WEDNESDAY JULY 21, 2021, General Week 16 MASS READINGS 🕊FIRST LECTURE "From heaven I will rain bread for you" Reading from the book of Exodus (16, 1-5. 9-15)

WEDNESDAY JULY 21, 2021, General Week 16 

MASS READINGS 

🕊FIRST LECTURE 

"From heaven I will rain bread for you" 

Reading from the book of Exodus (16, 1-5. 9-15) 

The whole community of the sons of Israel set out from Elim

and reached the desert of Sine, between Elim and Sinai,

on the fifteenth day of the second month after he left the land of Egypt.

    In the desert, the whole community of the sons of Israel was

recriminating against Moses and his brother Aaron.

    The sons of Israel said to them:

“Ah! It would have been better to die

at the hand of the Lord, in the land of Egypt,

when we were seated near the pots of meat,

when we ate bread to our satiety!

You brought us out into this desert

to starve all these assembled people! "

    The Lord said to Moses,

" Behold, I will rain bread for you from heaven.

The people will go out to collect their daily ration every day,

and so I will put them to the test:

I will see whether they will walk or not, according to my law.

    But on the sixth day,

when they count their harvest,

they will find double the daily ration. "

    Then Moses said to Aaron:

" Command to the whole community of the son of Israel:

"Introduce yourself before the Lord,

for he has heard your complaints." "

    Aaron spoke to the whole community of Israel son;

then they turned towards the wilderness,

and behold, the glory of the Lord appeared in the cloud.

    The Lord then said to Moses:

    “I have heard the complaints of the sons of Israel.

You will say to them:

“At sunset you will eat meat

and the next morning you will have enough bread.

Then you will know that I, the Lord, am your God. ” " 

    That same evening, a flight of quails arose which covered the camp;

and the next morning there was a layer of dew around the camp.

    When the dew layer evaporated,

there was a thin crust on the surface of the desert,

something fine like frost, on the ground.

    When they saw this, the sons of Israel said to each other,

“ Mann hou ? (Which means: What is it?),

Because they did not know what it was.

Moses said to them,

“This is the bread which the Lord gives you to eat. " 

    - Word of the Lord. 

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