Daily Gospel Reading and Reflection

Monday of the Fifth Week of Lent Jn 8:1-11 Jesus bent down and began to write on the ground with his finger. But when they continued asking him, he straightened up and said to them, “Let the one among you who is without sin be the first to throw a stone at her.”

Tuesday of the Fifth Week of Lent Jn 8:21-30 So Jesus said to them, "When you lift up the Son of Man, then you will realize that I AM, and that I do nothing on my own, but I say only what the Father taught me."

Friday of the Fourth Week of Lent Jn 7:1-2, 10, 25-30 So Jesus cried out in the temple area as he was teaching and said, "You know me and also know where I am from. Yet I did not come on my own, but the one who sent me, whom you do not know, is true. I know him, because I am from him, and he sent me."

Thursday of the Fourth Week of Lent Jn 5:31-47 "I do not accept human praise; moreover, I know that you do not have the love of God in you. I came in the name of my Father, but you do not accept me; yet if another comes in his own name, you will accept him. How can you believe, when you accept praise from one another and do not seek the praise that comes from the only God?"

Wednesday of the Fourth Week of Lent Jn 5:17-30 Jesus answered and said to them, "Amen, amen, I say to you, the Son cannot do anything on his own, but only what he sees the Father doing; for what he does, the Son will do also."

Tuesday of the Fourth Week of Lent Jn 5:1-16 Jesus said to him, "Rise, take up your mat, and walk." Immediately the man became well, took up his mat, and walked.

Solemnity of Saint Joseph, spouse of the Blessed Virgin Mary Mt 1:16, 18-21, 24a Now this is how the birth of Jesus Christ came about. When his mother Mary was betrothed to Joseph, but before they lived together, she was found with child through the Holy Spirit. Joseph her husband, since he was a righteous man, yet unwilling to expose her to shame, decided to divorce her quietly. Such was his inte...

Friday of the Third Week of Lent Mk 12:28-34 Jesus replied, “The first is this: Hear, O Israel! The Lord our God is Lord alone! You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your mind, and with all your strength. The second is this: You shall love your neighbor as yourself. There is no other commandment greater than these.”

Thursday of the Third Week of Lent Lk 11:14-23 “Every kingdom divided against itself will be laid waste and house will fall against house. And if Satan is divided against himself, how will his kingdom stand?”

Wednesday of the Third Week of Lent Mt 5:17-19 Jesus said to his disciples: “Do not think that I have come to abolish the law or the prophets. I have come not to abolish but to fulfill.”

Tuesday of the Third Week of Lent Mt 18:21-35 Peter approached Jesus and asked him, “Lord, if my brother sins against me, how often must I forgive him? As many as seven times?” Jesus answered, “I say to you, not seven times but seventy-seven times."

Monday of the Third Week of Lent Lk 4:24-30 Jesus said to the people in the synagogue at Nazareth: “Amen, I say to you, no prophet is accepted in his own native place."

Friday of the Second Week of Lent Mt 21:33-43, 45-46 The stone that the builders rejected has become the cornerstone; by the Lord has this been done, and it is wonderful in our eyes?

Thursday of the Second Week of Lent Lk 16:19-31 Then Abraham said, "If they will not listen to Moses and the prophets, neither will they be persuaded if someone should rise from the dead."

Wednesday of the Second Week of Lent Mt 20:17-28 Jesus said in reply, “You do not know what you are asking. Can you drink the chalice that I am going to drink?”

Tuesday of the Second Week of Lent Mt 23:1-12 " The greatest among you must be your servant. Whoever exalts himself will be humbled; but whoever humbles himself will be exalted."

Monday of the Second Week in Lent Lk 6:36-38 Jesus said to his disciples: "Be merciful, just as your Father is merciful."

Friday of the First Week of Lent Mt 5:20-26 Jesus said to his disciples: “I tell you, unless your righteousness surpasses that of the scribes and Pharisees, you will not enter into the Kingdom of heaven."

Thursday of the First Week in Lent Mt 7:7-12 Jesus said to his disciples: "Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you. For everyone who asks, receives; and the one who seeks, finds; and to the one who knocks, the door will be opened."

Wednesday of the First Week in Lent Lk 11:29-32 " Just as Jonah became a sign to the Ninevites, so will the Son of Man be to this generation. At the judgment the queen of the south will rise with the men of this generation and she will condemn them, because she came from the ends of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon, and there is something greater than Solomon here."

Tuesday of the First Week of Lent Mt 6:7-15 Jesus said to his disciples: "In praying, do not babble like the pagans, who think that they will be heard because of their many words. Do not be like them. Your Father knows what you need before you ask him."

Monday of the First Week of Lent Mt 25:31-46 Jesus said to his disciples: "When the Son of Man comes in his glory, and all the angels with him, he will sit upon his glorious throne, and all the nations will be assembled before him."

Friday after Ash Wednesday Mt 9:14-15 " The days will come when the bridegroom is taken away from them, and then they will fast."

Thursday after Ash Wednesday Lk 9:22-25 Jesus said to his disciples: "The Son of Man must suffer greatly and be rejected by the elders, the chief priests, and the scribes, and be killed and on the third day be raised."

Ash Wednesday Mt 6:1-6, 16-18 Jesus said to his disciples: "Take care not to perform righteous deeds in order that people may see them; otherwise, you will have no recompense from your heavenly Father. When you give alms, do not blow a trumpet before you, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets to win the praise of others."