First Reading
Wisdom 3:1-9
Read this as the first big movement of the day. Notice what God is doing, who is speaking, and what part of the story or teaching should stay with you.
1This is the book of the commands of God, and the law, that is forever: all those who keep it, shall come to life: but those who have left it, to death.
2Return, OH Jacob, and take hold of it, walk in the way by its brightness, in the presence of the light thereof.
3Give not your honour to another, nor your dignity to a strange nation.
4We are happy, OH Israel: because the things that are pleasing to God, are made known to us.
5Be of good comfort, OH people of God, the memorial of Israel:
6You have been sold to the Gentiles, not for your destruction: but because you provoked God to wrath, you are rescued to your adversaries.
7For you have provoked him who made you, the eternal God, offering sacrifice to devils, and not to God.
8For you have forgotten God, who brought you up, and you have grieved Jerusalem that nursed you.
9For she saw the wrath of God coming upon you, and she said: Give ear, all you that dwell near Sion, for God has brought upon me great mourning: