Sunday, March 5th: Second Sunday of Lent
Gn 12:1-4a / 2 Tm 1:8b-10 / Mt 17:1-9
2 Timothy 1:8, NRSVCE:
“Do not be ashamed, then, of the testimony about our Lord or of me his prisoner, but join with me in suffering for the gospel, relying on the power of God”
Monday, March 6th
Dn 9:4b-10 / Lk 6:36-38
Daniel 9:4-5, NABRE
“I prayed to the Lord, my God, and confessed, “Ah, Lord, great and awesome God, you who keep your covenant and show mercy toward those who love you and keep your commandments and your precepts! We have sinned, been wicked and done evil; we have rebelled and turned from your commandments and your laws”
Tuesday, March 7th
Is 1:10, 16-20 / Mt 23:1-12
Isaiah 1:16-17, NABRE:
“Wash yourselves clean!
Put away your misdeeds from before my eyes;
cease doing evil;
learn to do good.
Make justice your aim: redress the wronged,
hear the orphan’s plea, defend the widow.”
Wednesday, March 8th
Jer 17:5-10 / Mt 20:17-28
Matthew 20:26-28, NABRE:
“But it shall not be so among you. Rather, whoever wishes to be great among you shall be your servant; whoever wishes to be first among you shall be your slave. Just so, the Son of Man did not come to be served but to serve and to give his life as a ransom for many.””
Thursday, March 9th
Jer 17:5-10 / Lk 16:19-31
Jeremiah 17:7-8, NRSVCE
“Blessed are those who trust in the Lord,
whose trust is the Lord.
They shall be like a tree planted by water,
sending out its roots by the stream.
It shall not fear when heat comes,
and its leaves shall stay green;
in the year of drought it is not anxious,
and it does not cease to bear fruit.”
Friday, March 10th
Gn 37:3-4, 12-13a, 17b-281 / Mt 21:33-43, 45-46
Matthew 21:43, NRSVCE:
“Therefore I tell you, the kingdom of God will be taken away from you and given to a people that produces the fruits of the kingdom.”
Saturday, March 11th
Mi 7:14-15, 18-20 / Lk 15:1-3, 11-32
Micah 7:14, NRSVCE
“Shepherd your people with your staff,
the flock that belongs to you,
which lives alone in a forest
in the midst of a garden land;
let them feed in Bashan and Gilead
as in the days of old.”
