First Reading
Isaiah 63:16b-17, 19b; 64:2-7
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.
63:16For you are our father, and Abraham has not known us, and Israel has been ignorant of us: you, O Lord, art our father, our redeemer, from eternal is your name.
17Why have you made us to err, O Lord, from your ways: why have you hardened our heart, that we should not fear you? return for the sake of your servants, the tribes of your gift.
19We are become as in the beginning, when you did not rule over us, and when we were not called by your name.
64:2They would melt as at the burning of fire, the waters would burn with fire, that your name might be made known to your enemies: that the nations might tremble at your presence.
3When you shall do wonderful things, we shall not bear them: you did come down, and at your presence the mountains melted away.
4From the start of the world they have not heard, nor perceived with the ears: the eye has not seen, O God, besides you, what things you have prepared for them that wait for you.
5You have met him that rejoiceth, and does righteousness: in your ways they shall remember you: look you are angry, and we have sinned: in them we have been always, and we shall be saved.
6And we are all become as one unclean, and all our justices as the rag of a menstruous woman: and we have all fallen as a leaf, and our sins, like the wind, have taken us away.
7There is none that calls upon your name: that rises up, and takes hold of you: you have hid your face from us, and have crushed us in the hand of our sin.