Zeke Saucedo

March 5, 2020 - Thursday of the First Week of Lent

“Which one of you would hand his son a stone
when he asked for a loaf of bread,
or a snake when he asked for a fish?
If you then, who are wicked,
know how to give good gifts to your children,
how much more will your heavenly Father give good things
to those who ask him.” (MT 7:9-11)

March 6, 2020 - Friday of the First Week of Lent

“Therefore, if you bring your gift to the altar,
and there recall that your brother
has anything against you,
leave your gift there at the altar,
go first and be reconciled with your brother,
and then come and offer your gift.” (MT 5:23-24)

March 7, 2020 - Saturday of the First Week of Lent

“Jesus said to his disciples:
'You have heard that it was said,
You shall love your neighbor and hate your enemy.
But I say to you, love your enemies,
and pray for those who persecute you,
that you may be children of your heavenly Father,
for he makes his sun rise on the bad and the good,
and causes rain to fall on the just and the unjust.’” (MT 5:43-45)

March 8, 2020 - Second Sunday Lent

“Jesus took Peter, James, and John his brother,
and led them up a high mountain by themselves.
And he was transfigured before them;
his face shone like the sun
and his clothes became white as light.
And behold, Moses and Elijah appeared to them,
conversing with him.” (MT 17:1-3)

March 9, 2020 - Monday of the Second Week in Lent

“Stop judging and you will not be judged.
Stop condemning and you will not be condemned.
Forgive and you will be forgiven.
Give and gifts will be given to you;
a good measure, packed together, shaken down, and overflowing,
will be poured into your lap.
For the measure with which you measure
will in return be measured out to you.” (LK 6:37-38)

March 10, 2020 - Tuesday of the Second Week in Lent

“Therefore, do and observe all things whatsoever they tell you,
For they preach but they do not practice.
They tie up heavy burdens hard to carry
and lay them on people’s shoulders,
but they will not lift a finger to move them.” (MT 23:3-4)

March 11, 2020 - Wednesday of the Second Week in Lent

“When the ten heard this,
they became indignant at the two brothers.
But Jesus summoned them and said,
’You know that the rulers of the Gentiles lord it over them,
and the great ones make their authority over them felt.
But it shall not be so among you.
Rather, whoever wishes to be great among you shall be your servant;
whoever wishes to be first among you shall be your slave.’”(MT 20:24-27)

March 12, 2020 - Thursday of the Second Week in Lent

“There was a rich man who dressed in purple garments and fine linen
and dined sumptuously each day.
And lying at his door was a poor man named Lazarus, covered with sores,
who would gladly have eaten his fill of the scraps
that fell from the rich man’s table.” (LK 16:19-21)

March 14, 2020 - Saturday of the Second Week in Lent

“Father, I have sinned against heaven and against you.
I no longer deserve to be called your son;
treat me as you would treat one of your hired workers.” (LK 15:18-19)

March 15, 2020 - Third Sunday of Lent

“The Samaritan woman said to him,
’How can you, a Jew, ask me, a Samaritan woman, for a drink?’” (JN 4:9)

March 16, 2020 - Monday of the Third Week in Lent

“Go and wash seven times in the Jordan,
and your flesh will heal, and you will be clean.” (2 KGS 5:10)

March 17, 2020 - Tuesday of the Third Week in Lent

“His master summoned him and said to him, ‘You wicked servant!
I forgave you your entire debt because you begged me to.
Should you not have had pity on your fellow servant,
as I had pity on you?” (MT 18:32-33)

March 18, 2020 - Wednesday of the Third Week in Lent

“Amen, I say to you, until heaven and earth pass away,
not the smallest letter or the smallest part of a letter
will pass from the law,
until all things have taken place.” (MT 5:18)

March 19, 2020 - Solemnity of Saint Joseph, husband of the Blessed Virgin Mary

“Joseph her husband, since he was a righteous man,
yet unwilling to expose her to shame,
decided to divorce her quietly.
Such was his intention when, behold,
the angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream and said,
’Joseph, son of David,
do not be afraid to take Mary your wife into your home.
For it is through the Holy Spirit
that this child has been conceived in her.’” (MT 1:19-20)

March 20, 2020 - Friday of the Third Week in Lent

“I will be like the dew for Israel:
he shall blossom like the lily;
He shall strike root like the Lebanon cedar,
and put forth his shoots.
His splendor shall be like the olive tree
and his fragrance like the Lebanon cedar.” (HOS 14:6-7)

March 21, 2020 - Saturday of the Third Week in Lent

“Jesus addressed this parable
to those who were convinced of their own righteousness
and despised everyone else.” (LK 18:9)

March 22, 2020 - Fourth Sunday of Lent

“As Jesus passed by he saw a man blind from birth.
His disciples asked him,
’Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents,
that he was born blind?’
Jesus answered,
’Neither he nor his parents sinned;
it is so that the works of God might be made visible through him.’” (JN 9:1-3)

March 23, 2020 - Monday of the Fourth Week of Lent

Lo, I am about to create new heavens
and a new earth;
The things of the past shall not be remembered
or come to mind.
Instead, there shall always be rejoicing and happiness
in what I create; (IS 65:17-18)

