Monday of the Third Week of Lent
Luke 4: 24-30
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Reading 1 Kings 5: 1-15ab
Naaman, the army commander of the king of
Aram, was highly esteemed and
respected by his master, for through
him the LORD had brought victory to Aram. But valiant as he was, the man was a leper. Now the Arameans had captured in a raid on the land of Israel a little girl, who became the servant of Naaman's wife.
If only my master would present himself to
the prophet in Samaria, she said to her
mistress, he would cure him of his leprosy. Naaman went and told his lord just what the slave girl from the land of Israel had said. Go, said the king of Aram. I will send along a letter to the king of Israel. So Naaman set out, taking along ten silver
talents, six thousand gold pieces,
and ten festal garments. To the king
of Israel he brought the letter, which read: With this letter I am sending my servant Naaman to you, that you may cure him of his leprosy.
When he read the letter, the king of Israel tore his
garments and exclaimed: "Am I a god with power over life and death, that this man should send
someone to me to be cured of leprosy? Take note! You can see he is only looking for a quarrel
with me!" When Elisha, the man of God, heard that the king of Israel had torn his garments,he
sent word to the king: "Why have you torn your garments? Let him come to me and find
out that there is a prophet in Israel."
Naaman came with his horses and chariots and stopped
at the door of Elisha's house.The prophet sent him the message: Go and wash seven times in the
Jordan, and your flesh will heal, and you will be clean. But Naaman went away angry, saying, I
thought that he would surely come out and stand there to invoke the LORD his God, and
would move his hand over the spot, and thus cure the leprosy. Are not the rivers of
Damascus, the Abana and the Pharpar, better than all the waters of Israel? Could I
not wash in them and be cleansed? With this, he turned about in anger and left.
But his servants came up and reasoned with him. My father, they said, if the prophet had told
you to do something extraordinary, would you not have done it? All the more now, since he
said to you, Wash and be clean, should you do as he said. So Naaman went down and plunged into the
Jordan seven times at the word of the man of God. His flesh became again like the flesh of
a little child, and he was clean.
He returned with his whole
retinue to the man of God. On his arrival he stood before him and said, "Now I know that there
is no God in all the earth, except in Israel."
Psalm 42: 2, 3; 43: 3,
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R. (see 42:3) Athirst is my soul for the living God.
When shall I
go and behold the face of God?
As the hind longs for the running
waters,
so my soul
longs for you, O God.
R. Athirst is my soul for
the living God.
When shall I go and behold the face of God?
Athirst is my soul for God, the living
God.
When shall I go
and behold the face of God?
R. Athirst is my soul for
the living God.
When shall I go and behold the face of God?
Send forth your light and your
fidelity;
they shall
lead me on
And bring
me to your holy mountain,
to your dwelling-place.
R. Athirst is my soul for the living God.
When shall I go and behold the face of God?
Then will I go in to the altar of God,
the God of my gladness and joy;
Then will I give you thanks upon the
harp,
O God, my
God!
R. Athirst is my soul for the living
God.
When shall I
go and behold the face of God?
Gospel Lk
4: 24-30
Jesus said to the people
in the synagogue at Nazareth: Amen, I say to you, no prophet is accepted in his own native
place. Indeed, I tell you, there were many widows in Israel in the days of
Elijah when the sky was closed for three and a half years and a severe famine spread over
the entire land. It was to none of these that Elijah was sent, but only to a widow in
Zarephath in the land of Sidon. Again, there were many lepers in Israel during the time of
Elisha the prophet; yet not one of them was cleansed, but only Naaman the Syrian. When the
people in the synagogue heard this,they were all filled with fury. They rose up, drove him out
of the town, and led him to the brow of the hill on which their town had been
built, to hurl him down headlong. But he passed through the midst of them and went
away.
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