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March 2026 Sunday Readings<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Scripture<\/strong> Readings for Sundays in March 2026<\/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

March 2026  – Year A<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n

Sunday 1st March 2026 – 2nd Sunday of Lent<\/a>
Sunday 8th March 2026 – 3rd Sunday of Lent<\/a>
Sunday 15th March 2026 – 4th Sunday of Lent<\/a>
Sunday 22nd March 2026 – 5th Sunday of Lent<\/a>
Sunday 29th March 2026 – Palm Sunday of the Passion of the Lord<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n

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Sunday 1st March – 2nd Sunday of Lent <\/p> <\/font color><\/b><\/p>\n\n

Lent<\/p> \n\n

A reading from the Book of Genesis 12:1-4 <\/b> <\/font color>
\n\n The call of Abraham, father of the People of God <\/i> <\/p> \n\n

The Lord said to Abram, \u2018Leave your country, your family and your father\u2019s house, for the land I will show you. I will make you a great nation; I will bless you and make your name so famous that it will be used as a blessing.<\/p>\n

\u2018I will bless those who bless you:
\nI will curse those who slight you.
\nAll the tribes of the earth
\nshall bless themselves by you.\u2019<\/p>\n

So Abram went as the Lord told him.<\/p>\n\n

\nPsalm: 32:4-5, 18-20, 22 <\/b> <\/font color>
\n\nThe word of the Lord is faithful
\nand all his works to be trusted.
\nThe Lord loves justice and right
\nand fills the earth with his love.<\/p>\n\n

The Lord looks on those who revere him,
\non those who hope in his love,
\nto rescue their souls from death,
\nto keep them alive in famine.<\/p>\n\n

Our soul is waiting for the Lord.
\nThe Lord is our help and our shield.
\nMay your love be upon us, O Lord,
\nas we place all our hope in you. <\/p> \n\n

\nA reading from the Second Letter of St Paul to Timothy 1:8-10
<\/font color> <\/b> \n\n God calls and enlightens us <\/i> <\/p> \n\n

With me, bear the hardships for the sake of the Good News, relying on the power of God who has saved us and called us to be holy \u2013 not because of anything we ourselves have done but for his own purpose and by his own grace. This grace had already been granted to us, in Christ Jesus, before the beginning of time, but it has only been revealed by the Appearing of our saviour Christ Jesus. He abolished death, and he has proclaimed life and immortality through the Good News.<\/p>\n\n

\nA reading from the Gospel of St Matthew 17:1-9
<\/font color> <\/b> \n\n His face shone like the sun <\/i> <\/p> \n\n

Jesus took with him Peter and James and his brother John and led them up a high mountain where they could be alone. There in their presence he was transfigured: his face shone like the sun and his clothes became as white as the light. Suddenly Moses and Elijah appeared to them; they were talking with him. Then Peter spoke to Jesus. \u201cLord,\u201d he said \u201cit is wonderful for us to be here; if you wish, I will make three tents here, one for you, one for Moses and one for Elijah.\u201d He was still speaking when suddenly a bright cloud covered them with shadow, and from the cloud there came a voice which said, \u201cThis is my Son, the Beloved; he enjoys my favour. Listen to him.\u201d When they heard this the disciples fell on their faces overcome with fear. But Jesus came up and touched them. \u201cStand up,\u201d he said \u201cdo not be afraid.\u201d And when they raised their eyes they saw no one but only Jesus.\nAs they came down from the mountain Jesus gave them this order, \u201cTell no one about the vision until the Son of Man has risen from the dead.\u201d <\/p>
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Sunday 8th March – 3rd Sunday of Lent <\/b><\/font color><\/p>\n\n

Lent<\/p> \n\n

\nA reading from the Book of Exodus 17:3-7 <\/b><\/font color>
\n\n Give us water to drink. <\/i> <\/p> \n\n

