FIRST
READING: Exodus
33: 7 - 11; 34:
5 - 9, 28
7
Moses also taking the tabernacle, pitched it without the camp afar
off, and called the name thereof, The tabernacle of the covenant. And
all the people that had any question, went forth to the tabernacle of
the covenant, without the camp.
8
And when Moses went forth to the tabernacle, all the people rose up,
and every one stood in the door of his pavilion, and they beheld the
back of Moses, till he went into the tabernacle.
9
And when he was gone into the tabernacle of the covenant, the pillar
of the cloud came down, and stood at the door, and he spoke with
Moses.
10
And all saw that the pillar of the cloud stood at the door of the
tabernacle. And they stood, and worshipped at the doors of their
tents.
11
And the Lord spoke to Moses face to face, as a man is wont to speak
to his friend. And when he returned into the camp, his servant Josue
the son of Nun, a young man, departed not from the tabernacle.
5
And when the Lord was come down in a cloud, Moses stood with him,
calling upon the name of the Lord.
6
And when he passed before him, he said: O the Lord, the Lord God,
merciful and gracious, patient and of much compassion, and true,
7
Who keepest mercy unto thousands: who takest away iniquity, and
wickedness, and sin, and no man of himself is innocent before thee.
Who renderest the iniquity of the fathers to the children, and to the
grandchildren, unto the third and fourth generation.
8
And Moses making haste, bowed down prostrate unto the earth, and
adoring,
9
Said: If I have found grace in thy sight: O Lord, I beseech thee,
that thou wilt go with us, (for it is a stiffnecked people,) and take
away our iniquities and sin, and possess us.
28
And he was there with the Lord forty days and forty nights: he
neither ate bread nor drank water, and he wrote upon the tables the
ten words of the covenant.
PSALM:
Psalms 103:
6 - 13
6
The Lord doth mercies, and judgment for all that suffer wrong.
7
He hath made his ways known to Moses: his wills to the children of
Israel.
8
The Lord is compassionate and merciful: longsuffering and plenteous
in mercy.
9
He will not always be angry: nor will he threaten for ever.
10
He hath not dealt with us according to our sins: nor rewarded us
according to our iniquities.
11
For according to the height of the heaven above the earth: he hath
strengthened his mercy towards them that fear him.
12
As far as the east is from the west, so far hath he removed our
iniquities from us.
13
As a father hath compassion on his children, so hath the Lord
compassion on them that fear him.
GOSPEL:
Matthew 13:
36 - 43
36
Then having sent away the multitudes, he came into the house, and his
disciples came to him, saying: Expound to us the parable of the
cockle of the field.
37
Who made answer and said to them: He that soweth the good seed, is
the Son of man.
38
And the field, is the world. And the good seed are the children of
the kingdom. And the cockle, are the children of the wicked one.
39
And the enemy that sowed them, is the devil. But the harvest is the
end of the world. And the reapers are the angels.
40
Even as cockle therefore is gathered up, and burnt with fire: so
shall it be at the end of the world.
41
The Son of man shall send his angels, and they shall gather out of
his kingdom all scandals, and them that work iniquity.
42
And shall cast them into the furnace of fire: there shall be weeping
and gnashing of teeth.
43
Then shall the just shine as the sun, in the kingdom of their Father.
He that hath ears to hear, let him hear.
