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Daily Reading for Friday, September 25th, 2015

Daily Reading for Friday September 25, 2015

Reading 1, Haggai 1:15--2:9
Responsorial Psalm, Psalms 43:1, 2, 3, 4
Gospel, Luke 9:18-22
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Reading 1, Haggai 1:15--2:9

¹ In the second year of King Darius, on the first day of the sixth month, the word of Yahweh was addressed through the prophet Haggai to Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel governor of Judah and to Joshua son of Jehozadak the high priest as follows,

² 'Yahweh Sabaoth says this, "This people says: The time has not yet come to rebuild the Temple of Yahweh." '

³ (And the word of Yahweh was addressed through the prophet Haggai, as follows,)

⁴ 'Is this a time for you to live in your panelled houses, when this House lies in ruins?

⁵ So now, Yahweh Sabaoth says this, "Think carefully about your behaviour.

⁶ You have sown much and harvested little; you eat but never have enough, drink but never have your fill, put on clothes but feel no warmth. The wage-earner gets his wages only to put them in a bag with a hole in it."

⁷ Yahweh Sabaoth says this, "Think carefully about your behaviour.

⁸ Go up into the hills, fetch timber and rebuild the House; and I shall take pleasure in it and manifest my glory there -- Yahweh says.

⁹ The abundance you expected proved to be little. When you brought the harvest in, I blasted it. And why? - Yahweh Sabaoth declares. Because while my House lies in ruins, each of you is busy with his own house.

¹⁵ This was on the twenty-fourth day of the sixth month. In the second year of King Darius,

Responsorial Psalm, Psalms 43:1, 2, 3, 4

¹ Judge me, God, defend my cause against a people who have no faithful love; from those who are treacherous and unjust, rescue me.

² For you are the God of my strength; why abandon me? Why must I go around in mourning, harrassed by the enemy?

³ Send out your light and your truth; they shall be my guide, to lead me to your holy mountain to the place where you dwell.

⁴ Then I shall go to the altar of God, to the God of my joy. I will rejoice and praise you on the harp, O God, my God.

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Gospel, Luke 9:18-22

¹⁸ Now it happened that he was praying alone, and his disciples came to him and he put this question to them, 'Who do the crowds say I am?'

¹⁹ And they answered, 'Some say John the Baptist; others Elijah; others again one of the ancient prophets come back to life.'

²⁰ 'But you,' he said to them, 'who do you say I am?' It was Peter who spoke up. 'The Christ of God,' he said.

²¹ But he gave them strict orders and charged them not to say this to anyone.

²² He said, 'The Son of man is destined to suffer grievously, to be rejected by the elders and chief priests and scribes and to be put to death, and to be raised up on the third day.'

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