lord: \u2018My refuge,  <br> \nmy stronghold, my God in whom I trust!\u2019  <\/p> \n\n<p>  Upon you no evil shall fall,  <br> \nno plague approach where you dwell.  <br> \nFor you has he commanded his angels,  <br> \nto keep you in all your ways.  <\/p> \n\n<p>  They shall bear you upon their hands  <br> \nlest you strike your foot against a stone.  <br> \nOn the lion and the viper you will tread  <br> \nand trample the young lion and the dragon.  <\/p> \n\n<p>  His love he set on me, so I will rescue him;  <br> \nprotect him for he knows my name.  <br> \nWhen he calls I shall answer: \u2018I am with you,\u2019  <br> \nwill save him in distress and give him glory.  <\/p> \n\n<p>  <b> \nA reading from the Letter of St Paul to the Romans 10:8-13  <BR>  <\/b> \n\n<i>  The creed of the Christian  <\/i>  <\/p> \n\n<p style='text-align: justify;'>  cripture says: The word (that is the faith we proclaim) is very near to you, it is on your lips and in your heart. If your lips confess that Jesus is Lord and if you believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, then you will be saved. By believing from the heart you are made righteous; by confessing with your lips you are saved. When scripture says: those who believe in him will have no cause for shame, it makes no distinction between Jew and Greek: all belong to the same Lord who is rich enough, however many ask his help, for everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.  <\/p>\n\n <p>  <b> \nA reading from the Gospel of St Luke 4:1-13  <BR>  <\/b> \n\n<i>  Jesus was led by the Spirit through the wilderness, and was temptedthere.  <\/i>  <\/p> \n\n<p style='text-align: justify;'>  Filled with the Holy Spirit, Jesus left the Jordan and was led by the Spirit through the wilderness, being tempted there by the devil for forty days. During that time he ate nothing and at the end he was hungry. Then the devil said to him, \u2018If you are the Son of God, tell this stone to turn into a loaf.\u2019 But Jesus replied, \u2018Scripture says: Man does not live on bread alone.\u2019  <br> \nThen leading him to a height, the devil showed him in a moment of time all the kingdoms of the world and said to him, \u2018I will give you all this power and the glory of these kingdoms, for it has been committed to me and I give it to anyone I choose. Worship me, then, and it shall all be yours.\u2019 But Jesus answered him, \u2018Scripture says:  <\/p> \n\n<p style='text-align: justify;'>  You must worship the Lord your God,  <br> \nand serve him alone.\u2019  <\/p> \n\n<p style='text-align: justify;'>  Then he led him to Jerusalem and made him stand on the parapet of the Temple. \u2018If you are the Son of God,\u2019 he said to him \u2018throw yourself down from here, for scripture says:  <\/p> \n\n<p style='text-align: justify;'>  He will put his angels in charge of you  <br> \nto guard you,  <\/p> \n\n<p style='text-align: justify;'>  and again:  <\/p> \n\n<p style='text-align: justify;'>  They will hold you up on their hands  <br> \nin case you hurt your foot against a stone.\u2019  <\/p> \n\n<p style='text-align: justify;'>  But Jesus answered him, \u2018It has been said:  <\/p> \n\n<p style='text-align: justify;'>  You must not put the Lord your God to the test.\u2019  <\/p> \n\n<p style='text-align: justify;'>  Having exhausted all these ways of tempting him, the devil left him, to return at the appointed time.  <\/p><br>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"2ndLent\"> <figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\" align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"10\" src=\"https:\/\/prayerfulness.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/band-1024x10.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9014\" srcset=\"https:\/\/prayerfulness.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/band-1024x10.png 1024w, https:\/\/prayerfulness.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/band-300x3.png 300w, https:\/\/prayerfulness.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/band-768x8.png 768w, https:\/\/prayerfulness.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/band-1536x15.png 1536w, https:\/\/prayerfulness.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/band.png 1699w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure> <\/p>\n\n\n <p\/><b>  Sunday 16th March &#8211; 2nd Sunday of Lent <\/b><\/p> \n\n<p><img src='https:\/\/prayerfulness.