Fifth Sunday of Lent, Cycle C

Send us Fan MailSunday, 6 April 2025 Fifth Sunday of Lent, Cycle C Readings on p.302 of Daily Missal and p.823 of Sunday MissalFirst Reading: Isaiah 43:16-21Responsorial Psalm: Palm 126:1-2ab.2cd-3.4-5.6R/:  What great deeds the Lord worked for us!  Indeed, we were glad.When the Lord brought back the exiles of Sion, we thought we were dreaming. Then was our mouth filled with laughter; on our tongues songs of joy.Then the nations themselves said, ‘What great deeds the Lord worked for them!’ What great deeds the lord worked for us! Indeed, we were glad.Bring back our exiles, O Lord as streams in the south. Those who are sowing in tears will sing when they reap.They go out, they go out, full of tears, bearing seed for the sowing; they come back, they come back with a song bearing their sheaves.R/:   What great deeds the Lord worked for us!  Indeed, we were glad.Second Reading: Philippians 3:8-14Brothers and sisters:  I count everything as loss  because of the surpassing worth  of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord.  For his sake I have suffered the loss of all things,  and count them as refuse,  in order that I may gain Christ  and be found in him,  not having a righteousness of my own,  based on law,  but that which is through faith in Christ,  the righteousness from God that depends on faith;  that I may know him and the power of his resurrection,  and may share his sufferings,  becoming like him in his death,  that if possible I may attain the resurrection from the dead.Not that I have already obtained this or am already perfect;  but I press on to make it my own,  because Christ Jesus has made me his own.Brethren, I do not consider that I have made it my own;  but one thing I do,  forgetting what lies behind  and straining forward to what lies ahead,  I press on toward the goal  for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus. Gospel: John 8:1-11At that time: Jesus went to the Mount of Olives.  Early in the morning he came again to the temple;  all the people came to him,  and he sat down and taught them.  The scribes and the Pharisees brought a woman  who had been caught in adultery,  and placing her in the midst they said to him,  “Teacher, this woman has been caught in the act of adultery.  Now in the law Moses commanded us to stone such.  What do you say about her?”  This they said to test him,  that they might have some charge to bring against him. Jesus bent down and wrote with his finger on the ground.  And as they continued to ask him,  he stood up and said to them,  “Let him who is without sin among you  be the first to throw a stone at her.”  And once more he bent down  and wrote with his finger on the ground.  But when they heard it, they went away,  one by one, beginning with the eldest,  and Jesus was left alone with the woman standing before him. Jesus looked up and said to her,  “Woman, where are they?  Has no one condemned you?”  She said, “No one, Lord.” And Jesus said, &