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Wednesday in the 4th week of Lent
2nd of April 2025.
Liturgical colour: violet

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TODAYS GOSPEL:
John 5:17-30)
Same Chapter as
Jesus Heals a Lame Man on the Sabbath
John 5:2-12
TODAY'S READINGS
F
IRST READING
Is 49:8-15
I have given you as a covenant to the people, to restore the land.

Thus says the LORD:
In a time of favor I answer you,
   on the day of salvation I help you;
   and I have kept you and given you as a covenant to the people,
To restore the land
   and allot the desolate heritages,
Saying to the prisoners: Come out!
To those in darkness: Show yourselves!
Along the ways they shall find pasture,
   on every bare height shall their pastures be.

...Full Reading

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ESPONSORIAL PSALM
Ps 145:8-9, 13cd-14, 17-18
The Lord is gracious and merciful.

The LORD is gracious and merciful,
   slow to anger and of great kindness.
The LORD is good to all
   and compassionate toward all his works.

℟. The Lord is gracious and merciful.
...Full Responsorial Psalm

G
OSPEL ACCLAMATION
Jn 11:25a, 26

I am the resurrection and the life, says the Lord;
whoever believes in me will never die.

G
OSPEL
Jn 5:17-30
John 5:17-30

Jesus answered the Jews:
“My Father is at work until now, so I am at work.”
For this reason they tried all the more to kill him,
   because he not only broke the sabbath
   but he also called God his own father, making himself equal to God.
...Full Gospel



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