Daily Reading for Saturday, October 4th, 2025

Reading 1, Baruch 4:5-12, 27-29

⁵ Take courage, my people, memorial of Israel!

⁶ You were sold to the nations, but not for extermination. You provoked God; and so were delivered to your enemies,

⁷ since you had angered your Creator by offering sacrifices to demons, and not to God.

⁸ You had forgotten the eternal God who reared you. You had also grieved Jerusalem who nursed you,

⁹ for when she saw God's anger falling on you, she said: Listen, you neighbours of Zion: God has sent me great sorrow.

¹⁰ I have seen my sons and daughters taken into captivity, which the Eternal brought down on them.

¹¹ I had reared them joyfully; in tears, in sorrow, I watched them go away.

¹² Do not, any of you, exult over me, a widow, deserted by so many; I am bereaved because of the sins of my children, who turned away from the Law of God,

²⁷ Take courage, my children, call on God: he who brought this on you will remember you.

²⁸ As by your will you first strayed from God, so now turn back and search for him ten times harder;

²⁹ for as he has been bringing down those disasters on you, so will he rescue you and give you eternal joy.

Responsorial Psalm, Psalms 69:33-35, 36-37

³³ For God listens to the poor, he has never scorned his captive people.

³⁴ Let heaven and earth and seas, and all that stirs in them, acclaim him!

³⁵ For God will save Zion, and rebuild the cities of Judah, and people will live there on their own land;

³⁶ the descendants of his servants will inherit it, and those who love his name will dwell there.