April 19, 2025
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Have a good day!
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Holy Saturday At the Easter Vigil in the Holy Night of Easter
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Reading V
Isaiah 55:1-11
1
"Hey! Come, everyone who thirsts, to the waters!
Come, he who has no money, buy, and eat!
Yes, come, buy wine and milk without money and without price.
2
Why do you spend money for that which is not bread,
and your labor for that which doesn't satisfy?
Listen diligently to me, and eat that which is good,
and let your soul delight itself in richness.
3
Turn your ear, and come to me.
Hear, and your soul will live.
I will make an everlasting covenant with you, even the sure mercies of David.
4
Behold, I have given him for a witness to the peoples,
a leader and commander to the peoples.
5
Behold, you shall call a nation that you don't know;
and a nation that didn't know you shall run to you,
because of the LORD your God,
and for the Holy One of Israel;
for he has glorified you."
6
Seek the LORD while he may be found.
Call on him while he is near.
7
Let the wicked forsake his way,
and the unrighteous man his thoughts.
Let him return to the LORD, and he will have mercy on him,
to our God, for he will freely pardon.
8
"For my thoughts are not your thoughts,
and your ways are not my ways," says the LORD.
9
"For as the heavens are higher than the earth,
so are my ways higher than your ways,
and my thoughts than your thoughts.
10
For as the rain comes down and the snow from the sky,
and doesn't return there, but waters the earth,
and makes it grow and bud,
and gives seed to the sower and bread to the eater;
11
so is my word that goes out of my mouth:
it will not return to me void,
but it will accomplish that which I please,
and it will prosper in the thing I sent it to do.
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Reading VI
Baruch 3:9-15, 32-4:4 +
3:9
Hear, Israel, the commandments of life:
listen, and know prudence!d
10
How is it, Israel,
that you are in the land of your foes,
grown old in a foreign land,
11
Defiled with the dead,
counted among those destined for Hades?
12
You have forsaken the fountain of wisdom!
13
Had you walked in the way of God,
you would have dwelt in enduring peace.
14
Learn where prudence is,
where strength, where understanding;
That you may know also
where are length of days, and life,
where light of the eyes, and peace.
15
Who has found the place of wisdom?
Who has entered into her treasuries?
32
But the one who knows all things knows her;
he has probed her by his knowledge?
The one who established the earth for all time,
and filled it with four-footed animals,
33
Who sends out the lightning, and it goes,
calls it, and trembling it obeys him;
34
Before whom the stars at their posts
shine and rejoice.
35
When he calls them, they answer, "Here we are!"
shining with joy for their Maker.
36
Such is our God;
no other is to be compared to him:
C. Wisdom Contained in the Law
37
He has uncovered the whole way of understanding,
and has given her to Jacob, his servant,
to Israel, his beloved.
38
Thus she has appeared on earth,
is at home with mortals.
4:1
She is the book of the precepts of God,
the law that endures forever;
All who cling to her will live,
but those will die who forsake her.
2
Turn, O Jacob, and receive her:
walk by her light toward splendor.
3
Do not give your glory to another,
your privileges to an alien nation.
4
Blessed are we, O Israel;
for what pleases God is known to us!
+ Baruch 3:9----
https://bible.usccb.org/bible/baruch/3?9
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Reading VII
Ezekiel 36:16-17a, 18-28
16 Moreover the LORD's word came to me, saying,
17a
"Son of man, when the house of Israel lived in their own land, they defiled it by their ways and by their deeds.
18
Therefore I poured out my wrath on them for the blood which they had poured out on the land, and because they had defiled it with their idols.
19
I scattered them among the nations, and they were dispersed through the countries. I judged them according to their way and according to their deeds.
20
When they came to the nations where they went, they profaned my holy name, in that men said of them, 'These are the LORD's people, and have left his land.'
21
But I had respect for my holy name, which the house of Israel had profaned among the nations where they went.
22
"Therefore tell the house of Israel, 'The Lord GOD says: "I don't do this for your sake, house of Israel, but for my holy name, which you have profaned among the nations where you went.
23
I will sanctify my great name, which has been profaned among the nations, which you have profaned among them. Then the nations will know that I am the LORD," says the Lord GOD, "when I am proven holy in you before their eyes.
24
" ' "For I will take you from among the nations and gather you out of all the countries, and will bring you into your own land.
25
I will sprinkle clean water on you, and you will be clean. I will cleanse you from all your filthiness and from all your idols.
26
I will also give you a new heart, and I will put a new spirit within you. I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you a heart of flesh.
27
I will put my Spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes. You will keep my ordinances and do them.
28
You will dwell in the land that I gave to your fathers. You will be my people, and I will be your God.
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Epistle
Romans 6:3-11
3
Or don't you know that all of us who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death?
4
We were buried therefore with him through baptism into death, that just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so we also might walk in newness of life.
5
For if we have become united with him in the likeness of his death, we will also be part of his resurrection;
6
knowing this, that our old man was crucified with him, that the body of sin might be done away with, so that we would no longer be in bondage to sin.
7
For he who has died has been freed from sin.
8
But if we died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with him,
9
knowing that Christ, being raised from the dead, dies no more. Death no longer has dominion over him!
10
For the death that he died, he died to sin one time; but the life that he lives, he lives to God.
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Thus consider yourselves also to be dead to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus our Lord.
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* World English Bible
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