Wednesday 6th April 2011 Fourth Week of Lent Reflections

Mass readings for today are here

Psalm 145

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.

R. The Lord is gracious and merciful.

 
The LORD is faithful in all his words
and holy in all his works.
The LORD lifts up all who are falling
and raises up all who are bowed down.

R. The Lord is gracious and merciful.

 
The LORD is just in all his ways
and holy in all his works.
The LORD is near to all who call upon him,
to all who call upon him in truth.

R. The Lord is gracious and merciful.

Nocturne No 1 in E Flat Major

Gospel 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.

Jesus answered and said to them,
“Amen, amen, I say to you, the Son cannot do anything on his own,
but only what he sees the Father doing;
for what he does, the Son will do also.

For the Father loves the Son
and shows him everything that he himself does,
and he will show him greater works than these,
so that you may be amazed.

For just as the Father raises the dead and gives life,
so also does the Son give life to whomever he wishes.

 

Nor does the Father judge anyone,
but he has given all judgment to the Son,
so that all may honour the Son just as they honour the Father.
Whoever does not honour the Son
does not honour the Father who sent him.

Amen, amen, I say to you, whoever hears my word
and believes in the one who sent me
has eternal life and will not come to condemnation,
but has passed from death to life.

Amen, amen, I say to you, the hour is coming and is now here
when the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God,
and those who hear will live.

 

For just as the Father has life in himself,
so also he gave to the Son the possession of life in himself.

 
And he gave him power to exercise judgment,
because he is the Son of Man.

 

Do not be amazed at this,

because the hour is coming in which all who are in the tombs
will hear his voice and will come out,

those who have done good deeds
to the resurrection of life,

but those who have done wicked deeds
to the resurrection of condemnation.

 

“I cannot do anything on my own;

I judge as I hear, and my judgment is just,

because I do not seek my own will

but the will of the one who sent me.”



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