FIRST
READING: Isaiah
7: 1 - 9
1
And it came to pass in the days of Achaz the son of Joathan, the son
of Ozias, king of Juda, that Basin king of Syria, and Phacee the son
of Romelia king of Israel, came up to Jerusalem, to fight against it:
but they could not prevail over it.
2
And they told the house of David, saying: Syria hath rested upon
Ephraim, and his heart was moved, and the heart of his people, as the
trees of the woods are moved with the wind.
3
And the Lord said to Isaias: Go forth to meet Achaz, thou and Jasub
thy son that is left, to the conduit of the upper pool in the way of
the fuller’s field.
4
And thou shalt say to him: See thou be quiet: fear not, and let not
thy heart be afraid of the two tails of these fire brands, smoking
with the wrath of the fury of Rasin king of Syria, and of the son of
Romelia.
5
Because Syria hath taken counsel against thee, unto the evil of
Ephraim and the son of Romelia, saying:
6
Let us go up to Juda, and rouse it up, and draw it away to us, and
make the son of Tabeel king in the midst thereof.
7
Thus saith the Lord God: It shall not stand, and this shall not be.
8
But the head of Syria is Damascus, and the head of Damascus is Basin:
and within threescore and five years, Ephraim shall cease to be a
people:
9
And the head of Ephraim is Samaria and the head of Samaria the son of
Romelia. If you will not believe, you shall not continue.
PSALM:
Psalms 48:
2 - 8
2
Great is the Lord, and exceedingly to be praised in the city of our
God, in his holy mountain.
3
With the joy of the whole earth is mount Sion founded, on the sides
of the north, the city of the great king.
4
In her houses shall God be known, when he shall protect her.
5
For behold the kings of the earth assembled themselves: they gathered
together.
6
So they saw, and they wondered, they were troubled, they were moved:
7
Trembling took hold of them. There were pains as of a woman in
labour.
8
With a vehement wind thou shalt break in pieces the ships of Tharsis.
GOSPEL:
Matthew 11:
20 - 24
20
Then began he to upbraid the cities wherein were done the most of his
miracles, for that they had not done penance.
21
Woe to thee, Corozain, woe to thee, Bethsaida: for if in Tyre and
Sidon had been wrought the miracles that have been wrought in you,
they had long ago done penance in sackcloth and ashes.
22
But I say unto you, it shall be more tolerable for Tyre and Sidon in
the day of judgment, than for you.
23
And thou Capharnaum, shalt thou be exalted up to heaven? thou shalt
go down even unto hell. For if in Sodom had been wrought the miracles
that have been wrought in thee, perhaps it had remained unto this
day.
24
But I say unto you, that it shall be more tolerable for the land of
Sodom in the day of judgment, than for thee.
