Ash Wednesday, 2014

Prima Lettura

Joël 2: 12-18

2:12	Avà, dunque, the Lord says: “Be converted to me with your whole heart, in fasting and weeping and mourning.”
2:13	And rend your hearts, and not your garments, and convert to the Lord your God. For he is gracious and merciful, patient and full of compassion, and steadfast despite ill will.
2:14	Who knows if he might convert and forgive, and bequeath a blessing after him, a sacrifice and a libation to the Lord your God?
2:15	Blow the trumpet in Zion, sanctify a fast, call an assembly.
2:16	Gather the people, sanctify the church, unite the elders, gather together the little ones and infants at the breast. Let the bridegroom depart from his bed, and the bride from her bridal chamber.
2:17	Between the vestibule and the altar, i preti, the ministers of the Lord, will weep, è diceranu: “Spare, O Signore, spare your people. And do not bequeath your inheritance into disgrace, so that the nations would rule over them. Why should they say among the peoples, ‘Where is their God?’”
2:18	The Lord has been zealous for his land, and he has spared his people.

Siconda Lettura

The Letter of Saint Paul to the Corinthians 5: 20-6:2

5:20	Dunque, simu ambasciatori di Cristu, cusì chì Diu hè exhorting attraversu noi. Vi preghemu per Cristu: esse cunciliatu à Diu.
5:21	Perchè Diu hà fattu quellu chì ùn hà micca cunnisciutu u peccatu per esse peccatu per noi, cusì chì pudemu diventà a ghjustizia di Diu in ellu.

2 Corinti 6

6:1	Ma, cum'è un aiutu per voi, vi esurtamu à ùn riceve a grazia di Diu in vain.
6:2	Perchè ellu dice: "In un tempu favurevule, ti aghju attentu; è u ghjornu di a salvezza, Vi aghju aiutatu. " Eccu, avà hè u tempu favurevule; eccu, avà hè u ghjornu di a salvezza.

Vangelu

U Santu Vangelu secondu Matteu 6: 1-6, 16-18

6:1	"Prestà attinzione, lest you perform your justice before men, in order to be seen by them; otherwise you shall not have a reward with your Father, quale hè in celu.
6:2	Dunque, when you give alms, do not choose to sound a trumpet before you, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the towns, so that they may be honored by men. Amen vi dicu, they have received their reward.
6:3	But when you give alms, do not let your left hand know what your right hand is doing,
6:4	so that your almsgiving may be in secret, and your Father, who sees in secret, will repay you.
6:5	And when you pray, you should not be like the hypocrites, who love standing in the synagogues and at the corners of the streets to pray, so that they may be seen by men. Amen vi dicu, they have received their reward.
6:6	Ma tu, when you pray, enter into your room, and having shut the door, pray to your Father in secret, and your Father, who sees in secret, will repay you.
6:16	And when you fast, do not choose to become gloomy, like the hypocrites. For they alter their faces, so that their fasting may be apparent to men. Amen vi dicu, that they have received their reward.
6:17	Ma in quantu à voi, when you fast, anoint your head and wash your face,
6:18	so that your fasting will not be apparent to men, but to your Father, who is in secret. And your Father, who sees in secret, will repay you.