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5th Sunday of Lent
Year B
17th March 2024
Entrance Antiphon: Psalm 42:1-2
Give me justice, O God, and plead my cause against a nation
that is faithless. From the deceitful and cunning rescue me,
for you, O God, are my strength.
1st Reading: Jeremiah 31:31-34
See, the days are coming - it is the Lord who speaks -
when I will make a new covenant with the House of Israel
(and the House of Judah), but not a covenant like the one I made
with their ancestors on the day I took them by the hand
to bring them out of the land of Egypt ...
Responsorial Psalm 50:3-4,12-15
A pure heart create for me, O God.
2nd Reading: Hebrews 5:7-9
During his life on earth, Christ offered up a prayer and entreaty,
aloud and in silent tears, to the one who had the power to save him
out of death, and he submitted so humbly that his prayer was heard ...
Gospel Acclamation: John 12:26
Glory to you, O Christ, you are the Word of God!
Whoever serves me must follow me, says the Lord;
and where I am, there also will my servant be.
Glory to you, O Christ, you are the Word of God!
Gospel: John 12:20-33
Among those who went up to worship at the festival were some Greeks.
These approached philip, who came from Bathsaida in Galilee, and put
this request to him, ' Sir, we should like to see Jesus.'
Philip went to tell Andrew, and Andrew and Philip went to tell Jesus.
Jesus replied to them: 'Now the hour has come for the Son of Man
to be glorified.' ...
Communion Antiphon:
Amen, Amen I say to you: Unless a grain of wheat falls to the ground
and dies, it remains a single grain. But if it dies, it bears much fruit.