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SUMMARY:Skema: 5th Week of Lent
DESCRIPTION:Biblical Readings for Office and Mass\n5th Week of Lent\n\n\nMass Readings: Sunday (B)\, Weekdays (II)\nMarch 17 – 23\, 2024\n\n\n\nSun\n17\nMon\n18\nTue\n19\nWed\n20\nThu\n21\nFri\n22\nSat\n23\n\n\nOffice\n5th Sunday of Lent\nLenten Weekday\nSt Joseph\nLenten Weekday\nLenten Weekday\nLenten Weekday\nLenten Weekday\n\n\nVigils\nDeut 29:1-20\nDeut 30:1-14\nHosea 11:1-11\nDeut 31:16-29\nDeut 31:30-32:20\nDeut 32:36-52\nDeut 34:1-12\n\n\nLauds\nExod 19:16-19\nExod 20:1-7\nWis 10:9-12\nExod 20:18-21\nExod 24:12-18\nExod 32:7-14\nExod 32:30-35\n\n\nMass\n35\n250\n543\n253\n254\n255\n256\n\n\n1st\nJer 31:31-34\n2 Kgs 4:18b-21\, 32-37\n2 Sam 7:4-5a\, 12-14a\, 16\nDan 3:14-20\, 91-92\, 95\nGen 17:3-9\nJer 20:10-13\nEzek 37:21-28\n\n\n2nd\nHeb 5:7-9\n\nRom 4:13\, 16-18\, 22\n\n\n\n\n\n\nGospel\nJohn 12:20-33\nJohn 11:1-45\nMatt 1:16\, 18-21\, 24a\nJohn 8:31-42\nJohn 8:51-59\nJohn 10:31-42\nJohn 11:45-56\n\n\nVespers\nHeb 12:14-17\nJames 1:22-27\nEph 3:14-21\nHeb 13:1-8\nHeb 13:9-16\nHeb 13:17-25\nGal 3:7-14
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SUMMARY:5th Sunday of Lent
DESCRIPTION:HE LAID DOWN HIS LIFE\nFrom a commentary by St Cyril of Alexandria 1\n◊◊◊\nAs the first fruits of our renewed humanity\, Christ escaped the curse of\nthe law precisely by becoming accursed for our sake. He overcame the forces of\ncorruption\, by himself becoming once more\, free among the dead. He trampled\ndeath under foot and came to life again\, and then he ascended to the Father as\nan offering\, the first fruits…of the human race. He ascended\, as Scripture says\,\nnot to a sanctuary made by human hands\, a mere copy of the real one\, but into\nheaven itself\, to appear in God’s presence on our behalf. He is the life-giving\nbread that came down from heaven\, and by offering himself to God the Father\nas a fragrant sacrifice for our sake\, he also delivers us from our sins and frees us\nfrom the faults that we commit through ignorance. \nWe can understand this best if we think of him as symbolized by the calf\nthat used to be slain as a holocaust and by the goat that was sacrificed for our\nsins committed through ignorance. For our sake\, to blot out the sins of the\nworld\, he laid down his life. Recognized then in bread as life and the giver of\nlife\, in the calf as a holocaust offered by himself to God the Father as an\nappeasing fragrance\, in the goat as one who became sin for our sake and was\nslain for our transgressions\, Christ is also symbolized in another way by a sheaf\nof grain… \nThe human race may be compared to spikes of wheat in a field\, rising\, as\nit were\, from the earth\, awaiting their full growth and development\, and then in\ntime being cut down by the reaper\, which is death. The comparison is apt\, since\nChrist himself spoke of our race in this way when he said to his holy disciples:\nDo you not say\, “Four months and it will be harvest time?” Look at the fields I\ntell you\, they are already white and ready for harvesting. The reaper is\nalready receiving his wages and bringing in a crop for eternal life. \nNow Christ became like one of us; he sprang from the holy Virgin like a\nspike of wheat from the ground. Indeed\, he spoke of himself as a grain of wheat\nwhen he said: I tell you truly\, unless a grain of wheat falls into the ground and\ndies\, it remains as it was\, a single grain; but if it dies its yield is very great.\nAnd so\, like a sheaf of grain\, the first fruits\, as it were\, of the earth\, he offered\nhimself to the Father for our sake. \nFor we do not think of a spike of wheat\, any more than we do of ourselves\,\nin isolation. We think of it rather as part of a sheaf\, which is a single bundle\nmade up of many spikes. The spikes have to be gathered into a bundle before\nthey can be used\, and this is the key to the mystery they represent\, the mystery\nof Christ who\, though one\, appears in the image of a sheaf to be made up of\nmany\, as in fact he is. Spiritually\, he contains in himself all believers. As we\nhave been raised up with him\, writes Saint Paul\, so we have also been\nenthroned with him in heaven. He is a human being like ourselves\, and this has\nmade us one body with him\, the body being the bond that unites us. We can say\,\ntherefore\, that in him\, we are all one\, and indeed as he himself says to God\, his\nheavenly Father: It is my desire that as I and you are one\, so they also may be\none in us. \n1\nJourney with the Fathers – Year B – New City Press – NY – 1993 – pg 38.
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