Daily Reading for Tuesday, January 1st, 2019

Daily Reading for Tuesday January 1, 2019

Reading 1, Jeremiah 26:11-16, 24
Responsorial Psalm, Psalms 147:12-13, 15-16, 19-20
Gospel, Matthew 17:10-13
Reading 2, Galatians 4:4-7
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Reading 1, Jeremiah 26:11-16, 24

¹ But the souls of the upright are in the hands of God, and no torment can touch them.

² To the unenlightened, they appeared to die, their departure was regarded as disaster,

³ their leaving us like annihilation; but they are at peace.

⁴ If, as it seemed to us, they suffered punishment, their hope was rich with immortality;

⁵ slight was their correction, great will their blessings be. God was putting them to the test and has proved them worthy to be with him;

⁶ he has tested them like gold in a furnace, and accepted them as a perfect burnt offering.

⁷ At their time of visitation, they will shine out; as sparks run through the stubble, so will they.

⁸ They will judge nations, rule over peoples, and the Lord will be their king for ever.

⁹ Those who trust in him will understand the truth, those who are faithful will live with him in love; for grace and mercy await his holy ones, and he intervenes on behalf of his chosen.

²² Yahweh spoke to Moses and said,

²³ 'Speak to Aaron and his sons and say: "This is how you must bless the Israelites. You will say:

²⁴ May Yahweh bless you and keep you.

²⁵ May Yahweh let his face shine on you and be gracious to you.

²⁶ May Yahweh show you his face and bring you peace."

²⁷ This is how they must call down my name on the Israelites, and then I shall bless them.'

⁵ At the evening sacrifice I came out of my stupor and, falling on my knees in my torn clothes and cloak, stretched out my hands to Yahweh my God,

⁶ and said: 'My God, I am ashamed, I blush to lift my face to you, my God. For our iniquities have increased, until they are higher than our heads, and our guilt has risen as high as heaven.

⁷ From the days of our ancestors until now we have been deeply guilty and, because of our iniquities, we, our kings and our priests, have been handed over to the kings of other countries, to the sword, to captivity, to pillage, to shame, as is the case today.

⁸ And now, for a brief moment, the favour of Yahweh our God has allowed a remnant of us to escape and given us a stable home in his holy place, so that our God can raise our spirits and revive us a little in our slavery.

⁹ For we are slaves; but God has not forgotten us in our slavery; he has extended his faithful love to us even under the kings of Persia and revived us to rebuild the Temple of our God, restore its ruins and provide us with a refuge in Judah and in Jerusalem.

⁴ They left Mount Hor by the road to the Sea of Suph, to skirt round Edom. On the way the people lost patience.

⁵ They spoke against God and against Moses, 'Why did you bring us out of Egypt to die in the desert? For there is neither food nor water here; we are sick of this meagre diet.'

⁶ At this, God sent fiery serpents among the people; their bite brought death to many in Israel.

⁷ The people came and said to Moses, 'We have sinned by speaking against Yahweh and against you. Intercede for us with Yahweh to save us from these serpents.' Moses interceded for the people,

⁸ and Yahweh replied, 'Make a fiery serpent and raise it as a standard. Anyone who is bitten and looks at it will survive.'

⁹ Moses then made a serpent out of bronze and raised it as a standard, and anyone who was bitten by a serpent and looked at the bronze serpent survived.

Responsorial Psalm, Psalms 147:12-13, 15-16, 19-20

¹ [Of David] Yahweh is my light and my salvation, whom should I fear? Yahweh is the fortress of my life, whom should I dread?

² When the wicked advance against me to eat me up, they, my opponents, my enemies, are the ones who stumble and fall.

³ Though an army pitch camp against me, my heart will not fear, though war break out against me, my trust will never be shaken.

⁴ One thing I ask of Yahweh, one thing I seek: to dwell in Yahweh's house all the days of my life, to enjoy the sweetness of Yahweh, to seek out his temple.

² Then the earth will acknowledge your ways, and all nations your power to save.

³ Let the nations praise you, God, let all the nations praise you.

⁵ Let the nations praise you, God, let all the nations praise you.

⁶ The earth has yielded its produce; God, our God has blessed us.

¹⁹ He reveals his word to Jacob, his statutes and judgements to Israel.

²⁰ For no other nation has he done this, no other has known his judgements.

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Gospel, Matthew 17:10-13

¹⁶ So they hurried away and found Mary and Joseph, and the baby lying in the manger.

¹⁷ When they saw the child they repeated what they had been told about him,

¹⁸ and everyone who heard it was astonished at what the shepherds said to them.

¹⁹ As for Mary, she treasured all these things and pondered them in her heart.

²⁰ And the shepherds went back glorifying and praising God for all they had heard and seen, just as they had been told.

²¹ When the eighth day came and the child was to be circumcised, they gave him the name Jesus, the name the angel had given him before his conception.

¹ In the fifteenth year of Tiberius Caesar's reign, when Pontius Pilate was governor of Judaea, Herod tetrarch of Galilee, his brother Philip tetrarch of the territories of Ituraea and Trachonitis, Lysanias tetrarch of Abilene,

² and while the high-priesthood was held by Annas and Caiaphas, the word of God came to John the son of Zechariah, in the desert.

³ He went through the whole Jordan area proclaiming a baptism of repentance for the forgiveness of sins,

⁴ as it is written in the book of the sayings of Isaiah the prophet: A voice of one that cries in the desert: Prepare a way for the Lord, make his paths straight!

⁵ Let every valley be filled in, every mountain and hill be levelled, winding ways be straightened and rough roads made smooth,

⁶ and all humanity will see the salvation of God.

¹ It was just about this time that some people arrived and told him about the Galileans whose blood Pilate had mingled with that of their sacrifices. At this he said to them,

² 'Do you suppose that these Galileans were worse sinners than any others, that this should have happened to them?

³ They were not, I tell you. No; but unless you repent you will all perish as they did.

⁴ Or those eighteen on whom the tower at Siloam fell, killing them all? Do you suppose that they were more guilty than all the other people living in Jerusalem?

⁵ They were not, I tell you. No; but unless you repent you will all perish as they did.'

⁶ He told this parable, 'A man had a fig tree planted in his vineyard, and he came looking for fruit on it but found none.

⁷ He said to his vinedresser, "For three years now I have been coming to look for fruit on this fig tree and finding none. Cut it down: why should it be taking up the ground?"

⁸ "Sir," the man replied, "leave it one more year and give me time to dig round it and manure it:

⁹ it may bear fruit next year; if not, then you can cut it down." '

¹⁰ And the disciples put this question to him, 'Why then do the scribes say that Elijah must come first?'

¹¹ He replied, 'Elijah is indeed coming, and he will set everything right again;

¹² however, I tell you that Elijah has come already and they did not recognise him but treated him as they pleased; and the Son of man will suffer similarly at their hands.'

¹³ Then the disciples understood that he was speaking of John the Baptist.