Reading 1, First Thessalonians 2:9-13 9 You remember, brothers, with what unsparing energy we used to work, slaving night and day so as not to be a burden on any one of you while we were proclaiming the gospel of God to you.10 You are witnesses, and so is God, that...

Reading 1, First Thessalonians 2:1-8 1 You know yourselves, my brothers, that our visit to you has not been pointless.2 Although, as you know, we had received rough treatment and insults at Philippi, God gave us the courage to speak his gospel to you fearlessly, in...

Reading 1, First Thessalonians 1:2-5, 8-10 2 We always thank God for you all, mentioning you in our prayers continually.3 We remember before our God and Father how active is the faith, how unsparing the love, how persevering the hope which you have from our Lord Jesus...

Reading 1, Isaiah 66:18-21 18 I am coming to gather every nation and every language. They will come to witness my glory.19 I shall give them a sign and send some of their survivors to the nations: to Tarshish, Put, Lud, Meshech, Tubal and Javan, to the distant coasts...

Reading 1, Ruth 2:1-3, 8-11; 4:13-17 1 Naomi had a kinsman on her husband's side, well-to-do and of Elimelech's clan. His name was Boaz.2 Ruth the Moabitess said to Naomi, 'Let me go into the fields and glean ears of corn in the footsteps of some man who will look on...

Reading 1, Ruth 1:1, 3-6, 14-16, 22 1 In the days when the Judges were governing, a famine occurred in the country and a certain man from Bethlehem of Judah went-he, his wife and his two sons -- to live in the Plains of Moab.3 Elimelech, Naomi's husband, died, and she...

Reading 1, Judges 11:29-39 Responsorial Psalm, Psalms 40:5, 7-8, 8-9, 10 5 How much you have done, Yahweh, my God -- your wonders, your plans for us -- you have no equal. I will proclaim and speak of them; they are beyond number.7 then I said, 'Here I am, I am...

Reading 1, Judges 9:6-15 6 All the leading men of Shechem and all Beth-Millo then met and proclaimed Abimelech king at the oak of the cultic stone at Shechem.7 News of this was brought to Jotham. He went and stood on the top of Mount Gerizim and shouted at the top of...

Reading 1, Judges 6:11-24 11 The Angel of Yahweh came and sat under the terebinth at Ophrah which belonged to Joash of Abiezer. Gideon his son was threshing wheat inside the wine-press, to keep it hidden from Midian,12 and the Angel of Yahweh appeared to him and said,...

Reading 1, Judges 2:11-19 11 The Israelites then did what is evil in Yahweh's eyes and served the Baals.12 They deserted Yahweh, God of their ancestors, who had brought them out of Egypt, and they followed other gods, from those of the surrounding peoples. They bowed...