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Lent-2024.png' alt='Lent' class='wp-image-10647' style='width:240px;height:auto'\/><\/p>  \n\n<b>  <p> \nA reading from the the Book of Genesis 15:5-12, 17-18  <\/b>  <BR> \n\n<i>  God enters into a Covenant with Abraham, the man of faith  <\/i>  <\/p> \n\n<p style='text-align: justify;'>  Taking Abram outside, the Lord said, \u2018Look up to heaven and count the stars if you can.\u2019 \u2018Such will be your descendants,\u2019 he told him. Abram put his faith in the Lord, who counted this as making him justified.  <br> \n\u2018I am the Lord\u2019 he said to him \u2018who brought you out of Ur of the Chaldaeans to make you heir to this land.\u2019 \u2018My Lord,\u2019 Abram replied \u2018how am I to know that I shall inherit it?\u2019 He said to him, \u2018Get me a three-year-old heifer, a three-year-old goat, a three-year-old ram, a turtledove and a young pigeon.\u2019 He brought him all these, cut them in half and put half on one side and half facing it on the other; but the birds he did not cut in half. Birds of prey came down on the carcases but Abram drove them off.  <br> \nNow as the sun was setting Abram fell into a deep sleep, and terror seized him. When the sun had set and darkness had fallen, there appeared a smoking furnace and a firebrand that went between the halves. That day the Lord made a Covenant with Abram in these terms:  <\/p> \n<p style='text-align: justify;'>  \u2018To your descendants I give this land,  <br> \nfrom the wadi of Egypt to the Great River.\u2019  <\/p> \n\n<p>  <b> \nPsalm: 26(27):1, 7-9, 13-14  <\/b>  <BR> \n\n<p>  The Lord is my light and my help;  <br> \nwhom shall I fear?  <br> \nThe Lord is the stronghold of my life;  <br> \nbefore whom shall I shrink?  <\/p> \n\n<p>  O Lord, hear my voice when I call;  <br> \nhave mercy and answer.  <br> \nOf you my heart has spoken:  <br> \n\u2018Seek his face.\u2019  <\/p> \n\n<p>  It is your face, O Lord, that I seek;  <br> \nhide not your face.  <br> \nDismiss not your servant in anger;  <br> \nyou have been my help.  <\/p> \n\n<p>  I am sure I shall see the Lord\u2019s goodness  <br> \nin the land of the living.  <br> \nHope in him, hold firm and take heart.  <br> \nHope in the Lord!  <\/p> \n\n<p>  <b> \nA reading from the Letter of St Paul to the Philippians 3:17-4:1  <BR>  <\/b> \n\n<i>  Christ will transfigure these wretched bodies of ours into copies of his glorious body  <\/i>  <\/p> \n\n<p style='text-align: justify;'>  My brothers, be united in following my rule of life. Take as your models everybody who is already doing this and study them as you used to study us. I have told you often, and I repeat it today with tears, there are many who are behaving as the enemies of the cross of Christ. They are destined to be lost. They make foods into their god and they are proudest of something they ought to think shameful; the things they think important are earthly things. For us, our homeland is in heaven, and from heaven comes the saviour we are waiting for, the Lord Jesus Christ, and he will transfigure these wretched bodies of ours into copies of his glorious body. He will do that by the same power with which he can subdue the whole universe.  <br> \nSo then, my brothers and dear friends, do not give way but remain faithful in the Lord. I miss you very much, dear friends; you are my joy and my crown.  <\/p>\n\n <p>  <b> \nA reading from the Gospel of St Luke 9:28-36  <BR>  <\/b> \n\n<i>  As he prayed, the aspect of his face was changed.  <\/i>  <\/p> \n\n<p style='text-align: justify;'>  JJesus took with him Peter and John and James and went up the mountain to pray. As he prayed, the aspect of his face was changed and his clothing became brilliant as lightning. Suddenly there were two men there talking to him; they were Moses and Elijah appearing in glory, and they were speaking of his passing which he was to accomplish in Jerusalem. Peter and his companions were heavy with sleep, but they kept awake and saw his glory and the two men standing with him. As these were leaving him, Peter said to Jesus, \u2018Master, it is wonderful for us to be here; so let us make three tents, one for you, one for Moses and one for Elijah.\u2019 \u2013 He did not know what he was saying. As he spoke, a cloud came and covered them with shadow; and when they went into the cloud the disciples were afraid. And a voice came from the cloud saying, \u2018This is my Son, the Chosen One. Listen to him.\u2019 And after the voice had spoken, Jesus was found alone. The disciples kept silence and, at that time, told no one what they had seen.\u2019  <\/p><br>\n\n\n<p id=\"3rdLent\"> <figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\" align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"10\" src=\"https:\/\/prayerfulness.