Daily Readings - September 20, 2011 - Tuesday
Saints Andrew Kim Taegon, Paul Chong Hasang, and Companions, Martyrs
First Reading: Ezra 6:7-8, 12, 14-20
Responsorial Psalm: Psalm 122:1-2, 3-4, 4-5
Holy Gospel: Luke 8:19-21
Holy Gospel:
19 Then his mother and his relatives came to him, but they could not get to him because of the crowd. 20 Someone told him, “Your mother and your brothers are standing outside and wish to meet you.” 21 Then Jesus answered, “My mother and my brothers are those who hear the word of God and do it.”
First Reading:
7 Let the governor of the Jews together with their leaders build the House of God on its former site.
8 This is the command I give as to what you should do to help those Jewish leaders rebuild the House of God: pay the expenses in full and without delay, with the income from taxes of the province at the other side of the River which is allotted to the king.
12 And may the God who makes his Name dwell there crush every rebel, king or people, who goes against this and tries to destroy the House of God in Jerusalem. I, Darius, give this command. Let it be carried out at once.”
14 And the leaders of the Jews continued to make progress in building, encouraged by what Haggai, the prophet, and Zechariah, the son of Iddo, had said; and they finished the work according to the command of the God of Israel and the decrees of Cyrus and Darius. 15 The House was finished on the third day of the month of Adar in the sixth year of the reign of Darius.
16 The children of Israel, the priests and the Levites, and the rest of those who had returned from exile celebrated the consecration of this House of God with rejoicing, 17 offering on this solemnity one hundred young bulls, two hundred rams and four hundred lambs; and twelve he-goats as a sin-offering for all Israel, according to the number of the tribes of Israel.
18 Then they installed the priests according to their ranks, and the Levites according to their classes, for the service of the house of God in Jerusalem, as it is written in the book of Moses.
19 Those who had returned from exile celebrated the Passover on the fourteenth day of the first month, 20 for the priests and the Levites had purified themselves together, and all of them were clean. So, they slaughtered the Passover lamb for all who had returned from exile, for their fellow-priests and for themselves.
Responsorial Psalm:
1 I rejoiced with those who said to me,
“Let us go to the house of the Lord!”
2 And now we have set foot
within your gates, O Jerusalem!
3 Jerusalem, just like a city,
where everything falls into place!
4 There the tribes go up,
the tribes of the Lord, the assembly of Israel,
to give thanks to the Lord’s name,
5 There stand the courts of justice
the offices of the house of David.
First Reading: Ezra 6:7-8, 12, 14-20
Responsorial Psalm: Psalm 122:1-2, 3-4, 4-5
Holy Gospel: Luke 8:19-21
Holy Gospel:
19 Then his mother and his relatives came to him, but they could not get to him because of the crowd. 20 Someone told him, “Your mother and your brothers are standing outside and wish to meet you.” 21 Then Jesus answered, “My mother and my brothers are those who hear the word of God and do it.”
First Reading:
7 Let the governor of the Jews together with their leaders build the House of God on its former site.
8 This is the command I give as to what you should do to help those Jewish leaders rebuild the House of God: pay the expenses in full and without delay, with the income from taxes of the province at the other side of the River which is allotted to the king.
12 And may the God who makes his Name dwell there crush every rebel, king or people, who goes against this and tries to destroy the House of God in Jerusalem. I, Darius, give this command. Let it be carried out at once.”
14 And the leaders of the Jews continued to make progress in building, encouraged by what Haggai, the prophet, and Zechariah, the son of Iddo, had said; and they finished the work according to the command of the God of Israel and the decrees of Cyrus and Darius. 15 The House was finished on the third day of the month of Adar in the sixth year of the reign of Darius.
16 The children of Israel, the priests and the Levites, and the rest of those who had returned from exile celebrated the consecration of this House of God with rejoicing, 17 offering on this solemnity one hundred young bulls, two hundred rams and four hundred lambs; and twelve he-goats as a sin-offering for all Israel, according to the number of the tribes of Israel.
18 Then they installed the priests according to their ranks, and the Levites according to their classes, for the service of the house of God in Jerusalem, as it is written in the book of Moses.
19 Those who had returned from exile celebrated the Passover on the fourteenth day of the first month, 20 for the priests and the Levites had purified themselves together, and all of them were clean. So, they slaughtered the Passover lamb for all who had returned from exile, for their fellow-priests and for themselves.
Responsorial Psalm:
1 I rejoiced with those who said to me,
“Let us go to the house of the Lord!”
2 And now we have set foot
within your gates, O Jerusalem!
3 Jerusalem, just like a city,
where everything falls into place!
4 There the tribes go up,
the tribes of the Lord, the assembly of Israel,
to give thanks to the Lord’s name,
5 There stand the courts of justice
the offices of the house of David.
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