Tormented by thirst, the people complained against Moses. \u201cWhy did you bring us out of Egypt?\u201d they said. \u201cWas it so that I should die of thirst, my children too, and my cattle?\u201d
\nMoses appealed to the Lord. \u201cHow am I to deal with this people?\u201d he said. \u201cA little more and they will stone me!\u201d the Lord said to Moses, \u201cTake with you some of the elders of Israel and move on to the forefront of the people; take in your hand the staff with which you struck the river, and go. I shall be standing before you there on the rock, at Horeb. You must strike the rock, and water will flow from it for the people to drink.\u201d This is what Moses did, in the sight of the elders of Israel. The place was named Massah and Meribah because of the grumbling of the sons of Israel and because they put the Lord to the test by saying, \u2018Is the Lord with us, or not?\u2019\n<\/p> \n\n\n

\nPsalm: 94:1-2, 6-9 <\/b> <\/font color>
\n\nCome, ring out our joy to the Lord;
\nhail the rock who saves us.
\nLet us come before him, giving thanks,
\nwith songs let us hail the Lord. <\/p>\n\n

Come in; let us bow and bend low;
\nlet us kneel before the God who made us:
\nfor he is our God and we
\nthe people who belong to his pasture,
\nthe flock that is led by his hand. <\/p>\n\n

O that today you would listen to his voice!
\n\u2018Harden not your hearts as at Meribah,
\nas on that day at Massah in the desert
\nwhen your fathers put me to the test;
\nwhen they tried me, though they saw my work.\u2019 <\/p> \n\n\n

\nA reading from the Letter of St Paul to the Romans 5:1-2, 5-8
<\/font color> <\/b> \n\n The love of God has been poured into our hearts by the Holy Spirit which has been given us. <\/i> <\/p> \n\n

Through our Lord Jesus Christ, by faith we are judged righteous and at peace with God, since it is by faith and through Jesus that we have entered this state of grace in which we can boast about looking forward to God\u2019s glory. And this hope is not deceptive, because the love of God has been poured into our hearts by the Holy Spirit which has been given us. We were still helpless when at his appointed moment Christ died for sinful men. It is not easy to die even for a good man \u2013 though of course for someone really worthy, a man might be prepared to die \u2013 but what proves that God loves us is that Christ died for us while we were still sinners. <\/p>\n\n

\nA reading from the Gospel of St John 4:5-42
<\/font color> <\/b> \n\n A spring of water welling up to eternal life <\/i> <\/p> \n\n

Jesus came to the Samaritan town called Sychar, near the land that Jacob gave to his son Joseph. Jacob\u2019s well is there and Jesus, tired by the journey, sat straight down by the well. It was about the sixth hour. When a Samaritan woman came to draw water, Jesus said to her, \u201cGive me a drink.\u201d His disciples had gone into the town to buy food. The Samaritan woman said to him, \u201cWhat? You are a Jew and you ask me, a Samaritan, for a drink?\u201d \u2013 Jews, in fact, do not associate with Samaritans. Jesus replied:<\/p>\n\n

\u201cIf you only knew what God is offering
and who it is that is saying to you:
Give me a drink, you would have been the one to ask,
and he would have given you living water.\u201d<\/p>\n\n

\u201cYou have no bucket, sir,\u201d she answered \u201cand the well is deep: how could you get this living water? Are you a greater man than our father Jacob who gave us this well and drank from it himself with his sons and his cattle?\u201d Jesus replied:<\/p>\n\n

\u201cWhoever drinks this water
will get thirsty again;
but anyone who drinks the water that I shall give
will never be thirsty again:
the water that I shall give
will turn into a spring inside him,
welling up to eternal life.\u201d<\/p>\n\n

\u201cSir,\u201d said the woman \u201cgive me some of that water, so that I may never get thirsty and never have to come here again to draw water.\u201d \u201cGo and call your husband\u201d said Jesus to her \u201cand come back here.\u201d The woman answered, \u201cI have no husband.\u201d He said to her, \u201cYou are right to say, \u201cI have no husband\u201d; for although you have had five, the one you have now is not your husband. You spoke the truth there.\u201d \u201cI see you are a prophet, sir\u201d said the woman. \u201cOur fathers worshipped on this mountain, while you say that Jerusalem is the place where one ought to worship.\u201d Jesus said:<\/p>\n\n

