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Third Sunday of Lent

Peace be with you

1st Reading: EX 3:1-8a,13-15

Reader: A reading from the book of Exodus

Moses was tending the flock of his father-in-law Jethro, the priest of Midian.

Leading the flock across the desert,

he came to Horeb, the mountain of God.

There an angel of the LORD appeared

to Moses in fire flaming out of a bush.

As he looked on, he was surprised to see that the bush,

though on fire, was not consumed.

So Moses decided,“I must go over

to look at this remarkable sight,

and see why the bush is not burned.”

When the LORD saw him coming over

to look at it more closely,

God called out to him from the bush, “Moses! Moses!”

He answered, “Here I am.”

God said, “Come no nearer!

Remove the sandals from your feet,

for the place where you stand is holy ground.

I am the God of your fathers”, he continued,

“the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, the God of Jacob.”

Moses hid his face, for he was afraid

to look at God.

But the LORD said,“I have witnessed

the affliction of my people in Egypt

and have heard their cry of complaint against their slave drivers,

so I know well what they are suffering.

Therefore I have come down to rescue them

from the hands of the Egyptians

and lead them out of that land into a good and spacious land,

a land flowing with milk and honey.”

Moses said to God, “But when I go to the

Israelites and say to them,

‘The God of your fathers has sent me to you,’

if they ask me, ‘What is his name?’ what am I to tell them?”

God replied, “I am who am.”

Then he added, “This is what you shall tell the Israelites: I AM sent me to you.”

God spoke further to Moses,

“Thus shall you say to the Israelites:

The LORD, the God of your fathers,

the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, the God of Jacob, has sent me to you.

“This is my name forever;

thus am I to be remembered through

all generations.”

Reader: The word of the Lord.

All: Thanks be to God.

Responsorial Psalm: PS 103:1-2,3-4,6-7,8,11

R. The Lord is kind and merciful.

1. Bless the LORD, O my soul;

and all my being, bless his holy name.

Bless the LORD, O my soul,

and forget not all his benefits. R.

2. He pardons all your iniquities,

heals all your ills,

He redeems your life from destruction,

crowns you with kindness and compassion. R.

3. The LORD secures justice

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and the rights of all the oppressed.

He has made known his ways to Moses,

and his deeds to the children of Israel. R.

4. Merciful and gracious is the LORD,

slow to anger and abounding in kindness.

For as the heavens are high above the earth,

so surpassing is his kindness toward

those who fear him. R.

2nd Reading: 1 COR 10:1-6, 10-12

Reader: A reading from the first letter of
St. Paul to the Corinthians

I do not want you to be unaware, brothers and sisters,

that our ancestors were all under the cloud

and all passed through the sea,

and all of them were baptized into Moses

in the cloud and in the sea.

All ate the same spiritual food,

and all drank the same spiritual drink,

for they drank from a spiritual rock

that followed them, and the rock was the Christ.

Yet God was not pleased with most of them,

for they were struck down in the desert.

These things happened as examples for us,

so that we might not desire evil things,

as they did.

Do not grumble as some of them did,

and suffered death by the destroyer.

These things happened to them as an

example, and they have been written down

as a warning to us,

upon whom the end of the ages has come.

Therefore, whoever thinks he is standing

secure should take care not to fall.

Reader: The word of the Lord.

All: Thanks be to God.

Gospel Acclamation: MT 4:17

Praise to you Lord Jesus Christ,

King of endless glory!

Repent, says the Lord;

the kingdom of heaven is at hand.

Praise to you Lord Jesus Christ,

King of endless glory!

Gospel: LK 13:1-9

Priest: A reading from the Holy Gospel according to Luke

All: Glory to you, O Lord.

Some people told Jesus about the Galileans

whose blood Pilate had mingled with

the blood of their sacrifices.

Jesus said to them in reply,

“Do you think that because these Galileans suffered in this way they were greater sinners than all other Galileans?

By no means!

But I tell you, if you do not repent,

you will all perish as they did!

Or those eighteen people who were killed

when the tower at Siloam fell on them—

do you think they were more guilty

than everyone else who lived in Jerusalem?

By no means!

But I tell you, if you do not repent,

you will all perish as they did!”

And he told them this parable:

“There once was a person who had a fig tree planted in his orchard,

and when he came in search of fruit on it but found none,

he said to the gardener,

‘For three years now I have come in search of fruit on this fig tree

but have found none. So cut it down.

Why should it exhaust the soil?’

He said to him in reply,

‘Sir, leave it for this year also,

and I shall cultivate the ground around it and fertilize it;

it may bear fruit in the future.

If not you can cut it down.’”

Priest: The Gospel of the Lord.

All: Praise to you, Lord Jesus Christ.

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Day	Time	Place
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Sunday	08:30 - 08:55	Front left side of the Church

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□ Please return the hymnbooks to the volunteers at the exit gate.

□ Today’s Hymns

Entrance	347	THE GLORY OF THESE FORTY DAYS
Offertory	768	GATHER YOUR PEOPLE
Communion	796	TASTE AND SEE
	785	BEHOLD THE LAMB
Recessional	357	FROM THE DEPTHS WE CRY TO THEE

“Here I am.”

EX 3:4