First Reading: (Baruch 4: 5-12, 27-29)
Responsorial Psalm: (Psalms 69: 33-35, 36-37)
Gospel: (Luke 10: 17-24)
First Reading: (Baruch 4: 5-12, 27-29)
Be of good comfort, O people of God, the memorial of Israel: You have been sold to the Gentiles, not for your destruction: but because you provoked God to wrath, you are delivered to your adversaries. For you have provoked him who made you, the eternal God, offering sacrifice to devils, and not to God.
For you have forgotten God, who brought you up, and you have grieved Jerusalem that nursed you. For she saw the wrath of God coming upon you, and she said: Give ear, all you that dwell near Sion, for God hath brought upon me great mourning:
For I have seen the captivity of my people, of my sons, and my daughters, which the Eternal hath brought upon them.
For I nourished them with joy: but I sent them away with weeping and mourning. Let no man rejoice over me, a widow, and desolate: I am forsaken of many for the sins of my children, because they departed from the law of God.
Be of good comfort, my children, and cry to the Lord: for you shall be remembered by him that hath led you away. For as it was your mind to go astray from God; so when you return again you shall seek him ten times as much.
For he that hath brought evils upon you, shall bring you everlasting joy again with your salvation.
Responsorial Psalm: (Psalms 69: 33-35, 36-37)
Let the poor see and rejoice: seek ye God, and your soul shall live.
For the Lord hath heard the poor: and hath not despised his prisoners.
Let the heavens and the earth praise him; the sea, and every thing that creepeth therein.
For God will save Sion, and the cities of Juda shall be built up.
And they shall dwell there, and acquire it by inheritance.
And the seed of his servants shall possess it; and they that love his name shall dwell therein.
Gospel: (Luke 10: 17-24)
And the seventy-two returned with joy, saying: Lord, the devils also are subject to us in thy name. And he said to them: I saw Satan like lightning falling from heaven.
Behold, I have given you power to tread upon serpents and scorpions, and upon all the power of the enemy: and nothing shall hurt you. But yet rejoice not in this, that spirits are subject unto you; but rejoice in this, that your names are written in heaven. In that same hour, he rejoiced in the Holy Ghost, and said: I confess to thee, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because thou hast hidden these things from the wise and prudent, and hast revealed them to little ones.
Yea, Father, for so it hath seemed good in thy sight. All things are delivered to me by my Father; and no one knoweth who the Son is, but the Father; and who the Father is, but the Son, and to whom the Son will reveal him. And turning to his disciples, he said: Blessed are the eyes that see the things which you see.
For I say to you, that many prophets and kings have desired to see the things that you see, and have not seen them; and to hear the things that you hear, and have not heard them.
