First Reading
Jeremiah 31:1-7
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.
1At that time, says the Lord, I will be the God of all the families of and they shall be my people.
2Thus says the Lord: The people were left and escaped from the sword, found grace in the desert: Israel shall to his rest.
3The Lord has appeared from afar to me. Yea I have loved you with eternal love, therefore have I drawn you, taking pity on you.
4And I will build you again, and you shall be built, 0 virgin of Israel: you shall again be adorned with your timbrels, and shall go forth in the dances of them that make merry.
5You shall yet plant vineyards in the mountains of Samaria: the planters shall plant, and they shall not gather the vintage before the time.
6For there shall be a day, in which the watchmen on mount Ephraim, shall cry: Arise, and let us go up to Sion to the Lord our God.
7For thus says the Lord: Rejoice you in the joy of Jacob, and neigh before the head of the Gentiles: shout you, and sing, and say: Save, OH Lord, your people, the remnant of Israel.