Saturday of the Third Week of Lent

Send us Fan MailSaturday, 29 March 2025Saturday of the Third Week of Lent Antiphons and Readings on p 267 of the Daily MissalFirst Reading: Hosea 6:1-6Thus says the Lord: “Come, let us return to the Lord; for he has torn, that he may heal us; he has stricken, and he will bind us up. After two days he will revive us; on the third day he will raise us up, that we may live before him. Let us know, let us press on to know the Lord; his going forth is sure as the dawn; he will come to us as the showers, as the spring rains that water the earth.”What shall I do with you, O Ephraim? What shall I do with you, O Judah? Your love is like a morning cloud, like the dew that goes early away. Therefore I have hewn them by the prophets, I have slain them by the words of my mouth, and my judgment goes forth as the light. For I desire mercy and not sacrifice, the knowledge of God, rather than burnt offerings.Responsorial Psalm: Psalm 51:3-4, 18-19, 20-21ab (R. Hosea 6:6)R/. I desire mercy, and not sacrifice.Have mercy on me , O God, according to your merciful love; according to your great compassion, blot our my transgressions. Wash me completely from my iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin.For in sacrifice you take no delight; burnt offering from me would not please you. My sacrifice to God, a broken spirit: a broken and humbled heart, O God, you will not spurn.In your good pleasure, show favour to Sion; rebuild the walls of Jerusalem. Then you will delight in right sacrifice, burnt offerings wholly consumed.R/. I desire mercy, and not sacrifice.Gospel: Luke 18:9-14At that time:Jesus told this parable to some who trusted in themselves that they were righteous and despised others: “Two men went up into the temple to pray, one a Pharisee and the other a tax collector. The Pharisee stood and prayed thus with himself, ‘God, I thank you that I am not like other people, extortioners, unjust, adulterers, or even like this tax collector. I fast twice a week, I give tithes of all that I get.’But the tax collector, standing far off, would not even lift up his eyes to heaven, but beat his breast, saying, ‘God, be merciful to me a sinner!’I tell you, this man went down to his house justified  rather than the other; for everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, but he who humbles himself will be exalted.”