April 4, 2020
I hope that you have a nice day today too.
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Saturday of the Fifth Week of Lent
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Gospel : John 11:45-56
45 Therefore many of the Jews, who came to Mary and saw what Jesus did, believed in him.
46 But some of them went away to the Pharisees, and told them the things which Jesus had done.
47 The chief priests therefore and the Pharisees gathered a council, and said, "What are we doing? For this man does many signs.
48 If we leave him alone like this, everyone will believe in him, and the Romans will come and take away both our place and our nation."
49 But a certain one of them, Caiaphas, being high priest that year, said to them, "You know nothing at all,
50 nor do you consider that it is advantageous for us that one man should die for the people, and that the whole nation not perish."
51 Now he didn't say this of himself, but being high priest that year, he prophesied that Jesus would die for the nation,
52 and not for the nation only, but that he might also gather together into one the children of God who are scattered abroad.
53 So from that day forward they took counsel that they might put him to death.
54 Jesus therefore walked no more openly amongst the Jews, but departed from there into the country near the wilderness, to a city called Ephraim. He stayed there with his disciples.
55 Now the Passover of the Jews was at hand. Many went up from the country to Jerusalem before the Passover, to purify themselves.
56 Then they sought for Jesus and spoke one with another, as they stood in the temple, "What do you think?that he isn't coming to the feast at all?"
57 Now the chief priests and the Pharisees had commanded that if anyone knew where he was, he should report it, that they might seize him.
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Ezekiel 37:21-28
21 Say to them, Thus says the Lord GOD: Behold, I will take the children of Israel from amongst the nations, where they are gone, and will gather them on every side, and bring them into their own land:
22 and I will make them one nation in the land, on the mountains of Israel; and one king shall be king to them all; and they shall be no more two nations, neither shall they be divided into two kingdoms any more at all;
23 neither shall they defile themselves any more with their idols, nor with their detestable things, nor with any of their transgressions; but I will save them out of all their dwelling places, in which they have sinned, and will cleanse them: so shall they be my people, and I will be their God.
24 My servant David shall be king over them; and they all shall have one shepherd: they shall also walk in my ordinances, and observe my statutes, and do them.
25 They shall dwell in the land that I have given to Jacob my servant, in which your fathers lived; and they shall dwell therein, they, and their children, and their children's children, forever: and David my servant shall be their prince for ever.
26 Moreover I will make a covenant of peace with them; it shall be an everlasting covenant with them; and I will place them, and multiply them, and will set my sanctuary amongst them forever more.
27 My tent also shall be with them; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.
28 The nations shall know that I am the LORD who sanctifies Israel, when my sanctuary shall be amongst them forever more.
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* The World English Bible
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◇ April 4, 2020 Daily Mass Reading
http://ccc.usccb.org/cccradio/NABPodcasts/2020/20_04_04.mp3
◇ Daily Readings April 4, 2020
http://www.usccb.org/bible/readings/040420.cfm
◇ Liturgical Calendar
http://www.catholicnewsagency.com/calendarday.php?date=2020-04-04
◇ Zondervan King James Audio Bible
http://www.biblegateway.com/audio/dramatized/kjv/John.11
◇ King James Version Bible Online
http://www.kingjamesbibleonline.org/book.php?book=John&chapter=11&verse=
◇ The New American Bible, Revised Edition (NABRE)
http://www.usccb.org/bible/books-of-the-bible/index.cfm
◇ Douay-Rheims Bible
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◇ Chibadera Catholic Church
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◇ Today's Bible Story
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