Daily Reading for Monday, March 31st, 2025

Reading 1, Isaiah 65:17-21

¹⁷ For look, I am going to create new heavens and a new earth, and the past will not be remembered and will come no more to mind.

¹⁸ Rather be joyful, be glad for ever at what I am creating, for look, I am creating Jerusalem to be 'Joy' and my people to be 'Gladness'.

¹⁹ I shall be joyful in Jerusalem and I shall rejoice in my people. No more will the sound of weeping be heard there, nor the sound of a shriek;

²⁰ never again will there be an infant there who lives only a few days, nor an old man who does not run his full course; for the youngest will die at a hundred, and at a hundred the sinner will be accursed.

²¹ They will build houses and live in them, they will plant vineyards and eat their fruit.

Responsorial Psalm, Psalms 30:2, 4, 5-6, 11-13

² Yahweh, my God, I cried to you for help and you healed me.

⁴ Make music for Yahweh, all you who are faithful to him, praise his unforgettable holiness.

⁵ His anger lasts but a moment, his favour through life; In the evening come tears, but with dawn cries of joy.

⁶ Carefree, I used to think, 'Nothing can ever shake me!'

¹¹ You have turned my mourning into dancing, you have stripped off my sackcloth and clothed me with joy.

¹² So my heart will sing to you unceasingly, Yahweh, my God, I shall praise you for ever.