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| "Jesus Unrolls the Book in the Synagogue" -- by James Tissot |
FIRST
READING: Leviticus
23: 1, 4 - 11, 15 - 16, 27, 34 - 37
1
And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:
4
These also are the holy days of the Lord, which you must celebrate in
their seasons.
5
The first month, the fourteenth day of the month at evening, is the
phase of the Lord:
6
And the fifteenth day of the same month is the solemnity of the
unleavened bread of the Lord. Seven days shall you eat unleavened
bread.
7
The first day shall be most solemn unto you, and holy: you shall do
no servile work therein:
8
But you shall offer sacrifice in fire to the Lord seven days. And the
seventh day shall be more solemn, and more holy: and you shall do no
servile work therein.
9
And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:
10
Speak to the children of Israel, and thou shalt say to them: When you
shall have entered into the land which I will give you, and shall
reap your corn, you shall bring sheaves of ears, the firstfruits of
your harvest to the priest:
11
Who shall lift up the shed before the Lord, the next day after the
sabbath, that it may be acceptable for you, and shall sanctify it.
15
You shall count therefore from the morrow after the sabbath, wherein
you offered the sheaf of the firstfruits, seven full weeks.
16
Even unto the marrow after the seventh week be expired, that is to
say, fifty days, and so you shall offer a new sacrifice to the Lord.
27
Upon the tenth day of this seventh month shall be the day of
atonement, it shall be most solemn, and shall be called holy: and you
shall afflict your souls on that day, and shall offer a holocaust to
the Lord.
34
Say to the children of Israel: From the fifteenth day of this same
seventh month, shall be kept the feast of tabernacles seven days to
the Lord.
35
The first day shall be called most solemn and most holy: you shall do
no servile work therein. And seven days you shall offer holocausts to
the Lord.
36
The eighth day also shall be most solemn and most holy, and you shall
offer holocausts to the Lord: for it is the day of assembly and
congregation: you shall do no servile work therein.
37
These are the feasts of the Lord, which you shall call most solemn
and most holy, and shall offer on them oblations to the Lord,
holocausts and libations according to the rite of every day.
PSALM:
Psalms 81:
3 - 6, 10 - 11
3
Take a psalm, and bring hither the timbrel: the pleasant psaltery
with the harp.
4
Blow up the trumpet on the new moon, on the noted day of your
solemnity.
5
For it is a commandment in Israel, and a judgment to the God of
Jacob.
6
He ordained it for a testimony in Joseph, when he came out of the
land of Egypt: he heard a tongue which he knew not.
10
There shall be no new god in thee: neither shalt thou adore a strange
god.
11
For I am the Lord thy God, who brought thee out of the land of Egypt.
GOSPEL:
Matthew 13:
54 - 58
54
And coming into his own country, he taught them in their synagogues,
so that they wondered and said: How came this man by this wisdom and
miracles?
55
Is not this the carpenter's son? Is not his mother called Mary, and
his brethren James, and Joseph, and Simon, and Jude:
56
And his sisters, are they not all with us? Whence therefore hath he
all these things?
57
And they were scandalized in his regard. But Jesus said to them: A
prophet is not without honour, save in his own country, and in his
own house.
58
And he wrought not many miracles there, because of their unbelief.
