Monday of the Fourth week of Lent

Book of Isaiah

65,17-21.

Thus says the LORD: Lo, I am about to create new heavens and a new earth; The things of the past shall not be remembered or come to mind.
Instead, there shall always be rejoicing and happiness in what I create; For I create Jerusalem to be a joy and its people to be a delight;
I will rejoice in Jerusalem and exult in my people. No longer shall the sound of weeping be heard there, or the sound of crying;
No longer shall there be in it an infant who lives but a few days, or an old man who does not round out his full lifetime; He dies a mere youth who reaches but a hundred years, and he who fails of a hundred shall be thought accursed.
They shall live in the houses they build, and eat the fruit of the vineyards they plant.

Psalms

30(29),2.4.5-6.11-12a.13b.

I will extol you, O LORD, for you drew me clear
and did not let my enemies rejoice over me.
O LORD, you brought me up from the nether world;
you preserved me from among those going down into the pit.
Sing praise to the LORD, you his faithful ones,
and give thanks to his holy name.
For his anger lasts but a moment;
a lifetime, his good will.
At nightfall, weeping enters in,
but with the dawn, rejoicing.
Hear, O LORD, and have pity on me;
O LORD, be my helper.”
You changed my mourning into dancing;
O LORD, my God, forever will I give you thanks.

Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint John

4,43-54.

At that time Jesus left [Samaria] for Galilee.
For Jesus himself testified that a prophet has no honor in his native place.
When he came into Galilee, the Galileans welcomed him, since they had seen all he had done in Jerusalem at the feast; for they themselves had gone to the feast.
Then he returned to Cana in Galilee, where he had made the water wine. Now there was a royal official whose son was ill in Capernaum.
When he heard that Jesus had arrived in Galilee from Judea, he went to him and asked him to come down and heal his son, who was near death.
Jesus said to him, "Unless you people see signs and wonders, you will not believe."
The royal official said to him, "Sir, come down before my child dies."
Jesus said to him, "You may go; your son will live." The man believed what Jesus said to him and left.
While he was on his way back, his slaves met him and told him that his boy would live.
He asked them when he began to recover. They told him, "The fever left him yesterday, about one in the afternoon."
The father realized that just at that time Jesus had said to him, "Your son will live," and he and his whole household came to believe.
(Now) this was the second sign Jesus did when he came to Galilee from Judea.

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St. Eulogius(Martyr (+ 859))

SAINT EULOGIUS Martyr (+ 859) St. Eulogius' family and relatives were senators in Cordova, the capital of the Moors in Spain. He was educated by the clergy of the Church of St. Zoilus: a martyr who suffered with nineteen others under Diocletian. Eulogius was ordained and appointed as the director of the chief ecclesiastical school in Cordova. His adoration, fasting and prayer animated his humility, mildness and charity. During the persecution raised against Christians in the year 850, Eulogius was imprisoned. He wrote his Exhortation to Martyrdom, which was addressed to the virgins Flora and Mary. They were beheaded on November 24, 851. Six days later, Eulogius wad released. In 852, several others suffered martyrdom. Eulogius inspired them and supported the distressed flock. A virgin named Leocritia, from a noble Moorish family, had been instructed in Christianity by a relative since childhood. She was privately baptized, but had been rejected by her parents. Leocritia told Eulogius and his sister Anulona that she desired to worship and adore Jesus freely. Hence Eulogius and Anulona provided sanctuary. When their plan was discovered, Leocritia and her cohorts were tried by the cadi. Eulogius was threatened with being scourged to death, but never forfeited his faith. The cadi then sent Eulogius to the king's council, who sentenced him to beheading once he started proposing the truths of the Gospel. When the guards led Eulogius away, one of them struck him across the face. He turned his cheek and patiently received a second. St. Eulogius surrendered his life with peace and serenity. He was beheaded on March 11, 859. St. Leocritia was beheaded four days later. Although her body was thrown into the river Guadalquivir, it was recovered and buried by Christians.

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