Life on the Chrism Trail

2025 Mass of Reparation for Victims and Survivors of Abuse

Saturday of the Fourth Week of Lent

April 5, 2025
St. Philip the Apostle Catholic Church
Flower Mound, Texas

Jeremiah 11:18-20
Psalm 7:2-3, 9b-12
John 7:40-53

The first reading from Jeremiah speaks of corrupt religious and government leaders who hate the truth and collude in plots to destroy and kill the young Jeremiah who is upsetting the status quo by his speaking the truth in fidelity to God’s command. Jeremiah calls all to conversion from their dishonest ways. The plight of Jeremiah foreshadows the coming of Jesus as the Christ who will suffer rejection and death from His own people and the hands of their leadership.

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