Sunday of the Twenty-Third Week in Ordinary Time: Office of Readings
Hymn
First Antiphon: Day by day I shall bless you Lord, alleluia.
Psalm 145
Second Antiphon: Your kingdom, Lord, is an everlasting kingdom.
Psalm 145
Third Antiphon: The Lord is faithful in all his words and loving in all his deeds, alleluia.
Psalm 145
Verse: Listen to my words.
Resp: Give ear to my precepts.
First Reading: Jer 37:21; 38:14-28
Response: In times of difficulty and in distress and when flogged or imprisoned.
Second Reading: From a sermon on the beatitudes by St. Leo the Great, pope
Response: This goodness you lavish on all who hope in you.
Te Deum
Presentation of the Liturgy of the Hours (Divine Office) from The Liturgy of the Hours (Four Volumes) © 1975, International Commission on English in the Liturgy Corporation. The texts of Biblical readings are reproduced from the New American Bible © 1975