\u201cBelieve me, woman,
the hour is coming
when you will worship the Father
neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem.
You worship what you do not know;
we worship what we do know:
for salvation comes from the Jews.
But the hour will come
\u2013 in fact it is here already \u2013
when true worshippers will worship the Father in spirit and truth:
that is the kind of worshipper the Father wants.
God is spirit,
and those who worship
must worship in spirit and truth.\u201d<\/p>\n\n

The woman said to him, \u201cI know that Messiah \u2013 that is, Christ \u2013 is coming; and when he comes he will tell us everything.\u201d \u201cI who am speaking to you,\u201d said Jesus \u201cI am he.\u201d
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At this point his disciples returned, and were surprised to find him speaking to a woman, though none of them asked, \u201cWhat do you want from her?\u201d or, \u201cWhy are you talking to her?\u201d The woman put down her water jar and hurried back to the town to tell the people. \u201cCome and see a man who has told me everything I ever did; I wonder if he is the Christ?\u201d This brought people out of the town and they started walking towards him.
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Meanwhile, the disciples were urging him, \u201cRabbi, do have something to eat;\u201d but he said, \u201cI have food to eat that you do not know about.\u201d So the disciples asked one another, \u201cHas someone been bringing him food?\u201d But Jesus said:<\/p>\n\n

\u201cMy food is to do the will of the one who sent me,
and to complete his work.
Have you not got a saying:
Four months and then the harvest?
Well, I tell you:
Look around you, look at the fields;
already they are white, ready for harvest!
Already the reaper is being paid his wages,
already he is bringing in the grain for eternal life,
and thus sower and reaper rejoice together.
For here the proverb holds good:
one sows, another reaps;
I sent you to reap a harvest you had not worked for.
Others worked for it;
and you have come into the rewards of their trouble.\u201d<\/p>\n\n

Many Samaritans of that town had believed in him on the strength of the woman\u2019s testimony when she said, \u201cHe told me all I have ever done\u201d, so, when the Samaritans came up to him, they begged him to stay with them. He stayed for two days, and when he spoke to them many more came to believe; and they said to the woman, \u201cNow we no longer believe because of what you told us; we have heard him ourselves and we know that he really is the saviour of the world.\u201d\n <\/p>
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Lent<\/p> \n\n

\nA reading from the First Book of Samuel 16:1, 6-7, 10-131 <\/b><\/font color>
\n\n David is anointed king of Israel. <\/i> <\/p> \n\n

The Lord said to Samuel, \u201cFill your horn with oil and go. I am sending you to Jesse of Bethlehem, for I have chosen myself a king among his sons.\u201d When Samuel arrived, he caught sight of Eliab and thought, \u201cSurely the Lord\u2019s anointed stands there before him,\u201d but the Lord said to Samuel, \u201cTake no notice of his appearance or his height, for I have rejected him: God does not see as man sees: man looks at appearances but the Lord looks at the heart.\u201d Jesse presented his seven sons to Samuel, but Samuel said to Jesse, \u201cThe Lord has not chosen these.\u201d He then asked Jesse, \u201cAre these all the sons you have?\u201d He answered, \u201cThere is still one left, the youngest; he is out looking after the sheep.\u201d Then Samuel said to Jesse, \u201cSend for him; we will not sit down to eat until he comes.\u201d Jesse had him sent for, a boy of fresh complexion, with fine eyes and pleasant bearing. The Lord said, \u201cCome, anoint him, for this is the one.\u201d At this, Samuel took the horn of oil and anointed him where he stood with his brothers; and the spirit of the Lord seized on David and stayed with him from that day on. <\/p> \n\n\n

\nPsalm: 23 <\/b><\/font color>
\n\nThe Lord is my shepherd; there is nothing I shall want.
\nFresh and green are the pastures
\nwhere he gives me repose.
\nNear restful waters he leads me,
\nto revive my drooping spirit.<\/p>\n\n

He guides me along the right path;
\nhe is true to his name.
\nIf I should walk in the valley of darkness
\nno evil would I fear.
\nYou are there with your crook and your staff;
\nwith these you give me comfort.<\/p>\n\n

You have prepared a banquet for me
\nin the sight of my foes.
\nMy head you have anointed with oil;
\nmy cup is overflowing.<\/p>\n\n

