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SUMMARY:Skema
DESCRIPTION:Biblical Readings for Office and Mass\n5th Week of Lent\n\n\nMass Readings: Sunday (C)\, Weekdays (I)\nMarch 6 – 12\, 2025\n\n\n\nSun\n6\nMon\n7\nTue\n8\nWed\n9\nThu\n10\nFri\n11\nSat\n12\n\n\nOffice\n5th Sunday\nLenten Weekday\nLenten Weekday\nLenten Weekday\nLenten Weekday\nLenten Weekday\nLenten Weekday\n\n\nVigils\nLev 26:1-17\, 40-46\nNum 9:15-23; 10:33-36\nNum 11:1-6\, 10-30\nNum 12:1-15\nNum 13:1-3\, 17-33\nNum 14:1-25\nNum 20:1-13; 21:4-9\n\n\nLauds\nExod 19:16-19\nExod 20:1-7\nExod 20:8-17\nExod 20:18-21\nExod 24:12-18\nExod 32:7-14\nExod 32:30-35\n\n\nMass\n36\n250\n252\n253\n254\n255\n256\n\n\n1st\nIsa 43:16-21\n2 Kgs 4:18b-21\, 32-37\nNum 21:4-9\nDan 3:14-20\, 91-92\, 95\nGen 17:3-9\nJer 20:10-13\nEzek 37:21-28\n\n\n2nd\nPhil 3:8-14\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nGospel\nJohn 8:1-11\nJohn 11:1-45\nJohn 8:21-30\nJohn 8:31-42\nJohn 8:51-59\nJohn 10:31-42\nJohn 11:45-56\n\n\nVespers\nDeut 30:1-6\nDeut 30:9-14\nDeut 30:15-20\nDeut 31:1-6\nDeut 31:9-13\nDeut 32:45-47\n1 Tim 6:11-16
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SUMMARY:Vigils Reading - 5th Sunday of Lent
DESCRIPTION:IT IS SIN HE CONDEMNS\, \nNOT PEOPLE \nFrom a commentary by St Augustine \n◊◊◊ \nThe scribes and Pharisees brought to him a woman who had been \ncaught committing adultery. Now the penalty of the law for adultery was \nstoning. It was\, of course\, unthinkable that any of the prescriptions of the law \ncould be unjust\, so it followed that anyone whose teachings contravened what \nthe law required would lay himself open to the charge of advocating injustice. \nThe Lord’s enemies accordingly said to themselves: “He has a reputation \nfor truth and is regarded as a man of great kindness and forbearance\, so we \nmust find a pretext for accusing him on the grounds of injustice. Let us confront \nhim with a woman caught committing adultery\, and quote the ruling of the law \nin her regard. If he orders her to be stoned\, he will lose his name for clemency; if \nhe tells us to release her\, he will not be upholding justice. There is little doubt \nthat he will sway she must be freed\, in order not to lose the reputation which has \nmade him so popular. That will be our chance to incriminate him and find him \nguilty of an offense against the law. We shall be able to say: ‘You are an enemy \nof the law! Your answer is not merely an attack on Moses but on God who gave \nthe law to Moses. You have made yourself liable to the death penalty. You and \nthe woman should both be stoned.’” By voicing such opinions the Lord’s \nenemies might be able to enflame popular feelings against him; they might \nincite the crowds to denounce him and demand his condemnation. \nBut look at the way our Lord’s answer upheld justice without forgoing \nclemency. He was not caught in the snare his enemies had laid for him; it was \nthey themselves who were caught in it. He did not say the woman should not be \nstoned\, for then it would look as though he were opposing the law. But he had no \nintention of saying: “Let her be stoned\,” because he came not to destroy those he \nfound but to seek those who were lost. Mark his reply. It contains justice\, \nclemency and truth in full measure. Let the one among you who has never \nsinned be the first to throw a stone at her. Let the sinner be punished\, yes – but \nnot be sinners. Let the law be carried out\, but not by lawbreakers. \nThis\, unquestionably\, is the voice of justice\, justice that pierced those men \nlike a javelin. Looking into themselves\, they realized their guilt\, and one by one \nthey all went out. Two remained behind: the miserable woman\, and Mercy. The \nLord raised his eyes\, and with a gentle look he asked her: Has no one \ncondemned you? She replied: No one\, sir. And he said: Neither will I condemn \nyou. What is this\, Lord? Are you giving approval to immorality? Not at all. Take \nnote of what follows: Go and sin no more. \nYou see then that the Lord does indeed pass sentence\, but it is sin he \ncondemns\, not people. One who approved of immorality would have said: \n“Neither will I condemn you. Go and live as you please; you can be sure that I \nwill acquit you. However much you sin\, I will release you from all penalty\, and \nfrom the tortures of hell and the underworld.” He did not say that. He said: \n“Neither will I condemn you; you need have no fear of the past\, but beware of \nwhat you do in the future. Neither will I condemn you: I have blotted out what \nyou have done; now observe what I have commanded\, in order to obtain what I \nhave promised.”
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