MASS READINGS FIRST READING "You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart" Reading the book of Deuteronomy 6, 4-13

07 August 2021, General Week 18 - Saturday 

MASS READINGS 

FIRST READING 

"You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart" 

Reading the book of Deuteronomy 6, 4-13 

Moses said to the people,

    “Hear, Israel:

the Lord our God is the One.

    You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart,

with all your soul, and with all your strength.

    These words that I am giving you today

will remain in your heart.

    You will repeat them to your sons,

you will repeat them over and over again,

at home or when traveling,

whether you are lying down or getting up;

    you will tie them to your wrist as a sign,

they will be a band on your forehead,

    you will inscribe them at the entrance of your house

and at the gates of your city.

    When the Lord your God brings you

into the land which he swore to your fathers,

Abraham, Isaac and Jacob,

to give you;

when you have great and beautiful cities

which you did not build,

    houses full of riches

which you did not pile up there,

cisterns which you did not dig,

vineyards and olive groves which you did not have not planted;

when you have eaten well and are satisfied:

    then be careful not to forget the Lord,

he who brought you out of Egypt, out

of the house of slavery.

    You will fear the Lord your God,

you will serve him,

it is by his name that you will take an oath. " 

- Word of the Lord.