{"id":128,"date":"2025-03-23T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-03-23T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/christusdominus.org\/?p=128"},"modified":"2025-04-01T22:35:12","modified_gmt":"2025-04-02T02:35:12","slug":"repent-and-bear-fruit-gods-patience-daily-readings-march-23-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christusdominus.org\/?p=128","title":{"rendered":"Repent and Bear Fruit: God\u2019s Patience | Daily Readings | March 23, 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Lent is stirring, and March 23, 2025\u2014Third Sunday of Lent\u2014cuts deep: deliverance, mercy, urgency. These call out\u2014freedom, grace, warning, chance. Ready to grow? Here\u2019s the soil: <\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>First Reading (Exodus 3:1-8a, 13-15): \u201cI AM\u201d comes to save. <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Psalm (Psalm 103): \u201cKind and merciful\u201d\u2014He lifts us up. <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Second Reading (1 Corinthians 10:1-6, 10-12): Learn or fall\u2014stay vigilant. <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Gospel (Luke 13:1-9): Repent now\u2014the fig tree\u2019s time is short. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Our reflection digs in\u2014Lent is your season to bear fruit. Barren or budding, this one\u2019s your call. Watch now, and let\u2019s thrive together!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"Repent and Bear Fruit: God\u2019s Patience | Daily Readings | March 23, 2025\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/2BRzR13jb78?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lent is stirring, and March 23, 2025\u2014Third Sunday of Lent\u2014cuts deep: deliverance, mercy, urgency. These call out\u2014freedom, grace, warning, chance. Ready to grow? Here\u2019s the soil: Our reflection digs in\u2014Lent is your season to bear fruit. Barren or budding, this one\u2019s your call. Watch now, and let\u2019s thrive together!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":129,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-christus-dominus-bread-of-life","category-daily-readings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christusdominus.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/christusdominus.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/christusdominus.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christusdominus.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christusdominus.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=128"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/christusdominus.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":130,"href":"https:\/\/christusdominus.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128\/revisions\/130"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christusdominus.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/129"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christusdominus.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christusdominus.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christusdominus.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}