This document contains readings and reflections for the fifth Sunday of Lent. It includes: 1. A summary of the Gospel reading about Christ and the woman caught in adultery. 2. Excerpts from the letter to the Philippians about forgetting what lies behind and straining toward what is ahead. 3. A reflection on having conquered outer space but not inner space, and splitting the atom but not prejudice.

1. 5. Sunday in Lent!
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2. I. Sunday of the Lent………Temptations of Jesus….

3. 2, Sunday of the Lent. Transfiguration of Jesus

4. 3. Sunday of the Lent……Burning Bush ..Exodus 3; 1-8,13-15

5. 4. Sunday of the Lent
Parable of The Prodigal Son

6. 5.Sunday of the Lent
Christ and theWoman caught in

7. “Go and sin no more….!”

8. Saul, why do you persecute me?

9. 2. Reading
PHIL 3:8-14
Brothers and sisters:
I consider everything as a loss
because of the supreme good of
knowing Christ Jesus my Lord.
For his sake I have accepted the loss of all things
and I consider them so much rubbish,
that I may gain Christ and be found in him,
not having any righteousness of my own based
on the law
but that which comes through faith in Christ,
the righteousness from God,

11. …depending on faith to know him
and the power of his resurrection
and the sharing of his sufferings
by being conformed to his death,
if somehow I may attain the resurrection
from the dead.
It is not that I have already taken hold of it
or have already attained perfect maturity,
but I continue my pursuit in hope that I may
possess it, since I have indeed been taken
possession of by Christ Jesus.

13. Philippians is the happiest of all Paul's letters,
the 'letter of joy'.
He shares with the Philippians his thoughts
about his imprisonment and future fate.
It seems that he has no fault to find with them,
either ethically or doctrinally,
but merely urges them to a greater unity among
themselves and to joy in the Lord.

14. Brothers and sisters,
I for my part do not consider myself
to have taken possession.
Just one thing:
forgetting what lies behind
but straining forward to what lies ahead,
I continue my pursuit toward the goal,
the prize of God’s upward calling,
in Christ Jesus.

15. I consider
Everything as a loss
because of
the supreme good
Of knowing
Christ Jesus
my Lord.
For his sake
I have accepted
the loss of all things
and I consider them
so much rubbish,
that I may gain Christ
and be found in him,

16. IS 43:16-21
Thus says the LORD:….
In the desert I make a way,
in the wasteland, rivers.
Wild beasts honor me, jackals and
ostriches,
for I put water in the desert and rivers in
the wasteland
for my chosen people to drink,
the people whom I formed for myself,
that they might announce my praise.

17. The Lord has done
great things for us;
we are filled with joy!
Although they go forth weepin
carrying the seed to be sown,
They shall come back rejoicing
carrying their sheaves.

18. We have taller buildings, but shorter
Paradox of our Times
tempers!
Wider freeways, but narrower
viewpoints! We spend more, but have
less!
We buy more, enjoy it less!
We’ve been all the way to the moon
and back, but have trouble crossing
the street to meet our neighbors!
We’ve conquered outer space, but
not inner space!
We’ve split the atom but not our
prejudice!!
We have found God particle, but lost
humanity!

19. Nor do I condemn you…

20. I continue my pursuit toward the goa
the prize of God’s upward calling,
in Christ Jesus….
Let us march on together …
Hand in hand..
With each other..

22. Make me channel of your peace
Lord, make me an instrument of your peace,
Where there is hatred, let me sow love;
Where there is injury, pardon;
Where there is doubt, faith;
Where there is despair, hope;
Where there is darkness, light;
Where there is sadness, joy.
O Divine Master,
grant that I may not so much seek to be consoled,
as to console;
to be understood, as to understand;
to be loved, as to love.
For it is in giving that we receive.
It is in pardoning that we are pardoned,
and it is in dying that we are born to Eternal Life.
Amen.

23. Shalom!
May the peace of the Lord be
with you all!