24 JULY 2021, SATURDAY, General Week 16
MASS READINGS
FIRST LECTURE
"This is the blood of the Covenant which the Lord has made with you"
Reading the Book of Exodus 24 : 3-8
In those days, coming
down from Sinai,
Moses came and told the people
all the words of the Lord and all his ordinances.
All the people answered with one voice,
"All these words which the Lord has spoken,
we will put into practice." "
Moses wrote all the words of the Lord.
He rose early in the morning and built an altar at the foot of the mountain,
and he set up twelve stones for the twelve tribes of Israel.
Then he commissioned some young boys among the children of Israel
to offer burnt offerings,
and to sacrifice to the Lord of the bulls as a peace-offering.
Moses took half of the blood and put it in cups;
then he sprinkled the altar with the rest of the blood.
He took the book of the Covenant and read it to the people.
He replied,
"All that the Lord has said
we will put into practice, we will obey." "
Moses took the blood and threw the people, and said,
" This is the blood of the Covenant
that, based on all these words which
the Lord has made with you. "
- Word of the Lord.
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