Monday 27 March 2023 (other days)
Monday of the 5th week of Lent
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Universalis site · Settings · Tweet · Show QR codeChrist the Lord was tempted and suffered for us. Come, let us adore him.
Or: O that today you would listen to his voice: harden not your hearts.
Year: A(I). Psalm week: 1. Liturgical Colour: Violet.
Other saints: St John of Egypt (304 - 394)
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At the age of 25, John left his home and became a monk. He lived under the tutelage of a wise hermit and when his master died, John decided to withdraw into a more remote cave on Mount Lycos. There he lived a very strict life, devoting himself to prayer and manual work. People started to visit him, since he was able to perform miracles, heal the sick and read people’s hearts. He died in 394, at the age of 90.
Creed in Slow Motion video 34 – Why crucifixion?
Father Sean Doggett, of the diocese of St George’s-in-Grenada, has narrated a series of 53 short videos (3-5 minutes) based on the themes of Martin Kochanski’s acclaimed book “The Creed in Slow Motion”.
These videos are well produced, with great charm and simplicity, and they are well worth watching both for themselves and as a way of encouraging you to read the book for yourself.
About the author of the Second Reading in today's Office of Readings:
Second Reading: St John Fisher (1469 - 1535)
John Fisher was born in Beverley, in Yorkshire, in 1469. He studied theology at the University of Cambridge, and had a successful career there, finally becoming chancellor of the University and bishop of Rochester: unusually for the time, he paid a great deal of attention to the welfare of his diocese. He wrote much against the errors and corruption into which the Church had fallen, and was a friend and supporter of great humanists such as Erasmus of Rotterdam; but he was greatly opposed to Lutheranism, both in its doctrine and in its ideas of reform.
He supported the validity of King Henry VIII’s marriage to Catherine of Aragon, and for this he was briefly imprisoned. When the King had divorced Catherine, married Anne Boleyn, and constituted himself the supreme Head of the Church in England, John Fisher refused to assent. He was imprisoned in the Tower of London on a charge of treason, and on 22 June 1535, a month after having been made a Cardinal by the Pope, he was executed.
Liturgical colour: violet
Violet is a dark colour, ‘the gloomy cast of the mortified, denoting affliction and melancholy’. Liturgically, it is the colour of Advent and Lent, the seasons of penance and preparation.
| Mid-morning reading (Terce) | Ezekiel 33:10,11 © |
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Our sins and crimes weigh heavily on us; we are wasting away because of them. How are we to go on living? As I live – it is the Lord who speaks – I take pleasure, not in the death of a wicked man, but in the turning back of a wicked man who changes his ways to win life.
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| Noon reading (Sext) | Jeremiah 18:20 © |
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Remember how I stood in your presence to plead on their behalf, to turn your wrath away from them.
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| Afternoon reading (None) | Jeremiah 31:2,3,4 © |
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The Lord says this: They have found pardon in the wilderness, those who have survived the sword. Israel is marching to his rest. I have loved you with an everlasting love, so I am constant in my affection for you. I build you once more; you shall be rebuilt, virgin of Israel.
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Office of Readings for 5th Monday of Lent
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