23RD JULY,2026
St Bridget of Sweden, Rel. (Opt. Mem.)
Office: Psalter Week 4
Mass and preface of the day or Memorial
Vestment: Green/White
Today’s Rosary: Luminous Mystery
FIRST READING
A reading from the Book of Jeremiah 2:1-3, 7-8, 12-13
They have forsaken me, the fountain of living waters, and hewed out broken cisterns for themselves.
It happened that the word of the Lord came to me, saying, “Go and proclaim in the hearing of Jerusalem, Thus says the Lord, I remember the devotion of your youth, your love as a bride, how you followed me in the wilderness, in a land not sown. Israel was holy to the LORD, the first fruits of his harvest. All who ate of it became guilty; evil came upon them, says the Lord. “And I brought you into a plentiful land to enjoy its fruits and its good things. But when you came in you defiled my land, and made my heritage an abomination. The priests did not say, ‘Where is the Lord?’ Those who handle the law did not know me; the rulers transgressed against me; the prophets prophesied by Baal, and went after things that do not profit. “Be appalled, O heavens, at this, be shocked, be utterly desolate, says the LORD, for my people have committed two evils: they have forsaken me, the fountain of living waters, and hewed out cisterns for themselves, broken cisterns, that can hold no water.”
V/The word of the Lord
R/Thanks be to God.
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