Holy Gospel, prayer of March 13

Today's Gospel
From the Gospel of Jesus Christ according to John 5,1: 16-XNUMX.
It was a day of celebration for the Jews and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.
There is in Jerusalem, near the gate of the Sheep, a swimming pool, called in Hebrew Betzaetà, with five arcades,
under which lay a large number of the sick, blind, lame and paralyzed.
In fact an angel at certain times descended into the pool and waved the water; the first to enter it after the agitation of the water healed from any disease it was affected.
There was a man who had been ill for thirty eight years.
Seeing him lying down and knowing that he had been like this for a long time, he said to him: "Do you want to get well?"
The sick man replied: "Sir, I have no one to immerse me in the swimming pool when the water stirs. While in fact I am about to go there, some others come down before me ».
Jesus said to him, "Get up, take your bed and walk."
And instantly the man recovered and, taking his bed, began to walk. But that day was a Saturday.
So the Jews said to the healed man: "It is Saturday and it is not lawful for you to take up your bed."
But he said to them, "He who healed me said to me: Take your bed and walk."
Then they asked him, "Who was it who said to you: Take your bed and walk?"
But he who had been healed did not know who he was; In fact, Jesus had gone away, there being a crowd in that place.
Shortly afterwards Jesus found him in the temple and said to him: «Here you are healed; do not sin anymore, because something worse doesn't happen to you ».
That man went away and told the Jews that Jesus had healed him.
This is why the Jews began to persecute Jesus, because he did such things on the Sabbath.

Saint of today - BLESSED LAMB FROM PISA
O God, who have called the blessed Lamb

to detachment from oneself and to the service of brothers,

allow us to imitate him on earth

and to get with him

the crown of glory in the sky.

For our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son, who is God,

and live and reign with you, in the unity of the Holy Spirit,

for all ages.

Ejaculatory of the day

My God, you are my salvation