FIRST
READING:
Isaiah 40:1-11
1
Be comforted, be comforted, my people, saith your God.
2
Speak ye to the heart of Jerusalem, and call to her: for her evil is
come to an end, her iniquity is forgiven: she hath received of the
hand of the Lord double for all her sins.
3
The voice of one crying in the desert: Prepare ye the way of the
Lord, make straight in the wilderness the paths of our God.
4
Every valley shall be exalted, and every mountain and hill shall be
made low, and the crooked shall become straight, and the rough ways
plain.
5
And the glory of the Lord shall be revealed, and all flesh together
shall see, that the mouth of the Lord hath spoken.
6
The voice of one, saying: Cry. And I said: What shall I cry? All
flesh is grass, and all the glory thereof as the flower of the held.
7
The grass is withered, and the dower is fallen, because the spirit of
the Lord hath blown upon it. Indeed the people is grass:
8
The grass is withered, and the flower is fallen: but the word of our
Lord endureth for ever.
9
Get thee up upon a high mountain, thou that bringest good tidings to
Zion: lift up thy voice with strength, thou that bringest good
tidings to Jerusalem: lift it up, fear not. Say to the cities of
Juda: Behold your God:
10
Behold the Lord God shall come with strength, and his arm shall rule:
Behold his reward is with him and his work is before him.
11
He shall feed his flock like a shepherd: he shall gather together the
lambs with his arm, and shall take them up in his bosom, and he
himself shall carry them that are with young.
PSALM:
Psalms 96:1-3,
10-13
1
Sing ye to the Lord a new canticle: sing to the Lord, all the earth.
2
Sing ye to the Lord and bless his name: shew forth his salvation from
day to day.
3
Declare his glory among the Gentiles: his wonders among all people.
10
Say ye among the Gentiles, the Lord hath reigned. For he hath
corrected the world, which shall not be moved: he will judge the
people with justice.
11
Let the heavens rejoice, and let the earth be glad, let the sea be
moved, and the fulness thereof:
12
The fields and all things that are in them shall be joyful. Then
shall all the trees of the woods rejoice
13
Before the face of the Lord, because he cometh: because he cometh to
judge the earth. He shall judge the world with justice, and the
people with his truth.
Alleluia:
R.
Alleluia, alleluia.
The
day of the Lord is near:
Behold,
he comes to save us.
R.
Alleluia, alleluia.
GOSPEL:
Matthew
18:12-14
12
What think you? If a man have an hundred sheep, and one of them
should go astray: doth he not leave the ninety-nine in the mountains,
and go to seek that which is gone astray?
13
And if it so be that he find it: Amen I say to you, he rejoiceth more
for that, than for the ninety-nine that went not astray.
14
Even so it is not the will of your Father, who is in heaven, that one
of these little ones should perish.