Surely goodness and kindness shall follow me
\nall the days of my life.
\nIn the Lord\u2019s own house shall I dwell
\nfor ever and ever.<\/p>\n\n\n

\nA reading from the Letter of St Paul to the Ephesians 5:8-14
<\/font color> <\/b> \n\n Rise from the dead, and Christ will shine on you. <\/i> <\/p> \n\n

You were darkness once, but now you are light in the Lord; be like children of light, for the effects of the light are seen in complete goodness and right living and truth. Try to discover what the Lord wants of you, having nothing to do with the futile works of darkness but exposing them by contrast. The things which are done in secret are things that people are ashamed even to speak of; but anything exposed by the light will be illuminated and anything illuminated turns into light. That is why it is said:
\nWake up from your sleep, rise from the dead, and Christ will shine on you. <\/p>\n\n

\nA reading from the Gospel of St John 9:1-41
<\/font color> <\/b> \n\n He went off and washed himself, and came away with his sight restored <\/i> <\/p> \n\n

As Jesus went along, he saw a man who had been blind from birth. His disciples asked him, \u201cRabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, for him to have been born blind?\u201d \u201cNeither he nor his parents sinned,\u201d Jesus answered \u201che was born blind so that the works of God might be displayed in him.<\/p>\n\n

\u201cAs long as the day lasts
I must carry out the work of the one who sent me;
the night will soon be here when no one can work.
As long as I am in the world
I am the light of the world.\u201d<\/p>\n\n

Having said this, he spat on the ground, made a paste with the spittle, put this over the eyes of the blind man, and said to him, \u201cGo and wash in the Pool of Siloam\u201d (a name that means \u2018sent\u2019). So the blind man went off and washed himself, and came away with his sight restored.<\/p>\n\n

His neighbours and people who earlier had seen him begging said, \u201cIsn\u2019t this the man who used to sit and beg?\u201d Some said, \u201cYes, it is the same one.\u201d Others said, \u201cNo, he only looks like him.\u201d The man himself said, \u201cI am the man.\u201d So they said to him, \u201cThen how do your eyes come to be open?\u201d \u201cThe man called Jesus\u201d he answered \u201cmade a paste, daubed my eyes with it and said to me, \u2018Go and wash at Siloam\u2019; so I went, and when I washed I could see.\u201d They asked, \u201cWhere is he?\u201d \u201cI don\u2019t know\u201d he answered.<\/p>\n\n

They brought the man who had been blind to the Pharisees. It had been a sabbath day when Jesus made the paste and opened the man\u2019s eyes, so when the Pharisees asked him how he had come to see, he said, \u201cHe put a paste on my eyes, and I washed, and I can see.\u201d Then some of the Pharisees said, \u201cThis man cannot be from God: he does not keep the sabbath.\u201d Others said, \u201cHow could a sinner produce signs like this?\u201d And there was disagreement among them. So they spoke to the blind man again, \u201cWhat have you to say about him yourself, now that he has opened your eyes?\u201d \u201cHe is a prophet\u201d replied the man. However, the Jews would not believe that the man had been blind and had gained his sight, without first sending for his parents and asking them, \u201cIs this man really your son who you say was born blind? If so, how is it that he is now able to see?\u201d His parents answered, \u201cWe know he is our son and we know he was born blind, but we do not know how it is that he can see now, or who opened his eyes. He is old enough: let him speak for himself.\u201d His parents spoke like this out of fear of the Jews, who had already agreed to expel from the synagogue anyone who should acknowledge Jesus as the Christ. This was why his parents said, \u201cHe is old enough; ask him.\u201d<\/p>\n\n

