*🍃SECOND READING* _"wanting nobody to be lost and everybody to be brought to repentance._ *🕯️Second Peter 3:8-14*

*🍃SECOND READING* 

_"wanting nobody to be lost and everybody to be brought to repentance._ 

*🕯️Second Peter 3:8-14* 

But there is one thing, my dear friends, that you must never forget: that with the Lord, a day is like a thousand years, and a thousand years are like a day. The Lord is not being slow in carrying out his promises, as some people think he is; rather is he being patient with you, wanting nobody to be lost and everybody to be brought to repentance. The Day of the Lord will come like a thief, and then with a roar the sky will vanish, the elements will catch fire and melt away, the earth and all that it contains will be burned up. Since everything is coming to an end like this, what holy and saintly lives you should be living while you wait for the Day of God to come, and try to hasten its coming: on that Day the sky will dissolve in flames and the elements melt in the heat. What we are waiting for, relying on his promises, is the new heavens and new earth, where uprightness will be at home. So then, my dear friends, while you are waiting, do your best to live blameless and unsullied lives so that he will find you at peace. 

*The Word of the Lord.*

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*🌿Before the gospel*

  

```Alleluia, alleluia! Prepare the way for the Lord;  Pave the way for him;  All mankind will see the grace of God. Alleluia!```