FIRST
READING:
1 Kings 19:
4-8
4
And Elijah went forward, one day's journey into the desert. And when
he was there, and sat under a juniper tree, he requested for his soul
that he might die, and said: It is enough for me, Lord, take away my
soul: for I am no better than my fathers.
5
And he cast himself down, and slept in the shadow of the juniper
tree: and behold an angel of the Lord touched him, and said to him:
Arise and eat.
6
He looked, and behold there was at his head a hearth cake, and a
vessel of water: and he ate and drank, and he fell asleep again.
7
And the angel of the Lord came again the second time, and touched
him, and said to him: Arise, eat: for thou hast yet a great way to
go.
8
And he arose, and ate, and drank, and walked in the strength of that
food forty days and forty nights, unto the mount of God, Horeb.
PSALM:
Psalms 34:
2-9
2
I will bless the Lord at all times, his praise shall be always in my
mouth.
3
In the Lord shall my soul be praised: let the meek hear and rejoice.
4
O magnify the Lord with me; and let us extol his name together.
5
I sought the Lord, and he heard me; and he delivered me from all my
troubles.
6
Come ye to him and be enlightened: and your faces shall not be
confounded.
7
This poor man cried, and the Lord heard him: and saved him out of all
his troubles.
8
The angel of the Lord shall encamp round about them that fear him:
and shall deliver them.
9
O taste, and see that the Lord is sweet: blessed is the man that
hopeth in him.
SECOND
READING:
Ephesians 4:
30--5:
2
30
And grieve not the holy Spirit of God: whereby you are sealed unto
the day of redemption.
31
Let all bitterness, and anger, and indignation, and clamour, and
blasphemy, be put away from you, with all malice.
32
And be ye kind one to another; merciful, forgiving one another, even
as God hath forgiven you in Christ.
1
Be ye therefore followers of God, as most dear children;
2
And walk in love, as Christ also hath loved us, and hath delivered
himself for us, an oblation and a sacrifice to God for an odour of
sweetness.
GOSPEL:
John 6:
41-51
41
The Jews therefore murmured at him, because he had said: I am the
living bread which came down from heaven.
42
And they said: Is not this Jesus, the son of Joseph, whose father and
mother we know? How then saith he, I came down from heaven?
43
Jesus therefore answered, and said to them: Murmur not among
yourselves.
44
No man can come to me, except the Father, who hath sent me, draw him;
and I will raise him up in the last day.
45
It is written in the prophets: And they shall all be taught of God.
Every one that hath heard of the Father, and hath learned, cometh to
me.
46
Not that any man hath seen the Father; but he who is of God, he hath
seen the Father.
47
Amen, amen I say unto you: He that believeth in me, hath everlasting
life.
48
I am the bread of life.
49
Your fathers did eat manna in the desert, and are dead.
50
This is the bread which cometh down from heaven; that if any man eat
of it, he may not die.
51
I am the living bread which came down from heaven.
