First Reading
Wisdom 1:1-7
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.
1Therefore the Lord our God has made good his word, that he spoke to us, and to our judges that have judged Israel, and to our kings, and to our leaders, and to all Israel and Juda:
2In the fifth year, in the seventh day of the month, at the time that the Chaldeans took Jerusalem, and burnt it with fire.
4That the Lord would bring upon us great evils, such as never happened under heaven, as they have come to pass in Jerusalem, according to the things that are written in the law of Moses:
5And Baruch read the words of this book in the hearing of Jechonias the son of Joakim king of Juda, and in the hearing of all the people that came to hear the book.
7That a man should eat the flesh of his own son, and the flesh of his own daughter.