MASS READINGS FIRST READING "Strengthened by this food, he walked to the mountain of God" Reading of the first book of Kings 19, 4-8

08 August 2021, General Week 19th - Sunday 

MASS READINGS 

FIRST READING 

"Strengthened by this food, he walked to the mountain of God" 

Reading of the first book of Kings 19, 4-8 

In those days 

the prophet Elijah, fleeing the hostility of Queen Jezebel,

    walked all day in the wilderness.

He came and sat down in the shade of a bush, 

and asked for death, saying, 

"Now, Lord, this is too much!" 

Take back my life: 

I'm no better than my fathers. " 

    Then he lay down under the bush and fell asleep. 

But behold, an angel touched him and said to him, 

"Arise, and eat!" " 

    He looked, and there was at his head 

a cake baked on hot stones and a jar of water. 

He ate, he drank, and fell asleep again.

    A second time the angel of the Lord touched him and said to him: 

"Arise, and eat, 

for it is long, the way which remains to you. " 

    Elijah got up, ate and drank. 

Then, fortified by this food, 

he walked forty days and forty nights 

to Horeb, the mountain of God. 

    - Word of the Lord.