October 12, 2019

Joel 3: 11- 21

3:11Break out and advance, all nations of the world, and gather together. There the Lord will cause all your strong ones to meet death.”
3:12Let them arise and ascend to the valley of Jehoshaphat. For there I will sit, so as to judge all the nations of the world.
3:13Send forth the sickles, because the harvest has matured. Advance and descend, for the press is full, the pressing room is overflowing. For their malice has been increasing.
3:14Nations, nations in the valley of being cut to pieces: for the day of the Lord fittingly takes place in the valley of being cut to pieces.
3:15The sun and the moon have been darkened, and the stars have withdrawn their splendor.
3:16And the Lord will roar from Zion and utter his voice from Jerusalem. And the heavens and the earth will be moved. And the Lord will be the hope of his people and the strength of the sons of Israel.
3:17And you will know that I am the Lord your God, dwelling on Zion, my holy mountain. And Jerusalem will be holy, and strangers will not cross through it anymore.
3:18And it will happen, in that day, that the mountains will drip sweetness, and the hills will flow with milk. And the waters will pass through all the rivers of Judah. And a fountain will go forth from the house of the Lord, and it will irrigate the desert of thorns.
3:19Egypt will be in desolation, and Edom will be a wilderness destroyed, because of what they have unfairly done to the sons of Judah, and because they have shed innocent blood in their land.
3:20And Judea will be inhabited forever, and Jerusalem for generation upon generation.
3:21And I will cleanse their blood, which I had not cleansed. And the Lord will remain in Zion.

The Holy Gospel According to Luke   11: 27-28

11:27And it happened that, when he was saying these things, a certain woman from the crowd, lifting up her voice, said to him, “Blessed is the womb that bore you and the breasts that nursed you.”
11:28Then he said, “Yes, but moreover: blessed are those who hear the word of God and keep it.”