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| "The Jews Took Up Rocks to Stone Jesus" -- by James Tissot |
Thursday
of the Fifth Week of Lent
FIRST
READING: Genesis
17:3-9
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Abram fell flat on his face.
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And God said to him: I AM, and my covenant is with thee, and thou
shalt be a father of many nations.
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Neither shall thy name be called any more Abram: but thou shalt be
called Abraham: because I have made thee a father of many nations.
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And I will make thee increase, exceedingly, and I will make nations
of thee, and kings shall come out of thee.
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And I will establish my covenant between me and thee, and between thy
seed after thee in their generations, by a perpetual covenant: to be
a God to thee, and to thy seed after thee.
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And I will give to thee, and to thy seed, the land of thy
sojournment, all the land of Chanaan for a perpetual possession, and
I will be their God.
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Again God said to Abraham: And thou therefore shalt keep my covenant,
and thy seed after thee in their generations.
PSALM:
Psalms 105:4-9
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Seek ye the Lord, and be strengthened: seek his face evermore.
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Remember his marvellous works which he hath done; his wonders, and
the judgments of his mouth.
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O ye seed of Abraham his servant; ye sons of Jacob his chosen.
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He is the Lord our God: his judgments are in all the earth.
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He hath remembered his covenant for ever: the word which he commanded
to a thousand generations.
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Which he made to Abraham; and his oath to Isaac.
GOSPEL:
John 8:51-59
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Amen, amen I say to you: If any man keep my word, he shall not see
death for ever.
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The Jews therefore said: Now we know that thou hast a devil. Abraham
is dead, and the prophets; and thou sayest: If any man keep my word,
he shall not taste death for ever.
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Art thou greater than our father Abraham, who is dead? and the
prophets are dead. Whom dost thou make thyself?
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Jesus answered: If I glorify myself, my glory is nothing. It is my
Father that glorifieth me, of whom you say that he is your God.
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And you have not known him, but I know him. And if I shall say that I
know him not, I shall be like to you, a liar. But I do know him, and
do keep his word.
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Abraham your father rejoiced that he might see my day: he saw it, and
was glad.
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The Jews therefore said to him: Thou art not yet fifty years old, and
hast thou seen Abraham?
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Jesus said to them: Amen, amen I say to you, before Abraham was made,
I am.
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They took up stones therefore to cast at him. But Jesus hid himself,
and went out of the temple.
