Catholic Missal of the day: Wednesday, March 13 2019

Wednesday of the First week of Lent

Wednesday of the First week of Lent

1. Reading

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.

Psalm

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.  

Gospel

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. Euphrasia(Virgin and Martyr († 303))

SAINT EUPHRASIA Virgin and Martyr( 303) St. Euphrasia lived in Nicomedia, modern-day Turkey. She was noble, virtuous and pious. When secular authorities demanded that she perform pagan rites, she refused. As punishment, authorities scourged her and gave her to a barbarian who would rape her. According to tradition, Euphrasia convinced the barbarian that she possessed a plant of miraculous power, but that it only worked if applied by a virgin. Pressing a sprig to her neck, she told the barbarian, "If you strike me with a sword, I will be unharmed." The superstitious lunk brought his sword down with all his might - and decapitated his prize. St. Euphrasia's life may have been embellished over time to accentuate the virtue of holy purity. What is certain is that she lived and died for Jesus Christ. She lives now with the King of Kings in Heaven.

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