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Wednesday 6 March 2024    (other days)
Wednesday of the 3rd week of Lent 

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Christ the Lord was tempted and suffered for us. Come, let us adore him.
Or: O that today you would listen to his voice: harden not your hearts.

Year: B(II). Psalm week: 3. Liturgical Colour: Violet.

Other saints: Saint Kyneburgha (- c.680)

East Anglia
She was the eldest daughter of Penda, the pagan King of Mercia. She married King Ealhfrith, co-regent of Northumbria, but later left him and established an abbey at Castor, near Peterborough, of which she became the first abbess. She was buried in her church: her remains were later removed to the abbey in Peterborough, where she was venerated as a saint by the monastic community.
East Anglian Ordo

About the author of the Second Reading in today's Office of Readings:

Second Reading: Saint Theophilus of Antioch (- c.184)

He was born a pagan, somewhere near the Tigris and Euphrates, and was led to Christianity by studying the Scriptures and especially the prophets. He became Bishop of Antioch in about 169. The Apology to Autolycus is his sole surviving work. In it he explains and defends Christianity to a pagan friend, drawing most of his evidence and arguments from the Old Testament.

Liturgical colour: violet

Violet is a dark colour, ‘the gloomy cast of the mortified, denoting affliction and melancholy’. Liturgically, it is the colour of Advent and Lent, the seasons of penance and preparation.
Mid-morning reading (Terce)Ezekiel 18:30-32
Repent, renounce all your sins, avoid all occasions of sin! Shake off all the sins you have committed against me, and make yourselves a new heart and a new spirit! Why are you so anxious to die, House of Israel? I take no pleasure in the death of anyone – it is the Lord who speaks. Repent and live!
Noon reading (Sext)Zechariah 1:3-4
Return to me, says the Lord of Hosts, and I will return to you. Do not be like your ancestors, to whom the prophets in the past cried ‘Turn back from your evil ways and evil deeds’ but they would not listen.
Afternoon reading (None)Daniel 4:24
By virtuous actions break with your sins, break with your crimes by showing mercy to the poor, and so live long and peacefully.

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