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| "Jesus Walks in the Portico of Solomon" -- by James Tissot |
Friday
of the Fifth Week of Lent
FIRST
READING: Jeremiah
20:10-13
10
For I heard the reproaches of many, and terror on every side:
Persecute him, and let us persecute him: from all the men that were
my familiars, and continued at my side: if by any means he may be
deceived, and we may prevail against him, and be revenged on him.
11
But the Lord is with me as a strong warrior: therefore they that
persecute me shall fall, and shall be weak: they shall be greatly
confounded, because they have not understood the everlasting
reproach, which never shall be effaced.
12
And thou, O Lord of hosts, prover of the just, who seest the reins
and the heart: let me see, I beseech thee, thy vengeance on them: for
to thee I have laid open my cause.
13
Sing ye to the Lord, praise the Lord: because he hath delivered the
soul of the poor out of the hand of the wicked.
PSALM:
Psalms 18:2-7
2
I will love thee, O Lord, my strength:
3
The Lord is my firmament, my refuge, and my deliverer. My God is my
helper, and in him will I put my trust. My protector and the horn of
my salvation, and my support.
4
Praising I will call upon the Lord: and I shall be saved from my
enemies.
5
The sorrows of death surrounded me: and the torrents of iniquity
troubled me.
6
The sorrows of hell encompassed me: and the snares of death prevented
me.
7
In my affliction I called upon the Lord, and I cried to my God: And
he heard my voice from his holy temple: and my cry before him came
into his ears.
GOSPEL:
John 10:31-42
31
The Jews then took up stones to stone him.
32
Jesus answered them: Many good works I have shewed you from my
Father; for which of these works do you stone me?
33
The Jews answered him: For a good work we stone thee not, but for
blasphemy; and because that thou, being a man, maketh thyself God.
34
Jesus answered them: Is it not written in your law: I said you are
gods?
35
If he called them gods, to whom the word of God was spoken, and the
scripture cannot be broken;
36
Do you say of him whom the Father hath sanctified and sent into the
world: Thou blasphemest, because I said, I am the Son of God?
37
If I do not the works of my Father, believe me not.
38
But if I do, though you will not believe me, believe the works: that
you may know and believe that the Father is in me, and I in the
Father.
39
They sought therefore to take him; and he escaped out of their hands.
40
And he went again beyond the Jordan, into that place where John was
baptizing first; and there he abode.
41
And many resorted to him, and they said: John indeed did no sign.
42
But all things whatsoever John said of this man, were true. And many
believed in him.
