{"id":16487,"date":"2021-04-07 09:16:43","modified":"2021-04-07 09:16:47","title":"Daily Reading for Thursday, March 18th, 2021","excerpt":"","thumbnail":"https:\/\/catholiccambodia.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/36_peter-and-john-continue-preaching-the-gospel_1800x1200_300dpi_3.jpg","link":"https:\/\/catholiccambodia.org\/?p=16487&lang=en","content":"

Reading 1, Exodus 32:7-14<\/em><\/h3>

7<\/sup>\u00a0Yahweh then said to Moses, 'Go down at once, for your people whom you brought here from\u00a0Egypt\u00a0have become corrupt.<\/p>

8<\/sup>\u00a0They have quickly left the way which I ordered them to follow. They have cast themselves a metal calf, worshipped it and offered\u00a0sacrifice\u00a0to it, shouting, \"Israel, here is your\u00a0God\u00a0who brought you here from Egypt!\" '<\/p>

9<\/sup> Yahweh then said to Moses, 'I know these people; I know how obstinate they are!<\/p>

10<\/sup>\u00a0So leave me now, so that my\u00a0anger\u00a0can blaze at them and I can put an end to them! I shall make a great nation out of you instead.'<\/p>

11<\/sup>\u00a0Moses tried to pacify\u00a0Yahweh\u00a0his God. 'Yahweh,' he said, 'why should your\u00a0anger\u00a0blaze at your people, whom you have brought out of\u00a0Egypt\u00a0by your great power and mighty hand?<\/p>

12<\/sup>\u00a0Why should the Egyptians say, \"He brought them out with\u00a0evil\u00a0intention, to slaughter them in the mountains and wipe them off the face of the earth?\" Give up your burning wrath; relent over this disaster intended for your people.<\/p>

13<\/sup>\u00a0Remember your servants Abraham,\u00a0Isaac\u00a0and Jacob, to whom you swore by your very self and made this promise: \"I shall make your offspring as numerous as the stars of heaven, and this whole country of which I have spoken, I shall give to your descendants, and it will be their heritage for ever.\"<\/p>

14<\/sup> Yahweh then relented over the disaster which he had intended to inflict on his people.<\/p>

Responsorial Psalm, Psalms 106:19-20, 21-22, 23<\/em><\/h3>

19<\/sup> At Horeb they made a calf, bowed low before cast metal;<\/p>

20<\/sup>\u00a0they exchanged their\u00a0glory\u00a0for the image of a grass-eating bull.<\/p>

21<\/sup>\u00a0They forgot the\u00a0God\u00a0who was saving them, who had done great deeds in Egypt,<\/p>

22<\/sup> such wonders in the land of Ham, such awesome deeds at the Sea of Reeds.<\/p>

23<\/sup>\u00a0He thought of putting an end to them, had not Moses, his chosen one, taken a stand in the breach and confronted him, to turn his\u00a0anger<\/a>\u00a0away from destroying them.<\/p>

Gospel, John 5:31-47<\/em><\/h3>

31<\/sup> Were I to testify on my own behalf, my testimony would not be true;<\/p>

32<\/sup>\u00a0but there is another\u00a0witness\u00a0who speaks on my behalf, and I know that his testimony is true.<\/p>

33<\/sup> You sent messengers to John, and he gave his testimony to the truth-<\/p>

34<\/sup>\u00a0not that I depend on human testimony; no, it is for your\u00a0salvation\u00a0that I mention it.<\/p>

35<\/sup>\u00a0John was a lamp lit and shining and for a\u00a0time\u00a0you were content to enjoy the light that he gave.<\/p>

36<\/sup> But my testimony is greater than John's: the deeds my Father has given me to perform, these same deeds of mine testify that the Father has sent me.<\/p>

37<\/sup>\u00a0Besides, the Father who sent me bears\u00a0witness\u00a0to me himself. You have never heard his voice, you have never seen his shape,<\/p>

38<\/sup> and his word finds no home in you because you do not believe in the one whom he has sent.<\/p>

39<\/sup> You pore over the scriptures, believing that in them you can find eternal life; it is these scriptures that testify to me,<\/p>

40<\/sup> and yet you refuse to come to me to receive life!<\/p>

41<\/sup>\u00a0Human\u00a0glory\u00a0means nothing to me.<\/p>

42<\/sup>\u00a0Besides, I know you too well: you have no love of\u00a0God\u00a0in you.<\/p>

43<\/sup> I have come in the name of my Father and you refuse to accept me; if someone else should come in his own name you would accept him.<\/p>

44<\/sup>\u00a0How can you believe, since you look to each other for\u00a0glory\u00a0and are not concerned with the\u00a0glory\u00a0that comes from the one God?<\/p>

45<\/sup>\u00a0Do not imagine that I am going to accuse you before the Father: you have placed your hopes on Moses, and\u00a0Moses\u00a0will\u00a0be the one who accuses you.<\/p>

46<\/sup> If you really believed him you would believe me too, since it was about me that he was writing;<\/p>

47<\/sup>\u00a0but if you\u00a0will\u00a0not believe what he wrote, how can you believe what I say?<\/p>","categories":[{"id":160,"name":"Daily Bible"}],"tags":[{"id":188,"name":"Daily Bible"}]}