First Reading - Is 43:16-21
Thus says the Lord, who
opens a way in the sea and a
path in the mighty waters, who
leads out chariots and horsemen, a powerful army, till they
lie prostrate together, never to
rise, snuffed out and quenched
like a wick.
Remember not the events
of the past, the things of long
ago consider not.
See, I am doing something
new! Now it springs forth, do
you not perceive it? In the desert I make a way, in the wasteland, rivers. Wild beasts honor
me, jackals and ostriches, for
I put water in the desert and
rivers in the wasteland for my
chosen people to drink, the
people whom I formed for myself, that they might announce
my praise.
Responsorial Psalm - Ps 127
R –The Lord has done great
things for us. We are filled
with joy!
* When the Lord brought
back the captives of Zion, we
were like men dreaming. Then
our mouth was filled with
laughter, and our tongue with
rejoicing. R.
* Then they said among the
nations, “The Lord has done
great things for them.” The
Lord has done great things for
us; we are glad indeed. R.
* Restore our fortunes, O
Lord, like the torrents in the
southern desert. Those that sow
in tears shall reap rejoicing. R.
* Although they go forth
weeping, carrying the seed
to be sown, they shall come
back rejoicing, carrying their
sheaves. R.
Second Reading - Phil 3:8-14
Brothers and sisters:
I consider everything as a
loss because of the supreme
good of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord. For his sake I
have accepted the loss of all
things and I consider them so
much rubbish, that I may gain
Christ and be found in him,
not having any righteousness
of my own based on the law
but that which comes through
faith in Christ, the righteousness from God, depending on
faith, to know him and the
power of his resurrection and
the sharing of his sufferings by
being conformed to his death,
if somehow I may attain the
resurrection from the dead.
It is not that I have already
taken hold of it or have already
attained perfect maturity, but
I continue my pursuit in the
hope that I may possess it,
since I have indeed been taken
possession of by Christ Jesus.
Brothers and sisters, I for my
part do not consider myself to
have taken possession. Just
one thing: forgetting what lies
behind but straining forward
to what lies ahead,I continue
my pursuit toward the goal,
the prize of God’s upward calling, in Christ Jesus.
Verse before the Gospel
Even now, says the Lord,
return to me with your
whole heart; for I am gracious and merciful.
Gospel - Jn 8:1-11
Jesus went to the Mount of
Olives. But early in the morning he arrived again in the
temple area, and all the people
started coming to him, and he
sat down and taught them.
Then the scribes and the
Pharisees brought a woman
who had been caught in adultery and made her stand in the
middle.
They said to him, “Teacher,
this woman was caught in the
very act of committing adultery. Now in the law, Moses
commanded us to stone such
women. So what do you say?”
They said this to test him,
so that they could have some
charge to bring against him.
Jesus bent down and began to
write on the ground with his
finger. But when they continued asking him, he straightened up and said to them,
“Let the one among you who
is without sin be the first to
throw a stone at her.”
Again he bent down and
wrote on the ground. And in response, they went away one by
one, beginning with the elders.
So he was left alone with
the woman before him.
Then Jesus straightened
up and said to her, “Woman,
where are they? Has no one
condemned you?” She replied,
“No one, sir.” Then Jesus said,
“Neither do I condemn you.
Go, and from now on, do not
sin any more.”
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