SUNDAY MASS READINGS

First reading
Wisdom 1:13-15,2:23-24 

God takes no pleasure in the extinction of the living death was not God’s doing,
he takes no pleasure in the extinction of the living. To be – for this he created all;
the world’s created things have health in them, in them no fatal poison can be found,
and Hades holds no power on earth;
for virtue is undying.
Yet God did make man imperishable,
he made him in the image of his own nature; it was the devil’s envy that brought death into the world,
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MASS READINGS FOR SUNDAY 

First reading
Ezekiel 17:22-24

I will plant a shoot on the high mountain of Israel

The Lord says this:
‘From the top of the cedar,
from the highest branch I will take a shoot
and plant it myself on a very high mountain.
I will plant it on the high mountain of Israel.
It will sprout branches and bear fruit,
and become a noble cedar.
Every kind of bird will live beneath it,
every winged creature rest in the shade of its branches.
And every tree of the field will learn that I, the Lord, am the one
who stunts tall trees and makes the low ones grow,
who withers green trees and makes the withered green.
I, the Lord, have spoken, and I will do it.’

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