The 3rd of April, 2022 is the Fifth Sunday of Lent. The Holy Bible verses for the Year C mass readings for this day came from the Liturgical Calendar of the Year 2022.
Reading 1: IS 43:16-21
The first reading from the Book of Isaiah.
Yahweh, who makes a way in the sea, and a path in the mighty waters, who brings out the chariot and horse, the army and the mighty man (they lie down together, they shall not rise; they are extinct, they are quenched like a wick) says: “Don’t remember the former things, and don’t consider the things of old.
Behold, I will do a new thing. It springs out now. Don’t you know it? I will even make a way in the wilderness, and rivers in the desert.
The animals of the field, the jackals and the ostriches, shall honor me, because I give water in the wilderness and rivers in the desert, to give drink to my people, my chosen, the people which I formed for myself, that they might declare my praise.”
Responsorial Psalm: PS 126:1-2, 2-3, 4-5, 6
Response: Yahweh has done great things for us, and we are glad.
When Yahweh brought back those who returned to Zion, we were like those who dream.
Then our mouth was filled with laughter, and our tongue with singing.
R: Yahweh has done great things for us, and we are glad.
Then they said among the nations, “Yahweh has done great things for them.”
Yahweh has done great things for us, and we are glad.
R: Yahweh has done great things for us, and we are glad.
Restore our fortunes again, Yahweh, like the streams in the Negev.
Those who sow in tears will reap in joy.
R: Yahweh has done great things for us, and we are glad.
He who goes out weeping, carrying seed for sowing, will certainly come again with joy, carrying his sheaves.
R: Yahweh has done great things for us, and we are glad.
Reading 2: PHIL 3:8-14
The second reading from the Letter of Saint Paul to the Philippians.
Yes most certainly, and I count all things to be a loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus, my Lord, for whom I suffered the loss of all things, and count them nothing but refuse, that I may gain Christ and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own, that which is of the law, but that which is through faith in Christ, the righteousness which is from God by faith, that I may know him and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, becoming conformed to his death, if by any means I may attain to the resurrection from the dead.
Not that I have already obtained, or am already made perfect; but I press on, that I may take hold of that for which also I was taken hold of by Christ Jesus.
Brothers, I don’t regard myself as yet having taken hold, but one thing I do: forgetting the things which are behind and stretching forward to the things which are before, I press on toward the goal for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.
Verse Before Gospel: JL 2:12-13
From the Book of Joel.
“Yet even now,” says Yahweh, “turn to me with all your heart, and with fasting, and with weeping, and with mourning.”
Tear your heart and not your garments, and turn to Yahweh, your God; for he is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness, and relents from sending calamity.
Gospel of the Day: JN 8:1-11
From the gospel scripture according to John.
But Jesus went to the Mount of Olives.
Now very early in the morning, he came again into the temple, and all the people came to him. He sat down and taught them.
The scribes and the Pharisees brought a woman taken in adultery. Having set her in the middle, they told him, “Teacher, we found this woman in adultery, in the very act.
Now in our law, Moses commanded us to stone such women. What then do you say about her?”
They said this testing him, that they might have something to accuse him of. But Jesus stooped down and wrote on the ground with his finger.
But when they continued asking him, he looked up and said to them, “He who is without sin among you, let him throw the first stone at her.”
Again he stooped down and wrote on the ground with his finger.
They, when they heard it, being convicted by their conscience, went out one by one, beginning from the oldest, even to the last. Jesus was left alone with the woman where she was, in the middle.
Jesus, standing up, saw her and said, “Woman, where are your accusers? Did no one condemn you?”
She said, “No one, Lord.” Jesus said, “Neither do I condemn you. Go your way. From now on, sin no more.”
Other 5th Sunday of Lent Reading
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