Newsletter March 10th 2024 (Fourth Sunday of Lent) Mothers Day
- First Reading – 2 Chronicles 36:14-16, 19-23: Judah’s betrayal of faith led to their exile as Babylon destroyed Jerusalem and the temple. God’s warnings were ignored, resulting in captivity. Fulfilling Jeremiah’s prophecy, the exile lasted until Cyrus of Persia decreed the rebuilding of the temple, marking the beginning of the return.
- Responsorial Psalm – Psalm 137: In Babylon’s captivity, we wept for Zion, unable to sing our sacred songs in a foreign land. Forgetting Jerusalem would be my greatest loss, my joy silenced without its memory.
- Second Reading – Ephesians 2:4-10: God, in His mercy, made us alive with Christ, saving us by grace through faith, not by our deeds, to display His grace in Christ. We are created for good works, predestined by God.
- Gospel – John 3:14-21: Jesus has a conversation with Nicodemus and references Moses lifting up the serpent in the wilderness as a foreshadowing of his own crucifixion and the salvation that it would bring. Jesus emphasizes the importance of believing in him as the Son of God in order to receive eternal life, and highlights the judgment that will come to those who do not believe.
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