SUNDAY MARCH 21, 2021 📖GOSPEL "If the grain of wheat that has fallen to the ground dies, it bears much fruit" A Reading From The Holy Gospel According To John (12, 20-33)

SUNDAY MARCH 21, 2021 

📖GOSPEL 

"If the grain of wheat that has fallen to the ground dies, it bears much fruit" 

A Reading From The Holy Gospel According To John (12, 20-33) 

At that time there were some Greeks among those who had come up to Jerusalem to worship God on the feast of the Passover. They approached Philip, who was from Bethsaida in Galilee, and asked him: “We would like to see Jesus. Philip is going to tell Andrew, and both are going to tell Jesus. Then Jesus said to them: “The hour has come for the Son of Man to be glorified. Amen, amen, I say to you: if the grain of wheat which falls to the ground does not die, it remains alone; but if it dies, it bears much fruit. Whoever loves his life loses it; whoever breaks away from it in this world will keep it for eternal life. If anyone wants to serve me, let him follow me; and where I am, there also will be my servant. If anyone serves me, my Father will honor him.

Now my soul is upset. What am I going to say? “Father, save me from this hour”? - But no ! That's why I got to this hour! Father, glorify your name! Then from heaven came a voice that said, "I have glorified him and I will glorify him again." Hearing it, the crowd standing there said it was a thunderclap. Others said, "It was an angel who spoke to him. "But Jesus answered them:" It was not for me that there was this voice, but for you. Now is the judgment of this world; now the prince of this world is going to be thrown out; and I, when I have been lifted up from the earth, will draw all men to myself. By that he meant what kind of death he was going to die of. 

The Gospel of the Lord 

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