Saturday, 26th Week in Ordinary Time — Odd YearOur Lady of the RosaryMemory

Saturday, 26th Week in Ordinary Time — Odd Year

Our Lady of the Rosary

Memory

FIRST READING 

“He who brought these calamities upon you will bring everlasting joy upon you” (Ba 4, 5-12.27-29)

Reading the book of the prophet Baruch

Courage, my people,

you who are the part of Israel reserved for God!

    You were sold to the pagan nations,

but it was not for your destruction;

you have aroused the wrath of God:

for this reason you have been delivered over to your adversaries.

    For you have angered your Creator

by offering sacrifices to demons and not to God.

    You have forgotten the eternal God,

he who nourished you.

You also grieved Jerusalem,

she who raised you,

    because she saw the wrath of God falling upon you,

and she said:

“Listen, neighbors of Zion,

God has inflicted a grievous mourning on me.

    I saw captivity

which the Lord has inflicted on my sons and my daughters.

    I raised them in joy,

I let them go in tears and mourning.

    Let no one rejoice at my fate,

me who is a widow and abandoned by everyone.

I have been abandoned

because of the sins of my children,

because they turned away from the law of God.

    Courage, my children, cry out to God!

The one who put you through the test will remember you.

    Your thinking has led you astray from God;

once converted,

put ten times more ardor into seeking it.

    For he who brought these calamities upon you

will bring everlasting joy upon you,

ensuring your salvation. »

            – Word of the Lord.