{"id":2961,"date":"2017-03-30T13:54:05","date_gmt":"2017-03-30T18:54:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.luc.edu\/ips\/?p=2961"},"modified":"2024-06-20T15:44:41","modified_gmt":"2024-06-20T15:44:41","slug":"life-in-the-full-a-reflectionon-the-fifth-sunday-of-lent-from-dr-peter-jones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.luc.edu\/ips\/?p=2961","title":{"rendered":"Life in the Full: A Reflection on the Fifth Sunday of Lent from Dr. Peter Jones"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Reading 1EZ 37:12-14<\/a>\"\"<\/a><\/h4>\n

Thus says the Lord GOD:
\nO my people, I will open your graves
\nand have you rise from them,
\nand bring you back to the land of Israel.
\nThen you shall know that I am the LORD,
\nwhen I open your graves and have you rise from them,
\nO my people!
\nI will put my spirit in you that you may live,
\nand I will settle you upon your land;
\nthus you shall know that I am the LORD.
\nI have promised, and I will do it, says the LORD.<\/p>\n

Responsorial PsalmPS 130:1-2, 3-4, 5-6, 7-8<\/a><\/h4>\n

R. (7) With the Lord there is mercy and fullness of redemption.<\/strong>
\nOut of the depths I cry to you, O LORD;
\nLORD, hear my voice!
\nLet your ears be attentive
\nto my voice in supplication.
\nR. With the Lord there is mercy and fullness of redemption.<\/strong>
\nIf you, O LORD, mark iniquities,
\nLORD, who can stand?
\nBut with you is forgiveness,
\nthat you may be revered.
\nR. With the Lord there is mercy and fullness of redemption.<\/strong>
\nI trust in the LORD;
\nmy soul trusts in his word.
\nMore than sentinels wait for the dawn,
\nlet Israel wait for the LORD.
\nR. With the Lord there is mercy and fullness of redemption.<\/strong>
\nFor with the LORD is kindness
\nand with him is plenteous redemption;
\nAnd he will redeem Israel
\nfrom all their iniquities.
\nR. With the Lord there is mercy and fullness of redemption.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Reading 2ROM 8:8-11<\/a><\/h4>\n

Brothers and sisters:
\nThose who are in the flesh cannot please God.
\nBut you are not in the flesh;
\non the contrary, you are in the spirit,
\nif only the Spirit of God dwells in you.
\nWhoever does not have the Spirit of Christ does not belong to him.
\nBut if Christ is in you,
\nalthough the body is dead because of sin,
\nthe spirit is alive because of righteousness.
\nIf the Spirit of the one who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you,
\nthe one who raised Christ from the dead
\nwill give life to your mortal bodies also,
\nthrough his Spirit dwelling in you.<\/p>\n

Verse Before The GospelJN 11:25A, 26<\/a><\/h4>\n

I am the resurrection and the life, says the Lord;
\nwhoever believes in me, even if he dies, will never die.<\/p>\n

GospelJN 11:1-45<\/a><\/h4>\n

Now a man was ill, Lazarus from Bethany,
\nthe village of Mary and her sister Martha.
\nMary was the one who had anointed the Lord with perfumed oil
\nand dried his feet with her hair;
\nit was her brother Lazarus who was ill.
\nSo the sisters sent word to him saying,
\n“Master, the one you love is ill.”
\nhen Jesus heard this he said,
\n“This illness is not to end in death,
\nbut is for the glory of God,
\nthat the Son of God may be glorified through it.”
\nNow Jesus loved Martha and her sister and Lazarus.
\nSo when he heard that he was ill,
\nhe remained for two days in the place where he was.
\nThen after this he said to his disciples,
\n“Let us go back to Judea.”
\nThe disciples said to him,
\n“Rabbi, the Jews were just trying to stone you,
\nand you want to go back there?”
\nJesus answered,
\n“Are there not twelve hours in a day?
\nIf one walks during the day, he does not stumble,
\nbecause he sees the light of this world.
\nBut if one walks at night, he stumbles,
\nbecause the light is not in him.”
\nHe said this, and then told them,
\n“Our friend Lazarus is asleep,
\nbut I am going to awaken him.”
\nSo the disciples said to him,
\n“Master, if he is asleep, he will be saved.”
\nBut Jesus was talking about his death,
\nwhile they thought that he meant ordinary sleep.
\nSo then Jesus said to them clearly,
\n“Lazarus has died.
\nAnd I am glad for you that I was not there,
\nthat you may believe.
\nLet us go to him.”
\nSo Thomas, called Didymus, said to his fellow disciples,
\n“Let us also go to die with him.”<\/p>\n

When Jesus arrived, he found that Lazarus
\nhad already been in the tomb for four days.
\nNow Bethany was near Jerusalem, only about two miles away.
\nAnd many of the Jews had come to Martha and Mary
\nto comfort them about their brother.
\nWhen Martha heard that Jesus was coming,
\nshe went to meet him;
\nbut Mary sat at home.
\nMartha said to Jesus,
\n“Lord, if you had been here,
\nmy brother would not have died.
\nBut even now I know that whatever you ask of God,
\nGod will give you.”
\nJesus said to her,
\n“Your brother will rise.”
\nMartha said to him,
\n“I know he will rise,
\nin the resurrection on the last day.”
\nJesus told her,
\n“I am the resurrection and the life;
\nwhoever believes in me, even if he dies, will live,
\nand everyone who lives and believes in me will never die.
\nDo you believe this?”
\nShe said to him, “Yes, Lord.
\nI have come to believe that you are the Christ, the Son of God,
\nthe one who is coming into the world.”<\/p>\n

When she had said this,
\nshe went and called her sister Mary secretly, saying,
\n“The teacher is here and is asking for you.”
\nAs soon as she heard this,
\nshe rose quickly and went to him.
\nFor Jesus had not yet come into the village,
\nbut was still where Martha had met him.
\nSo when the Jews who were with her in the house comforting her
\nsaw Mary get up quickly and go out,
\nthey followed her,
\npresuming that she was going to the tomb to weep there.
\nWhen Mary came to where Jesus was and saw him,
\nshe fell at his feet and said to him,
\n“Lord, if you had been here,
\nmy brother would not have died.”
\nWhen Jesus saw her weeping and the Jews who had come with her weeping,
\nhe became perturbed and deeply troubled, and said,
\n“Where have you laid him?”
\nThey said to him, “Sir, come and see.”
\nAnd Jesus wept.
\nSo the Jews said, “See how he loved him.”
\nBut some of them said,
\n“Could not the one who opened the eyes of the blind man
\nhave done something so that this man would not have died?”<\/p>\n

So Jesus, perturbed again, came to the tomb.
\nIt was a cave, and a stone lay across it.
\nJesus said, “Take away the stone.”
\nMartha, the dead man’s sister, said to him,
\n“Lord, by now there will be a stench;
\nhe has been dead for four days.”
\nJesus said to her,
\n“Did I not tell you that if you believe
\nyou will see the glory of God?”
\nSo they took away the stone.
\nAnd Jesus raised his eyes and said,
\n“Father, I thank you for hearing me.
\nI know that you always hear me;
\nbut because of the crowd here I have said this,
\nthat they may believe that you sent me.”
\nAnd when he had said this,
\nHe cried out in a loud voice,
\n“Lazarus, come out!”
\nThe dead man came out,
\ntied hand and foot with burial bands,
\nand his face was wrapped in a cloth.
\nSo Jesus said to them,
\n“Untie him and let him go.”<\/p>\n

Now many of the Jews who had come to Mary
\nand seen what he had done began to believe in him.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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