Daily Reading for Saturday, November 13th, 2021

Reading 1, Wisdom 18:14-16; 19:6-9

¹⁴ When peaceful silence lay over all, and night had run the half of her swift course,

¹⁵ down from the heavens, from the royal throne, leapt your all-powerful Word like a pitiless warrior into the heart of a land doomed to destruction. Carrying your unambiguous command like a sharp sword,

¹⁶ it stood, and filled the universe with death; though standing on the earth, it touched the sky.

⁶ For the whole creation, submissive to your commands, had its very nature re-created, so that your children should be preserved from harm.

⁷ Overshadowing the camp there was the cloud; where there had been water, dry land was seen to rise; the Red Sea became an unimpeded way, the tempestuous waves, a green plain;

⁸ sheltered by your hand, the whole nation passed across, gazing at these amazing prodigies.

⁹ They were like horses at pasture, they skipped like lambs, singing your praises, Lord, their deliverer.

Responsorial Psalm, Psalms 105:2-3, 36-37, 42-43

² Sing to him, make music for him, recount all his wonders!

³ Glory in his holy name, let the hearts that seek Yahweh rejoice!

³⁶ He struck all the first-born in their land, the flower of all their manhood;

³⁷ he led Israel out with silver and gold; in their tribes there was none who stumbled.

⁴² Faithful to his sacred promise, given to his servant Abraham,

⁴³ he led out his people with rejoicing, his chosen ones with shouts of joy.

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