MASS READINGS
27 July 2021, General Week 17 - Tuesday
FIRST READING
“The Lord spoke with Moses face to face”
Reading the Book of Exodus 33, 7-11; 34, 5b-9.28
In those days,
at each stage, during the walk in the desert,
Moses would take the Tent and pitch it outside the camp,
at a good distance.
It was called the Tent of Meeting,
and whoever wanted to consult the Lord
had to go outside the camp to reach the Tent of Meeting.
When Moses went out to go to the Tent,
all the people stood up.
Everyone stood at the entrance to their tent
and followed Moses with their eyes until he entered.
As Moses entered the Tent,
the pillar of cloud descended,
stood at the entrance of the Tent,
and God was speaking with Moses.
All the people saw the pillar of cloud
who stood at the entrance of the Tent,
all rose and bowed,
each in front of his tent.
The Lord spoke with Moses face to face,
as one speaks from man to man.
Then Moses returned to the camp,
but his helper, the young Joshua, son of Nun,
did not leave the interior of the Tent.
The Lord himself proclaimed his name
which is: THE LORD.
He walked past Moses and proclaimed:
“THE LORD, THE LORD, a
tender and merciful God,
slow to anger, full of love and truth,
who keeps his faithfulness to the thousandth generation,
endures fault, transgression and sin,
but let nothing pass,
for he punishes the fault of the fathers on the sons and the grandsons,
until the third and the fourth generation. "
Immediately Moses bowed to the ground and worshiped.
He said:
“If it is true, my Lord, that I have found favor in your eyes,
deign to walk among us.
Yes, they are a people with a stiff neck;
but you will forgive our sins and our sins,
and you will make us your inheritance. "
Moses was on Mount Sinai with the Lord
forty days and forty nights;
he neither ate bread nor drank water.
On the stone tablets
he wrote the words of the Covenant, the Ten Words.
- Word of the Lord.
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