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LEITURAS/LESSONS

Leitura (Jn 3, 1-10)

Leitura do profeta Jonas. 

Naqueles dias: A palavra do Senhor foi dirigida pela segunda vez a Jonas nestes termos: Vai a Nínive, a grande cidade, e faze-lhe conhecer a mensagem que te ordenei. Jonas pôs-se a caminho e foi a Nínive, segundo a ordem do Senhor. Nínive era, diante de Deus, uma grande cidade: eram precisos três dias para percorrê-la. Jonas foi pela cidade durante todo um dia, pregando: Daqui a quarenta dias Nínive será destruída. Os ninivitas creram (nessa mensagem) de Deus, e proclamaram um jejum, vestindo-se de sacos desde o maior até o menor. A notícia chegou ao conhecimento do rei de Nínive; ele levantou-se do seu trono, tirou o manto, cobriu-se de saco e sentou-se sobre a cinza. Em seguida, foi publicado pela cidade, por ordem do rei e dos príncipes, este decreto: Fica proibido aos homens e aos animais, tanto do gado maior como do menor, comer o que quer que seja, assim como pastar ou beber. Homens e animais se cobrirão de sacos. Todos clamem a Deus, em alta voz; deixe cada um o seu mau caminho e converta-se da violência que há em suas mãos. Quem sabe, Deus se arrependerá, acalmará o ardor de sua cólera e deixará de nos perder! Diante de uma tal atitude, vendo como renunciavam aos seus maus caminhos, Deus arrependeu-se do mal que resolvera fazer-lhes, e não o executou.

Evangelho (Jo 7, 32-39)

Sequência do Santo Evangelho segundo João.

In English

Lesson (Jonas 3: 1-10)

Lesson from Jonas the Prophet.

In that time, the word of the Lord came to Jonas the second time saying: Arise, and go to Ninive, the great city: and preach in it the preaching that I bid thee. And Jonas arose, and went to Ninive, according to the word of the Lord: now Ninive was a great city of three days’ journey. And Jonas began to enter into the city one day’s journey: and he cried and said: Yet forty days and Ninive shall be destroyed. And the men of Ninive believed in God: and they proclaimed a fast, and put on sackcloth from the greatest to the least. And the word came to the king of Ninive: and he rose up out of his throne, and cast away his robe from him, and was clothed in sackcloth, and sat in ashes. And he caused it to be proclaimed and published in Ninive, from the mouth of the king and of his princes, saying: Let neither men nor beasts, oxen, nor sheep taste anything: let them not feed, nor drink water. And let men and beasts be covered with sackcloth, and cry to the Lord with all their strength, and let them turn every one from his evil way, and from the iniquity that is in their hands. Who can tell if God will turn, and forgive: and will turn away from his fierce anger, and we shall not perish? And God saw their works, that they were turned from their evil way: and God had mercy with regard to the evil which he had said that he would do to them, and he did it not.

Gospel (John 7: 32-39)

The continuation of the holy Gospel according to John. 

The Pharisees heard the people murmuring these things concerning Him: and the rulers and Pharisees sent ministers to apprehend him. Jesus therefore said to them: “Yet a little while I am with you: and then I go to Him that sent Me. You shall seek Me and shall not find Me: and where I am, thither you cannot come.” The Jews therefore said among themselves: Whither will He go, that we shall not find him? Will He go unto the dispersed among the Gentiles and teach the Gentiles? What is this saying that He hath said: You shall seek Me and shall not find Me? And: Where I am, you cannot come? And on the last, and great day of the festivity, Jesus stood and cried, saying: “If any man thirst, let him come to Me and drink. He that believeth in Me, as the scripture saith: Out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water.” Now this He said of the Spirit which they should receive who believed in Him: for as yet the Spirit was not given, because Jesus was not yet glorified.