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Jeremiah 33:14-16
See, the days are coming - it is the Lord who speaks - when I
am going to fulfil the promise I made to the House of Israel and
the House of Judah:
In those days and at that time,
I will make a virtuous Branch grow for David,
who shall practise honesty and integrity in the land.
In those days Judah shall be saved
and Israel shall dwell in confidence.
And this is the name the city will be called:
The Lord-our-integrity.
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| Responsorial Psalm |
| Psalm 24:4-5.8-9.10.14
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To you, O Lord, I lift up my soul. |
- Lord, make me know your ways.
Lord, teach me your paths.
Make me walk in your truth, and teach me:
for you are God my Saviour.
- The Lord is good and upright.
He shows the path to those who stray,
he guides the humble in the right path;
he teaches his way to the poor.
- His ways are faithfulness and love
for those who keep his covenant and will.
The Lord's friendship is for those who revere him;
to them he reveals his covenant.
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| Second Reading |
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1 Thessalonians 3:12-4:2
May the Lord be generous in increasing your love and make you
love one another and the whole human race as much as we love you.
And may he so confirm your hearts in holiness that you may be blameless
in the sight of our God and Father when our Lord Jesus Christ comes
with all his saints.
Finally. brothers and sisters, we urge you and appeal to you in
the Lord Jesus to make more and more progress in the kind of life
that you are meant to live: the life that God wants, as you learnt
from us, and as you are already living it. You have not forgotten
the instructions we gave you on the authority of the Lord Jesus.
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| Gospel |
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Luke 21:25-28.34-36
Jesus said to his disciples: 'There will be signs in the sun
and moon and stars; on earth nations in agony, bewildered by the
clamour of the ocean and its waves; men dying of fear as they await
what menaces the world, for the powers of heaven will be shaken.
And then they will see the Son of Man coming in a cloud with power
and great glory. When these things begin to take place, stand erect,
hold your heads high, because your liberation is near at hand.
'Watch yourselves, or your hearts will be coarsened with debauchery
and drunkenness and the cares of life, and that day will be sprung
on you suddenly, like a trap. For it will come down on every living
person on the face of the earth. Stay awake, praying at all times
for the strength to survive all that is going to happen, and to
stand with confidence before the Son of Man.'
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Readings from The Jerusalem Bible © 1966 by Darton
Longman & Todd Ltd and Doubleday and Company Ltd.
Psalm © The Grail (England) published by HarperCollins.
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