So the Jews again sent for the man and said to him, \u201cGive glory to God! For our part, we know that this man is a sinner.\u201d The man answered, \u201cI don\u2019t know if he is a sinner; I only know that I was blind and now I can see.\u201d They said to him, \u201cWhat did he do to you? How did he open your eyes?\u201d He replied, \u201cI have told you once and you wouldn\u2019t listen. Why do you want to hear it all again? Do you want to become his disciples too?\u201d At this they hurled abuse at him: \u201cYou can be his disciple,\u201d they said \u201cwe are disciples of Moses: we know that God spoke to Moses, but as for this man, we do not know where he comes from.\u201d The man replied, \u201cNow here is an astonishing thing! He has opened my eyes, and you don\u2019t know where he comes from! We know that God doesn\u2019t listen to sinners, but God does listen to men who are devout and do his will. Ever since the world began it is unheard of for anyone to open the eyes of a man who was born blind; if this man were not from God, he couldn\u2019t do a thing.\u201d \u201cAre you trying to teach us,\u201d they replied \u201cand you a sinner through and through, since you were born!\u201d And they drove him away.<\/p>\n\n

Jesus heard they had driven him away, and when he found him he said to him, \u201cDo you believe in the Son of Man?\u201d \u201cSir,\u201d the man replied \u201ctell me who he is so that I may believe in him.\u201d Jesus said, \u201cYou are looking at him; he is speaking to you.\u201d The man said, \u201cLord, I believe\u201d, and worshipped him.<\/p>\n\n

Jesus said:

\n\u201cIt is for judgement
that I have come into this world,
so that those without sight may see
and those with sight turn blind.\u201d

Hearing this, some Pharisees who were present said to him, \u201cWe are not blind, surely?\u201d Jesus replied:<\/p>\n\n

\u201cBlind? If you were,
you would not be guilty,
but since you say, \u2018We see,\u2019
your guilt remains.\u201d <\/p>
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Sunday 22nd March – 5th Sunday of Lent <\/b><\/font color><\/p> \n\n

Lent<\/p>\n\n

\nA reading from the Prophet Ezekiel 37:12-14 <\/b> <\/font color>
\n\n I shall put my spirit in you, and you will live <\/i> <\/p> \n\n

The Lord says this: I am now going to open your graves; I mean to raise you from your graves, my people, and lead you back to the soil of Israel. And you will know that I am the Lord, when I open your graves and raise you from your graves, my people. And I shall put my spirit in you, and you will live, and I shall resettle you on your own soil; and you will know that I, the Lord, have said and done this \u2013 it is the Lord who speaks. <\/p> \n\n\n

\nPsalm: 129 <\/b> <\/font color>
\n\nOut of the depths I cry to you, O Lord,
\nLord, hear my voice!
\nO let your ears be attentive
\nto the voice of my pleading.<\/p>\n\n

If you, O Lord, should mark our guilt,
\nLord, who would survive?
\nBut with you is found forgiveness:
\nfor this we revere you.<\/p>\n\n

My soul is waiting for the Lord.
\nI count on his word.
\nMy soul is longing for the Lord
\nmore than watchman for daybreak.
\n(Let the watchman count on daybreak
\nand Israel on the Lord.)<\/p>\n\n

Because with the Lord there is mercy
\nand fullness of redemption,
\nIsrael indeed he will redeem
\nfrom all its iniquity. <\/p> \n\n

\nA reading from the Letter of St Paul to the Romans 8:8-11
<\/font color> <\/b> \n\n The Spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead is living in you <\/i> <\/p> \n\n

People who are interested only in unspiritual things can never be pleasing to God. Your interests, however, are not in the unspiritual, but in the spiritual, since the Spirit of God has made his home in you. In fact, unless you possessed the Spirit of Christ you would not belong to him. Though your body may be dead it is because of sin, but if Christ is in you then your spirit is life itself because you have been justified; and if the Spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead is living in you, then he who raised Jesus from the dead will give life to your own mortal bodies through his Spirit living in you. <\/p>\n\n

\nA reading from the Gospel of St John 11:1-45
<\/font color> <\/b> \n\n Jesus fasts for forty days and is tempted. <\/i> <\/p> \n\n

There was a man named Lazarus who lived in the village of Bethany with the two sisters, Mary and Martha, and he was ill. It was the same Mary, the sister of the sick man Lazarus, who anointed the Lord with ointment and wiped his feet with her hair. The sisters sent this message to Jesus, \u201cLord, the man you love is ill.\u201d On receiving the message, Jesus said, \u201cThis sickness will end not in death but in God\u2019s glory, and through it the Son of God will be glorified.\u201d<\/p>\n\n

