Monday of the Twenty-Third Week in Ordinary Time: Office of Readings
Hymn
First Antiphon: Our God will be made manifest; he will not come in silence.
Psalm 50
Second Antiphon: Offer to God the sacrifice of praise.
Psalm 50
Third Antiphon: I want a loving heart more than sacrifice, knowledge of my ways more than holocausts.
Psalm 50
Verse: Listen, my people, and I will speak.
Resp: I am the Lord, your God.
First Reading: Jer 42:1-16; 43:4-7
Response: Few of us now remain though once we were many
Second Reading: From a sermon on the beatitudes by St. Leo the Great, pope
Response: Is 38:3; 1Jn 2:6;5:3;2:5
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