MASS READINGS29 July 2021, General Week 17 - Thursday The Gospel passage is reminiscent of Saints Martha, Mary, and Elazar . MASS READINGS FIRST LECTURE “The cloud covered the Tent of Meeting, and the glory of the Lord filled the Dwelling” Reading the Book of Exodus 40 : 16-21.34-38

MASS READINGS

29 July 2021, General Week 17 - Thursday 

The Gospel passage is reminiscent of Saints Martha, Mary, and Elazar . 

MASS READINGS 

FIRST LECTURE 

“The cloud covered the Tent of Meeting, and the glory of the Lord filled the Dwelling” 

Reading the Book of Exodus 40 : 16-21.34-38 

In those days

    Moses did everything the Lord commanded him.

    The abode of God was erected in

the second year after leaving Egypt,

on the first day of the first month.

    So Moses erected the tabernacle:

he laid the bases, the beams, and the crossbars,

and he erected the pillars.

    Over the Abode he spread the Tent and covered it

as the Lord had commanded him.

    He took the Testimony and put it in the ark.

He put his poles on the ark

and covered it with the golden plate called the mercy seat.

    He introduced the ark into the Abode,

and put up the curtain to veil the ark of the Testimony.

as the Lord commanded him. 

    The cloud covered the Tent of Meeting,

and the glory of the Lord filled the Abode.

    Moses could not enter the Tent of Meeting,

for the cloud dwelt there

and the glory of the Lord filled the Abode.

    At each stage,

as the cloud arose and left the Abode,

the children of Israel raised camp.

    If the cloud did not rise, they encamped

until the day it arose.

    By day the cloud of the Lord rested over the Abode,

and by night a fire shone in the cloud

in the eyes of all Israel.

And so it was at all their stages. 

       - Word of the Lord. 

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