04 March 2021, Thursday
📖GOSPEL
“You received happiness, and Lazarus, misfortune. Now, he finds consolation here, and you, suffering ”
A Reading From The Holy Gospel According To Luke (16, 19-31)
At that time, Jesus said to the Pharisees, “There was a rich man, clothed in purple and fine linen, who made sumptuous feasts every day. Before his gate lay a poor man named Lazarus, who was covered with ulcers. He would have liked to be satisfied with what fell from the rich man's table; but the dogs came to lick his ulcers. But the poor man died, and the angels took him to Abraham. The rich man also died, and they buried him.
In Hades he was a prey to torture; looking up, he saw Abraham from a distance and Lazarus close to him. Then he cried out: “Father Abraham, have mercy on me and send Lazarus to dip the tip of his finger in water to cool my tongue, for I am suffering terribly in this furnace. - My child, answered Abraham, remember: you received happiness during your life, and Lazarus, misfortune during his. Now he finds consolation here, and you suffering. And on top of all this, a great chasm has been established between you and us, so that those who would like to pass to you cannot, and so that, from there, no one will cross to us either. ” The rich man replied: “Well! father, I beg you to send Lazarus to my father's house. In fact, I have five brothers: may he bear his testimony to them, lest they too come to this place of torture! ” Abraham said to him: “They have Moses and the Prophets: let them listen to them! "No, Father Abraham," he said, "but if anyone from among the dead comes to find them, they will be converted." Abraham replied: “If they do not listen to Moses and the Prophets, someone may well be raised from the dead: they will not be convinced.” "
The Gospel of the Lord
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