Readings at Mass Monday 29 November 2021

 Readings at Mass

Monday 29 November 2021

1st Week of Advent 

Liturgical Colour: Violet.

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First reading

Isaiah 2:1-5

The vision of Isaiah son of Amoz, concerning Judah and Jerusalem.

In the days to come

the mountain of the Temple of the Lord

shall tower above the mountains

and be lifted higher than the hills.

All the nations will stream to it,

peoples without number will come to it; and they will say:

    ‘Come, let us go up to the mountain of the Lord,

    to the Temple of the God of Jacob

    that he may teach us his ways

    so that we may walk in his paths;

    since the Law will go out from Zion,

    and the oracle of the Lord from Jerusalem.’

He will wield authority over the nations

and adjudicate between many peoples;

these will hammer their swords into ploughshares,

their spears into sickles.

Nation will not lift sword against nation,

there will be no more training for war.

O House of Jacob, come,

let us walk in the light of the Lord.

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Responsorial Psalm

Psalm 122:1-2,4-5,6-9

Response: I rejoiced when I heard them say: ‘Let us go to God’s house.’

I rejoiced when I heard them say:

    ‘Let us go to God’s house.’

And now our feet are standing

    within your gates, O Jerusalem.

It is there that the tribes go up,

    the tribes of the Lord.

For Israel’s law it is,

    there to praise the Lord’s name.

There were set the thrones of judgement

    of the house of David.

For the peace of Jerusalem pray:

    ‘Peace be to your homes!

May peace reign in your walls,

    in your palaces, peace!’

For love of my brethren and friends

    I say: ‘Peace upon you!’

For love of the house of the Lord

    I will ask for your good.

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Gospel Acclamation

cf. Ps 79:4

Alleluia, alleluia!

God of hosts, bring us back:

let your face shine on us and we shall be saved.

Alleluia!

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Gospel

Matthew 8:5-11

When Jesus went into Capernaum a centurion came up and pleaded with him. ‘Sir,’ he said ‘my servant is lying at home paralysed, and in great pain.’ ‘I will come myself and cure him’ said Jesus. The centurion replied, ‘Sir, I am not worthy to have you under my roof; just give the word and my servant will be cured. For I am under authority myself, and have soldiers under me; and I say to one man: Go, and he goes; to another: Come here, and he comes; to my servant: Do this, and he does it.’ When Jesus heard this he was astonished and said to those following him, ‘I tell you solemnly, nowhere in Israel have I found faith like this. And I tell you that many will come from east and west to take their places with Abraham and Isaac and Jacob at the feast in the kingdom of heaven.’

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Scripture readings from the Jerusalem Bible, Text of the Psalms from The Grail