FIRST
READING: Isaiah
26: 7 - 9, 12, 16 -
19
7
The way of the just is right, the path of the just is right to walk
in.
8
And in the way of thy judgments, O Lord, we have patiently waited for
thee: thy name, and thy remembrance are the desire of the soul.
9
My soul hath desired thee in the night: yea, and with my spirit
within me in the morning early I will watch to thee. When thou shalt
do thy judgments on the earth, the inhabitants of the world shall
learn justice.
12
Lord, thou wilt give us peace: for thou hast wrought all our works
for us.
16
Lord, they have sought after thee in distress, in the tribulation of
murmuring thy instruction was with them.
17
As a woman with child, when she draweth near the time of her
delivery, is in pain, and crieth out in her pangs: so are we become
in thy presence, O Lord.
18
We have conceived, and been as it were in labour, and have brought
forth wind: we have not wrought salvation on the earth, therefore the
inhabitants of the earth have not fallen.
19
Thy dead men shall live, my slain shall rise again: awake, and give
praise, ye that dwell in the dust: for thy dew is the dew of the
light: and the land of the giants thou shalt pull down into ruin.
PSALM:
Psalms 102:
13 - 21
13
But thou, O Lord, endurest for ever: and thy memorial to all
generations.
14
Thou shalt arise and have mercy on Sion: for it is time to have mercy
on it, for the time is come.
15
For the stones thereof have pleased thy servants: and they shall have
pity on the earth thereof.
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.
GOSPEL:
Matthew 11:
28 - 30
28
Come to me, all you that labour, and are burdened, and I will refresh
you.
29
Take up my yoke upon you, and learn of me, because I am meek, and
humble of heart: and you shall find rest to your souls.
30
For my yoke is sweet and my burden light.
