Reading 1, Galatians 3:7-14 7 Be sure, then, that it is people of faith who are the children of Abraham. 8 And it was because scripture foresaw that God would give saving justice to the gentiles through faith, that it announced the future gospel to Abraham in the words: All nations will be blessed in you. 9 So it is people of faith who receive the same blessing as Abraham, the man of faith. 10 On the other hand, all those who depend on the works of the Law are under a curse, since scripture ...

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Reading 1, Galatians 3:1-5 1 You stupid people in Galatia! After you have had a clear picture of Jesus Christ crucified, right in front of your eyes, who has put a spell on you? 2 There is only one thing I should like you to tell me: How was it that you received the Spirit -- was it by the practice of the Law, or by believing in the message you heard? 3 Having begun in the Spirit, can you be so stupid as to end in the flesh? 4 Can all the favours you have received have had no effect at all ...

Reading 1, Galatians 2:1-2, 7-14 1 It was not until fourteen years had gone by that I travelled up to Jerusalem again, with Barnabas, and I took Titus with me too. 2 My journey was inspired by a revelation and there, in a private session with the recognised leaders, I expounded the whole gospel that I preach to the gentiles, to make quite sure that the efforts I was making and had already made should not be fruitless. 7 On the contrary, once they saw that the gospel for the uncircumcised had ...

Reading 1, Galatians 1:13-24 13 You have surely heard how I lived in the past, within Judaism, and how there was simply no limit to the way I persecuted the Church of God in my attempts to destroy it; 14 and how, in Judaism, I outstripped most of my Jewish contemporaries in my limitless enthusiasm for the traditions of my ancestors. 15 But when God, who had set me apart from the time when I was in my mother's womb, called me through his grace and chose 16 to reveal his Son in me, so that I ...

Reading 1, Galatians 1:6-12 6 I am astonished that you are so promptly turning away from the one who called you in the grace of Christ and are going over to a different gospel- 7 not that it is another gospel; except that there are trouble-makers among you who are seeking to pervert the gospel of Christ. 8 But even if we ourselves or an angel from heaven preaches to you a gospel other than the one we preached to you, let God's curse be on him. 9 I repeat again what we declared before: anyone ...

Reading 1, Habakkuk 1:2-3,2:2-4 2 How long, Yahweh, am I to cry for help while you will not listen; to cry, 'Violence!' in your ear while you will not save? 3 Why do you make me see wrong-doing, why do you countenance oppression? Plundering and violence confront me, contention and discord flourish. 2 Then Yahweh answered me and said, 'Write the vision down, inscribe it on tablets to be easily read. 3 For the vision is for its appointed time, it hastens towards its end and it will not lie; ...

Reading 1, Job 42:1-3, 5-6, 12-16 1 This was the answer Job gave to Yahweh: 2 I know that you are all-powerful: what you conceive, you can perform. 3 I was the man who misrepresented your intentions with my ignorant words. You have told me about great works that I cannot understand, about marvels which are beyond me, of which I know nothing. 5 Before, I knew you only by hearsay but now, having seen you with my own eyes, 6 I retract what I have said, and repent in dust and ashes. 12 Yahweh ...

Reading 1, Job 38:1, 12-21; 40:3-5 1 Then from the heart of the tempest Yahweh gave Job his answer. He said: 12 Have you ever in your life given orders to the morning or sent the dawn to its post, 13 to grasp the earth by its edges and shake the wicked out of it? 14 She turns it as red as a clay seal, she tints it as though it were a dress, 15 stealing the light from evil-doers and breaking the arm raised to strike. 16 Have you been right down to the sources of the sea and walked about at ...

Reading 1, Daniel 7:9-10, 13-14 9 While I was watching, thrones were set in place and one most venerable took his seat. His robe was white as snow, the hair of his head as pure as wool. His throne was a blaze of flames, its wheels were a burning fire. 10 A stream of fire poured out, issuing from his presence. A thousand thousand waited on him, ten thousand times ten thousand stood before him. The court was in session and the books lay open. 13 I was gazing into the visions of the night, when ...

Reading 1, Job 9:1-12, 14-16 1 Job spoke next. He said: 2 Indeed, I know it is as you say: how could anyone claim to be upright before God? 3 Anyone trying to argue matters with him, could not give him one answer in a thousand. 4 Among the wisest and the hardiest, who then can successfully defy him? 5 He moves the mountains, though they do not know it; he throws them down when he is angry. 6 He shakes the earth, and moves it from its place, making all its pillars tremble. 7 The sun, at ...

