Catholic Missal of the day: Saturday, March 5 2016

Saturday of the Third week of Lent

Saturday of the Third week of Lent

1. Reading

Book of Hosea

6,1-6.

]Come, let us return to the LORD, it is he who has rent, but he will heal us; he has struck us, but he will bind our wounds.
]He will revive us after two days; on the third day he will raise us up, to live in his presence.
]Let us know, let us strive to know the LORD; as certain as the dawn is his coming, and his judgment shines forth like the light of day! He will come to us like the rain, like spring rain that waters the earth."
]What can I do with you, Ephraim? What can I do with you, Judah? Your piety is like a morning cloud, like the dew that early passes away.
]For this reason I smote them through the prophets, I slew them by the words of my mouth;
]For it is love that I desire, not sacrifice, and knowledge of God rather than holocausts.

Psalm

Psalms

51(50),3-4.18-19.20-21ab.

]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.
]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.  
]Be bountiful, O LORD, to Zion in your kindness
by rebuilding the walls of Jerusalem;
]Then shall you be pleased with due sacrifices,
]burnt offerings and holocausts.

Gospel

Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint Luke

18,9-14.

]Jesus addressed this parable to those who were convinced of their own righteousness and despised everyone else.
]"Two people went up to the temple area to pray; one was a Pharisee and the other was a tax collector.
]The Pharisee took up his position and spoke this prayer to himself, 'O God, I thank you that I am not like the rest of humanity--greedy, dishonest, adulterous--or even like this tax collector.
]I fast twice a week, and I pay tithes on my whole income.'
]But the tax collector stood off at a distance and would not even raise his eyes to heaven but beat his breast and prayed, 'O God, be merciful to me a sinner.'
]I tell you, the latter went home justified, not the former; for everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and the one who humbles himself will be exalted."

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Sts. Adrian and Eubulus(Martyrs († 309))

SAINTS ADRIAN and EUBULUS Martyrs ( 309) In the seventh year of Diocletian's persecution, when the Palestinian governor Firmilian washed Cæsarea with the blood of martyrs, Adrian and Eubulus arrived there from Magantia. At the gate, they were asked where they were going and on what errand. In all likelihood, they practiced discretion. However, their identities as Christians were discovered. After confessing their faith in Jesus Christ, Adrian and Eubulus were condemned to death. First, their sides were torn with iron hooks. Two days later, they were sent to a festival in Cæsarea where Adrian was fed to lions. When the lions did not kill him, he was executed by a gladiator. Two days later, Eubulus was offered freedom if he sacrificed to idols. He refused and was killed by lions in the amphitheater. At the time of their martyrdom, the Church in Cæsarea had been persecuted for twelve years under three successive governors: Flavian, Urban and Firmilian. The Church buckled under the storm of persecution only to rise and rise again. The martyrs' sacrifices were not in vain because the Church was edified and Christendom flourished.

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St. Kieran()

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