Born From Above
March 5, 2023
AS WE GATHER
This is the Second Sunday in Lent, early in our six-week journey with Jesus to the Cross. Each week we focus on the penitential themes appropriate to this season. Today we listen in on a conversation Jesus had with Nicodemus about the new birth from above that gives life to those born in sin. We are reminded of our own baptismal birth to new life in Christ and of the call of God to die daily to sin and rise in Christ to newness of life.
Bible Readings
OLD TESTAMENT READING: Genesis 12:1-9
(The story of how God called Abraham and His promise that Abraham would become the father of a great nation.)
EPISTLE READING: Romans 4:1-8, 13-17
(St. Paul describes how the righteousness of Abraham was given to him by grace through faith.)
HOLY GOSPEL: John 3:1-17
(Jesus goes to Nicodemus and tells him how to be born anew through water and the Spirit.)