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April 2025 Sunday Readings<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Scripture<\/strong> Readings for Sundays in April 2025<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

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

Select Month:<\/strong> January<\/a><\/strong> \/ February<\/strong><\/a> \/ March<\/strong><\/a> \/ April<\/strong><\/a> \/ May<\/strong><\/a> \/ June<\/strong><\/a> \/ July<\/strong><\/a> \/ August<\/strong><\/a> \/ September<\/strong><\/a> \/ October<\/strong><\/a> \/ November<\/strong><\/a> \/ December<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Sunday Mass Readings for<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

April 2025  – Year C<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n

Sunday 6th April 2025 – 5th Sunday of Lent<\/a>
Sunday 13th March 2025 – Palm Sunday of the Passion of the Lord<\/a>
Sunday 20th April 2025 – Easter Sunday<\/a>
Sunday 27th April 2025 – 2nd Sunday of Easter<\/a>
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Sunday 6th April – 5th Sunday of Lent <\/b><\/p> \n\nLent\n\n

A reading from the Prophet Isaiah 43:16-21 <\/b>
\n\n See, I am doing a new deed, and I will give my chosen people drink <\/i> <\/p> \n\n

Thus says the Lord,
\nwho made a way through the sea,
\na path in the great waters;
\nwho put chariots and horse in the field
\nand a powerful army
\nwhich lay there never to rise again,
\nsnuffed out, put out like a wick:
\nNo need to recall the past,
\nno need to think about what was done before.
\nSee, I am doing a new deed,
\neven now it comes to light; can you not see it?
\nYes, I am making a road in the wilderness,
\npaths in the wilds.
\nThe wild beasts will honour me,
\njackals and ostriches,
\nbecause I am putting water in the wilderness
\n(rivers in the wild)
\nto give my chosen people drink.
\nThe people I have formed for myself
\nwill sing my praises. <\/p> \n\n

\nPsalm: 125(126)
<\/b> \n\nWhen the Lord delivered Zion from bondage,
\nit seemed like a dream.
\nThen was our mouth filled with laughter,
\non our lips there were songs. <\/p> \n\n

The heathens themselves said: \u2018What marvels
\nthe Lord worked for them!\u2019
\nWhat marvels the Lord worked for us!
\nIndeed we were glad. <\/p> \n\n

Deliver us, O Lord, from our bondage
\nas streams in dry land.
\nThose who are sowing in tears
\nwill sing when they reap. <\/p> \n\n

They go out, they go out, full of tears,
\ncarrying seed for the sowing:
\nthey come back, they come back, full of song,
\ncarrying their sheaves. <\/p> \n\n

\nA reading from the Letter to the Philippians 3:8-14
<\/b> \n\n I look on everything as so much rubbish if only I can have Christ <\/i> <\/p> \n\n

I believe nothing can happen that will outweigh the supreme advantage of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord. For him I have accepted the loss of everything, and I look on everything as so much rubbish if only I can have Christ and be given a place in him. I am no longer trying for perfection by my own efforts, the perfection that comes from the Law, but I want only the perfection that comes through faith in Christ, and is from God and based on faith. All I want is to know Christ and the power of his resurrection and to share his sufferings by reproducing the pattern of his death. That is the way I can hope to take my place in the resurrection of the dead. Not that I have become perfect yet: I have not yet won, but I am still running, trying to capture the prize for which Christ Jesus captured me. I can assure you my brothers, I am far from thinking that I have already won. All I can say is that I forget the past and I strain ahead for what is still to come; I am racing for the finish, for the prize to which God calls us upwards to receive in Christ Jesus. <\/p> \n\n

\nA reading from the Gospel of St John 8:1-11
<\/b> \n\n \u2018Let the one among you who has not sinned be the first to throw a stone\u2019 <\/i> <\/p> \n\n

Jesus went to the Mount of Olives. At daybreak he appeared in the Temple again; and as all the people came to him, he sat down and began to teach them.
\nThe scribes and Pharisees brought a woman along who had been caught committing adultery; and making her stand there in full view of everybody, they said to Jesus, \u2018Master, this woman was caught in the very act of committing adultery, and Moses has ordered us in the Law to condemn women like this to death by stoning. What have you to say?\u2019 They asked him this as a test, looking for something to use against him. But Jesus bent down and started writing on the ground with his finger. As they persisted with their question, he looked up and said, \u2018If there is one of you who has not sinned, let him be the first to throw a stone at her.\u2019 Then he bent down and wrote on the ground again. When they heard this they went away one by one, beginning with the eldest, until Jesus was left alone with the woman, who remained standing there. He looked up and said, \u2018Woman, where are they? Has no one condemned you?\u2019 \u2018No one, sir\u2019 she replied. \u2018Neither do I condemn you,\u2019 said Jesus \u2018go away, and do not sin any more.\u2019 <\/p>
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Sunday 13th April – Palm Sunday of the Passion of the Lord <\/b><\/p>\n\n

Palm Sunday<\/p> \n\n \n

PALM SUNDAY OF THE PASSION OF THE LORD

\n\nA reading from the Prophet Isaiah 50:4-7 <\/b>
\n\n I did not cover my face against insult: I know I shall not be shamed <\/i> <\/p> \n\n