First Reading: The Lord took Abram outside and said, “Look up at the sky and count the stars, if you can. Just so,” he added, “shall your descendants be.” (Gn. 15:5) Psalm: The Lord remembers his covenant for ever. (Ps.…

First Reading: “When your times comes and you rest with your ancestors, I will raise up your heir after you, sprung from your loins, and I will establish his kingdom firm.” (2 Sm. 12) Psalm: For ever I will sing…

First Reading: I rejoice heartily in the Lord, in my God is the joy of my soul. (Is. 61:10a) Psalm: My soul rejoices in my God. (Is. 61:10b) Second Reading: May the God of peace make you perfectly holy and…

First Reading: A voice cries out: In the desert prepare the way of the Lord! Make straight in the wasteland a highway for our God! (Is. 40:3) Psalm: Lord, let us see your kindness, and grant us your salvation. (Ps.…

First Reading: Oh, that you would rend the heavens and come down, with the mountains quaking before you. (Is. 63:19b) Psalm: Lord, make us turn to you; let us see your face and we shall be saved. (Ps. 80) Second…

First Reading: As for you, my sheep, thus says the Lord God, I will judge between one sheep and another, between rams and goats. (Ez. 34:17) Psalm: The Lord is my shepherd; there is nothing I shall want. (Ps. 23)…

  First Reading: Charm is deceptive and beauty fleeting; the woman who fears the Lord is to be praised. Give her a reward for her labors, and let her works praise her at the city gates. (Prv. 31:30-31) Psalm: Blessed…

First Reading: Resplendent and unfading is wisdom, and she is readily perceived by those who love her, and found by those who seek her. (Wis 6:12)  Psalm: My soul is thirsting for you, O Lord my God. (Ps 63) Second…

First Reading: After this I had a vision of a great multitude, which no one could count, from every nation, race, people, and tongue. They stood before the throne and before the Lamb, wearing white robes and holding palm branches…

First Reading: “You shall not wrong any widow or orphan. If ever you wrong them and they cry out to me, I will surely hear their cry. My wrath will flare up, and I will kill you with the sword.”…