Saturday, 28 April 2026 Saturday in the Fifth Week of Lent Antiphons and Readings on p 322 of the Daily Missal

Send us Fan MailEntrance AntiphonO Lord, do not stay afar off; my strength, make haste to help me! For I am a worm and no man, scorned by everyone, despised by the people.First Reading: Ezekiel 37:21-28A reading from the Book of the Prophet EzekielThus says the Lord God:“Behold, I will take the people of Israelfrom the nations among which they have gone,and will gather them from all sides,and bring them to their own land;and I will make them one nation in the land,upon the mountains of Israel;and one king shall be king over them all;and they shall be no longer two nations,and no longer divided into two kingdoms.They shall not defile themselves any morewith their idols and their detestable things,or with any of their transgressions;but I will save them from all the backslidingsin which they have sinned and will cleanse them;and they shall be my people,and I will be their God.“My servant David shall be king over them;and they shall all have one shepherd.They shall follow my ordinancesand be careful to observe my statutes.They shall dwell in the land where your fathers dweltthat I gave to my servant Jacob;they and their children and their children’s childrenshall dwell there for ever;and David my servant shall be their prince for ever. I will make a covenant of peace with them;it shall be an everlasting covenant with them;and I will bless them and multiply themand will set my sanctuary in the midst of them for evermore.My dwelling place shall be with them;and I will be their God,and they shall be my people.Then the nations will know that I the Lord sanctify Israel,when my sanctuary is in the midst of them for evermore.”The Word of the Lord.Responsorial Psalm: Jeremiah 31:10, 11-12ab, 13 (R. see 10d) R/. The Lord will keep us, as a shepherd keeps his flock.Hear the word of the Lord, O nations,and declare it in the islands afar off;say, ‘He who scattered Israel will gather him,and will keep him as a shepherd keeps his flock.’For the Lord has ransomed Jacob,and has redeemed him from hands too strong for him.They shall come and sing aloud on the height of Sion,and they shall be radiant over the goodness of the Lord.Then shall the maidens rejoice in the dance,and the young men and the old shall be merry.I will turn their mourning into joy,I will comfort them, and give them gladness for sorrow.R/. The Lord will keep us, as a shepherd keeps his flock.Glory and praise to you, O Christ. Cast away from you all the transgressions which you have committed, says the Lord, and get yourselves a new heart and a new spirit.Glory and praise to you, O Christ.Gospel: John 11:45-57A reading from the Holy Gospel according to JohnAt that timeMany of the Jews who had come with Maryand had seen what Jesus did, believed in him;but some of them went to the Phariseesand told them what Jesus had done.So the chief priests and the Phariseesgathered the council, and said, “What are we to do?For this man performs many signs.If we let him go on like this, everyone will believe in him,and the Romans will comeand destroy both our holy place and our nation.”But one of them, Caiaphas, who was high priest that year,said to them, “You know nothing at all;you do not understand that it is expedient for youthat one man should die for the people,and that the whole nation should not perish.”He did not say this of his own accordbut being high priest that yearhe prophesied that Jesus should die for the nation,and not for the nation only,but to gather into onethe children of God who are scattered abroad.So from that day on