FEBRUARY 18, 2021 THURSDAY
FIRST READING
See! Today I offer you the blessing or the curse
from the book of Deuteronomy (30, 15-20)
Moses said to the people: “Look! Today I place before you either life and happiness, or death and misfortune. What I command you today is to love the Lord your God, to walk in his ways, to keep his commandments, his decrees and his ordinances. Then you will live and multiply; the Lord your God will bless you in the land you are going to take possession of. But if you turn your heart away, if you do not obey, if you allow yourself to be drawn into prostrating yourself before other gods and serving them, I tell you today: you will certainly perish, you will not live long. days on the land which you will take possession of when you have crossed the Jordan. Today I call heaven and earth to witness against you: I lay before you life or death, blessing or curse. Choose life, then, so that you and your descendants may live loving the Lord your God, listening to his voice, and being attached to him; this is where your life is, a long life on the earth that the Lord swore to give to your fathers, Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. "
The Word of the Lord.
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