St Elizabeth of Portugal (Opt. Mem.)

B. V. M. on Saturday

Office: Psalter week 1

Mass and Preface of the Day or Memorial or BVM

Vestment: Green

Today’s Rosary: Joyful Mystery

Vespers I of the 14th Sunday of the Year

FIRST READING      

A reading from the Book of the Prophet Amos 9:11-15

“I will restore the fortunes of my people Israel and plant them upon their land.”

Thus says the Lord: “In that day I will raise up the booth of David that is fallen and repair its breaches, and raise up its ruins, and rebuild it as in the days of old; that they may possess the remnant of Edom and all the nations who are called by my name,” says the Lord who does this. “Behold, the days are coming,” says the Lord, “when the ploughman shall overtake the reaper and the trader of grapes him who sows the seed; the mountains shall drip sweet wine, and all the hills shall flow with it. I will restore the fortunes of my people Israel, and they shall rebuild the ruined cities and inhabit them; they shall plant vineyards and drink their wine, and they shall make gardens and eat their fruit. I will plant them upon their land, and they shall never again be plucked up out of the land which I have given them,” says the Lord your God.

V/The word of the Lord

R/Thanks be to God.