FIRST READING: Jonah 3: 1 - 10
1
And the word of the Lord came to Jonas the second time, saying:
2
Arise, and go to Ninive the great city: and preach in it the
preaching that I bid thee.
3
And Jonas arose, and went to Ninive, according to the word of the
Lord: now Ninive was a great city of three days' journey.
4
And Jonas began to enter into the city one day's journey: and he
cried, and said: Yet forty days, and Ninive shall be destroyed.
5
And the men of Ninive believed in God: and they proclaimed a fast,
and put on sackcloth from the greatest to the least.
6
And the word came to the king of Ninive; and he rose up out of his
throne, and cast away his robe from him, and was clothed with
sackcloth, and sat in ashes.
7
And he caused it to be proclaimed and published in Ninive from the
mouth of the king and of his princes, saying: Let neither men nor
beasts, oxen nor sheep, taste any thing: let them not feed, nor drink
water.
8
And let men and beasts be covered with sackcloth, and cry to the Lord
with all their strength, and let them turn every one from his evil
way, and from the iniquity that is in their hands.
9
Who can tell if God will turn, and forgive: and will turn away from
his fierce anger, and we shall not perish?
10
And God saw their works, that they were turned from their evil way:
and God had mercy with regard to the evil which he had said that he
would do to them, and he did it not.
1
Out of the depths I have cried to thee, O Lord:
2
Lord, hear my voice. Let thy ears be attentive to the voice of my
supplication.
3
If thou, O Lord, wilt mark iniquities: Lord, who shall stand it.
4
For with thee there is merciful forgiveness: and by reason of thy
law, I have waited for thee, O Lord. My soul hath relied on his word:
7
Because with the Lord there is mercy: and with him plentiful
redemption.
8
And he shall redeem Israel from all his iniquities.
38
Now it came to pass as they went, that he entered into a certain
town: and a certain woman named Martha, received him into her house.
39
And she had a sister called Mary, who sitting also at the Lord's
feet, heard his word.
40
But Martha was busy about much serving. Who stood and said: Lord,
hast thou no care that my sister hath left me alone to serve? speak
to her therefore, that she help me.
41
And the Lord answering, said to her: Martha, Martha, thou art
careful, and art troubled about many things:
42
But one thing is necessary. Mary hath chosen the best part, which
shall not be taken away from her.
