March 3, 2025, Monday of the 8th Week in Ordinary Time.

A reading from the book of Syrac.

To the penitent, God provides a way back.

He encourages those who are losing hope and has chosen for them the lot of truth.

Return to him and give up sin. Pray to the Lord and make your offenses few. Turn again to the Most High and away from your sin. Hate

intensely what he loathes and know the justice and judgments of God.

Stand firm in the way set before you, in prayer to the Most High God.

Who in the Netherworld can glorify the Most High, in place of the living who offer their praise.

Dwell no longer in the error of the ungodly, but offer your praise before death.

No more can the dead give praise than those who have never lived.

You who are alive and well shall praise and glorify God in His mercies.

How great the mercy of the Lord, his forgiveness of those who return to Him.

The Word of the Lord.

The Responsorial Psalm, the response is, let the just exalt and rejoice in the Lord.

Blessed is he whose fault is taken away, whose sin is covered, blessed the man to whom the

Lord imputes not guilt, in whose spirit there is no guile. Let the just exalt and rejoice in the Lord.

Then I acknowledge my sin to you, my guilt I covered not.

I said, I confess my faults to the Lord, and you took away the guilt of my sin.

Let the just exalt and rejoice in the Lord. For this shall every faithful man pray to you in time of stress,

though deep waters overflow they shall not reach him.

Let the just exalt and rejoice in the Lord.

You are my shelter, from distress you will preserve me.

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