Catholic Missal of the day: Thursday, April 6 2017

Thursday of the Fifth week of Lent

Thursday of the Fifth week of Lent

1. Reading

Book of Genesis

17,3-9.

]When Abram prostrated himself, God spoke to him:
]"My covenant with you is this: you are to become the father of a host of nations.
]No longer shall you be called Abram; your name shall be Abraham, for I am making you the father of a host of nations.
]I will render you exceedingly fertile; I will make nations of you; kings shall stem from you.
]I will maintain my covenant with you and your descendants after you throughout the ages as an everlasting pact, to be your God and the God of your descendants after you.
]I will give to you and to your descendants after you the land in which you are now staying, the whole land of Canaan, as a permanent possession; and I will be their God."
]God also said to Abraham: "On your part, you and your descendants after you must keep my covenant throughout the ages.

Psalm

Psalms

105(104),4-5.6-7.8-9.

]Look to the LORD in his strength;
seek to serve him constantly.
]Recall the wondrous deeds that he has wrought,
his portents, and the judgments he has uttered.
]You descendants of Abraham, his servants,
sons of Jacob, his chosen ones!
]He, the LORD, is our God;
throughout the earth his judgments prevail.
]He remembers forever his covenant
which he made binding for a thousand generations.
]Which he entered into with Abraham
and by his oath to Isaac.

Gospel

Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint John

8,51-59.

]Jesus said to the Jews: "Amen, amen, I say to you, whoever keeps my word will never see death."
](So) the Jews said to him, "Now we are sure that you are possessed. Abraham died, as did the prophets, yet you say, 'Whoever keeps my word will never taste death.'
]Are you greater than our father Abraham, who died? Or the prophets, who died? Who do you make yourself out to be?"
]Jesus answered, "If I glorify myself, my glory is worth nothing; but it is my Father who glorifies me, of whom you say, 'He is our God.'
]You do not know him, but I know him. And if I should say that I do not know him, I would be like you a liar. But I do know him and I keep his word.
]Abraham your father rejoiced to see my day; he saw it and was glad.
]So the Jews said to him, "You are not yet fifty years old and you have seen Abraham?"
]Jesus said to them, "Amen, amen, I say to you, before Abraham came to be, I AM."
]So they picked up stones to throw at him; but Jesus hid and went out of the temple area.

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Bl. Notker(Benedictine Monk (c. 840-912))

Blessed Notker the Stammerer Benedictine Monk (c. 840-912) Notker, also called Notker the Poet or Notker of Saint Gall, was a musician, author, poet and Benedictine monk at the Abbey of Saint Gall in modern Switzerland. He was born circa 840 to a distinguished family. Notker studied with Tuotilo at Saint Gall's monastic school, taught by Iso and Moengall. He became a monk there and is mentioned as a librarian in 890. He was also master of guests from 892 to 894. He was chiefly active in teaching and displayed refinement of taste as a poet and author. Ekkehard IV, the biographer of the monks of Saint Gall, lauds Notker as "delicate of body but not of mind, stuttering of tongue but not of intellect, pushing boldly forward in things Divine, a vessel of the Holy Spirit without equal in his time." Bl. Notker passed away in 912 and was beatified in 1512. He intercedes for causes related to his life and the humanities.

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