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Thursday, December 05, 2013
Wednesday, December 04, 2013
Catholic Mass Readings For Thursday, December 05, 2013
FIRST READING: Isaiah 26: 1 - 6
1
In that day shall this canticle be sung the land of Juda. Sion the
city of our strength a saviour, a wall and a bulwark shall be set
therein.
2
Open ye the gates, and let the just nation, that keepeth the truth,
enter in.
3
The old error is passed away: thou wilt keep peace: peace, because we
have hoped in thee.
4
You have hoped in the Lord for evermore, in the Lord God mighty for
ever.
5
For he shall bring down them that dwell on high, the high city he
shall lay low. He shall bring it down even to the ground, he shall
pull it down even to the dust.
6
The foot shall tread it down, the feet of the poor, the steps of the
needy.
1
Give praise to Lord, for he is good: for his mercy endureth for ever.
8
It is good to confide in the Lord, rather than to have confidence in
man.
9
It is good to trust in the Lord, rather than to trust in princes.
19
Open ye to me the gates of justice: I will go into them, and give
praise to the Lord.
20
This is the gate of the Lord, the just shall enter into it.
21
I will give glory to thee because thou hast heard me: and art become
my salvation.
25
O Lord, save me: O Lord, give good success.
26
Blessed be he that cometh in the name Lord. We have blessed you out
of the house of the Lord.
27
The Lord is God, and he hath shone upon us. Appoint a solemn day,
with shady boughs, even to the horn of the alter.
21
Not every one that saith to me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the
kingdom of heaven: but he that doth the will of my Father who is in
heaven, he shall enter into the kingdom of heaven.
24
Every one therefore that heareth these my words, and doth them, shall
be likened to a wise man that built his house upon a rock,
25
And the rain fell, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and they
beat upon that house, and it fell not, for it was founded on a rock.
26
And every one that heareth these my words, and doth them not, shall
be like a foolish man that built his house upon the sand,
27
And the rain fell, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and they
beat upon that house, and it fell, and great was the fall thereof.
Tuesday, December 03, 2013
Catholic Mass Readings For Wednesday, December 04, 2013
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| "Jesus Heals the Blind and Lame on the Mountain" -- byJames Tissot |
FIRST READING: Isaiah 25: 6 - 10
6
And the Lord of hosts shall make unto all people in this mountain, a
feast of fat things, a feast of wine, of fat things full of marrow,
of wine purified from the lees.
7
And he shall destroy in this mountain the face of the bond with which
all people were tied, and the web that he began over all nations.
8
He shall cast death down headlong for ever: and the Lord God shall
wipe away tears from every face, and the reproach of his people he
shall take away from off the whole earth: for the Lord hath spoken
it.
9
And they shall say in that day: Lo, this is our God, we have waited
for him, and he will save us: this is the Lord, we have patiently
waited for him, we shall rejoice and be joyfull in his salvation.
10
For the hand of the Lord shall rest in this mountain: and Moab shall
be trodden down under him, as straw is broken in pieces with the
wain.
1
The Lord ruleth me: and I shall want nothing.
2
He hath set me in a place of pasture. He hath brought me up, on the
water of refreshment:
3
He hath converted my soul. He hath led me on the paths of justice,
for his own name's sake.
4
For though I should walk in the midst of the shadow of death, I will
fear no evils, for thou art with me. Thy rod and thy staff, they have
comforted me.
5
Thou hast prepared a table before me against them that afflict me.
Thou hast anointed my head with oil; and my chalice which inebriateth
me, how goodly is it!
6
And thy mercy will follow me all the days of my life. And that I may
dwell in the house of the Lord unto length of days.
29
And when Jesus had passed away from thence, he came nigh the sea of
Galilee. And going up into a mountain, he sat there.
30
And there came to him great multitudes, having with them the dumb,
the blind, the lame, the maimed, and many others: and they cast them
down at his feet, and he healed them:
31
So that the multitudes marvelled seeing the dumb speak, the lame
walk, and the blind see: and they glorified the God of Israel.
32
And Jesus called together his disciples, and said: I have compassion
on the multitudes, because they continue with me now three days, and
have not what to eat, and I will not send them away fasting, lest
they faint in the way.
33
And the disciples say unto him: Whence then should we have so many
loaves in the desert, as to fill so great a multitude?
34
And Jesus said to them: How many loaves have you? But they said:
Seven, and a few little fishes.
35
And he commanded the multitude to sit down upon the ground.
36
And taking the seven loaves and the fishes, and giving thanks, he
brake, and gave to his disciples, and the disciples to the people.
37
And they did all eat, and had their fill. And they took up seven
baskets full, of what remained of the fragments.
Catholic Mass Readings For Tuesday, December 03, 2013
FIRST READING: Isaiah 11: 1 - 10
1
And there shall come forth a rod out of the root of Jesse, and a
flower shall rise up out of his root.
2
And the spirit of the Lord shall rest upon him: the spirit of wisdom,
and of understanding, the spirit of counsel, and of fortitude, the
spirit of knowledge, and of godliness.
3
And he shall be filled with the spirit of the fear of the Lord. He
shall not judge according to the sight of the eyes, nor reprove
according to the hearing of the ears.
4
But he shall judge the poor with justice, and shall reprove with
equity for the meek of the earth: and he shall strike the earth with
the rod of his mouth, and with the breath of his lips he shall slay
the wicked.
5
And justice shall be the girdle of his loins: and faith the girdle of
his reins.
6
The wolf shall dwell with the lamb: and the leopard shall lie down
with the kid: the calf and the lion, and the sheep shall abide
together, and a little child shall lead them.
7
The calf and the bear shall feed: their young ones shall rest
together: and the lion shall eat straw like the ox.
8
And the sucking child shall play on the hole of the asp: and the
weaned child shall thrust his hand into the den of the basilisk.
9
They shall not hurt, nor shall they kill in all my holy mountain, for
the earth is filled with the knowledge of the Lord, as the covering
waters of the sea.
10
In that day the root of Jesse, who standeth for an ensign of the
people, him the Gentiles shall beseech, and his sepulchre shall be
glorious.
1
Give to the king thy judgment, O God: and to the king's son thy
justice: To judge thy people with justice, and thy poor with
judgment.
7
In his days shall justice spring up, and abundance of peace, till the
moon be taken sway.
8
And he shall rule from sea to sea, and from the river unto the ends
of the earth.
12
For he shall deliver the poor from the mighty: and the needy that had
no helper.
13
He shall spare the poor and needy: and he shall save the souls of the
poor.
17
Let his name be blessed for evermore: his name continueth before the
sun. And in him shall all the tribes of the earth be blessed: all
nations shall magnify him.
21
In that same hour, he rejoiced in the Holy Ghost, and said: I confess
to thee, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because thou hast hidden
these things from the wise and prudent, and hast revealed them to
little ones. Yea, Father, for so it hath seemed good in thy sight.
22
All things are delivered to me by my Father; and no one knoweth who
the Son is, but the Father; and who the Father is, but the Son, and
to whom the Son will reveal him.
23
And turning to his disciples, he said: Blessed are the eyes that see
the things which you see.
24
For I say to you, that many prophets and kings have desired to see
the things that you see, and have not seen them; and to hear the
things that you hear, and have not heard them.
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