March 24, 2020 - Tuesday of the Fourth Week of Lent

Now there is in Jerusalem at the Sheep Gate
a pool called in Hebrew Bethesda, with five porticoes.
In these lay a large number of ill, blind, lame, and crippled. (JN 5:2-3)

March 25, 2020 - Solemnity of the Annunciation of the Lord

The angel Gabriel was sent from God
to a town of Galilee called Nazareth,
to a virgin betrothed to a man named Joseph,
of the house of David,
and the virgin’s name was Mary. (LK 1:26-27)

March 26, 2020 - Thursday of the Fourth Week of Lent

He was a burning and shining lamp,
and for a while you were content to rejoice in his light.
But I have testimony greater than John’s. (JN 5:35-36)

March 27, 2020 - Friday of the Fourth Week of Lent

“You know me and also know where I am from.
Yet I did not come on my own,
but the one who sent me, whom you do not know, is true.” (JN 7:28)

March 28, 2020 - Saturday of the Fourth Week of Lent

“O Lord, my God, in you I take refuge.” (PS 7:2)

March 29, 2020 - Fifth Sunday of Lent

“And Jesus wept.” (JN 11:35)

March 30, 2020 - Monday of the Fifth Week of Lent

But Susanna cried aloud:
“O eternal God, you know what is hidden
and are aware of all things before they come to be:
you know that they have testified falsely against me.
Here I am about to die,
though I have done none of the things
with which these wicked men have charged me.” (DN 13:42-43)

March 31, 2020 - Tuesday of the Fifth Week of Lent

“The LORD looked down from his holy height,
from heaven he beheld the earth,
To hear the groaning of the prisoners,
to release those doomed to die.” (PS 102:20-21)

April 1, 2020 - Wednesday of the Fifth Week of Lent

“‘Did we not cast three men bound into the fire?’
’Assuredly, O king,’ they answered.
'But,’ he replied, ‘I see four men unfettered and unhurt,
walking in the fire, and the fourth looks like a son of God.’ (DN 3:91-92)

April 2, 2020 - Thursday of the Fifth Week of Lent

“Jesus said to them, ‘Amen, amen, I say to you,
before Abraham came to be, I AM.’
So they picked up stones to throw at him;
but Jesus hid and went out of the temple area.” (JN 8:58-59)

April 3, 2020 - Friday of the Fifth Week of Lent

“In my distress I called upon the Lord, and he heard my voice.” (PS 18:7)

April 4, 2020 - Saturday of the Fifth Week of Lent

“The Lord will guard us, as a shepherd guards his flock.” (JER 31:10)

April 5, 2020 - Palm Sunday of the Lord's Passion

“Say to daughter Zion,
’Behold, your king comes to you,
meek and riding on an ass,
and on a colt, the foal of a beast of burden.’” (MT 21:5)

April 6, 2020 - Monday of Holy Week

“Mary took a liter of costly perfumed oil
made from genuine aromatic nard
and anointed the feet of Jesus and dried them with her hair;
the house was filled with the fragrance of the oil.” (JN 12:3)

April 7, 2020 - Tuesday of Holy Week

“After Judas took the morsel, Satan entered him.” (JN 13:27)

April 8, 2020 - Wednesday of Holy Week

And while they were eating he said, 'In truth I tell you, one of you is about to betray me.'
They were greatly distressed and started asking him in turn, 'Not me, Lord, surely?'
He answered, 'Someone who has dipped his hand into the dish with me will betray me. (MT 26:21-23)

April 9, 2020 - Holy Thursday – Evening Mass of the Lord’s Supper

So when he had washed their feet
and put his garments back on and reclined at table again,
he said to them, “Do you realize what I have done for you?
You call me ‘teacher’ and ‘master,’  and rightly so, for indeed I am.
If I, therefore, the master and teacher, have washed your feet,
you ought to wash one another’s feet.
I have given you a model to follow,
so that as I have done for you, you should also do. (JN 13:12-15)

April 10, 2020 - Good Friday of the Lord’s Passion

Pilate said to them,
“Shall I crucify your king?”
The chief priests answered,
“We have no king but Caesar.”
Then he handed him over to them to be crucified. (JN 19:15-16)

April 11, 2020 - Holy Saturday

Then Moses stretched out his hand over the sea,
and the LORD swept the sea
with a strong east wind throughout the night
and so turned it into dry land.
When the water was thus divided,
the Israelites marched into the midst of the sea on dry land,
with the water like a wall to their right and to their left. (EX 14:21-22)

April 12, 2020 - Easter Sunday of the Resurrection of the Lord

They both ran, but the other disciple ran faster than Peter
and arrived at the tomb first;
he bent down and saw the burial cloths there, but did not go in.
When Simon Peter arrived after him,
he went into the tomb and saw the burial cloths there,
and the cloth that had covered his head,
not with the burial cloths but rolled up in a separate place.
Then the other disciple also went in,
the one who had arrived at the tomb first,
and he saw and believed.
For they did not yet understand the Scripture
that he had to rise from the dead. (JN 20:4-9)