Sunday 19 July 2020Readings at Mass ____________________ First readingWisdom 12:13,16-19You will grant repentance after sin There is no god, other than you, who cares for every thing,to whom you might have to prove that you never judged unjustly;Your justice has its source in strength,your sovereignty over all makes you lenient to all.You show your strength […]

First readingIsaiah 55:10-11The word that goes out from my mouth does not return to me empty Thus says the Lord: ‘As the rain and the snow come down from the heavens and do not return without watering the earth, making it yield and giving growth to provide seed for the sower and bread for the[…..]

First ReadingZechariah 9:9-10See now, your king comes humbly to you The Lord says this:Rejoice heart and soul, daughter of Zion!Shout with gladness, daughter of Jerusalem!See now, your king comes to you;he is victorious, he is triumphant,humble and riding on a donkey,on a colt, the foal of a donkey.He will banish chariots from Ephraimand horses from[…..]

First reading2 Kings 4:8-11,13-16This is a holy man of God; let him rest hereOne day as Elisha was on his way to Shunem, a woman of rank who lived there pressed him to stay and eat there. After this he always broke his journey for a meal when he passed that way. She said to[…..]

First readingJeremiah 20:10-13He has delivered the soul of the needy from the hands of evil menJeremiah said:I hear so many disparaging me, ‘“Terror from every side!”Denounce him! Let us denounce him!’All those who used to be my friends watched for my downfall,‘Perhaps he will be seduced into error.Then we will master him and take our[…..]

First readingDeuteronomy 8:2-3,14-16He fed you with manna, which neither you nor your fathers had knownMoses said to the people: ‘Remember how the Lord your God led you for forty years in the wilderness, to humble you, to test you and know your inmost heart – whether you would keep his commandments or not. He humbled you,[…..]

First readingExodus 34:4-6,8-9‘Lord, Lord, a God of tenderness and compassion’With the two tablets of stone in his hands, Moses went up the mountain of Sinai in the early morning as the Lord had commanded him. And the Lord descended in the form of a cloud, and Moses stood with him there.He called on the name[…..]

These readings are for the day of the feast itself:First reading:  Acts 2:1-11They were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speakWhen Pentecost day came round, they had all met in one room, when suddenly they heard what sounded like a powerful wind from heaven, the noise of which filled the entire house[…..]

First readingActs 1:1-11Jesus was lifted up while they looked onIn my earlier work, Theophilus, I dealt with everything Jesus had done and taught from the beginning until the day he gave his instructions to the apostles he had chosen through the Holy Spirit, and was taken up to heaven. He had shown himself alive to[…..]