Mass Readings for December 15, 2023

Isaiah 48:17-19
Psalms 1:1-4,6
Matthew 11:16-19

Isaiah 48:17-19
(17) Yahweh, your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel says: “I am Yahweh your God, who teaches you to profit, who leads you by the way that you should go. (18) Oh that you had listened to my commandments! Then your peace would have been like a river, and your righteousness like the waves of the sea. (19) Your offspring also would have been as the sand, and the descendants of your body like its grains. His name would not be cut off nor destroyed from before me.”

Psalms 1:1-4,6
(1) Blessed is the man who doesn’t walk in the counsel of the wicked, nor stand on the path of sinners, nor sit in the seat of scoffers; (2) but his delight is in Yahweh’s law. On his law he meditates day and night. (3) He will be like a tree planted by the streams of water, that produces its fruit in its season, whose leaf also does not wither. Whatever he does shall prosper. (4) The wicked are not so, but are like the chaff which the wind drives away. (6) For Yahweh knows the way of the righteous, but the way of the wicked shall perish.

Matthew 11:16-19
(16) “But to what shall I compare this generation? It is like children sitting in the marketplaces, who call to their companions (17) and say, ‘We played the flute for you, and you didn’t dance. We mourned for you, and you didn’t lament.’ (18) For John came neither eating nor drinking, and they say, ‘He has a demon.’ (19) The Son of Man came eating and drinking, and they say, ‘Behold, a gluttonous man and a drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and sinners!’ But wisdom is justified by her children.”