March 21 - Saturday of the 4th Week of Lent
(Jer.11:18-20; Ps.7:2-3,9-12; Jn.7:40-53) "Let us destroy the tree in its vigor; let us cut him off from the land of the living, so that his name will be spoken no more." With these words "they were hatching plots against" Jeremiah, and in the same way against Jesus. And so, "like a trusting Lamb led to slaughter," "like the lion's prey, to be torn to pieces, with no one to rescue" are they. But "the malice of the wicked [shall] come to an end." "The upright of heart" are ever persecuted. Even Nicodemus, "one of their own number," a member of the Pharisees who are seeking the life of the…
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