FIRST
READING: Isaiah
63:16-17, 19;
64:2-7
16
For thou art our father, and Abraham hath not known us, and Israel
hath been ignorant of us: thou, O Lord, art our father, our redeemer,
from everlasting is thy name.
17
Why hast thou made us to err, O Lord, from thy ways: why hast thou
hardened our heart, that we should not fear thee? return for the sake
of thy servants, the tribes of thy inheritance.
19
We are become as in the beginning, when thou didst not rule over us,
and when we were not called by thy name.
2
They would melt as at the burning of fire, the waters would burn with
fire, that thy name might be made known to thy enemies: that the
nations might tremble at thy presence.
3
When thou shalt do wonderful things, we shall not bear them: thou
didst come down, and at thy presence the mountains melted away.
4
From the beginning of the world they have not heard, nor perceived
with the ears: the eye hath not seen, O God, besides thee, what
things thou hast prepared for them that wait for thee.
5
Thou hast met him that rejoiceth, and doth justice: in thy ways they
shall remember thee: behold thou art angry, and we have sinned: in
them we have been always, and we shall be saved.
6
And we are all become as one unclean, and all our justices as the rag
of a menstruous woman: and we have all fallen as a leaf, and our
iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away.
7
There is none that calleth upon thy name: that riseth up, and taketh
hold of thee: thou hast hid thy face from us, and hast crushed us in
the hand of our iniquity.
PSALM:
Psalms 80:2-3,
15-16, 18-19
2
Give ear, O thou that rulest Israel: thou that leadest Joseph like a
sheep. Thou that sittest upon the cherubims, shine forth
3
Before Ephraim, Benjamin, and Manasses. Stir up thy might, and come
to save us.
15
Turn again, O God of hosts, look down from heaven, and see, and visit
this vineyard:
16
And perfect the same which thy right hand hath planted: and upon the
son of man whom thou hast confirmed for thyself.
18
Let thy hand be upon the man of thy right hand: and upon the son of
man whom thou hast confirmed for thyself.
19
And we depart not from thee, thou shalt quicken us: and we will call
upon thy name.
SECOND
READING: 1
Corinthians 1:3-9
3
Grace to you, and peace from God our Father, and from the Lord Jesus
Christ.
4
I give thanks to my God always for you, for the grace of God that is
given you in Christ Jesus,
5
That in all things you are made rich in him, in all utterance, and in
all knowledge;
6
As the testimony of Christ was confirmed in you,
7
So that nothing is wanting to you in any grace, waiting for the
manifestation of our Lord Jesus Christ.
8
Who also will confirm you unto the end without crime, in the day of
the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.
9
God is faithful: by whom you are called unto the fellowship of his
Son Jesus Christ our Lord.
GOSPEL:
Mark 13:33-37
33
Take ye heed, watch and pray. For ye know not when the time is.
34
Even as a man who going into a far country, left his house; and gave
authority to his servants over every work, and commanded the porter
to watch.
35
Watch ye therefore, (for you know not when the lord of the house
cometh: at even, or at midnight, or at the cockcrowing, or in the
morning,)
36
Lest coming on a sudden, he find you sleeping.
37
And what I say to you, I say to all: Watch.
