Daily Reading for Monday, February 8th, 2021

Reading 1, Genesis 1:1-19

¹ In the beginning God created heaven and earth.

² Now the earth was a formless void, there was darkness over the deep, with a divine wind sweeping over the waters.

³ God said, 'Let there be light,' and there was light.

⁴ God saw that light was good, and God divided light from darkness.

⁵ God called light 'day', and darkness he called 'night'. Evening came and morning came: the first day.

⁶ God said, 'Let there be a vault through the middle of the waters to divide the waters in two.' And so it was.

⁷ God made the vault, and it divided the waters under the vault from the waters above the vault.

⁸ God called the vault 'heaven'. Evening came and morning came: the second day.

⁹ God said, 'Let the waters under heaven come together into a single mass, and let dry land appear.' And so it was.

¹⁰ God called the dry land 'earth' and the mass of waters 'seas', and God saw that it was good.

¹¹ God said, 'Let the earth produce vegetation: seed-bearing plants, and fruit trees on earth, bearing fruit with their seed inside, each corresponding to its own species.' And so it was.

¹² The earth produced vegetation: the various kinds of seed-bearing plants and the fruit trees with seed inside, each corresponding to its own species. God saw that it was good.

¹³ Evening came and morning came: the third day.

¹⁴ God said, 'Let there be lights in the vault of heaven to divide day from night, and let them indicate festivals, days and years.

¹⁵ Let them be lights in the vault of heaven to shine on the earth.' And so it was.

¹⁶ God made the two great lights: the greater light to govern the day, the smaller light to govern the night, and the stars.

¹⁷ God set them in the vault of heaven to shine on the earth,

¹⁸ to govern the day and the night and to divide light from darkness. God saw that it was good.

¹⁹ Evening came and morning came: the fourth day.

Responsorial Psalm, Psalms 104:1-2, 5-6, 10, 12, 24, 35

¹ Bless Yahweh, my soul, Yahweh, my God, how great you are! Clothed in majesty and splendour,

² wearing the light as a robe! You stretch out the heavens like a tent,

⁵ You fixed the earth on its foundations, for ever and ever it shall not be shaken;

⁶ you covered it with the deep like a garment, the waters overtopping the mountains.

¹⁰ In the ravines you opened up springs, running down between the mountains,

¹² on their banks the birds of the air make their nests, they sing among the leaves.

²⁴ How countless are your works, Yahweh, all of them made so wisely! The earth is full of your creatures.

³⁵ May sinners vanish from the earth, and the wicked exist no more! Bless Yahweh, my soul.

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