1st Reading: Habakkuk (1:12–2:4) The prophet questions God and learns that the just will live by faith Are you not from of old, O Lord my God, my Holy One? You shall not die. O Lord, you have marked them for judgment; and you, O Rock, have established them for punishment. Your eyes are too…
1st Reading: 2 Corinthians (9:6-10) Whoever sows richly will also reap richly Whoever sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and whoever sows richly will also reap richly. Each of you must give as you have made up your mind, not reluctantly or under compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver. And God is able to…
1st Reading: Hosea (2:16-17; 21-22) God’s love for his people is like a husband’s love for a wife On that day, says the Lord, you will call me, “My husband,” and no longer will you call me, “My Baal.” For I will remove the names of the Baals from her mouth, and they shall be…
1st Reading: Jeremiah (31:1-7) Jeremiah foretells the reunion of Israel’s northern tribes with Jerusalem At that time, says the Lord, I will be the God of all the families of Israel, and they shall be my people. Thus says the Lord: “The people who survived the sword found grace in the wilderness; when Israel sought…
1st Reading: Jeremiah (30:1-2, 12-15, 18-22) After the exile the people will return home to their own land The word that came to Jeremiah from the Lord: “Thus says the Lord, the God of Israel: Write in a book all the words that I have spoken to you. For thus says the Lord: Your hurt…
1st Reading: Daniel 7:9-10, 13-14) Daniel sees the Ancient One giving power to the Son of Man As I watched, thrones were set in place, and an Ancient One took his throne, his clothing was white as snow, and the hair of his head like pure wool; his throne was fiery flames, and its wheels…
From the days when the Jewish people wandered in the desert to this very day, God has been food to the hungry and meaning to those who lose their way. We celebrate our Lord’s loving-kindness today.
1st Reading: Exodus (16:2-4, 12-15) God feeds the Israelites in the desert by sending them manna and quails The whole congregation of Israel complained against Moses and Aaron in the wilderness. The Israelites said to them, “If only we had died by the hand of the Lord in the land of Egypt, when we sat…
1st Reading: Jeremiah (26:11-16, 24) Jeremiah suffers opposition for his warning messages The priests and the prophets said to the officials and to all the people, “This man deserves the sentence of death because he has prophesied against this city, as you have heard with your own ears.” Then Jeremiah spoke to all the officials…
1st Reading: Jeremiah (26:1-9 ) Jerusalem will be ruined like Shiloh, Israel’s national shrine At the beginning of the reign of King Jehoiakim son of Josiah of Judah, this word came from the Lord: Thus says the Lord: Stand in the court of the Lord’s house, and speak to all the cities of Judah that…
1st Reading: Jeremiah (18:1-6) The Lord is like a potter, forming Israel anew from clay that was earlier spoiled The word that came to Jeremiah from the Lord: “Come, go down to the potter’s house, and there I will let you hear my words.” So I went down to the potter’s house, and there he…
1st Reading: Jeremiah (15:10, 16-21) Jeremiah’s lament and God’s encouraging reply Woe is me, my mother, that you ever bore me, a man of strife and contention to the whole land! I have not lent, nor have I borrowed, yet all of them curse me. Your words were found, and I ate them, and your…
1st Reading: Jeremiah (14:17-22) Jeremiah laments his people’s destruction and begs God for mercy You shall say to my people this word: Let my eyes run down with tears night and day, and let them not cease, for the virgin daughter, my people, is struck down with a crushing blow, with a very grievous wound….
1st Reading: Jeremiah (13:1-11) A warning, through the symbol of the discarded loincloth Thus said the Lord to me, “Go and buy yourself a linen loincloth, and put it on your loins, but do not dip it in water.” So I bought a loincloth according to the word of the Lord, and put it on…
United with Christians all over the world, we acknowledge one Lord, one faith, one baptism, and one God as our Father. We worship as one family, and pray for greater charity and love among all the baptised.
1st Reading: 2 Kings (4:42-44) Elisha miraculously provides food for a hundred men A man came from Baal-shalishah, bringing food from the first fruits to the man of God: twenty loaves of barley and fresh ears of grain in his sack. Elisha said, “Give it to the people and let them eat.” But his servant…
1st Reading: Jeremiah (7:1-11) Words and ceremonies also demand social justice The word that came to Jeremiah from the Lord: Stand in the gate of the Lord’s house, and proclaim there this word, and say, Hear the word of the Lord, all you people of Judah, you that enter these gates to worship the Lord….
1st Reading: Jeremiah (3:14-17) Israel and Judah will be united and all nations will assemble at Jerusalem Return, O faithless children, says the Lord, for I am your master; I will take you, one from a city and two from a family, and I will bring you to Zion. I will give you shepherds after…
1st Reading: Jeremiah (2:1-2; 7-8; 12-13. The word of the Lord came to me, saying: Go and proclaim in the hearing of Jerusalem, Thus says the Lord: I remember the devotion of your youth, your love as a bride, how you followed me in the wilderness, in a land not sown. I brought you into…
1st Reading: 2 Corinthians (4:7-15) Grace is like a treasure in a clay jar. The apostle can endure whatever comes We have this treasure in clay jars, so that it may be made clear that this extraordinary power belongs to God and does not come from us. We are afflicted in every way, but not…
