Tuesday 21 March 2023 (other days)
Tuesday of the 4th week of Lent
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Universalis site · Settings · Tweet · Show QR codeChrist 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: A(I). Psalm week: 4. Liturgical Colour: Violet.
Other saints: Saint Enda (- 530)
Ireland
He founded a monastery on the pagan island of Aran Mor in Galway Bay, which remained a centre for sanctity and learning for the next 300 years. See the article in the Catholic Encyclopaedia.
Creed in Slow Motion video 28 – Virginity is an embarrassment?
Father Sean Doggett, of the diocese of St George’s-in-Grenada, has narrated a series of 53 short videos (3-5 minutes) based on the themes of Martin Kochanski’s acclaimed book “The Creed in Slow Motion”.
These videos are well produced, with great charm and simplicity, and they are well worth watching both for themselves and as a way of encouraging you to read the book for yourself.
About the author of the Second Reading in today's Office of Readings:
Second Reading: Pope St Leo the Great (- 461)
Leo was born in Etruria and became Pope in 440. He was a true shepherd and father of souls. He constantly strove to keep the faith whole and strenuously defended the unity of the Church. He repelled the invasions of the barbarians or alleviated their effects, famously persuading Attila the Hun not to march on Rome in 452, and preventing the invading Vandals from massacring the population in 455.
Leo left many doctrinal and spiritual writings behind and a number of them are included in the Office of Readings to this day. He died in 461.
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) | Joel 2:17 © |
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Between vestibule and altar let the priests, the ministers of the Lord, lament. Let them say, ‘Spare your people, O Lord! Do not make your heritage a thing of shame, a byword for the nations.’
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| Noon reading (Sext) | Jeremiah 3:25 © |
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We have sinned against the Lord our God, we and our ancestors from our youth until today, and we have not listened to the voice of the Lord our God.
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| Afternoon reading (None) | Isaiah 58:1-2 © |
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Shout for all you are worth, raise your voice like a trumpet. Proclaim their faults to my people, their sins to the House of Jacob. They seek me day after day, they long to know my ways, like a nation that wants to act with integrity and not ignore the law of its God.
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Office of Readings for 4th Tuesday of Lent
Morning Prayer for 4th Tuesday of Lent