Monday in the Fifth Week of Lent

"You old relic of wicked days, your sins have now come home,..."

Susanna and the elders is a frequent theme in classical art

[The lections for today may be found here.]

One of the best things about the weekdays of the Lenten season is the obscure lections that are assigned, the ones that we rarely encounter on a Sunday and, like today’s story of Susanna, reveal a part of our sacred story that really should be known.

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