Reading 1, Revelation 14:1-3, 4-5

¹ Next in my vision I saw Mount Zion, and standing on it the Lamb who had with him a hundred and forty-four thousand people, all with his name and his Father's name written on their foreheads.

² I heard a sound coming out of heaven like the sound of the ocean or the roar of thunder; it was like the sound of harpists playing their harps.

³ There before the throne they were singing a new hymn in the presence of the four living creatures and the elders, a hymn that could be learnt only by the hundred and forty-four thousand who had been redeemed from the world.

⁴ These are the sons who have kept their virginity and not been defiled with women; they follow the Lamb wherever he goes; they, out of all people, have been redeemed to be the first-fruits for God and for the Lamb.

⁵ No lie was found in their mouths and no fault can be found in them.

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Responsorial Psalm, Psalms 24:1-2, 3-4, 5-6

¹ [Psalm Of David] To Yahweh belong the earth and all it contains, the world and all who live there;

² it is he who laid its foundations on the seas, on the flowing waters fixed it firm.

³ Who shall go up to the mountain of Yahweh? Who shall take a stand in his holy place?

⁴ The clean of hands and pure of heart, whose heart is not set on vanities, who does not swear an oath in order to deceive.

⁵ Such a one will receive blessing from Yahweh, saving justice from the God of his salvation.

⁶ Such is the people that seeks him, that seeks your presence, God of Jacob.Pause

Gospel, Luke 21:1-4

¹ Looking up, he saw rich people putting their offerings into the treasury;

² and he noticed a poverty-stricken widow putting in two small coins,

³ and he said, 'I tell you truly, this poor widow has put in more than any of them;

⁴ for these have all put in money they could spare, but she in her poverty has put in all she had to live on.'

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