FIRST
READING: Joel
4: 12-21
12
Let them arise, and let the nations come up into the valley of
Josaphat: for there I will sit to judge all nations round about.
13
Put ye in the sickles, for the harvest is ripe: come and go down, for
the press is full, the fats run over: for their wickedness is
multiplied.
14
Nations, nations in the valley of destruction: for the day of the
Lord is near in the valley of destruction.
15
The sun and the moon are darkened, and the stars have withdrawn their
shining.
16
And the Lord shall roar out of Sion, and utter his voice from
Jerusalem: and the heavens and the earth shall be moved, and the Lord
shall be the hope of his people, and the strength of the children of
Israel.
17
And you shall know that I am the Lord your God, dwelling in Sion my
holy mountain: and Jerusalem shall be holy and strangers shall pass
through it no more.
18
And it shall come to pass in that day, that the mountains shall drop
down sweetness, and the hills shall flow with milk: and waters shall
flow through all the rivers of Juda: and a fountain shall come forth
of the house of the Lord, and shall water the torrent of thorns.
19
Egypt shall be a desolation, and Edom a wilderness destroyed: because
they have done unjustly against the children of Juda, and have shed
innocent blood in their land.
20
And Judea shall be inhabited for ever, and Jerusalem to generation
and generation.
21
And I will cleanse their blood which I had not cleansed: and the Lord
will dwell in Sion.
PSALM:
Psalms 97:
1-2, 5-6, 11-12
1
For the same David, when his land was restored again to him. The Lord
hath reigned, let the earth rejoice: let many islands be glad.
2
Clouds and darkness are round about him: justice and judgment are the
establishment of his throne.
5
The mountains melted like wax, at the presence of the Lord: at the
presence of the Lord of all the earth.
6
The heavens declared his justice: and all people saw his glory.
11
Light is risen to the just, and joy to the right of heart.
12
Rejoice, ye just, in the Lord: and give praise to the remembrance of
his holiness.
GOSPEL:
Luke 11: 27-28
27
And it came to pass, as he spoke these things, a certain woman from
the crowd, lifting up her voice, said to him: Blessed is the womb
that bore thee, and the paps that gave thee suck.
28
But he said: Yea rather, blessed are they who hear the word of God,
and keep it.
