March 16, 2018
I hope you have a nice day today too.
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Friday of the Fourth Week of Lent
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Gospel: John 7:1-2, 10, 25-30
1 After these things, Jesus was walking in Galilee, for he wouldn't walk in Judea, because the Jews sought to kill him.
2 Now the feast of the Jews, the Feast of Booths, was at hand.
10 But when his brothers had gone up to the feast, then he also went up, not publicly, but as it were in secret.
25 Therefore some of them of Jerusalem said, "Isn't this he whom they seek to kill?
26 Behold, he speaks openly, and they say nothing to him. Can it be that the rulers indeed know that this is truly the Christ?
27 However we know where this man comes from, but when the Christ comes, no one will know where he comes from."
28 Jesus therefore cried out in the temple, teaching and saying, "You both know me, and know where I am from. I have not come of myself, but he who sent me is true, whom you don't know.
29 I know him, because I am from him, and he sent me."
30 They sought therefore to take him; but no one laid a hand on him, because his hour had not yet come.
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Wisdom of Solomon 2:1a, 12-22
1a For they said * within themselves, reasoning not aright,
12 But let us lie in wait for the righteous man,
Because he is of disservice to us,
And is contrary to our works,
And upbraids us with sins against §§§ the law,
And lays to our charge sins against our discipline.
13 He professes to have knowledge of God,
And names himself * servant of the Lord.
14 He became to us a reproof of our thoughts.
15 He is grievous to us even to behold,
Because his life is unlike other men's,
And his paths are of strange fashion.
16 We were accounted of him as base metal,
And he abstains from our ways as from uncleannesses.
The latter end of the righteous he calls happy;
And he vaunts that God is his father.
17 Let us see if his words be true,
And let us try what shall befall in the ending of his life.
18 For if the righteous man is God's son, he will uphold him,
And he will deliver him out of the hand of his adversaries.
19 With outrage and torture let us put him to the test,
That we may learn his gentleness,
And may prove his patience under wrong.
20 Let us condemn him to a shameful death;
For † he shall be visited according to his words.
21 Thus reasoned they, and they were led astray;
For their ‡ wickedness blinded them,
22 And they knew not the mysteries of God,
Neither hoped they for wages of holiness,
Nor did they judge that there is a prize for blameless souls.
*2:1: Or, amongst
§§§2:12: Or, law
*2:13: Or, child
†2:20: Gr. there shall be a visitation of him out of his words.
‡2:21: Or, malice
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* The World English Bible
http://ebible.org/web/
◇ March 16, 2018 Daily Mass Reading
http://ccc.usccb.org/cccradio/NABPodcasts/18_03_16.mp3
◇ Daily Readings March 16, 2018
http://www.usccb.org/bible/readings/031618.cfm
◇ Liturgical Calendar
http://www.catholicnewsagency.com/calendarday.php?date=2018-03-16
◇ Zondervan King James Audio Bible
http://www.biblegateway.com/audio/dramatized/kjv/John.7
◇ King James Version Bible Online
http://www.kingjamesbibleonline.org/book.php?book=John&chapter=7&verse=
◇ The New American Bible, Revised Edition (NABRE)
http://www.usccb.org/bible/books-of-the-bible/index.cfm
◇ Douay-Rheims Bible
http://www.drbo.org/
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