Saturday of the 1st week of Advent
Saturday • Feria
Isaiah 30:19-21, 23-26
For the people of Sion shall dwell in Jerusalem: weeping thou shalt not weep, he will surely have pity on thee: at the voice of thy cry, se soon as he shell hear, he will answer thee.And the Lord will give you spare bread, and short water: and will not cause thy teacher to flee away from thee any more, and thy eyes shall see thy teacher.And thy ears shall hear the word of one admonishing thee behind thy back: This is the way, walk ye in it: and go not aside neither to the right hand, nor to the left.And rain shall be given to thy seed, wheresoever thou shalt sow in the land: and the bread of the corn of the land shall be most plentiful, and fat. The lamb in that day shall feed at large in thy possession:And thy oxen, and the ass colts that till the ground, shall eat mingled pro vender as it was winnowed in the floor.And there shall be upon every high mountain, and upon every elevated hill rivers of running waters in the day of the slaughter of many, when the tower shall fall.And the light of the moon shall be se the light of the sun, and the light of the sun shall be sevenfold, as the light of seven days: in the day when the Lord shall bind up the wound of his people, and shall heal the stroke of their wound.
Psalm 147:1-2, 3-4, 5-6
Alleluia, of Aggeus and Zacharias.Praise the Lord, O my soul, in my life I will praise the Lord: I will sing to my God as long as I shall be. Put not your trust in princes:in the children of men, in whom there is no salvation.His spirit shall go forth, and he shall return into his earth: in that day all their thoughts shall perish.Blessed is he who hath the God of Jacob for his helper, whose hope is in the Lord his God:who made heaven and earth, the sea, and all things that are in them.
Matthew 9:35–10:1, 5a, 6-8
And Jesus went about all the cities, and towns, teaching in their synagogues, and preaching the gospel of the kingdom, and healing every disease, and every infirmity.And seeing the multitudes, he had compassion on them: because they were distressed, and lying like sheep that have no shepherd.Then he saith to his disciples, The harvest indeed is great, but the labourers are few.Pray ye therefore the Lord of the harvest, that he send forth labourers into his harvest.And having called his twelve disciples together, he gave them power over unclean spirits, to cast them out, and to heal all manner of diseases, and all manner of infirmities.Whether is easier, to say, Thy sins are forgiven thee: or to say, Arise, and walk?But that you may know that the Son of man hath power on earth to forgive sins, (then said he to the man sick of palsy,) Arise, take up thy bed, and go into thy house.And he arose, and went into his house.And the multitude seeing it, feared, and glorified God that gave such power to men.