READINGS FOR MASS

GOSPEL    John 12:12-16

Blessings on him who comes in the name of the Lord.
A great crowd who had come to the feast
heard that Jesus was coming to Jerusalem.
So they took branches of palm trees
and went out to meet him, crying,
‘Hosanna!
Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord, even the king of Israel!’
And Jesus found a young ass and sat upon it; as is written, ‘Fear not, daughter of Sion; behold, your king is coming, sitting on an ass’s colt!’
His disciples did not understand this at first; but when Jesus was glorified, then they remembered that this had been written of him and had been done to him. [Read more…]

READINGS FOR LENT 4 – SUNDAY

First reading
2 Chronicles 36:14-16,19-23
God’s wrath and mercy are revealed in the exile and release of his people.

All the heads of the priesthood, and the people too, added infidelity to infidelity, copying all the shameful practices of the nations and defiling the Temple that the Lord had consecrated for himself in Jerusalem. The Lord, the God of their ancestors, tirelessly sent them messenger after messenger, since he wished to spare his people and his house. But they ridiculed the messengers of God, they despised his words, they laughed at his prophets, until at last the wrath of the Lord rose so high against his people that there was no further remedy. [Read more…]