Thursday, March 10, 2011 (Thursday after Ash Wednesday)

First Reading: Deuteronomy 30:15-20
15 "See, I have set before you this day life and good,
death and evil. 16 If you obey the commandments of the LORD your God
which I command you this day, by loving the LORD
your God, by walking in his ways, and by keeping his
commandments and his statutes and his ordinances,
then you shall live and multiply, and the LORD your
God will bless you in the land which you are entering to take possession of it. 17 But if your heart turns away, and you will not hear, but
are drawn away to worship other gods and serve
them, 18 I declare to you this day, that you shall perish; you shall
not live long in the land which you are going over the
Jordan to enter and possess. 19 I call heaven and earth to witness against you this day,
that I have set before you life and death, blessing and
curse; therefore choose life, that you and your
descendants may live, 20 loving the LORD your God, obeying his voice, and
cleaving to him; for that means life to you and length
of days, that you may dwell in the land which the
LORD swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and
to Jacob, to give them."

Psalm: Psalm 1:4, 6
4 The wicked are not so, but are like chaff which the
wind drives away. 6 for the LORD knows the way of the righteous, but the
way of the wicked will perish.


Gospel: Luke 9:22-25
22 saying, "The Son of man must suffer many things, and
be rejected by the elders and chief priests and scribes,
and be killed, and on the third day be raised." 23 And he said to all, "If any man would come after me,
let him deny himself and take up his cross daily and
follow me. 24 For whoever would save his life will lose it; and
whoever loses his life for my sake, he will save it. 25 For what does it profit a man if he gains the whole
world and loses or forfeits himself?