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Lectionary Theme: Jesus Christ who makes redemption possible for everyone (Fourth Sunday of the Lent)
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Hosea 2:14-23 First Lesson
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Acts 5:12-16 Second Lesson
12. Now many signs and wonders were done among the people through the apostles. And they were all together in Solomon’s Portico.
13. None of the rest dared to join them, but the people held them in high esteem.
14. Yet more than ever believers were added to the Lord, great numbers of both men and women,
15. so that they even carried out the sick into the streets, and laid them on cots and mats, in order that Peter’s shadow might fall on some of them as he came by.
16. A great number of people would also gather from the towns around Jerusalem, bringing the sick and those tormented by unclean spirits, and they were all cured. The Apostles Are Persecuted
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1 Corinthians 1:18-25 Epistle
18. For the message about the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God.
19. For it is written, “I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and the discernment of the discerning I will thwart.”
20. Where is the one who is wise? Where is the scribe? Where is the debater of this age? Has not God made foolish the wisdom of the world?
21. For since, in the wisdom of God, the world did not know God through wisdom, God decided, through the foolishness of our proclamation, to save those who believe.
22. For Jews demand signs and Greeks desire wisdom,
23. but we proclaim Christ crucified, a stumbling block to Jews and foolishness to Gentiles,
24. but to those who are the called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God.
25. For God’s foolishness is wiser than human wisdom, and God’s weakness is stronger than human strength.
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Matthew 15:21-28 Gospel
21. Jesus left that place and went away to the district of Tyre and Sidon.
22. Just then a Canaanite woman from that region came out and started shouting, “Have mercy on me, Lord, Son of David; my daughter is tormented by a demon.”
23. But he did not answer her at all. And his disciples came and urged him, saying, “Send her away, for she keeps shouting after us.”
24. He answered, “I was sent only to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.”
25. But she came and knelt before him, saying, “Lord, help me.”
26. He answered, “It is not fair to take the children’s food and throw it to the dogs.”
27. She said, “Yes, Lord, yet even the dogs eat the crumbs that fall from their masters’ table.”
28. Then Jesus answered her, “Woman, great is your faith! Let it be done for you as you wish.” And her daughter was healed from that moment.