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Third Sunday of Lent: O God, author of all mercy and of all goodness, who by fasting and prayer and charity showed us the remedy for sins, look mercifully upon this confession of our baseness, conscience. May we always be as we bow down to the Lord. I have been lifted up by your mercy. Through your Son, our Lord Jesus Christ, He lives and reigns with you forever in union with God the Holy Spirit.
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Jesus answered and said to her, “Everyone who drinks this water will thirst again; but whoever drinks the water that I give him will never thirst; the water that I give him will remain in him forever. “It will become a spring of water gushing out to life.” “Teacher, give me this water, so that I may not be thirsty or have to come here to draw water.” Jesus said to her, , “Call your husband and come back.” (John 4:13-16).
The optional commemoration of Katherine Drexel, which is typically celebrated in the United States today, will be replaced by Sunday’s liturgy.
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The Church uses the second phase of Lent, a long meditation on baptism, as an important gospel passage taught to early church catechumens as they prepared to receive the sacrament of initiation at the Easter Vigil. , Confirmation, Eucharist. Today’s story of Jesus and the Samaritan woman is the longest dialogue in the four Gospels, and a very important moment in the 40 days, so this Sunday we will share other Gospel passages in the sermon cycle. Cycles B and C of the Church ask: At that time, this gospel of “living water” was to be read on weekdays the following week. Those who are called to renew their baptismal promises at the Easter Vigil, those who are baptized or receive the full communion of the Catholic Church, today the Lord speaks to them in a special way through dialogue with foreigners. You can He asks the person to drink a glass of water. This conversation teaches the whole church something very important about prayer.
—George Weigel, Pilgrimage to Rome: Station Church
Commentary on Mass reading for the third Sunday of Lent, Cycle B:
of first reading taken from Exodus 20:1-17. When God freed His chosen people from slavery in Egypt, He led them to Mount Sinai. There, God made a covenant with the Israelites, making them his people and promising to lead them into the Promised Land and protect them from their enemies there. The Israelites were to worship Him and Him as their Lord alone, and they were to follow the moral and religious laws He had established for them.
of Second reading It is from St. Paul’s Epistle to the Corinthians 1:22-25. In these few sentences, St. Paul gives us the basic reasons that motivated opposition to the Gospel message on the part of Jews and Gentiles. Jews because Christ did not fit the preconceptions they had formed about the Messiah, and Gentiles because they expected philosophy or human “wisdom” to solve human problems.
of gospel from St. John 2:13-25. With only the Synoptic Gospels (Mt., Mk., Lk.), we can easily conclude that Jesus spent almost all of his public life and all of his preaching in Galilee and its vicinity. St. John, writing his Gospel a few years later, corrects this false impression by mentioning our Lord’s visit to Jerusalem, in which the Lord asked the “leaders of the people” in Jerusalem to hear His message and claims. I gave you plenty of opportunities. He also performed some amazing miracles in and around the city. For example, the man was crippled for 38 years (John 5). The man who was born blind (John 9) and the upbringing of Lazarus. It had been four days since he had been buried (John 11). St. John writes that although the leaders of Jerusalem (priests and Pharisees) had every opportunity to learn who Jesus was and were given every help to believe in Jesus, they It clearly states that it did not. Therefore, the blame was on them and it was a loss.
In this special visit, he reveals to them that he is a special person, someone close to the God whose house they are desecrating, someone he even calls their father. I made it. He told them in hidden words that they would put him to death, but that was not the end, that he would rise again. Apparently some of them remembered these words of Jesus after they had executed him. For the disciples removed the body and asked Pilate to place a guard at the tomb, lest they pretend that Jesus had come back to life. “We remember,” they said. “This impostor said before his death, “In three days I will rise again” (Matthew 27:63). However, even the miracle of his resurrection did not affect the majority of people. They are determined and “there is no one so blind as one who does not see.”
The reasons for their blindness were the same reasons that prevent millions of neo-pagans today from accepting and living the Christian faith. These people, like the priests and Pharisees in Jerusalem in 28 A.D., are so absorbed in the events of this world that they cannot think about their future. Their eyes are fixed on the earthly purpose they have set for themselves, and they see nothing else. The priests and Pharisees wanted more than political freedom from Rome. They had the hope that the Messiah would give them a great world empire and thereby unlimited wealth and power. The goals of our contemporaries may not be so far away, but in their eyes worldly goals are important enough to exclude from their minds thoughts about higher things. But either way, they have more than enough memories to reflect on the historical facts of Christianity. This is 2006 AD, that is, from the birth of Christ to his 2006 years. Who was he, why was he born, and why is the history of the world divided into before he came, that is, BC, and after he came, AD? Every town and village in the formerly Christian Western world has a church or two with a steeple pointing toward the sky. why? What does the church mean to humans? Near every town there is a cemetery, or “place of rest” according to the Greek meaning. Are the people buried there just sleeping and waiting to be called, even though they haven’t been called yet, or are they thinking about the cows that might be buried in the next field? Will it end forever like a dead cow?
Agnostics and freethinkers of our time should start thinking about the real facts of life. The central fact is that Christ, the Son of God, took away our humanity and lived for some time on this earth. This is so that we can be raised as children of God. When He came, the world was full of sin, so He was crucified. But his death paid for all the sins of the world to his heavenly Father. Jesus’ resurrection from the dead was the prelude, the assurance that if we faithfully followed Jesus on earth, we would all ascend to a life of glory in heaven.
–excerpt Sunday reading session From Father Kevin O’Sullivan, OFM
Third Sunday of Lent
There is a station San Lorenzo Fuori Le Mura (Outside the walls of St. Lawrence):
The station is located inside St. Lawrence Cathedral outside the wall–The Wall is an old wall that marked the boundaries and protected Rome. The name of this most famous of Roman martyrs will remind seekers that the faith they are about to profess requires a readiness to make many sacrifices. In the early church, the third Sunday of Lent was called: Scrutiny SundayFor it was on this day that the examination of the catechumens who were to be baptized on Easter night began.
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