READINGS 5th SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME

First reading Job 7:1-4,6-7

My life is but a breath

Job began to speak:

Is not man’s life on earth nothing more than pressed service,   his time no better than hired drudgery?
Like the slave, sighing for the shade,
or the workman with no thought but his wages, months of delusion I have assigned to me, nothing for my own but nights of grief.
Lying in bed I wonder, ‘When will it be day?’ Risen I think, ‘How slowly evening comes!’
Restlessly I fret till twilight falls.
Swifter than a weaver’s shuttle my days have passed, and vanished, leaving no hope behind. Remember that my life is but a breath, and that my eyes will never again see joy. [Read more…]

Readings for 4th Sunday in Ordinary Time 

First reading
Deuteronomy 18:15-20 

I will raise up a prophet and put my words into his mouth

Moses said to the people: ‘The Lord your God will raise up for you a prophet like myself, from among yourselves, from your own brothers; to him you must listen. This is what you yourselves asked of the Lord your God at Horeb on the day of the Assembly. “Do not let me hear again” you said “the voice of the Lord my God, nor look any longer on this great fire, or I shall die”; and the Lord said to me, “All they have spoken is well said. I will raise up a prophet like yourself for them from their own brothers; I will put my words into his mouth and he shall tell them all I command him. The man who does not listen to my words that he speaks in my name, shall be held answerable to me for it. But the prophet who presumes to say in my name a thing I have not commanded him to say, or who speaks in the name of other gods, that prophet shall die.”’ [Read more…]