Reading 1, Job 3:1-3, 11-17, 20-23 1 In the end it was Job who broke the silence and cursed the day of his birth. 2 This is what he said: 3 Perish the day on which I was born and the night that told of a boy conceived. 11 Why was I not still-born, or why did I not perish as I left the womb? 12 Why were there knees to receive me, breasts for me to suck? 13 Now I should be lying in peace, wrapped in a restful slumber, 14 with the kings and high viziers of earth who have built their ...

Reading 1, Job 1:6-22 6 One day when the sons of God came to attend on Yahweh, among them came Satan. 7 So Yahweh said to Satan, 'Where have you been?' 'Prowling about on earth,' he answered, 'roaming around there.' 8 So Yahweh asked him, 'Did you pay any attention to my servant Job? There is no one like him on the earth: a sound and honest man who fears God and shuns evil.' 9 'Yes,' Satan said, 'but Job is not God-fearing for nothing, is he? 10 Have you not put a wall round him and his ...

Reading 1, Amos 6:1, 4-7 1 Disaster for those so comfortable in Zion and for those so confident on the hill of Samaria, the notables of this first of nations, those to whom the House of Israel has recourse! 4 Lying on ivory beds and sprawling on their divans, they dine on lambs from the flock, and stall-fattened veal; 5 they bawl to the sound of the lyre and, like David, they invent musical instruments; 6 they drink wine by the bowlful, and lard themselves with the finest oils, but for the ...

Reading 1, Ecclesiastes 11:9-12:8 9 Young man, enjoy yourself while you are young, make the most of the days of your youth, follow the prompting and desire of heart and eye, but remember, God will call you to account for everything. 10 Rid your heart of indignation, keep your body clear of suffering, though youth and the age of black hair are both futile. 1 Remember your Creator while you are still young, before the bad days come, before the years come which, you will say, give you no ...

Reading 1, Ecclesiastes 3:1-11 1 There is a season for everything, a time for every occupation under heaven: 2 A time for giving birth, a time for dying; a time for planting, a time for uprooting what has been planted. 3 A time for killing, a time for healing; a time for knocking down, a time for building. 4 A time for tears, a time for laughter; a time for mourning, a time for dancing. 5 A time for throwing stones away, a time for gathering them; a time for embracing, a time to refrain ...

Reading 1, Ecclesiastes 1:2-11 2 Sheer futility, Qoheleth says. Sheer futility: everything is futile! 3 What profit can we show for all our toil, toiling under the sun? 4 A generation goes, a generation comes, yet the earth stands firm for ever. 5 The sun rises, the sun sets; then to its place it speeds and there it rises. 6 Southward goes the wind, then turns to the north; it turns and turns again; then back to its circling goes the wind. 7 Into the sea go all the rivers, and yet the sea ...

Reading 1, Ephesians 4:1-7, 11-13 1 I, the prisoner in the Lord, urge you therefore to lead a life worthy of the vocation to which you were called. 2 With all humility and gentleness, and with patience, support each other in love. 3 Take every care to preserve the unity of the Spirit by the peace that binds you together. 4 There is one Body, one Spirit, just as one hope is the goal of your calling by God. 5 There is one Lord, one faith, one baptism, 6 and one God and Father of all, over ...

Reading 1, Proverbs 21:1-6, 10-13 1 Like flowing water is a king's heart in Yahweh's hand; he directs it wherever he pleases. 2 All actions are straight in the doer's own eyes, but it is Yahweh who weighs hearts. 3 To do what is upright and just is more pleasing to Yahweh than sacrifice. 4 Haughty eye, proud heart, lamp of the wicked, nothing but sin. 5 The hardworking is thoughtful, and all is gain; too much haste, and all that comes of it is want. 6 To make a fortune with the help of a ...

Reading 1, Proverbs 3:27-34 27 Refuse no kindness to those who have a right to it, if it is in your power to perform it. 28 Do not say to your neighbour, 'Go away! Come another time! I will give it you tomorrow,' if you can do it now. 29 Do not plot harm against your neighbour who is living unsuspecting beside you. 30 Do not pick a groundless quarrel with anyone who has done you no harm. 31 Do not envy the man of violence, never model your conduct on his; 32 for the wilful wrong-doer is ...