15 March 2021, Monday FIRST READING "We will no longer hear crying or screaming" Reading from the book of the prophet Isaiah (65, 17-21)

15 March 2021, Monday 

FIRST READING 

"We will no longer hear crying or screaming" 

Reading from the book of the prophet Isaiah (65, 17-21) 

Thus says the Lord: Yes, behold: I am going to create a new heaven and a new earth, the past will no longer be remembered, it will never come to mind. Rather be in joy, exult endlessly for what I am creating. For I am going to recreate Jerusalem, so that it may be exultation, and that its people may become joy. I will exult in Jerusalem, I will find my joy in my people. We won't hear any more weeping or screaming. There, no more infant carried away in a few days, nor any man who does not reach the end of his old age; the youngest will die a hundred years old, not reaching a hundred years will be a curse. We will build houses, we will live there; vines will be planted and their fruit will be eaten. 

The Word of the Lord.

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