Gospel of 13 March 2019

Book of Jonah 3,1-10.
At that time, this word of the Lord was addressed to Jonah a second time:
"Get up, go to Nineveh the great city and tell them what I will tell you."
Jonah got up and went to Nineveh according to the word of the Lord. Nineveh was a very large city, three days' walk.
Jonah began to travel the city for a day's walk and preached: "Forty more days and Nineveh will be destroyed."
The citizens of Nineveh believed in God and banished a fast, dressed the sack, from the largest to the smallest.
When the news reached the king of Nineveh, he got up from the throne, took off his cloak, covered himself with sackcloth and sat on the ashes.
Then this decree was proclaimed in Nineveh, by order of the king and his great ones: “Men and animals, large and small, do not taste anything, do not graze, do not drink water.
Men and beasts cover themselves with sackcloth and invoke God with all your might; everyone is converted by his evil conduct and the violence that is in his hands.
Who knows that God will not change, be merciless, lay down his ardent indignation so that we do not die? ".
God saw their works, that is, they had converted from their evil conduct, and God took pity on the evil that he had threatened to do to them and did not do it.

Salmi 51(50),3-4.12-13.18-19.
Have mercy on me, O God, according to your mercy;
in your great goodness erase my sin.
Wash me from all my faults,
cleanse me of my sin.

Create in me, O God, a pure heart,
renew a firm spirit in me.
Don't push me away from your presence
and do not deprive me of your holy spirit.

You don't like sacrifice
and if I offer burnt offerings, you don't accept them.
A contrite spirit is sacrifice to God,
a heart broken and humiliated, God, you do not despise.

From the Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Luke 11,29-32.
At that time, as the crowds gathered, Jesus began to say: «This generation is an evil generation; it seeks a sign, but no sign will be given to it except the sign of Jonah.
For as Jonah was a sign for those of Nìnive, so also the Son of man will be a sign for this generation.
The queen of the south will rise in judgment together with the men of this generation and condemn them; for it came from the ends of the earth to hear Solomon's wisdom. And behold, there is much more than Solomon here.
Those of Nìnive will arise in judgment together with this generation and condemn it; because they converted to the preaching of Jonah. And behold, there is much more than Jonah here ».