ST MARIA GORETTI, V. M. (Opt. Mem.)

Office: Psalter Week 2

Mass and Preface of the Day or Memorial

Vestment: Green

Today’s Rosary: Joyful Mystery

FIRST READING

A reading from the Book of the Prophet Hosea 2:14bc.l5cd -16.1 9-20

“I will espouse you forever”

Thus says the Lord: “Behold, I will allure her, and bring her into the wilderness, and speak tenderly to her. And there she shall answer as in the days of her youth, as at the time when she came out of the land of Egypt. And in that day, says the Lord, you will call me, ‘My husband,’ and no longer will you call me, ‘My Baal. ’And I will espouse you for ever; I will espouse you in righteousness and in justice, in steadfast love, and in mercy. I will espouse you in faithfulness; and you shall know the Lord.”

V/The word of the Lord

R/Thanks be to God.