11.29.2011

Today's Bible story

November 29, 2011

Today we want to become a good day.

Today's Bible story based on the calendar of the Catholic Church.
http://www.catholicnewsagency.com/calendar.php

Most of these contents are things of The World English Bible.
http://ebible.org/web/

We hope that everyone in the peace of the Lord.

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Saints:
St. Saturninus
Blessed Denis of the Nativity and Blessed Redemptorus of the Cross

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+First Reading: Isaiah 4:2-6

2 In that day, Yahweh's branch will be beautiful and glorious, and the fruit of the land will be the beauty and glory of the survivors of Israel.

3 It will happen, that he who is left in Zion, and he who remains in Jerusalem, shall be called holy, even everyone who is written among the living in Jerusalem;

4 when the Lord shall have washed away the filth of the daughters of Zion, and shall have purged the blood of Jerusalem from its midst, by the spirit of justice, and by the spirit of burning.

5 Yahweh will create over the whole habitation of Mount Zion, and over her assemblies, a cloud and smoke by day, and the shining of a flaming fire by night; for over all the glory will be a canopy.

6 There will be a pavilion for a shade in the daytime from the heat, and for a refuge and for a shelter from storm and from rain.

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+First Reading: Isaiah 11:1-10

1 A shoot will come out of the stock of Jesse,
and a branch out of his roots will bear fruit.

2 The Spirit of Yahweh will rest on him:
the spirit of wisdom and understanding,
the spirit of counsel and might,
the spirit of knowledge and of the fear of Yahweh.

3 His delight will be in the fear of Yahweh.
He will not judge by the sight of his eyes,
neither decide by the hearing of his ears;

4 but with righteousness he will judge the poor,
and decide with equity for the humble of the earth.
He will strike the earth with the rod of his mouth;
and with the breath of his lips he will kill the wicked.

5 Righteousness will be the belt of his waist,
and faithfulness the belt of his waist.

6 The wolf will live with the lamb,
and the leopard will lie down with the young goat;
The calf, the young lion, and the fattened calf together;
and a little child will lead them.

7 The cow and the bear will graze.
Their young ones will lie down together.
The lion will eat straw like the ox.

8 The nursing child will play near a cobra's hole,
and the weaned child will put his hand on the viper's den.

9 They will not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain;
for the earth will be full of the knowledge of Yahweh,
as the waters cover the sea.

10 It will happen in that day that the nations will seek the root of Jesse, who stands as a banner of the peoples; and his resting place will be glorious.

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+Psalm: Psalms 122:1-9

1 I was glad when they said to me,
"Let's go to Yahweh's house!"

2 Our feet are standing within your gates, Jerusalem;

3 Jerusalem, that is built as a city that is compact together;

4 where the tribes go up, even Yah's tribes,
according to an ordinance for Israel,
to give thanks to the name of Yahweh.

5 For there are set thrones for judgment,
the thrones of David's house.

6 Pray for the peace of Jerusalem.
Those who love you will prosper.

7 Peace be within your walls,
and prosperity within your palaces.

8 For my brothers' and companions' sakes,
I will now say, "Peace be within you."

9 For the sake of the house of Yahweh our God,
I will seek your good.

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+Psalm: Psalms 72:1-2,7-8,12-13,17

By Solomon.
1 God, give the king your justice;
your righteousness to the royal son.

2 He will judge your people with righteousness,
and your poor with justice.

7 In his days, the righteous shall flourish,
and abundance of peace, until the moon is no more.

8 He shall have dominion also from sea to sea,
from the River to the ends of the earth.

12 For he will deliver the needy when he cries;
the poor, who has no helper.

13 He will have pity on the poor and needy.
He will save the souls of the needy.

17 His name endures forever.
His name continues as long as the sun.
Men shall be blessed by him.
All nations will call him blessed.

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+Gospel: Luke 10:21-24

21 In that same hour Jesus rejoiced in the Holy Spirit, and said, "I thank you, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that you have hidden these things from the wise and understanding, and revealed them to little children. Yes, Father, for so it was well-pleasing in your sight."

22 Turning to the disciples, he said, "All things have been delivered to me by my Father. No one knows who the Son is, except the Father, and who the Father is, except the Son, and he to whomever the Son desires to reveal him."

23 Turning to the disciples, he said privately, "Blessed are the eyes which see the things that you see,

24 for I tell you that many prophets and kings desired to see the things which you see, and didn't see them, and to hear the things which you hear, and didn't hear them."

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