Monday of the Fifteenth 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: 1 Kgs 18:16b-40
Response: If the Lord is God, follow him.
Second Reading: From the treatise On the Mysteries by St. Ambrose, bishop
Response: I will pour out my spirit upon your offspring, and they shall grow like willows by flowing streams.
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