FIRST
READING: Zechariah
8: 1-8
1
And the word of the Lord of hosts came to me, saying:
2
Thus saith the Lord of hosts: I have been jealous for Sion with a
great jealousy, and with a great indignation have I been jealous for
her.
3
Thus saith the Lord of hosts: I am returned to Sion, and I will dwell
in the midst of Jerusalem: and Jerusalem shall be called The city of
truth, and the mountain of the Lord of hosts, The sanctified
mountain.
4
Thus saith the Lord of hosts: There shall yet old men and old women
dwell in the streets of Jerusalem: and every man with his staff in
his hand through multitude of days.
5
And the streets of the city shall be full of boys and girls, playing
in the streets thereof.
6
Thus saith the Lord of hosts: If it seem hard in the eyes of the
remnant of this people in those days: shall it be hard in my eyes,
saith the Lord of hosts?
7
Thus saith the Lord of hosts: Behold I will save my people from the
land of the east, and from the land of the going down of the sun.
8
And I will bring them, and they shall dwell in the midst of
Jerusalem: and they shall be my people, and I will be their God in
truth and in justice.
PSALM:
Psalms 106:
16-21, 29, 22-23
16
And the Gentiles shall fear thy name, O Lord, and all the kings of
the earth thy glory.
17
For the Lord hath built up Sion: and he shall be seen in his glory.
18
He hath had regard to the prayer of the humble: and he hath not
despised their petition.
19
Let these things be written unto another generation: and the people
that shall be created shall praise the Lord:
20
Because he hath looked forth from his high sanctuary: from heaven the
Lord hath looked upon the earth.
21
That he might hear the groans of them that are in fetters: that he
might release the children of the slain:
29
The children of thy servants shall continue: and their seed shall be
directed for ever.
22
That they may declare the name of the Lord in Sion: and his praise in
Jerusalem;
23
When the people assemble together, and kings, to serve the Lord.
GOSPEL:
Matthew 18: 1-5, 10
1
At that hour the disciples came to Jesus, saying: Who thinkest thou
is the greater in the kingdom of heaven?
2
And Jesus calling unto him a little child, set him in the midst of
them,
3
And said: Amen I say to you, unless you be converted, and become as
little children, you shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven.
4
Whosoever therefore shall humble himself as this little child, he is
the greater in the kingdom of heaven.
5
And he that shall receive one such little child in my name, receiveth
me.
10
See that you despise not one of these little ones: for I say to you,
that their angels in heaven always see the face of my Father who is
in heaven.
