Friday, December 13, 2013.
Today's Liturgical Reading by Daily Flash, Goa.
Feast of Saint Lucy.
First Reading : Isaiah 48:17-19; Second Reading : Psalm 1:1-4, 6; Gospel : Matthew 11:16-19. [Please share today's Gospel.]
First Reading : Isaiah 48:17-19;
17 Thus says the Lord, your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel,
“I am the Lord your God, who teaches you to profit,
Who leads you in the way you should go.
18
“If only you had paid attention to My commandments!
Then your well-being would have been like a river,
And your righteousness like the waves of the sea.
19
“Your descendants would have been like the sand,
And your offspring like its grains;
Their name would never be cut off or destroyed from My presence.”
Psalm 1:1-4, 6;
1
How blessed is the man who does not walk in the counsel of the wicked,
Nor stand in the path of sinners,
Nor sit in the seat of scoffers!
2
But his delight is in the law of the Lord,
And in His law he meditates day and night.
3
He will be like a tree firmly planted by streams of water,
Which yields its fruit in its season
And its leaf does not wither;
And in whatever he does, he prospers.
4
The wicked are not so,
But they are like chaff which the wind drives away.
For the Lord knows the way of the righteous,
But the way of the wicked will perish.
16 “But to what shall I compare this generation? It is like children sitting in the market places, who call out to the other children, 17 and say, ‘We played the flute for you, and you did not dance; we sang a dirge, and you did not mourn.’ 18 For John came neither eating nor drinking, and they say, ‘He has a demon!’ 19 The Son of Man came eating and drinking, and they say, ‘Behold, a gluttonous man and a drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and sinners!’ Yet wisdom is vindicated by her deeds.”
Focus: "Behold, a gluttonous man and a drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and sinners!" (Matthew 11:19)
Fruit: Today let us think of a way to add to the happiness and relief of one of Jesus' friends.
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