My sacrifice, O God, is a broken spirit; a broken and contrite heart you, God, will not despise. Ps 51:17
If you read today’s first reading you will see it is penetential in nature. Our souls finds rest in Christ alone. Read psalm 63 and you will be amazed at the similarities found in this reading from Isaiah.
How lovely that our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ calls us in today’s Gospel to come rest in Him!
I love You Lord. Amen
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First reading
Isaiah 26:7-9,12,16-19 ·
‘Awake and exult, all you who lie in the dust’
The path of the upright man is straight, you smooth the way of the upright.
Following the path of your judgements, we hoped in you, O Lord, your name, your memory are all my soul desires.
At night my soul longs for you
and my spirit in me seeks for you; when your judgements appear on earth the inhabitants of the world learn the meaning of integrity.
O Lord, you are giving us peace,
since you treat us as our deeds deserve.
Distressed, we search for you, O Lord; the misery of oppression was your punishment for us.
As a woman with child near her time writhes and cries out in her pangs,
so are we, O Lord, in your presence: we have conceived, we writhe as if we were giving birth;
we have not given the spirit of salvation to the earth, no more inhabitants of the world are born.
Your dead will come to life, their corpses will rise; awake, exult,
all you who lie in the dust, for your dew is a radiant dew and the land of ghosts will give birth.
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Gospel
Matthew 11:28-30
My yoke is easy and my burden light
Jesus said, ‘Come to me, all you who labour and are overburdened, and I will give you rest. Shoulder my yoke and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. Yes, my yoke is easy and my burden light.’
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