Episode 445 - Before and after defined by the Blood of the Lamb

<p><a href="https://bible.usccb.org/bible/colossians/1?21"><br> Col 1:21-23</a></p> <p>Brothers and sisters:<br> You once were alienated and hostile in mind because of evil deeds;<br> God has now reconciled you<br> in the fleshly Body of Christ through his death,<br> to present you holy, without blemish,<br> and irreproachable before him,<br> provided that you persevere in the faith,<br> firmly grounded, stable,<br> and not shifting from the hope of the Gospel that you heard,<br> which has been preached to every creature under heaven,<br> of which I, Paul, am a minister.</p> <h3>Responsorial Psalm</h3> <p><a href="https://bible.usccb.org/bible/psalms/54?3">54:3-4, 6 and 8</a></p> <p>R.&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;(6)<strong> God himself is my help</strong>.<br> O God, by your name save me,<br> &nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;and by your might defend my cause.<br> O God, hear my prayer;<br> &nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;hearken to the words of my mouth.<br> R.&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;<strong>God himself is my help.</strong><br> Behold, God is my helper;<br> &nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;the Lord sustains my life.<br> Freely will I offer you sacrifice;<br> &nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;I will praise your name, O LORD, for its goodness.<br> R.&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;<strong>God himself is my help.</strong></p> <h3>Alleluia</h3> <p><a href="https://bible.usccb.org/bible/john/14?6">Jn 14:6</a></p> <p>R. <strong>Alleluia, alleluia.</strong><br> I am the way and the truth and the life, says the Lord;<br> no one comes to the Father except through me.<br> R. <strong>Alleluia, alleluia.</strong></p> <h3>Gospel</h3> <p><a href="https://bible.usccb.org/bible/luke/6?1">Lk 6:1-5</a></p> <p>While Jesus was going through a field of grain on a sabbath,<br> his disciples were picking the heads of grain,<br> rubbing them in their hands, and eating them.<br> Some Pharisees said,<br> “Why are you doing what is unlawful on the sabbath?”<br> Jesus said to them in reply,<br> “Have you not read what David did<br> when he and those who were with him were hungry?<br> How he went into the house of God, too