Thus says the LORD, who makes a way in the sea, a path in the mighty waters,
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who brings forth chariot and horse, army and warrior; they lie down, they cannot rise, they are extinguished, quenched like a wick:
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"Remember not the former things, nor consider the things of old.
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Behold, I am doing a new thing; now it springs forth, do you not perceive it? I will make a way in the wilderness and rivers in the desert.
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The wild beasts will honor me, the jackals and the ostriches; for I give water in the wilderness, rivers in the desert, to give drink to my chosen people,
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the people whom I formed for myself that they might declare my praise.
Indeed I count everything as loss because of the surpassing worth of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord. For his sake I have suffered the loss of all things, and count them as refuse, in order that I may gain Christ
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and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own, based on law, but that which is through faith in Christ, the righteousness from God that depends on faith;
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that I may know him and the power of his resurrection, and may share his sufferings, becoming like him in his death,
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that if possible I may attain the resurrection from the dead.
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Not that I have already obtained this or am already perfect; but I press on to make it my own, because Christ Jesus has made me his own.
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Brethren, I do not consider that I have made it my own; but one thing I do, forgetting what lies behind and straining forward to what lies ahead,
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I press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus.
Early in the morning he came again to the temple; all the people came to him, and he sat down and taught them.
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The scribes and the Pharisees brought a woman who had been caught in adultery, and placing her in the midst
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they said to him, "Teacher, this woman has been caught in the act of adultery.
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Now in the law Moses commanded us to stone such. What do you say about her?"
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This they said to test him, that they might have some charge to bring against him. Jesus bent down and wrote with his finger on the ground.
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And as they continued to ask him, he stood up and said to them, "Let him who is without sin among you be the first to throw a stone at her."
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And once more he bent down and wrote with his finger on the ground.
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But when they heard it, they went away, one by one, beginning with the eldest, and Jesus was left alone with the woman standing before him.
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Jesus looked up and said to her, "Woman, where are they? Has no one condemned you?"
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She said, "No one, Lord." And Jesus said, "Neither do I condemn you; go, and do not sin again."
Alternate
First Reading
Ezekiel 37:12-14 (34)
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Therefore prophesy, and say to them, Thus says the Lord GOD: Behold, I will open your graves, and raise you from your graves, O my people; and I will bring you home into the land of Israel.
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And you shall know that I am the LORD, when I open your graves, and raise you from your graves, O my people.
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And I will put my Spirit within you, and you shall live, and I will place you in your own land; then you shall know that I, the LORD, have spoken, and I have done it, says the LORD."
Responsorial Psalm
Psalm 130:1-8
A Song of Ascents
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Out of the depths I cry to thee, O LORD!
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Lord, hear my voice! Let thy ears be attentive to the voice of my supplications!
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If thou, O LORD, shouldst mark iniquities, Lord, who could stand?
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But there is forgiveness with thee, that thou mayest be feared.
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I wait for the LORD, my soul waits, and in his word I hope;
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my soul waits for the LORD more than watchmen for the morning, more than watchmen for the morning.
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O Israel, hope in the LORD! For with the LORD there is steadfast love, and with him is plenteous redemption.
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And he will redeem Israel from all his iniquities.
Second Reading
Romans 8:8-11
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and those who are in the flesh cannot please God.
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But you are not in the flesh, you are in the Spirit, if in fact the Spirit of God dwells in you. Any one who does not have the Spirit of Christ does not belong to him.
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But if Christ is in you, although your bodies are dead because of sin, your spirits are alive because of righteousness.
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If the Spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, he who raised Christ Jesus from the dead will give life to your mortal bodies also through his Spirit which dwells in you.
Gospel
John 11:1-45
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Now a certain man was ill, Laz'arus of Bethany, the village of Mary and her sister Martha.
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It was Mary who anointed the Lord with ointment and wiped his feet with her hair, whose brother Laz'arus was ill.
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So the sisters sent to him, saying, "Lord, he whom you love is ill."
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But when Jesus heard it he said, "This illness is not unto death; it is for the glory of God, so that the Son of God may be glorified by means of it."
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Now Jesus loved Martha and her sister and Laz'arus.
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So when he heard that he was ill, he stayed two days longer in the place where he was.
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Then after this he said to the disciples, "Let us go into Judea again."
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The disciples said to him, "Rabbi, the Jews were but now seeking to stone you, and are you going there again?"
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Jesus answered, "Are there not twelve hours in the day? If any one walks in the day, he does not stumble, because he sees the light of this world.
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But if any one walks in the night, he stumbles, because the light is not in him."
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Thus he spoke, and then he said to them, "Our friend Laz'arus has fallen asleep, but I go to awake him out of sleep."
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The disciples said to him, "Lord, if he has fallen asleep, he will recover."
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Now Jesus had spoken of his death, but they thought that he meant taking rest in sleep.
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Then Jesus told them plainly, "Laz'arus is dead;
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and for your sake I am glad that I was not there, so that you may believe. But let us go to him."
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Thomas, called the Twin, said to his fellow disciples, "Let us also go, that we may die with him."
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Now when Jesus came, he found that Laz'arus had already been in the tomb four days.
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Bethany was near Jerusalem, about two miles off,
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and many of the Jews had come to Martha and Mary to console them concerning their brother.
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When Martha heard that Jesus was coming, she went and met him, while Mary sat in the house.
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Martha said to Jesus, "Lord, if you had been here, my brother would not have died.
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And even now I know that whatever you ask from God, God will give you."
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Jesus said to her, "Your brother will rise again."
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Martha said to him, "I know that he will rise again in the resurrection at the last day."
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Jesus said to her, "I am the resurrection and the life; he who believes in me, though he die, yet shall he live,
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and whoever lives and believes in me shall never die. Do you believe this?"
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She said to him, "Yes, Lord; I believe that you are the Christ, the Son of God, he who is coming into the world."
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When she had said this, she went and called her sister Mary, saying quietly, "The Teacher is here and is calling for you."
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And when she heard it, she rose quickly and went to him.
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Now Jesus had not yet come to the village, but was still in the place where Martha had met him.
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When the Jews who were with her in the house, consoling her, saw Mary rise quickly and go out, they followed her, supposing that she was going to the tomb to weep there.
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Then Mary, when she came where Jesus was and saw him, fell at his feet, saying to him, "Lord, if you had been here, my brother would not have died."
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When Jesus saw her weeping, and the Jews who came with her also weeping, he was deeply moved in spirit and troubled;
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and he said, "Where have you laid him?" They said to him, "Lord, come and see."
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Jesus wept.
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So the Jews said, "See how he loved him!"
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But some of them said, "Could not he who opened the eyes of the blind man have kept this man from dying?"
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Then Jesus, deeply moved again, came to the tomb; it was a cave, and a stone lay upon it.
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Jesus said, "Take away the stone." Martha, the sister of the dead man, said to him, "Lord, by this time there will be an odor, for he has been dead four days."
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Jesus said to her, "Did I not tell you that if you would believe you would see the glory of God?"
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So they took away the stone. And Jesus lifted up his eyes and said, "Father, I thank thee that thou hast heard me.
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I knew that thou hearest me always, but I have said this on account of the people standing by, that they may believe that thou didst send me."
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When he had said this, he cried with a loud voice, "Laz'arus, come out."
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The dead man came out, his hands and feet bound with bandages, and his face wrapped with a cloth. Jesus said to them, "Unbind him, and let him go."
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Many of the Jews therefore, who had come with Mary and had seen what he did, believed in him;