Twenty-eighth Sunday in Ordinary Time – 1st Reading

Isaiah 25: 6-10a Lectionary: 142 On this mountain the LORD of hostswill provide for all peoplesa feast of rich food and choice wines,juicy, rich food and pure, choice wines. On this mountain he will destroythe veil that veils all peoples,the web that is woven over all nations;he will destroy death forever. The Lord GOD will …

Twenty-seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time – 1st Reading

Isaiah 5: 1-7 Lectionary: 139 Let me now sing of my friend,my friend's song concerning his vineyard.My friend had a vineyardon a fertile hillside;he spaded it, cleared it of stones,and planted the choicest vines;within it he built a watchtower,and hewed out a wine press.Then he looked for the crop of grapes,but what it yielded was …

27th Sunday in Ordinary Time – Hababkkuk 1:2-3; 2:2-4 – First Reading

Hababkkuk 1:2-3; 2:2-4 How long, O LORD? I cry for helpbut you do not listen!I cry out to you, "Violence!"but you do not intervene.Why do you let me see ruin;why must I look at misery?Destruction and violence are before me;there is strife, and clamorous discord.Then the LORD answered me and said:Write down the vision clearly …

20th Sunday in Ordinary Time – Jeremiah 38:4-6, 8-10 (First Reading)

1st Reading – Jeremiah 38:4-6, 8-10 The king’s leading men spoke to the king. ‘Let Jeremiah be put to death: he is unquestionably disheartening the remaining soldiers in the city, and all the people too, by talking like this. The fellow does not have the welfare of this people at heart so much as its …