FIRST
READING:
Job 19:
21 - 27
21
Have pity on me, have pity on me, at least you my friends, because
the hand of the Lord hath touched me.
22
Why do you persecute me as God, and glut yourselves with my flesh?
23
Who will grant me that my words may be written? Who will grant me
that they may be marked down in a book?
24
With an iron pen and in a plate of lead, or else be graven with an
instrument in flint stone.
25
For I know that my Redeemer liveth, and in the last day I shall rise
out of the earth.
26
And I shall be clothed again with my skin, and in my flesh I will see
my God.
27
Whom I myself shall see, and my eyes shall behold, and not another:
this my hope is laid up in my bosom.
PSALM:
Psalms 27:
7 - 9, 13 - 14
7
Hear, O Lord, my voice, with which I have cried to thee: have mercy
on me and hear me.
8
My heart hath said to thee: My face hath sought thee: thy face, O
Lord, will I still seek.
9
Turn not away thy face from me; decline not in thy wrath from thy
servant. Be thou my helper, forsake me not; do not thou despise me, O
God my Saviour.
13
I believe to see the good things of the Lord in the land of the
living.
14
Expect the Lord, do manfully, and let thy heart take courage, and
wait thou for the Lord.
GOSPEL:
Matthew 18:
1 - 5, 10
1
At that hour the disciples came to Jesus, saying: Who thinkest thou
is the greater in the kingdom of heaven?
2
And Jesus calling unto him a little child, set him in the midst of
them,
3
And said: Amen I say to you, unless you be converted, and become as
little children, you shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven.
4
Whosoever therefore shall humble himself as this little child, he is
the greater in the kingdom of heaven.
5
And he that shall receive one such little child in my name, receiveth
me.
10
See that you despise not one of these little ones: for I say to you,
that their angels in heaven always see the face of my Father who is
in heaven.
