Vigil
Mass
FIRST
READING:
Genesis 11:
1-9 OR
Exodus 19:
3-8, 16-20 OR
Ezekiel 37:
1-14 OR
Joel 3:
1-5
1
And the earth was of one tongue, and of the same speech.
2
And when they removed from the east, they found a plain in the land
of Sennaar, and dwelt in it.
3
And each one said to his neighbour: Come, let us make brick, and bake
them with fire. And they had brick instead of stones, and slime
instead of mortar.
4
And they said: Come, let us make a city and a tower, the top whereof
may reach to heaven: and let us make our name famous before we be
scattered abroad into all lands.
5
And the Lord came down to see the city and the tower, which the
children of Adam were building.
6
And he said: Behold, it is one people, and all have one tongue: and
they have begun to do this, neither will they leave off from their
designs, till they accomplish them in deed.
7
Come ye, therefore, let us go down, and there confound their tongue,
that they may not understand one another's speech.
8
And so the Lord scattered them from that place into all lands, and
they ceased to build the city.
9
And therefore the name thereof was called Babel, because there the
language of the whole earth was confounded: and from thence the Lord
scattered them abroad upon the face of all countries.
OR
3
And Moses went up to God: and the Lord called unto him from the
mountain, and said: Thus shalt thou say to the house of Jacob, and
tell the children of Israel:
4
You have seen what I have done to the Egyptians, how I have carried
you upon the wings of eagles, and have taken you to myself.
5
If therefore you will hear my voice, and keep my covenant, you shall
be my peculiar possession above all people: for all the earth is
mine.
6
And you shall be to me a priestly kingdom, and a holy nation. Those
are the words thou shalt speak to the children of Israel.
7
Moses came, and calling together the elders of the people, he
declared all the words which the Lord had commanded.
8
And all the people answered together: All that the Lord hath spoken,
we will do. And when Moses had related the people's words to the
Lord,
16
And now the third day was come, and the morning appeared: and behold
thunders began to be heard, and lightning to flash, and a very thick
cloud to cover the mount, and the noise of the trumpet sounded
exceeding loud, and the people that was in the camp, feared.
17
And when Moses had brought them forth to meet God from the place of
the camp, they stood at the bottom of the mount.
18
And all mount Sinai was on a smoke: because the Lord was come down
upon it in fire, and the smoke arose from it as out of a furnace: and
all the mount was terrible.
19
And the sound of the trumpet grew by degrees louder and louder, and
was drawn out to a greater length: Moses spoke, and God answered him.
20
And the Lord came down upon mount Sinai, in the very top of the
mount, and he called Moses unto the top thereof. And when he was gone
up thither,
OR
1
The hand of the Lord was upon me, and brought me forth in the spirit
of the Lord: and set me down in the midst of a plain that was full of
bones.
2
And he led me about through them on every side: now they were very
many upon the face of the plain, and they were exceeding dry.
3
And he said to me: Son of man, dost thou think these bones shall
live? And I answered: O Lord God, thou knowest.
4
And he said to me: Prophesy concerning these bones; and say to them:
Ye dry bones, hear the word of the Lord.
5
Thus saith the Lord God to these bones: Behold, I will send spirit
into you, and you shall live.
6
And I will lay sinews upon you, and will cause flesh to grow over
you, and will cover you with skin: and I will give you spirit and you
shall live, and you shall know that I am the Lord.
7
And I prophesied as he had commanded me: and as I prophesied there
was a noise, and behold a commotion: and the bones came together,
each one to its joint.
8
And I saw, and behold the sinews, and the flesh came up upon them:
and the skin was stretched out over them, but there was no spirit in
them.
9
And he said to me: Prophesy to the spirit, prophesy, O son of man,
and say to the spirit: Thus saith the Lord God: Come, spirit, from
the four winds, and blow upon these slain, and let them live again.
10
And I prophesied as he had commanded me: and the spirit came into
them, and they lived: and they stood up upon their feet, an exceeding
great army.
