Reading 1, Jeremiah 14:17-22 17 'So say this word to them: May my eyes shed tears night and day, unceasingly, since the daughter of my people has sustained a fearsome wound, a crippling injury.18 If I go into the countryside, there lie those killed by the sword; if I...

Reading 1, Jeremiah 13:1-11 1 Yahweh said this to me, 'Go and buy a linen waistcloth and put it round your waist. But do not dip it in water.'2 And so, as Yahweh had ordered, I bought a waistcloth and put it round my waist.3 A second time the word of Yahweh came to...

Reading 1, Second Kings 4:42-44 42 A man came from Baal-Shalishah, bringing the man of God bread from the first-fruits, twenty barley loaves and fresh grain still in the husk. 'Give it to the company to eat,' Elisha said.43 But his servant replied, 'How can I serve...

Reading 1, Jeremiah 7:1-11 1 The word that came to Jeremiah from Yahweh, saying,2 'Stand at the gate of the Temple of Yahweh and there proclaim this message. Say, "Listen to the word of Yahweh, all you of Judah who come in by these gates to worship Yahweh.3 Yahweh...

Reading 1, Sirach 44:1, 10-15 1 Next let us praise illustrious men, our ancestors in their successive generations.10 But here is a list of illustrious men whose good works have not been forgotten.11 In their descendants they find a rich inheritance, their posterity.12...

Reading 1, Second Corinthians 4:7-15 7 But we hold this treasure in pots of earthenware, so that the immensity of the power is God's and not our own.8 We are subjected to every kind of hardship, but never distressed; we see no way out but we never despair;9 we are...

Reading 1, Jeremiah 1:1, 4-10 1 The words of Jeremiah son of Hilkiah, one of the priests living at Anathoth in the territory of Benjamin.4 The word of Yahweh came to me, saying:5 'Before I formed you in the womb I knew you; before you came to birth I consecrated you;...

Reading 1, Micah 7:14-15, 18-20 14 With shepherd's crook lead your people to pasture, the flock that is your heritage, living confined in a forest with meadow land all round. Let them graze in Bashan and Gilead as in the days of old!15 As in the days when you came out...

Reading 1, Second Corinthians 5:14-17 14 For the love of Christ overwhelms us when we consider that if one man died for all, then all have died;15 his purpose in dying for all humanity was that those who live should live not any more for themselves, but for him who...

Reading 1, Jeremiah 23:1-16 1 'Disaster for the shepherds who lose and scatter the sheep of my pasture, Yahweh declares.2 This, therefore, is what Yahweh, God of Israel, says about the shepherds who shepherd my people, "You have scattered my flock, you have driven...