Monday in the Fifth Week of Lent

Send us Fan MailMonday, 7 April 2025Monday in the Fifth Week of Lent Readings and Antiphons on p 306 of the Daily MissalFirst Reading: Daniel 13: 41c-62 (Shorter version)Responsorial Psalm: Psalm 23:1-3a.3b-4.5.6 (R. 4abc)R/. Though I should walk in the valley of the shadow of death, no evil would I fear, for you are with me.The Lord is my shepherd; there is nothing I shall want. Fresh and green are the pastures where he gives me repose. Near restful waters he leads me; he revives my soul.He guides me along the right path, for the sake of his name. Though I should walk in the valley of the shadow of death, no evil would I fear, for you are with me. Your crook and your staff will give me comfort.You have prepared a table before me in the sight of my foes. My head you have anointed with oil; my cup is overflowing.R/. Though I should walk in the valley of the shadow of death, no evil would I fear, for you are with me.Gospel: John 8:12-20At that time: Jesus spoke to the Pharisees, saying,  “I am the light of the world;  he who follows me will not walk in darkness,  but will have the light of life.”  The Pharisees then said to him,  “You are bearing witness to yourself;  your testimony is not true.”  Jesus answered, “Even if I do bear witness to myself,  my testimony is true, for I know where I have come from  and where I am going,  but you do not know where I come from  or where I am going.  You judge according to the flesh, I judge no one.  Yet even if I do judge, my judgment is true,  for it is not I alone that judge, but I and he who sent me. In your law it is written that the testimony of two men is true;  I bear witness to myself,  and the Father who sent me bears witness to me.”  They said to him therefore,  “Where is your Father?”  Jesus answered,  “You know neither me nor my Father;  if you knew me, you would know my Father also.”  These words he spoke in the treasury,  as he taught in the temple;  but no one arrested him,  because his hour had not yet come.