SATURDAY OCTOBER 4, 2025
ST FRANCIS OF ASSISI, Rel. (MEMORIAL)
Office: Memorial, Psalter week 2
Mass and Preface of the Memorial
Vestment: White
Today’s Rosary: The Joyful Mystery
FIRST READING
A reading from the Book of Baruch (Baruch 4:5-12.27-29)
“For he who brought these calamities upon you will bring you joy.”
Take courage, my people, O memorial of Israel! It was not for destruction that you were sold to the nations, but you were handed over to your enemies because you angered God. For you provoked him who made you, by sacrificing to demons and not to God. You forgot the everlasting God, who brought you up, and you grieved Jerusalem, who reared you. For she saw the wrath that came upon you from God, and she said: “Listen, you neighbours of Zion, God has brought great sorrow upon me; for I have seen the captivity of my sons and daughters, which the Everlasting brought upon them. With joy I nurtured them, but I sent them away with weeping and sorrow. Let no one rejoice over me, a widow and bereaved of many; I was left desolate because of the sins of my children, because they turned away from the law of God. “Take courage, my children, and cry to God, for you will be remembered by him who brought this upon you. For just as you planned to go astray from God, return with tenfold zeal to seek him. For he who brought these calamities upon you will bring you everlasting joy with your salvation.”
V/ The word of the Lord.
R/ Thanks be to God
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