11
And he said to me: Son of man: All these bones are the house of
Israel: they say: Our bones are dried up, and our hope is lost, and
we are cut off.
12
Therefore prophesy, and say to them: Thus saith the Lord God: Behold
I will open your graves, and will bring you out of your sepulchres, O
my people: and will bring you into the land of Israel.
13
And you shall know that I am the Lord, when I shall have opened your
sepulchres, and shall have brought you out of your graves, O my
people:
14
And shall have put my spirit in you, and you shall live, and I shall
make you rest upon your own land: and you shall know that I the Lord
have spoken, and done it, saith the Lord God.
OR
1
For behold in those days, and in that time when I shall bring back
the captivity of Juda and Jerusalem:
2
I will gather together all nations, and will bring them down into the
valley of Josaphat: and I will plead with them there for my people,
and for my inheritance Israel, whom they have scattered among the
nations, and have parted my land.
3
And they have cast lots upon my people: and the boy they have put in
the stews, and the girl they have sold for wine, that they might
drink.
4
But what have you to do with me, O Tyre, and Sidon, and all the coast
of the Philistines? will you revenge yourselves on me? and if you
revenge yourselves on me, I will very soon return you a recompense
upon your own head.
5
For you have taken away my silver and my gold: and my desirable and
most beautiful things you have carried into your temples.
PSALM:
Psalms 104:
1-2, 24, 35, 27-30
1
Bless the Lord, O my soul: O Lord my God, thou art exceedingly great.
Thou hast put on praise and beauty:
2
And art clothed with light as with a garment. Who stretchest out the
heaven like a pavilion:
24
How great are thy works, O Lord? thou hast made all things in wisdom:
the earth is filled with thy riches.
35
Let sinners be consumed out of the earth, and the unjust, so that
they be no more: O my soul, bless thou the Lord.
27
All expect of thee that thou give them food in season.
28
What thou givest to them they shall gather up: when thou openest thy
hand, they shall all be filled with good.
29
But if thou turnest away thy face, they shall be troubled: thou shalt
take away their breath, and they shall fail, and shall return to
their dust.
30
Thou shalt send forth thy spirit, and they shall be created: and thou
shalt renew the face of the earth.
SECOND
READING:
Romans 8:
22-27
22
For we know that every creature groaneth and travaileth in pain, even
till now.
23
And not only it, but ourselves also, who have the firstfruits of the
Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the
adoption of the sons of God, the redemption of our body.
24
For we are saved by hope. But hope that is seen, is not hope. For
what a man seeth, why doth he hope for?
25
But if we hope for that which we see not, we wait for it with
patience.
26
Likewise the Spirit also helpeth our infirmity. For we know not what
we should pray for as we ought; but the Spirit himself asketh for us
with unspeakable groanings.
27
And he that searcheth the hearts, knoweth what the Spirit desireth;
because he asketh for the saints according to God.
GOSPEL:
John 7:
37-39
37
And on the last, and great day of the festivity, Jesus stood and
cried, saying: If any man thirst, let him come to me, and drink.
38
He that believeth in me, as the scripture saith, Out of his belly
shall flow rivers of living water.
39
Now this he said of the Spirit which they should receive, who
believed in him: for as yet the Spirit was not given, because Jesus
was not yet glorified.
Mass
during the Day
FIRST
READING:
Acts 2:
1-11
1
And when the days of the Pentecost were accomplished, they were all
together in one place:
2
And suddenly there came a sound from heaven, as of a mighty wind
coming, and it filled the whole house where they were sitting.
3
And there appeared to them parted tongues as it were of fire, and it
sat upon every one of them:
4
And they were all filled with the Holy Ghost, and they began to speak
with divers tongues, according as the Holy Ghost gave them to speak.
5
Now there were dwelling at Jerusalem, Jews, devout men, out of every
nation under heaven.
6
And when this was noised abroad, the multitude came together, and
were confounded in mind, because that every man heard them speak in
his own tongue.
7
And they were all amazed, and wondered, saying: Behold, are not all
these, that speak, Galileans?
8
And how have we heard, every man our own tongue wherein we were born?
