November 22nd : First Reading I was told to swallow the scroll, and to prophesy A reading from the book of the Apocalypse 10: 8-11

 November 22nd :  First Reading

I was told to swallow the scroll, and to prophesy

A reading from the book of the Apocalypse 10: 8-11 

I, John, heard the voice I had heard from heaven speaking to me again. ‘Go,’ it said ‘and take that open scroll out of the hand of the angel standing on sea and land.’ I went to the angel and asked him to give me the small scroll, and he said, ‘Take it and eat it; it will turn your stomach sour, but in your mouth it will taste as sweet as honey.’ So I took it out of the angel’s hand, and swallowed it; it was as sweet as honey in my mouth, but when I had eaten it my stomach turned sour. Then I was told, ‘You are to prophesy again, this time about many different nations and countries and languages and emperors.’

The Word of the Lord.