Reading from the Gospel, Tuesday March 17, St. Patry Day (click here)

Liturgical Day: Tuesday March 17
   Gospel (Jn 5, 1-3.5-16): It was the holiday of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. There is in Jerusalem near the Sheep Gate a pool called in Hebrew Bethsaida, having five porches. In these lay a multitude of invalids-blind, lame, paralyzed, waiting for the moving of the water. There was a man wearing ill thirty-eight years. Jesus saw him lying there and knew that he had a long time, he says: "Do you want to get well?". The invalid replied, "Lord, I have no one to put me into the pool when the water is stirred; and while I am coming, another steps down before me. " Jesus said, "Get up, take your mat and walk." And immediately the man was made well, took his mat and began to walk.

But that day was Saturday. So the Jews said to him who was cured, "It's Saturday and you are not allowed to carry the stretcher." He said: "He who healed me told me, 'Take up your mat and walk.'" They asked, "Who is the man who said to you, 'Take it and walk?' '. But the cure did not know who he was, for Jesus had disappeared because there were many people in that place. Later Jesus found him in the temple and said: 'Look, you're cured; sin no more, lest something worse may happen to you. " The man went away and told the Jews that it was Jesus who had healed him. So the Jews persecuted Jesus, because he did these things on the Sabbath.

  Your brother in Christ, Father Santiago