Jesus loved Martha and her sister and Lazarus, yet when he heard that Lazarus was ill he stayed where he was for two more days before saying to the disciples, \u201cLet us go to Judaea.\u201d The disciples said, \u201cRabbi, it is not long since the Jews wanted to stone you; are you going back again?\u201d Jesus replied:<\/p>\n\n

\u201cAre there not twelve hours in the day?
A man can walk in the daytime without stumbling
because he has the light of this world to see by;
but if he walks at night he stumbles,
because there is no light to guide him.\u201d<\/p>\n\n

He said that and then added, \u201cOur friend Lazarus is resting, I am going to wake him.\u201d The disciples said to him, \u201cLord, if he is able to rest he is sure to get better.\u201d The phrase Jesus used referred to the death of Lazarus, but they thought that by \u2018rest\u2019 he meant \u2018sleep\u2019, so Jesus put it plainly, \u201cLazarus is dead; and for your sake I am glad I was not there because now you will believe. But let us go to him.\u201d Then Thomas \u2013 known as the Twin \u2013 said to the other disciples, \u201cLet us go too, and die with him.\u201d<\/p>\n\n

On arriving, Jesus found that Lazarus had been in the tomb for four days already. Bethany is only about two miles from Jerusalem, and many Jews had come to Martha and Mary to sympathise with them over their brother. When Martha heard that Jesus had come she went to meet him. Mary remained sitting in the house. Martha said to Jesus, \u201cIf you had been here, my brother would not have died, but I know that, even now, whatever you ask of God, he will grant you.\u201d \u201cYour brother\u201d said Jesus to her \u201cwill rise again.\u201d Martha said, \u201cI know he will rise again at the resurrection on the last day.\u201d Jesus said:<\/p>\n\n

\u201cI am the resurrection and the life.
If anyone believes in me, even though he dies he will live,
and whoever lives and believes in me will never die.
Do you believe this?\u201d<\/p>\n\n

\u201cYes, Lord,\u201d she said \u201cI believe that you are the Christ, the Son of God, the one who was to come into this world.\u201d<\/p>\n\n

When she had said this, she went and called her sister Mary, saying in a low voice, \u201cThe Master is here and wants to see you.\u201d Hearing this, Mary got up quickly and went to him. Jesus had not yet come into the village; he was still at the place where Martha had met him. When the Jews who were in the house sympathising with Mary saw her get up so quickly and go out, they followed her, thinking that she was going to the tomb to weep there.<\/p>\n\n

Mary went to Jesus, and as soon as she saw him she threw herself at his feet, saying, \u201cLord, if you had been here, my brother would not have died.\u201d At the sight of her tears, and those of the Jews who followed her, Jesus said in great distress, with a sigh that came straight from the heart, \u201cWhere have you put him?\u201d They said, \u201cLord, come and see.\u201d Jesus wept; and the Jews said, \u201cSee how much he loved him!\u201d But there were some who remarked, \u201cHe opened the eyes of the blind man, could he not have prevented this man\u2019s death?\u201d Still sighing, Jesus reached the tomb: it was a cave with a stone to close the opening. Jesus said, \u201cTake the stone away.\u201d Martha said to him, \u201cLord, by now he will smell; this is the fourth day.\u201d Jesus replied, \u201cHave I not told you that if you believe you will see the glory of God?\u201d So they took away the stone. Then Jesus lifted up his eyes and said:<\/p>\n\n

\u201cFather, I thank you for hearing my prayer.
I knew indeed that you always hear me,
but I speak for the sake of all these who stand round me,
so that they may believe it was you who sent me.\u201d<\/p>\n\n

When he had said this, he cried in a loud voice, \u201cLazarus, here! Come out!\u201d The dead man came out, his feet and hands bound with bands of stuff and a cloth round his face. Jesus said to them, \u201cUnbind him, let him go free.\u201d<\/p>\n\n

Many of the Jews who had come to visit Mary and had seen what he did believed in him. <\/p>
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Sunday 29th March – 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> <\/font color>
\n\n I did not cover my face against insult: I know I shall not be shamed <\/i> <\/p> \n\n