December 10, 2014

Reading

The Book of the Prophet Isaiah  40: 25-31

40:21	Do you not know? Have you not heard? Has it not been announced to you from the beginning? Have you not understood the foundations of the earth?
40:22	He is the One who sits upon the globe of the earth, and its inhabitants are like locusts. He extends the heavens as if they were nothing, and he spreads them out like a tent, in which to dwell.
40:23	He has brought those who examine what is secret to nothingness. He has brought the judges of the earth to emptiness.
40:24	And certainly, their stalk was neither planted, nor sown, nor rooted in the ground. He has suddenly blown them across them, and they have withered, and a whirlwind will carry them away like chaff.
40:25	“And to whom would you compare me or equate me?” says the Holy One.
40:26	Lift up your eyes on high, and see who has created these things. He leads forth their army by number, and he calls them all by name. Because of the fullness of his strength and robustness and virtue, not one of them was left behind.
40:27	Why do you say this, O Jacob, and why do you speak this way, O Israel? “My way has been hidden from the Lord, and my judgment escaped notice by my God.”
40:28	Do you not know, or have you not heard? The Lord is the eternal God, who has created the limits of the earth. He does not diminish, and he does not struggle. Neither is his wisdom searchable.
40:29	It is he who gives strength to the weary, and it is he who increases fortitude and strength in those who are failing.
40:30	Servants will struggle and fail, and young men will fall into infirmity.
40:31	But those who hope in the Lord will renew their strength. They will take up wings like eagles. They will run and not struggle. They will walk and not tire.

Gospel

The Holy Gospel according to Matthew   11: 28-30

11:28	Come to me, all you who labor and have been burdened, and I will refresh you.
11:29	Take my yoke upon you, and learn from me, for I am meek and humble of heart; and you shall find rest for your souls.
11:30	For my yoke is sweet and my burden is light.”