08 August 2021, General Week 19th - Sunday
MASS READINGS
FIRST READING
"Strengthened by this food, he walked to the mountain of God"
Reading of the first book of Kings 19, 4-8
In those days
the prophet Elijah, fleeing the hostility of Queen Jezebel,
walked all day in the wilderness.
He came and sat down in the shade of a bush,
and asked for death, saying,
"Now, Lord, this is too much!"
Take back my life:
I'm no better than my fathers. "
Then he lay down under the bush and fell asleep.
But behold, an angel touched him and said to him,
"Arise, and eat!" "
He looked, and there was at his head
a cake baked on hot stones and a jar of water.
He ate, he drank, and fell asleep again.
A second time the angel of the Lord touched him and said to him:
"Arise, and eat,
for it is long, the way which remains to you. "
Elijah got up, ate and drank.
Then, fortified by this food,
he walked forty days and forty nights
to Horeb, the mountain of God.
- Word of the Lord.
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