Wednesday of the First week of Lent

Book of Jonah

3,1-10.

The word of the LORD came to Jonah a second time:
"Set out for the great city of Nineveh, and announce to it the message that I will tell you."
So Jonah made ready and went to Nineveh, according to the LORD'S bidding. Now Nineveh was an enormously large city; it took three days to go through it.
Jonah began his journey through the city, and had gone but a single day's walk announcing, "Forty days more and Nineveh shall be destroyed,"
when the people of Nineveh believed God; they proclaimed a fast and all of them, great and small, put on sackcloth.
When the news reached the king of Nineveh, he rose from his throne, laid aside his robe, covered himself with sackcloth, and sat in the ashes.
Then he had this proclaimed throughout Nineveh, by decree of the king and his nobles: "Neither man nor beast, neither cattle nor sheep, shall taste anything; they shall not eat, nor shall they drink water.
Man and beast shall be covered with sackcloth and call loudly to God; every man shall turn from his evil way and from the violence he has in hand.
Who knows, God may relent and forgive, and withhold his blazing wrath, so that we shall not perish."
When God saw by their actions how they turned from their evil way, he repented of the evil that he had threatened to do to them; he did not carry it out.

Psalms

51(50),3-4.12-13.18-19.

Have mercy on me, O God, in your goodness;
in the greatness of your compassion wipe out my offense.
Thoroughly wash me from my guilt
and of my sin cleanse me.
A clean heart create for me, O God,
and a steadfast spirit renew within me.
Cast me not out from your presence,
and your Holy Spirit take not from me.
For you are not pleased with sacrifices;
should I offer a burnt offering, you would not accept it.
My sacrifice, O God, is a contrite spirit;
a heart contrite and humbled, O God, you will not spurn.

Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint Luke

11,29-32.

While still more people gathered in the crowd, Jesus said to them, "This generation is an evil generation; it seeks a sign, but no sign will be given it, except the sign of Jonah.
Just as Jonah became a sign to the Ninevites, so will the Son of Man be to this generation.
At the judgment the queen of the south will rise with the men of this generation and she will condemn them, because she came from the ends of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon, and there is something greater than Solomon here.
At the judgment the men of Nineveh will arise with this generation and condemn it, because at the preaching of Jonah they repented, and there is something greater than Jonah here."

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St. Peter Damian(Bishop and Doctor of the Church (1007-1072))

SAINT PETER DAMIAN Bishop and Doctor of the Church (1007-1072) When St. Peter Damian was orphaned, his eldest brother treated him so cruelly that a younger brother, a priest, sent him to the University of Parma. Peter acquired great distinction. He sanctified his studies with vigils, fasts and prayers. Feeling like his efforts only served God by halves, he embarked on a religious vocation. Fr. Peter Damian joined the monks at Font-Avellano and was elected abbot. He was employed on the most delicate and difficult missions, among others the reform of ecclesiastical communities. Seven popes in succession made him their constant advisor. He was also appointed cardinal bishop of Ostia. He withstood Henry IV of Germany and labored in defense of Alexander II against the Antipope: the latter yielding and asking for pardon. As papal legate, Bp. Peter was tasked with repressing simony, settling discords among various bishops and adjusting the affairs of the Church in Ravenna in 1072. On a homeward journey, he was laid low by a fever. He passed away on the eighth day of his sickness in Faenza, at a monastery of his order.

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