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Daily Reading for Monday, December 2nd, 2013

Daily Reading for Monday December 2, 2013

Reading 1, Isaiah 4:2-6
Responsorial Psalm, Psalms 122:1-2, 3-4, 4-5, 6-7, 8-9
Gospel, Matthew 8:5-11
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Reading 1, Isaiah 4:2-6

² That day, Yahweh's seedling will turn to beauty and glory, what the earth brings forth will turn to the pride and ornament of Israel's survivors.

³ Those who are left in Zion and remain in Jerusalem will be called holy, all those in Jerusalem noted down to live.

⁴ When the Lord has washed away the filth of Zion's daughters and with the wind of judgement and the wind of burning cleansed Jerusalem of the blood shed in her,

⁵ Yahweh will create, over every house on Mount Zion and over those who assemble there, a cloud by day, and by night smoke with the brightness of a flaring fire. For over all will be the Glory as canopy

⁶ and tent to give shade by day from the heat, refuge and shelter from the storm and the rain.

Responsorial Psalm, Psalms 122:1-2, 3-4, 4-5, 6-7, 8-9

¹ [Song of Ascents Of David] I rejoiced that they said to me, 'Let us go to the house of Yahweh.'

² At last our feet are standing at your gates, Jerusalem!

³ Jerusalem, built as a city, in one united whole,

⁴ there the tribes go up, the tribes of Yahweh, a sign for Israel to give thanks to the name of Yahweh.

⁵ For there are set the thrones of judgement, the thrones of the house of David.

⁶ Pray for the peace of Jerusalem, prosperity for your homes!

⁷ Peace within your walls, prosperity in your palaces!

⁸ For love of my brothers and my friends I will say, 'Peace upon you!'

⁹ For love of the house of Yahweh our God I will pray for your well-being.

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Gospel, Matthew 8:5-11

⁵ When he went into Capernaum a centurion came up and pleaded with him.

⁶ 'Sir,' he said, 'my servant is lying at home paralysed and in great pain.'

⁷ Jesus said to him, 'I will come myself and cure him.'

⁸ The centurion replied, 'Sir, I am not worthy to have you under my roof; just give the word and my servant will be cured.

⁹ For I am under authority myself and have soldiers under me; and I say to one man, "Go," and he goes; to another, "Come here," and he comes; to my servant, "Do this," and he does it.'

¹⁰ When Jesus heard this he was astonished and said to those following him, 'In truth I tell you, in no one in Israel have I found faith as great as this.

¹¹ And I tell you that many will come from east and west and sit down with Abraham and Isaac and Jacob at the feast in the kingdom of Heaven;

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