Readings

First Reading Isaiah 43:16-21 (Year C) (JB) A reading from the prophet Isaiah I am doing a new thing and I will give drink to my people. Thus says the Lord, who made a way through the sea, a path in the great waters; who put chariots and horse in the field and a powerful…

First Reading Joshua 5:9-12 (Year C) (JB) A reading from the book of Joshua The people of God went to the promised land and there kept the passover. The Lord said to Joshua, ‘Today I have taken the shame of Egypt away from you.’ The Israelites pitched their camp at Gilgal and kept the Passover…

First Reading Exodus 3:1-8, 13-15 (Year C) (JB) A reading from the book of Exodus This is what you must say to the children of Israel: I Am has sent me to you. Moses was looking after the flock of Jethro, his father-in-law, priest of Midian. He led his flock to the far side of…

First Reading Genesis 15:5-12, 17-18 (JB) A reading from the book of Genesis God made a covenant with Abraham, his faithful servant. Taking Abram outside the Lord said, ‘Look up to heaven and count the stars if you can. Such will be your descendants’ he told him. Abram put his faith in the Lord, who…

First Reading Deuteronomy 26:4-10 (JB) A reading from the book of Deuteronomy The confession of faith of the elect. Moses said to the people: ‘The priest shall take the pannier from your hand and lay it before the altar of the Lord your God. Then, in the sight of the Lord your God, you must…

First Reading Sirach 27:4-7 (JB) A reading from the book of Ecclesiasticus Do not praise someone before they have spoken. In a shaken sieve the rubbish is left behind, so too the defects of a man appear in his talk. The kiln tests the work of the potter, the test of a man is in…

First Reading 1 Samuel 26:2, 7-9, 12-13, 22-23 (JB) A reading the first book of Samuel The Lord has put you in my power, but I will not raise my hand against you. Saul set off and went down to the wilderness of Ziph, accompanied by three thousand men chosen from Israel to search for…

First Reading Jeremiah 17:5-8 (JB) A reading from the prophet Jeremiah A curse on those who trust in humanity; a blessing on those who trust in the Lord. The Lord says this: ‘A curse on the man who puts his trust in man, who relies on things of flesh, whose heart turns from the Lord.…

First Reading Isaiah 6:1-8 (JB) A reading from the prophet Isaiah Here am I! Send me. In the year of King Uzziah’s death I saw the Lord seated on a high throne; his train filled the sanctuary; above him stood seraphs, each one with six wings. And they cried out one to another in this…

First Reading Malachi 3:1-4 (JB) A reading from the prophet Malachi The Lord whom you seek will come to his temple. The Lord God says this: Look, I am going to send my messenger to prepare a way before me. And the Lord you are seeking will suddenly enter his temple; and the angel of…