3 THURSDAY, APRIL 2025
Thursday of the 4th week of Lent
Liturgical colour: Violet
Today’s Rosary: The Mysteries of Light
FIRST READING
A reading from the Book of Exodus 32:7-14
Repent of this evil against your people.
In those days: The LORD said to Moses, “Go down; for your people, whom you brought up out of the land of Egypt, have corrupted themselves; they have turned aside quickly out of the way which I commanded them; they have made for themselves a molten calf, and have worshipped it and sacrificed to it, and said, `These are your gods, O Israel, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt!”‘ And the LORD said to Moses, “I have seen this people, and behold, it is a stiff-necked people; now therefore let me alone, that my wrath may burn hot against them and I may consume them; but of you I will make a great nation.” But Moses begged the LORD his God, and said, “O LORD, why does your wrath burn hot against your people, whom you have brought forth out of the land of Egypt with great power and with a mighty hand? Why should the Egyptians say, `With evil intent he brought them forth, to slay them in the mountains, and to consume them from the face of the earth’? Turn from your fierce wrath, and repent of this evil against your people. Remember Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, your servants, to whom you did swear by your own self, and did say to them, ‘I will multiply your descendants as the stars of heaven, and all this land that I have promised I will give to your descendants, and they shall inherit it for ever.”‘ And the LORD repented of the evil which he thought to do to his people.
V/ The word of the Lord.
R/ Thanks be to God.
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