9
Parthians, and Medes, and Elamites, and inhabitants of Mesopotamia,
Judea, and Cappadocia, Pontus and Asia,
10
Phrygia, and Pamphylia, Egypt, and the parts of Libya about Cyrene,
and strangers of Rome,
11
Jews also, and proselytes, Cretes, and Arabians: we have heard them
speak in our own tongues the wonderful works of God.
PSALM:
Psalms 104:
1, 24, 29-31, 34
1
Bless the Lord, O my soul: O Lord my God, thou art exceedingly great.
Thou hast put on praise and beauty:
24
How great are thy works, O Lord? thou hast made all things in wisdom:
the earth is filled with thy riches.
29
But if thou turnest away thy face, they shall be troubled: thou shalt
take away their breath, and they shall fail, and shall return to
their dust.
30
Thou shalt send forth thy spirit, and they shall be created: and thou
shalt renew the face of the earth.
31
May the glory of the Lord endure for ever: the Lord shall rejoice in
his works.
34
Let my speech be acceptable to him: but I will take delight in the
Lord.
SECOND
READING:
1 Corinthians
12: 3-7, 12-13 OR
Galatians
5: 16-25
3
Wherefore I give you to understand, that no man, speaking by the
Spirit of God, saith Anathema to Jesus. And no man can say the Lord
Jesus, but by the Holy Ghost.
4
Now there are diversities of graces, but the same Spirit;
5
And there are diversities of ministries, but the same Lord;
6
And there are diversities of operations, but the same God, who
worketh all in all.
7
And the manifestation of the Spirit is given to every man unto
profit.
12
For as the body is one, and hath many members; and all the members of
the body, whereas they are many, yet are one body, so also is Christ.
13
For in one Spirit were we all baptized into one body, whether Jews or
Gentiles, whether bond or free; and in one Spirit we have all been
made to drink.
OR
16
I say then, walk in the spirit, and you shall not fulfill the lusts
of the flesh.
17
For the flesh lusteth against the spirit: and the spirit against the
flesh; for these are contrary one to another: so that you do not the
things that you would.
18
But if you are led by the spirit, you are not under the law.
19
Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are fornication,
uncleanness, immodesty, luxury,
20
Idolatry, witchcrafts, enmities, contentions, emulations, wraths,
quarrels, dissensions, sects,
21
Envies, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like. Of the which
I foretell you, as I have foretold to you, that they who do such
things shall not obtain the kingdom of God.
22
But the fruit of the Spirit is, charity, joy, peace, patience,
benignity, goodness, longanimity,
23
Mildness, faith, modesty, continency, chastity. Against such there is
no law.
24
And they that are Christ's, have crucified their flesh, with the
vices and concupiscences.
25
If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit.
GOSPEL:
John 20:
19-23 OR
John 15:
26-27; 16: 12-15
19
Now when it was late that same day, the first of the week, and the
doors were shut, where the disciples were gathered together, for fear
of the Jews, Jesus came and stood in the midst, and said to them:
Peace be to you.
20
And when he had said this, he shewed them his hands and his side. The
disciples therefore were glad, when they saw the Lord.
21
He said therefore to them again: Peace be to you. As the Father hath
sent me, I also send you.
22
When he had said this, he breathed on them; and he said to them:
Receive ye the Holy Ghost.
23
Whose sins you shall forgive, they are forgiven them; and whose sins
you shall retain, they are retained.
OR
26
But when the Paraclete cometh, whom I will send you from the Father,
the Spirit of truth, who proceedeth from the Father, he shall give
testimony of me.
27
And you shall give testimony, because you are with me from the
beginning.
12
I have yet many things to say to you: but you cannot bear them now.
13
But when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will teach you all
truth. For he shall not speak of himself; but what things soever he
shall hear, he shall speak; and the things that are to come, he shall
shew you.
14
He shall glorify me; because he shall receive of mine, and shall shew
it to you.
15
All things whatsoever the Father hath, are mine. Therefore I said,
that he shall receive of mine, and shew it to you.
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