FIRST
READING: Proverbs
9: 1 - 6
1
Wisdom has built her house, she has set up her seven pillars.
2
She has slaughtered her beasts, she has mixed her wine, she has also
set her table.
3
She has sent out her maids to call from the highest places in the
town,
4
"Whoever is simple, let him turn in here!" To him who is
without sense she says,
5
"Come, eat of my bread and drink of the wine I have mixed.
6
Leave simpleness, and live, and walk in the way of insight."
PSALM:
Psalms 34:
2 - 7
2
My soul makes its boast in the LORD; let the afflicted hear and be
glad.
3
O magnify the LORD with me, and let us exalt his name together!
4
I sought the LORD, and he answered me, and delivered me from all my
fears.
5
Look to him, and be radiant; so your faces shall never be ashamed.
6
This poor man cried, and the LORD heard him, and saved him out of all
his troubles.
7
The angel of the LORD encamps around those who fear him, and delivers
them.
SECOND
READING: Ephesians
5: 15 - 20
15
Look carefully then how you walk, not as unwise men but as wise,
16
making the most of the time, because the days are evil.
17
Therefore do not be foolish, but understand what the will of the Lord
is.
18
And do not get drunk with wine, for that is debauchery; but be filled
with the Spirit,
19
addressing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs,
singing and making melody to the Lord with all your heart,
20
always and for everything giving thanks in the name of our Lord Jesus
Christ to God the Father.
GOSPEL:
John 6:
51 - 58
51
I am the living bread which came down from heaven; if any one eats of
this bread, he will live for ever; and the bread which I shall give
for the life of the world is my flesh."
52
The Jews then disputed among themselves, saying, "How can this
man give us his flesh to eat?"
53
So Jesus said to them, "Truly, truly, I say to you, unless you
eat the flesh of the Son of man and drink his blood, you have no life
in you;
54
he who eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will
raise him up at the last day.
55
For my flesh is food indeed, and my blood is drink indeed.
56
He who eats my flesh and drinks my blood abides in me, and I in him.
57
As the living Father sent me, and I live because of the Father, so he
who eats me will live because of me.
58
This is the bread which came down from heaven, not such as the
fathers ate and died; he who eats this bread will live for ever."
