THE GUILT AND THE GUILTY
FIFTH SUNDAY OF LENT YEAR C: NEITHER DO I CONDEMN YOU, GO AND SIN NO MORE First Reading Isaiah 43 :16-21 See, I am doing a new deed, and I will give my chosen people drink Readings Thus says the Lord, who made a way through the sea, a path in the great waters; who put chariots and horse in the field and a powerful army which lay there never to rise again, snuffed out, put out like a wick: Lectures No need to recall the past, no need to think about what was done before. See, I am doing a new deed, even now it comes to light; can you not see it? Yes, I am making a road in the wilderness, paths in the wilds. The wild beasts will honour me, jackals and ostriches, because I am putting water in the wilderness (rivers in the wild) to give my chosen people drink. The people I have formed for myself will sing my praises. Responsorial Psalm: What marvels the Lord worked for us! Indeed we were glad Second Reading Philippians 3:8-14 I look on everything as so much rubbish ...