Fifth Sunday of Lent

Book of Isaiah

43,16-21.

Thus says the LORD, who opens a way in the sea and a path in the mighty waters,
Who leads out chariots and horsemen, a powerful army, Till they lie prostrate together, never to rise, snuffed out and quenched like a wick.
Remember not the events of the past, the things of long ago consider not;
See, I am doing something new! Now it springs forth, do you not perceive it? In the desert I make a way, in the wasteland, rivers.
Wild beasts honor me, jackals and ostriches, For I put water in the desert and rivers in the wasteland for my chosen people to drink,
The people whom I formed for myself, that they might announce my praise.

Psalms

126(125),1-2ab.2cd-3.4-5.6.

When the LORD brought back the captives of Zion,
we were like men dreaming.
Then our mouth was filled with laughter,
and our tongue with rejoicing.
Then they said among the nations,
"the LORD has done great things for them."
The LORD has done great things for us;
we are glad indeed.
Restore our fortunes, O LORD,
like the torrents in the southern desert.
Those that sow in tears
shall reap rejoicing.
Although they go forth weeping,
carrying the seed to be sown,
they shall come back rejoicing,
carrying their sheaves.

Letter to the Philippians

3,8-14.

Brothers and sisters: I consider everything as a loss because of the supreme good of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord. For his sake I have accepted the loss of all things and I consider them so much rubbish, that I may gain Christ
and be found in him, not having any righteousness of my own based on the law but that which comes through faith in Christ, the righteousness from God, depending on faith
to know him and the power of his resurrection and (the) sharing of his sufferings by being conformed to his death,
if somehow I may attain the resurrection from the dead.
It is not that I have already taken hold of it or have already attained perfect maturity, but I continue my pursuit in hope that I may possess it, since I have indeed been taken possession of by Christ (Jesus).
Brothers, I for my part do not consider myself to have taken possession. Just one thing: forgetting what lies behind but straining forward to what lies ahead,
I continue my pursuit toward the goal, the prize of God's upward calling, in Christ Jesus.

Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint John

8,1-11.

Jesus went to the Mount of Olives.
But early in the morning he arrived again in the temple area, and all the people started coming to him, and he sat down and taught them.
Then the scribes and the Pharisees brought a woman who had been caught in adultery and made her stand in the middle.
They said to him, "Teacher, this woman was caught in the very act of committing adultery.
Now in the law, Moses commanded us to stone such women. So what do you say?"
They said this to test him, so that they could have some charge to bring against him. Jesus bent down and began to write on the ground with his finger.
But when they continued asking him, he straightened up and said to them, "Let the one among you who is without sin be the first to throw a stone at her."
Again he bent down and wrote on the ground.
And in response, they went away one by one, beginning with the elders. So he was left alone with the woman before him.
Then Jesus straightened up and said to her, "Woman, where are they? Has no one condemned you?"
She replied, "No one, sir." Then Jesus said, "Neither do I condemn you. Go, (and) from now on do not sin any more."

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St. Richard(Bishop (1197-1253))

SAINT RICHARD OF CHICHESTER Bishop (1197-1253) St. Richard was born in 1197 in the little town of Wyche, eight miles from Worcester, England. When he and his elder brother were orphaned, Richard gave up his studies to farm his brother's impoverished estate. His brother, in gratitude, proposed to grant him the lands, but Richard refused both estate and the offer of a brilliant marriage to study for the priesthood at Oxford. In 1235, Fr. Richard he was appointed chancellor of Oxford University. Afterward, he was appointed chancellor of the diocese of St. Edmund of Canterbury. He stood by St. Edmund during the Saint's long contest with the king, and even accompanied St. Edmund into exile. After St. Edmund's death, Fr. Richard returned to England to work as a simple curate. He was soon elected Bishop of Chichester in preference to the nominee of Henry III. The king, in retaliation, refused to recognize the election, and seized the revenues of the see. Thus Bp. Richard found himself fighting the same battle in which St. Edmund had died. Bp. Richard went to Lyons, was there consecrated by Innocent IV in 1245, and returned to England. In spite of his poverty and the king's hostility, Bp. Richard fully exercised his episcopal rights.After two years, the revenues of the see were restored. Bp. Richard gave all he had, and worked miracles to feed the poor and heal the sick; but when the freedom or purity of the Church were threatened, he was its mightiest protector.When a priest of noble lineage polluted his office by sin, Bp. Richard revoked his benefice, and refused the king's petition for reinstatement. When a knight violently put a priest in prison, Bp. Richard compelled the knight to walk around the priest's church with a log of wood on his neck to which he had chained the priest. When the burgesses of Lewes tore a criminal from church and hanged him, Bp. Richard made them dig up the body from its unconsecrated grave and bear it back to the sanctuary they had violated. Bp. Richard passed away in 1253 while preaching, at the Pope's command, a crusade against the Saracens. He reigns with Christ and intercedes forever.

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