FIRST READING: Habakkuk 1: 2 - 3; 2: 2 - 4
2
How long, O Lord, shall I cry, and thou wilt not hear? shall I cry
out to thee suffering violence, and thou wilt not save?
3
Why hast thou shewn me iniquity and grievance, to see rapine and
injustice before me? and there is a judgment, but opposition is more
powerful.
2
And the Lord answered me, and said: Write the vision, and make it
plain upon tables: that he that readeth it may run over it.
3
For as yet the vision is far off, and it shall appear at the end, and
shall not lie: if it make any delay, wait for it: for it shall surely
come, and it shall not be slack.
4
Behold, he that is unbelieving, his soul shall not be right in
himself: but the just shall live in his faith.
1
Come let us praise the Lord with joy: let us joyfully sing to God our
saviour.
2
Let us come before his presence with thanksgiving; and make a joyful
noise to him with psalms.
6
Come let us adore and fall down: and weep before the Lord that made
us.
7
For he is the Lord our God: and we are the people of his pasture and
the sheep of his hand.
8
Today if you shall hear his voice, harden not your hearts:
9
As in the provocation, according to the day of temptation in the
wilderness: where your fathers tempted me, they proved me, and saw my
works.
6
For which cause I admonish thee, that thou stir up the grace of God
which is in thee, by the imposition of my hands.
7
For God hath not given us the spirit of fear: but of power, and of
love, and of sobriety.
8
Be not thou therefore ashamed of the testimony of our Lord, nor of me
his prisoner: but labour with the gospel, according to the power of
God,
13
Hold the form of sound words, which thou hast heard of me in faith,
and in the love which is in Christ Jesus.
14
Keep the good thing committed to thy trust by the Holy Ghost, who
dwelleth in us.
5
And the apostles said to the Lord: Increase our faith.
6
And the Lord said: If you had faith like to a grain of mustard seed,
you might say to this mulberry tree, Be thou rooted up, and be thou
transplanted into the sea: and it would obey you.
7
But which of you having a servant ploughing, or feeding cattle, will
say to him, when he is come from the field: Immediately go, sit down
to meat:
8
And will not rather say to him: Make ready my supper, and gird
thyself, and serve me, whilst I eat and drink, and afterwards thou
shalt eat and drink?
9
Doth he thank that servant, for doing the things which he commanded
him?
10
I think not. So you also, when you shall have done all these things
that are commanded you, say: We are unprofitable servants; we have
done that which we ought to do.
