Tuesday of the Fifth week of Lent

Book of Numbers

21,4-9.

From Mount Hor the children of Israel set out on the Red Sea road, to by-pass the land of Edom. But with their patience worn out by the journey,
the people complained against God and Moses, "Why have you brought us up from Egypt to die in this desert, where there is no food or water? We are disgusted with this wretched food!"
In punishment the LORD sent among the people saraph serpents, which bit the people so that many of them died.
Then the people came to Moses and said, "We have sinned in complaining against the LORD and you. Pray the LORD to take the serpents from us." So Moses prayed for the people,
and the LORD said to Moses, "Make a saraph and mount it on a pole, and if anyone who has been bitten looks at it, he will recover."
Moses accordingly made a bronze serpent and mounted it on a pole, and whenever anyone who had been bitten by a serpent looked at the bronze serpent, he lived.

Psalms

102(101),2-3.16-18.19-21.

LORD, hear my prayer;
let my cry come to you.
Do not hide your face from me
now that I am in distress.
Turn your ear to me;
when I call, answer me quickly.
The nations shall revere your name, O LORD,
and all the kings of the earth your glory,
when the LORD has rebuilt Zion
and appeared in his glory;
when he has regarded the prayer of the destitute,
and not despised their prayer.
Let this be written for the generation to come,
and let his future creatures praise the LORD:
"The LORD looked down from his holy height,
from heaven he beheld the earth,
to hear the groaning of the prisoners,
to release those doomed to die."

Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint John

8,21-30.

Jesus said to the Pharisees: "I am going away and you will look for me, but you will die in your sin. Where I am going you cannot come."
So the Jews said, "He is not going to kill himself, is he, because he said, 'Where I am going you cannot come'?"
He said to them, "You belong to what is below, I belong to what is above. You belong to this world, but I do not belong to this world.
That is why I told you that you will die in your sins. For if you do not believe that I AM, you will die in your sins."
So they said to him, "Who are you?" Jesus said to them, "What I told you from the beginning.
I have much to say about you in condemnation. But the one who sent me is true, and what I heard from him I tell the world."
They did not realize that he was speaking to them of the Father.
So Jesus said (to them), "When you lift up the Son of Man, then you will realize that I AM, and that I do nothing on my own, but I say only what the Father taught me.
The one who sent me is with me. He has not left me alone, because I always do what is pleasing to him."
Because he spoke this way, many came to believe in him.

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St. Gontran(King (545-592))

SAINT GONTRAN King (545-592) St. Gontran was the son of King Clotaire, and the grandson of Clovis I and St. Clotildis. As the second son, he was crowned king of Orleans and Burgundy in 561 A.D. He made Chalons his capital. Meanwhile, his brothers, Charibert and Sigebert, reigned at Paris and Ostrasia. When compelled to take up arms against his ambitious brothers and the Lombards, King Gontran was victorious with the help of a brave general, Mommol. Together, they brought peace to the realm. The ensuing prosperity affirmed that civil law, derived from moral law, finds its basis and fulfillment in the Gospel. King Gontran treated the pastors of the Church with respect and veneration. He protected the oppressed with the worth and justice of a king. He prayed, fasted and offered himself to God day and night. King Gontran punished crimes committed by his officers and implemented regulations to restrain the sometimes barbarous conduct of his troops. In the face of adversity and moral pain, he was more ready to forgive offences against his own person than anyone. King Gontran built and endowed many churches and monasteries. He passed away at sixty-eighth, in 592 A.D., after reigning for thirty-one years and some months.

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