March 15

March 15

Wednesday of the 3rd Week of Lent

Mass Readings

First Reading – Dt 4:1, 5-9

Moses spoke to the people and said: “Now, Israel, hear the statutes and decrees which I am teaching you to observe, that you may live, and may enter in and take possession of the land which the LORD, the God of your fathers, is giving you. Therefore, I teach you the statutes and decrees as the LORD, my God, has commanded me, that you may observe them in the land you are entering to occupy. Observe them carefully, for thus will you give evidence of your wisdom and intelligence to the nations, who will hear of all these statutes and say, ‘This great nation is truly a wise and intelligent people.’ For what great nation is there that has gods so close to it as the LORD, our God, is to us whenever we call upon him? Or what great nation has statutes and decrees that are as just as this whole law
which I am setting before you today? However, take care and be earnestly on your guard not to forget the things which your own eyes have seen, nor let them slip from your memory as long as you live, but teach them to your children and to your children’s children.”

Responsorial Psalm – Ps 147:12-13, 15-16, 19-20 (R.12a)

R. Praise the Lord, Jerusalem.

Glorify the LORD, O Jerusalem;
praise your God, O Zion.
For he has strengthened the bars of your gates;
he has blessed your children within you. R.

He sends forth his command to the earth;
swiftly runs his word!
He spreads snow like wool;
frost he strews like ashes. R.

He has proclaimed his word to Jacob,
his statutes and his ordinances to Israel.
He has not done thus for any other nation;
his ordinances he has not made known to them. R.

Gospel – 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. Amen, I say to you, until heaven and earth pass away, not the smallest letter or the smallest part of a letter will pass from the law,until all things have taken place. Therefore, whoever breaks one of the least of these commandments
and teaches others to do so will be called least in the Kingdom of heaven. But whoever obeys and teaches these commandments will be called greatest in the Kingdom of heaven.”


Featured Saints

St. Clement Mary Hofbauer, priest (†1820).Redemptorist religious born in Moravia, Czech Republic, he was sent on mission to Warsaw, where he preached for two decades. Upon returning to Vienna, he undertook the reform of ecclesiastical discipline in Austria and succeeded in drawing many renowned scientists and artists to enter the Church.

St. Louise de Marillac, widow (†1660). With St. Vincent de Paul she founded the Institute of the Daughters of Charity, in Paris, to care for the poor, sick, and the abandoned.

St. Zachary, Pope (†752). Governed the Church with wisdom and prudence, stopped the invasion of the Lombards, taught the Franks to govern justly, provided the German peoples with churches and promoted the unity of the Eastern Church.

St. Leocrita (or Lucretia), virgin and martyr (†859). Born to a noble Muslim family of Cordoba, Spain, she was beheaded for refusing to renounce the Catholic Faith.

Blessed Jan Adalbert Balicki, priest (†1948). Rector of the seminary of Przemysl, Poland. He consecrated most of his ministry to the administration of the Sacrament of Penance and formation of young seminarians.

Blessed Artemide Zatti, religious (†1951). Salesian Coadjutor Brother who dedicated his life to caring for the sick in a hospital in Patagonia, Argentina.

Blessed William Hart, priest and martyr (†1538). Suffered martyrdom in England, during the persecutions of Elizabeth I.


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