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SUMMARY:Skema
DESCRIPTION:Biblical Readings for Office and Mass\n4th Week of Lent\n\n\nMass Readings: Sunday (A)\, Weekdays (II)\nMarch 15 – 21\, 2026\n\n\n\nSun\n15\nMon\n16\nTue\n17\nWed\n18\nThu\n19\nFri\n20\nSat\n21\n\n\nOffice\n4th Sunday of Lent\nLenten Weekday\nLenten Weekday\nLenten Weekday\nSt Joseph\nLenten Weekday\nLenten Weekday\n\n\nVigils\nExod 18:1-27\nExod 19:1-15\nExod 19:16-25\nExod 20:1-21\nHeb 11:1-16\nExod 24:1-18\nExod 25:1-22\n\n\nLauds\nDeut 11:1-7\nDeut 11:8-12\nDeut 11:13-17\nDeut 11:18-25\nGen 45:4-8\nDeut 26:16-19\nDeut 27:1-10\n\n\nMass\n31\n244\n245\n246\n543\n248\n249\n\n\n1st\n1 Sam 16:1b\, 6-7\, 10-13a\nIsa 65:17-21\nEzek 47:1-9\, 12\nIsa 49:8-15\n2 Sam 7:4-5a\, 12-14a\, 16\nWis 2:1a\, 12-22\nJer 11:18-20\n\n\n2nd\nEph 5:8-14\n\n\n\nRom 4:13\, 16-18\, 22\n\n\n\n\nGospel\nJohn 9:1-41\nJohn 4:43-54\nJohn 5:1-3a\, 5-16\nJohn 5:17-30\nMatt 1:16\, 18-21\, 24a\nJohn 7:1-2\, 10\, 25-30\nJohn 7:40-53\n\n\nVespers\nHeb 11:1-7\nHeb 11:8-16\nHeb 11:17-22\nEph 3:14-21\nJames 1:22-27\nHeb 12:1-6\nHeb 12:7-13
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SUMMARY:Vigils Reading - 4th Sunday of Lent
DESCRIPTION:COME TO CHRIST \nFrom a commentary by St Ambrose \n◊◊◊ \nYou have heard that story in the gospel where we are told that the Lord \nJesus\, as he was passing by\, caught sight of a man who had been blind from \nbirth. Since the Lord did not overlook him\, neither ought we to overlook the \nstory of a man whom the Lord considered worthy of his attention. In particular \nwe should notice the fact that he had been blind from birth. This is an important \npoint. \nThere is\, indeed\, a kind of blindness\, usually brought on by serious illness\, \nwhich obscures one’s vision\, but which can be cured\, given time; and there is \nanother sort of blindness\, caused by cataract\, that can be remedied by a \nsurgeon; he can remove the cause and so the blindness is dispelled. Draw your \nown conclusion: this man\, who was actually born blind\, was not cured by \nsurgical skill\, but by the power of God. \nWhen nature is defective the Creator\, who is the author of nature\, has the \npower to restore it. That is why Jesus also said: As long as I am in the world\, I \nam the light of the world\, meaning: all who are blind are able to see\, so long as I \nam the light they are looking for. Come\, then\, and receive the light\, so that you \nmay be able to see. \nWhat is he trying to tell us\, he who brought human beings back to life\, \nwho restored them to health by a word of command\, who said to a corpse\, Come \nout! And Lazarus came out from the tomb; who said to a paralytic\, Arise and \npick up your stretcher\, and the sick man rose and picked up the very bed on \nwhich he used to be carried as a helpless cripple? Again\, I ask you\, what is he \ntrying to convey to us by spitting on the ground\, mixing his spittle with clay and \nputting it on the eyes of a blind man\, saying: Go and wash yourself in the pool of \nSiloam (a name that means “sent”)? What is the meaning of the Lord’s action in \nthis? Surely one of great significance\, since the person whom Jesus touches \nreceives more than just his sight. \nIn one instant we see both the power of his divinity and the strength of his \nholiness. As the divine light\, he touched this man and enlightened him; as a \npriest\, by an action symbolizing baptism he wrought in him his work of \nredemption. The only reason for his mixing clay with the spittle and smearing it \non the eyes of the blind man was to remind you that he who restored the man to \nhealth by anointing his eyes with clay is the very one who fashioned the first \nman out of clay\, and that this clay that is our flesh can receive the light of eternal \nlife through the sacrament of baptism. \nYou\, too\, should come to Siloam\, that is\, to him who was sent by the \nFather (as he says in the gospel\, My teaching is not my own\, it comes from him \nwho sent me). Let Christ wash you and you will then see. Come and be baptized\, \nit is time; come quickly\, and you too will be able to say\, I was blind\, and now I \ncan see\, and as the blind man said when his eyes began to receive the light\, The \nnight is almost over and the day is at hand.
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