9 SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 2024
DEDICATION OF THE LATERAN BASILICAL (FEAST)
SATURDAY OF WEEK 31ST IN ORDINARY TIME
Liturgical colour: White
Today’s Rosary: The Joyful Mysteries
FIRST READING
Ezekiel 47: 1-2, 8-9, 12
“I saw water running from the temple, and all those to whom the water came were saved.”
A reading from the Book of the Prophet Ezekiel
In those days: The angel brought me back to the door of the temple; and behold, water was issuing from below the threshold of the temple toward the east (for the temple faced east); and the water was flowing down from below the right side of the threshold of the temple, south of the altar. Then he brought me out by way of the north gate and led me round on the outside to the outer gate that faces toward the east; and the water was coming out on the right side. And he said to me, “This water flows toward the eastern region and goes down into the Arabah; and when it enters the stagnant waters of the sea, the water will become fresh. And wherever the river goes, every living creature which swarms will live, and there will be very many fish; for this water goes there, that the waters of the sea may become fresh; so everything will live where the river goes. “And on the banks, on both sides of the river, there will grow all kinds of trees for food. Their leaves will not wither nor their fruit fail, but they will bear fresh fruit every month, because the water for them flows from the sanctuary. Their fruit will be for food and their leaves for healing.”
V/ The word of the Lord.
R/ Thanks be to God.
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