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/band-1024x10.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9014\" srcset=\"https:\/\/prayerfulness.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/band-1024x10.png 1024w, https:\/\/prayerfulness.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/band-300x3.png 300w, https:\/\/prayerfulness.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/band-768x8.png 768w, https:\/\/prayerfulness.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/band-1536x15.png 1536w, https:\/\/prayerfulness.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/band.png 1699w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure> <\/p>\n\n\n <p><b>  Sunday 23rd March &#8211; 3rd Sunday of Lent <\/b><\/p> \n\n<p><img src='https:\/\/prayerfulness.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Lent-2024.png' alt='Lent' class='wp-image-10647' style='width:240px;height:auto'\/><\/p>\n\n<b>  <p> \nA reading from the Book of Exodus 3:1-8,13-15  <\/b>  <BR> \n\n<i>  &#8216;I AM has sent me to you&#8217;  <\/i>  <\/p> \n\n<p style='text-align: justify;'>  Moses was looking after the flock of Jethro, his father-in-law priest of Midian. He led his flock to the far side of the wilderness and came to Horeb, the mountain of God. There the angel of the Lord appeared to him in the shape of a flame of fire, coming from the middle of a bush. Moses looked; there was the bush blazing but it was not being burnt up. \u2018I must go and look at this strange sight,\u2019 Moses said, \u2018and see why the bush is not burnt.\u2019 Now the Lord saw him go forward to look, and God called to him from the middle of the bush. \u2018Moses, Moses!\u2019 he said. \u2018Here I am,\u2019 Moses answered. \u2018Come no nearer,\u2019 he said. \u2018Take off your shoes, for the place on which you stand is holy ground. I am the God of your fathers,\u2019 he said, \u2018the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob.\u2019 At this Moses covered his face, afraid to look at God.  <br> \nAnd the Lord said, \u2018I have seen the miserable state of my people in Egypt. I have heard their appeal to be free of their slave-drivers. Yes, I am well aware of their sufferings. I mean to deliver them out of the hands of the Egyptians and bring them up out of that land to a land rich and broad, a land where milk and honey flow, the home of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Amorites, the Perizzites, the Hivites and the Jebusites.\u2019  <br> \nThen Moses said to God, \u2018I am to go, then, to the sons of Israel and say to them, \u201cThe God of your fathers has sent me to you.\u201d But if they ask me what his name is, what am I to tell them?\u2019 And God said to Moses, \u2018I Am who I Am. This,\u2019 he added, \u2018is what you must say to the sons of Israel: \u201cI Am has sent me to you.\u201d\u2019 And God also said to Moses, \u2018You are to say to the sons of Israel: \u201cThe Lord, the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, has sent me to you.\u201d This is my name for all time; by this name I shall be invoked for all generations to come.\u2019  <\/p> \n\n\n<p>  <b> \nPsalm:  102(103):1-4, 6-8, 11  <\/b>  <BR> \n\nMy soul, give thanks to the Lord  <br> \nall my being, bless his holy name.  <br> \nMy soul, give thanks to the Lord  <br> \nand never forget all his blessings.  <\/p> \n\n<p>  It is he who forgives all your guilt,  <br> \nwho heals every one of your ills,  <br> \nwho redeems your life from the grave,  <br> \nwho crowns you with love and compassion,  <\/p> \n\n<p>  The Lord does deeds of justice,  <br> \ngives judgement for all who are oppressed.  <br> \nHe made known his ways to Moses  <br> \nand his deeds to Israel\u2019s sons.  <\/p> \n\n<p>  The Lord is compassion and love,  <br> \nslow to anger and rich in mercy.  <br> \nFor as the heavens are high above the earth  <br> \nso strong is his love for those who fear him.  <\/p> \n\n<p>  <b> \nA reading from the First Letter of St Paul to Corinthians 10:1-6, 10-12  <BR>  <\/b> \n\n<i>  The life of the people under Moses in the desert was written down to be a lesson for us  <\/i>  <\/p> \n\n<p style='text-align: justify;'>  I want to remind you, brothers, how our fathers were all guided by a cloud above them and how they all passed through the sea. They were all baptised into Moses in this cloud and in this sea; all ate the same spiritual food and all drank the same spiritual drink, since they all drank from the spiritual rock that followed them as they went, and that rock was Christ. In spite of this, most of them failed to please God and their corpses littered the desert.  <br> \nThese things all happened as warnings for us, not to have the wicked lusts for forbidden things that they had. You must never complain: some of them did, and they were killed by the Destroyer.  <br> \nAll this happened to them as a warning, and it was written down to be a lesson for us who are living at the end of the age. The man who thinks he is safe must be careful that he does not fall.  <\/p>\n\n <p>  <b> \nA reading from the Gospel of St Luke 13:1-9  <BR>  <\/b> \n\n<i>  &#8216;Leave the fig tree one more year&#8217;  <\/i>  <\/p> \n\n<p style='text-align: justify;'>  Some people arrived and told Jesus about the Galileans whose blood Pilate had mingled with that of their sacrifices. At this he said to them, \u2018Do you suppose these Galileans who suffered like that were greater sinners than any other Galileans? They were not, I tell you. No; but unless you repent you will all perish as they did. Or those eighteen on whom the tower at Siloam fell and killed them? Do you suppose that they were more guilty than all the other people living in Jerusalem? They were not, I tell you. No; but unless you repent you will all perish as they did.\u2019  <br> \nHe told this parable: \u2018A man had a fig tree planted in his vineyard, and he came looking for fruit on it but found none. He said to the man who looked after the vineyard, \u201cLook here, for three years now I have been coming to look for fruit on this fig tree and finding none. Cut it down: why should it be taking up the ground?\u201d \u201cSir,\u201d the man replied \u201cleave it one more year and give me time to dig round it and manure it: it may bear fruit next year; if not, then you can cut it down.\u201d\u2019  <\/p><br>\n\n\n<p id=\"4thLent\"> <figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\" align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"10\" src=\"https:\/\/prayerfulness.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/band-1024x10.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9014\" srcset=\"https:\/\/prayerfulness.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/band-1024x10.png 1024w, https:\/\/prayerfulness.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/band-300x3.png 300w, https:\/\/prayerfulness.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/band-768x8.png 768w, https:\/\/prayerfulness.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/band-1536x15.png 1536w, https:\/\/prayerfulness.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/band.png 1699w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure> <\/p>\n\n\n <p><b>  Sunday 30th March &#8211; 4th Sunday of Lent <\/b><\/p> \n\n<p><img src='https:\/\/prayerfulness.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Lent-2024.png' alt='Lent' class='wp-image-10647' style='width:240px;height:auto'\/><\/p>\n\n<b>  <p> \nA reading from the Book of Joshua 5:9-12  <\/b>  <BR> \n\n<i>  The Israelites celebrate their first Passover in the Promised Land  <\/i>  <\/p> \n\n<p style='text-align: justify;'>  The Lord said to Joshua, \u2018Today I have taken the shame of Egypt away from you.\u2019  <br> \nThe Israelites pitched their camp at Gilgal and kept the Passover there on the fourteenth day of the month, at evening in the plain of Jericho. On the morrow of the Passover they tasted the produce of that country, unleavened bread and roasted ears of corn, that same day. From that time, from their first eating of the produce of that country, the manna stopped falling. And having manna no longer, the Israelites fed from that year onwards on what the land of Canaan yielded.  <\/p> \n\n\n<p>  <b> \nPsalm: 33(34):2-7  <\/b>  <BR> \n\nI will bless the Lord at all times,  <br> \nhis praise always on my lips;  <br> \nin the Lord my soul shall make its boast.  <br> \nThe humble shall hear and be glad.  <\/p> \n\n<p>  Glorify the Lord with me.  <br> \nTogether let us praise his name.  <br> \nI sought the Lord and he answered me;  <br> \nfrom all my terrors he set me free.  <\/p> \n\n<p>  Look towards him and be radiant;  <br> \nlet your faces not be abashed.  <br> \nThis poor man called, the Lord heard him  <br> \nand rescued him from all his distress.  <\/p> \n\n<p>  <b> \nA reading from the Second Letter of St Paul to Corinthians 5:17-21  <BR>  <\/b> \n\n<i>  God reconciled himself to us through Christ  <\/i>  <\/p> \n\n<p style='text-align: justify;'>  For anyone who is in Christ, there is a new creation; the old creation has gone, and now the new one is here. It is all God\u2019s work. It was God who reconciled us to himself through Christ and gave us the work of handing on this reconciliation. In other words, God in Christ was reconciling the world to himself, not holding men\u2019s faults against them, and he has entrusted to us the news that they are reconciled. So we are ambassadors for Christ; it is as though God were appealing through us, and the appeal that we make in Christ\u2019s name is: be reconciled to God. For our sake God made the sinless one into sin, so that in him we might become the goodness of God.  <\/p>\n\n <p>  <b> \nA reading from the Gospel of St Luke 15:1-3,11-32  <BR>  <\/b> \n\n<i>  The prodigal son  <\/i>  <\/p> \n\n<p style='text-align: justify;'>  The tax collectors and the sinners were all seeking the company of Jesus to hear what he had to say, and the Pharisees and the scribes complained. \u2018This man\u2019 they said \u2018welcomes sinners and eats with them.\u2019 So he spoke this parable to them:  <br> \n\u2018A man had two sons. The younger said to his father, \u201cFather, let me have the share of the estate that would come to me.\u201d So the father divided the property between them. A few days later, the younger son got together everything he had and left for a distant country where he squandered his money on a life of debauchery.  <br> \n\u2018When he had spent it all, that country experienced a severe famine, and now he began to feel the pinch, so he hired himself out to one of the local inhabitants who put him on his farm to feed the pigs. And he would willingly have filled his belly with the husks the pigs were eating but no one offered him anything. Then he came to his senses and said, \u201cHow many of my father\u2019s paid servants have more food than they want, and here am I dying of hunger! I will leave this place and go to my father and say: Father, I have sinned against heaven and against you; I no longer deserve to be called your son; treat me as one of your paid servants.\u201d So he left the place and went back to his father.  <br> \n\u2018While he was still a long way off, his father saw him and was moved with pity. He ran to the boy, clasped him in his arms and kissed him tenderly. Then his son said, \u201cFather, I have sinned against heaven and against you. I no longer deserve to be called your son.\u201d But the father said to his servants, \u201cQuick! Bring out the best robe and put it on him; put a ring on his finger and sandals on his feet. Bring the calf we have been fattening, and kill it; we are going to have a feast, a celebration, because this son of mine was dead and has come back to life; he was lost and is found.\u201d And they began to celebrate.  <br> \n\u2018Now the elder son was out in the fields, and on his way back, as he drew near the house, he could hear music and dancing. Calling one of the servants he asked what it was all about. \u201cYour brother has come\u201d replied the servant \u201cand your father has killed the calf we had fattened because he has got him back safe and sound.\u201d He was angry then and refused to go in, and his father came out to plead with him; but he answered his father, \u201cLook, all these years I have slaved for you and never once disobeyed your orders, yet you never offered me so much as a kid for me to celebrate with my friends. But, for this son of yours, when he comes back after swallowing up your property \u2013 he and his women \u2013 you kill the calf we had been fattening.\u201d  <br> \n\u2018The father said, \u201cMy son, you are with me always and all I have is yours. But it was only right we should celebrate and rejoice, because your brother here was dead and has come to life; he was lost and is found.\u201d\u2019  <\/p><br>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">_________________________________________<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style='text-align: justify;'><font size=\"1\"><i>Excerpt from THE JERUSALEM BIBLE, copyright (c) 1966 by Darton, Longman &amp; Todd, Ltd. and Doubleday, a division of Penguin Random House, Inc. Reproduced with Permission. <br>\nExcerpt from THE GRAIL PSALMS, with permission of A P Watt at United Agents on behalf of The Grail, England. Copyright \u00a9 1963 by The Grail, England. <br>\nCopyright \u00a9 2019-2026 Prayerfulness.com. Users must not reproduce, download, store in any medium, distribute, transmit or retransmit or manipulate any text contained in this website except for non-commercial worship purposes. 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