Sunday, 8 March 2026 Sunday, Third Sunday of Lent, Cycle A. Antiphons and readings on p. 100 of the Sunday Missal and on p. 243 of the Daily Missal.

Send us Fan MailEntrance Antiphon.My eyes are always on the Lord, for he rescues my feet from the snare. Turn to me and have mercy on me, for I am alone and poor.first Reading: Exodus 17: 3-7A reading from the Book of Exodus.In those days:The people thirsted there for water, and the people murmured against Moses, and said, “Why did you bring us up out of Egypt, to kill us and our children and our cattle with thirst?” So Moses cried to the Lord, “What shall I do with this people? They are almost ready to stone me.” And the Lord said to Moses, “Pass on before the people, taking with you some of the elders of Israel; and take in your hand the rod with which you struck the Nile, and go. Behold, I will stand before you there on the rock at Horeb; and you shall strike the rock, and water shall come out of it, that the people may drink.”And Moses did so, in the sight of the elders of Israel. And he called the name of the place Massah and Meribah, because of the fault-finding of the children of Israel, and because they put the Lord to the proof by saying, “Is the Lord among us or not?”The Word of the Lord.Responsorial Psalm: Psalm 95: 1-2, 6-7abc, 7d-9 [R cf 7d, 8a]R/: O that today you would listen to his voice!Harden not your hearts.Come, let us ring out our joy to the Lord;hail the rock who saves us.Let us come into his presence, giving thanks;Let us hail him with a song of praise.O come; let us bow and bend low.Let us kneel before the God who made us, for he is our God and wethe people who belong to his pasture,the flock that is led by his hand.O that today you would listen to his voice!“Harden not your hearts as at Meribah,as on that day at Massah in the desertwhen your forebears put me to the test;when they tried me, though they saw my work.”R/: O that today you would listen to his voice!Harden not your hearts.Second Reading: Romans 5: 1-2, 5-8A reading from the Letter of Saint Paul to the Romans.Brothers and sisters:Since we are justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ. Through him we have obtained access to this grace in which we stand, and we rejoice in our hope of sharing the glory of God.  And hope does not disappoint us, because God’s love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who has been given to us.While we were yet helpless, at the right time Christ died for the ungodly. Why, one will hardly die for a righteous person—though perhaps for a good person one will dare even to die. But God shows his love for us in that while we were yet sinners Christ died for us.The Word of the Lord.Glory and praise to you, O Christ.Lord, you are truly the Saviour of the world; give me living water, that I may not thirst.Glory and praise to you, O Christ.Gospel: John 4: 5-42A reading from the Holy Gospel according to John.At that time:Jesus came to a city of Samaria, called Sychar, near the field that Jacob gave to his son Joseph. Jacob’s well was there, and so Jesus, wearied as he was with his journey, sat down beside the well. It was about the sixth hour.There came a woman of Samaria to draw water. Jesus said to her, “Give me a drink.” For his disciples had gone away into the city to buy food. The Samaritan woman said to him, “How is it that you, a Jew, ask a drink of me, a woman of Samaria?”