Friday of the Fourth week of Lent

Book of Wisdom

2,1a.12-22.

The wicked said among themselves, thinking not aright:
"Let us beset the just one, because he is obnoxious to us; he sets himself against our doings, Reproaches us for transgressions of the law and charges us with violations of our training.
He professes to have knowledge of God and styles himself a child of the LORD.
To us he is the censure of our thoughts; merely to see him is a hardship for us,
Because his life is not like other men's, and different are his ways.
He judges us debased; he holds aloof from our paths as from things impure. He calls blest the destiny of the just and boasts that God is his Father.
Let us see whether his words be true; let us find out what will happen to him.
For if the just one be the son of God, he will defend him and deliver him from the hand of his foes.
With revilement and torture let us put him to the test that we may have proof of his gentleness and try his patience.
Let us condemn him to a shameful death; for according to his own words, God will take care of him."
These were their thoughts, but they erred; for their wickedness blinded them,
And they knew not the hidden counsels of God; neither did they count on a recompense of holiness nor discern the innocent souls' reward.

Psalms

34(33),17-18.19-20.21.23.

The LORD confronts the evildoers,
to destroy remembrance of them from the earth.
When the just cry out, the LORD hears them,
and from all their distress he rescues them.
The LORD is close to the brokenhearted;
and those who are crushed in spirit he saves.
Many are the troubles of the just man,
but out of them all the LORD delivers him.
He watches over all his bones;
not one of them shall be broken.
The LORD redeems the lives of his servants;
no one incurs guilt who takes refuge in him.

Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint John

7,1-2.10.25-30.

Jesus moved about within Galilee; but he did not wish to travel in Judea, because the Jews were trying to kill him.
But the Jewish feast of Tabernacles was near.
But when his brothers had gone up to the feast, he himself also went up, not openly but (as it were) in secret.
So some of the inhabitants of Jerusalem said, "Is he not the one they are trying to kill?
And look, he is speaking openly and they say nothing to him. Could the authorities have realized that he is the Messiah?
But we know where he is from. When the Messiah comes, no one will know where he is from."
So Jesus cried out in the temple area as he was teaching and said, "You know me and also know where I am from. Yet I did not come on my own, but the one who sent me, whom you do not know, is true.
I know him, because I am from him, and he sent me."
So they tried to arrest him, but no one laid a hand upon him, because his hour had not yet come.

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St. Hugh(Bishop (1053-1132))

SAINT HUGH Bishop (1053-1132) St. Hugh was born in 1053 at Chateau-neuf, in the territory of Valence in Dauphiné. He received the gift of faith from the example and care of his loving and faithful parents. He excelled at studies by relying on the will of God, acting regularly and consistently, and cultivating the virtue of order. Hearing and responding to the call, St. Hugh chose to serve God in an ecclesiastical state. He gave himself with the full freedom of love, and accepted a canonry in the cathedral of Valence. St. Hugh's father, Odilo, served in the army. He labored to make his soldiers faithful servants of their Creator, and restrained vice through regulations and punishments. At the advice of his son, he afterwards became a Carthusian monk, and died at the age of a hundred, having received Extreme Unction and Viaticum from the hands of his son. St. Hugh likewise assisted his mother during her last moments; she who served God for many years by prayer, fasting, and generous alms-giving. St. Hugh's selfless love and reliance on the will of God disposed him to receive great graces during his canonry at the cathedral of Valence. Through "the narrow gate" and using the Means, with devotion to the Blessed Virgin Mary, St. Hugh was made Bishop of Grenoble. He set himself at once to reprove vice and reform abuses. In short time, he saw his diocese changed into a city modeled on God's love through Jesus. After two years, he privately resigned his bishopric, presuming on the tacit consent of the Holy See, and, putting on the habit of St. Bennet, he entered upon a novitiate in the austere abbey of Casa-Dei in Auvergne. There, he lived one year, a perfect model of all virtues to that house of Saints, till Pope Gregory VII commanded him, in virtue of holy obedience, to resume his pastoral charge. St. Hugh earnestly solicited Pope Innocent II for leave to resign his bishopric that he might die in solitude, but was never able to obtain his request. God was pleased to purify him by a lingering illness before he passed away. Shortly before his passing, St. Hugh lost memory for everything but his prayers. St. Hugh closed his penitential course on April 1, 1132, two months before his eightieth birthday. He had spent the last fifty-two years serving as bishop. Miracles attested the sanctity of his happy death, and he was canonized by Innocent II in 1134.

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St. Mary of Egypt(Hermit (c.344-421))

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SAINT MARY OF EGYPTHermit(c. 344-421) At the tender age of twelve, St. Mary left her father's house and sinned without restraint, and for seventeen years she lived in shame at Alexandria. When she accompanied a pilgrimage to Jerusalem, she entangled many in grievous sin. She was in Jerusalem during the Feast of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross, and went with the crowd to a church which contained the precious wood. The rest entered and adored, but Mary was invisibly held back. In that instant, her misery and uncleanliness dawned upon her. Turning to the Immaculate Mother, whose picture faced her in the porch, she vowed to do penance if she might enter and stand like Magdalen beside the Cross. St. Mary then entered the church and knelt by the Cross. On leaving, she knelt before Our Lady, and a voice came to her which said, "Pass over Jordan, and thou shalt find rest." St. Mary went into the wilderness and passed over Jordan. In 420, forty-seven years later, the Abbot Zosimus met her. She told him that for seventeen years, the old songs and scenes haunted her; ever after, she had perfect peace. At her request, he brought her the sacred body of Christ on Holy Thursday.She bade him return again after a year. This time, he found passed away, resting upon the sand. An inscription said, "Bury here the body of Mary the sinner." The Bollandists place her death on April 1, 421. The Greek Church celebrates her feast on 1 April, while the Roman Martyrology assigns it to 2 April, and the Roman Calendar to 3 April. The Greek date is more likely to be correct; the others may be due to the fact that on those days portions of her relics reached the West.

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