Daily Readings for Sunday July 04, 2010

Reading 1, Is 66:10-14c

¹⁰ Rejoice with Jerusalem, be glad for her, all you who love her! Rejoice, rejoice with her, all you who mourned her!

¹¹ So that you may be suckled and satisfied from her consoling breast, so that you may drink deep with delight from her generous nipple.

¹² For Yahweh says this: Look, I am going to send peace flowing over her like a river, and like a stream in spate the glory of the nations. You will be suckled, carried on her hip and fondled in her lap.

¹³ As a mother comforts a child, so I shall comfort you; you will be comforted in Jerusalem.

¹⁴ At the sight your heart will rejoice, and your limbs regain vigour like the grass. To his servants Yahweh will reveal his hand, but to his enemies his fury.

Gospel, Lk 10:1-9

¹ After this the Lord appointed seventy-two others and sent them out ahead of him in pairs, to all the towns and places he himself would be visiting.

² And he said to them, 'The harvest is rich but the labourers are few, so ask the Lord of the harvest to send labourers to do his harvesting.

³ Start off now, but look, I am sending you out like lambs among wolves.

⁴ Take no purse with you, no haversack, no sandals. Salute no one on the road.

⁵ Whatever house you enter, let your first words be, "Peace to this house!"

⁶ And if a man of peace lives there, your peace will go and rest on him; if not, it will come back to you.

⁷ Stay in the same house, taking what food and drink they have to offer, for the labourer deserves his wages; do not move from house to house.

⁸ Whenever you go into a town where they make you welcome, eat what is put before you.

⁹ Cure those in it who are sick, and say, "The kingdom of God is very near to you."

Reading 2, Gal 6:14-18

¹⁴ But as for me, it is out of the question that I should boast at all, except of the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world.

¹⁵ It is not being circumcised or uncircumcised that matters; but what matters is a new creation.

¹⁶ Peace and mercy to all who follow this as their rule and to the Israel of God.

¹⁷ After this, let no one trouble me; I carry branded on my body the marks of Jesus.

¹⁸ The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit, my brothers. Amen.