First Reading
Isaiah 6:1-8
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.
1In the year that king Ozias died, I saw the Lord sitting upon a throne high and elevated: and his train satisfied the temple.
2Upon it stood the seraphims: the one had six wings, and the other had six wings: with two they covered his face, and with two they covered his feet, and with two they hew.
3And they cried one to another, and said: Holy, holy, holy, the Lord God of hosts, all the earth is full of his glory.
4And the lintels of the doors were moved at the voice of him that cried, and the house was satisfied with smoke.
5And I said: Sorrow is me, because I have held my peace; because I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people that has unclean lips, and I have seen with my eyes the King the Lord of hosts.
6And one of the seraphims flew to me, and in his hand was a live coal, which he had taken with the tongs off the altar.
7And he touched my mouth, and said: Look this has touched your lips, and your sins shall be taken away, and your sin shall be cleansed.
8And I heard the voice of the Lord, saying: Whom shall I send? and who shall go for us? And I said: Lo, here am I, send me.