13 THURSDAY, MARCH 2025
Thursday of the First Week of Lent
Liturgical Colour: Violet
Today’s Rosary: The Mysteries of Light
FIRST READING
A reading from the Book of Esther 14:1.3-4.11.13-14
I have no helper but you, Lord.
In those days: Esther the queen, seized with deathly anxiety, fled to the Lord. And she lay on the earth together with all her maidservants, from morning until evening, and said: “God of Abraham, God of Isaac, and God of Jacob, blessed are you; help me, who am alone and have no helper but you, for my danger is in my hand. I have heard from the books of my ancestors that you liberate all those who are pleasing to you, O Lord, until the very end. And now, assist me, who am all alone, and have no one but you, O Lord, my God. Come to my aid, for I am an orphan. Put eloquent speech in my mouth before the lion, and turn his heart to hate the man who is fighting against us, so that there may be an end of him and those who agree with him. But save us from the hand of our enemies; turn our mourning into gladness and our affliction into well-being.”
V/ The word of the Lord.
R/ Thanks be to God.
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