Monday, 24 March 2025
Monday in the Third Week of Lent
Readings and Antiphons on p 255 of the Daily Missal
First Reading: 2 Kings 5:1-15a
Responsorial Psalm: Psalm 42:2, 3; 43:3, 4 (R. 42:3)
R/. My soul is thirsting for God, the living God.
When can I enter and appear before the face of God?
Like the deer that yearns
for running streams,
so my soul is yearning
for you, my God.
My soul is thirsting for God,
the living God;
when can I enter and appear
before the face of God?
O send forth your light and your truth;
they will guide me on.
They will bring me to your holy mountain,
to the place where you dwell.
And I will come to the altar of God,
to God, my joy and gladness.
To you will I give thanks on the harp,
O God, my God.
R/. My soul is thirsting for God, the living God.
When can I enter and appear before the face of God?
Gospel: Luke 4:24-30
At that time:
When Jesus had come to Nazareth,
he said to the people in the synagogue,
“Truly, I say to you, no prophet is acceptable in his own country.
But in truth, I tell you,
there were many widows in Israel in the days of Elijah,
when the heaven was shut up three years and six months,
when there came a great famine over all the land;
and Elijah was sent to none of them
but only to Zarephath, in the land of Sidon,
to a woman who was a widow.
And there were many lepers in Israel
in the time of the prophet Elisha;
and none of them was cleansed, but only Naaman the Syrian.”
When they heard this,
all in the synagogue were filled with wrath.
And they rose up and put him out of the city
and led him to the brow of the hill on which their city was built,
that they might throw him down headlong.
But passing through the midst of them he went away.
