Archive for November 2024

First Reading Micah 5:1- 4 (JB) A reading from the prophet Micah Out of you will be born the one who is to rule over Israel. The Lord says this: You, Bethlehem Ephrathah, the least of the clans of Judah, out of you will be born for me the one who is to rule over…

First Reading Zephaniah 3:14-18 (JB) A reading from the prophet Zephaniah With gladness the Lord will rejoice over you. Shout for joy, daughter of Zion, Israel, shout aloud! Rejoice, exult with all your heart, daughter of Jerusalem! The Lord has repealed your sentence; he has driven your enemies away. The Lord, the king of Israel,…

First Reading Baruch 5:1-9 (JB) A reading from the prophet Baruch Jerusalem – God will show you splendour. Jerusalem, take off your dress of sorrow and distress, put on the beauty of the glory of God for ever, wrap the cloak of the integrity of God around you, put the diadem of the glory of…

First Reading Jeremiah 33:14-16 (JB) A reading from the prophet Jeremiah I will cause a good seed to spring forth from David. See, the days are coming – it is the Lord who speaks – when I am going to fulfil the promise I made to the House of Israel and the House of Judah:…