Month: August 2021

Reading I Dt 10:12-22 Moses said to the people: “And now, Israel, what does the LORD, your God, ask of you but to fear the LORD, your God, and follow his ways exactly, to love and serve the LORD, your God, with all your heart and all your soul, to keep the commandments and statutes […]

Reading I 1 Kgs 19:4-8 Elijah went a day’s journey into the desert, until he came to a broom tree and sat beneath it.  He prayed for death saying: “This is enough, O LORD!  Take my life, for I am no better than my fathers.”  He lay down and fell asleep under the broom tree, […]

Reading I Dt 6:4-13 Moses said to the people: “Hear, O Israel! The LORD is our God, the LORD alone! Therefore, you shall love the LORD, your God, with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your strength. Take to heart these words which I enjoin on you today. Drill them […]

Reading I Dn 7:9-10, 13-14 As I watched:     Thrones were set up         and the Ancient One took his throne.     His clothing was bright as snow,         and the hair on his head as white as wool;     his throne was flames of fire,         with wheels of burning fire. […]

Reading I Nm 20:1-13 The whole congregation of the children of Israel  arrived in the desert of Zin in the first month,   and the people settled at Kadesh. It was here that Miriam died, and here that she was buried. As the community had no water, they held a council against Moses and Aaron.  The […]

Readings for the Memorial of Saint John Vianney, Priest Reading I Nm 13:1-2, 25–14:1, 26a-29a, 34-35 The LORD said to Moses [in the desert of Paran,] “Send men to reconnoiter the land of Canaan, which I am giving the children of Israel. You shall send one man from each ancestral tribe, all of them princes.” […]

Reading I Nm 12:1-13 Miriam and Aaron spoke against Moses on the pretext of the marriage he had contracted with a Cushite woman. They complained, “Is it through Moses alone that the LORD speaks? Does he not speak through us also?” And the LORD heard this. Now, Moses himself was by far the meekest man […]

Reading I Nm 11:4b-15 The children of Israel lamented, “Would that we had meat for food! We remember the fish we used to eat without cost in Egypt, and the cucumbers, the melons, the leeks, the onions, and the garlic. But now we are famished; we see nothing before us but this manna.” Manna was […]

Reading I Ex 16:2-4, 12-15 The whole Israelite community grumbled against Moses and Aaron.  The Israelites said to them, “Would that we had died at the LORD’s hand in the land of Egypt, as we sat by our fleshpots and ate our fill of bread!  But you had to lead us into this desert to […]