FIRST
READING: Genesis
27: 1 - 5, 15 - 29
1
Now Isaac was old, and his eyes were dim, and he could not see: and
he called Esau, his elder son, and said to him: My son? And he
answered: Here I am.
2
And his father said to him: Thou seest that I am old, and know not
the day of my death.
3
Take thy arms, thy quiver, and bow, and go abroad: and when thou hast
taken some thing by hunting,
4
Make me savoury meat thereof, as thou knowest I like, and bring it,
that I may eat: and my soul may bless thee before I die.
5
And when Rebecca had heard this, and he was gone into the field to
fulfill his father's commandment,
15
And she put on him very good garments of Esau, which she had at home
with her:
16
And the little skins of the kids she put about his hands, and covered
the bare of his neck.
17
And she gave him the savoury meat, and delivered him bread that she
had baked.
18
Which when he had carried in, he said: My father? But he answered: I
hear. Who art thou, my son?
19
And Jacob said: I am Esau thy firstborn: I have done as thou didst
command me: arise, sit, and eat of my venison, that thy soul may
bless me.
20
And Isaac said to his son: How couldst thou find it so quickly, my
son? He answered: It was the will of God, that what I sought came
quickly in my way.
21
And Isaac said: Come hither, that I may feel thee, my son, and may
prove whether thou be my son Esau, or not.
22
He came near to his father, and when he had felt him, Isaac said: The
voice indeed is the voice of Jacob; but the hands are the hands of
Esau.
23
And he knew him not, because his hairy hands made him like to the
elder. Then blessing him,
24
He said: Art thou my son Esau? He answered: I am.
25
Then he said: Bring me the meats of thy hunting, my son, that my soul
may bless thee. And when they were brought, and he had eaten, he
offered him wine also, which after he had drunk,
26
He said to him: Come near me, and give me a kiss, my son.
27
He came near, and kissed him. And immediately as he smelled the
fragrant smell of his garments, blessing him, he said: Behold the
smell of my son is as the smell of a plentiful field, which the Lord
hath blessed.
28
God give thee the dew of heaven, and of the fatness of the earth,
abundance of corn and wine.
29
And let peoples serve thee, and tribes worship thee: be thou lord of
thy brethren, and let thy mother's children bow down before thee.
Cursed be he that curseth thee: and let him that blesseth thee be
filled with blessings.
PSALM:
Psalms 135:
1 - 6
1
Praise ye the name of the Lord: O you his servants, praise the Lord:
2
You that stand in the house of the Lord, in the courts of the house
of our God.
3
Praise ye the Lord, for the Lord is good: sing ye to his name, for it
is sweet.
4
For the Lord hath chosen Jacob unto himself: Israel for his own
possession.
5
For I have known that the Lord is great, and our God is above all
gods.
6
Whatsoever the Lord hath pleased he hath done, in heaven, in earth,
in the sea, and in all the deeps.
GOSPEL:
Matthew 9:
14 - 17
14
Then came to him the disciples of John, saying: Why do we and the
Pharisees fast often, but thy disciples do not fast?
15
And Jesus said to them: Can the children of the bridegroom mourn, as
long as the bridegroom is with them? But the days will come, when the
bridegroom shall be taken away from them, and then they shall fast.
16
And nobody putteth a piece of raw cloth unto an old garment. For it
taketh away the fullness thereof from the garment, and there is made
a greater rent.
17
Neither do they put new wine into old wineskins. Otherwise the
wineskins break, and the wine runneth out, and the wineskins perish.
But new wine they put into new wineskins: and both are preserved.
