FIRST
READING: Revelation
14: 1 - 5
1
Then I looked, and lo, on Mount Zion stood the Lamb, and with him a
hundred
and forty-four thousand who had his name and his Father's name
written
on their foreheads.
2
And I heard a voice from heaven like the sound of many waters and
like the
sound
of loud thunder; the voice I heard was like the sound of harpers
playing
on
their harps,
3
and they sing a new song before the throne and before the four living
creatures
and before the elders. No one could learn that song except the
hundred
and forty-four thousand who had been redeemed from the earth.
4
It is these who have not defiled themselves with women, for they are
chaste;
it
is these who follow the Lamb wherever he goes; these have been
redeemed
from
mankind as first fruits for God and the Lamb,
5
and in their mouth no lie was found, for they are spotless.
PSALM:
Psalms 24:
1 - 6
1
The earth is the LORD's and the fulness thereof, the world and those
who
dwell
therein;
2
for he has founded it upon the seas, and established it upon the
rivers.
3
Who shall ascend the hill of the LORD? And who shall stand in his
holy
place?
4
He who has clean hands and a pure heart, who does not lift up his
soul to
what
is false, and does not swear deceitfully.
5
He will receive blessing from the LORD, and vindication from the God
of his
salvation.
6
Such is the generation of those who seek him, who seek the face of
the God
of
Jacob. [Selah].
GOSPEL:
Luke 21:
1 - 4
1
He looked up and saw the rich putting their gifts into the treasury;
2
and he saw a poor widow put in two copper coins.
3
And he said, "Truly I tell you, this poor widow has put in more
than all of
them;
4
for they all contributed out of their abundance, but she out of her
poverty put
in
all the living that she had."
