Micah 6:1-4,6-8
Psalms 50:5-6,8-9,16-17,21,23
John 20:1-2,11-18
Micah 6:1-4,6-8
(1) Listen now to what Yahweh says: “Arise, plead your case before the mountains, and let the hills hear what you have to say. (2) Hear, you mountains, Yahweh’s controversy, and you enduring foundations of the earth; for Yahweh has a controversy with his people, and he will contend with Israel. (3) My people, what have I done to you? How have I burdened you? Answer me! (4) For I brought you up out of the land of Egypt, and redeemed you out of the house of bondage. I sent before you Moses, Aaron, and Miriam. (6) How shall I come before Yahweh, and bow myself before the exalted God? Shall I come before him with burnt offerings, with calves a year old? (7) Will Yahweh be pleased with thousands of rams? With tens of thousands of rivers of oil? Shall I give my firstborn for my disobedience? The fruit of my body for the sin of my soul? (8) He has shown you, O man, what is good. What does Yahweh require of you, but to act justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God?
Psalms 50:5-6,8-9,16-17,21,23
(5) “Gather my saints together to me, those who have made a covenant with me by sacrifice.” (6) The heavens shall declare his righteousness, for God himself is judge. Selah. (8) I don’t rebuke you for your sacrifices. Your burnt offerings are continually before me. (9) I have no need for a bull from your stall, nor male goats from your pens. (16) But to the wicked God says, “What right do you have to declare my statutes, that you have taken my covenant on your lips, (17) since you hate instruction, and throw my words behind you? (21) You have done these things, and I kept silent. You thought that I was just like you. I will rebuke you, and accuse you in front of your eyes. (23) Whoever offers the sacrifice of thanksgiving glorifies me, and prepares his way so that I will show God’s salvation to him.”
John 20:1-2,11-18
(1) Now on the first day of the week, Mary Magdalene went early, while it was still dark, to the tomb, and saw the stone taken away from the tomb. (2) Therefore she ran and came to Simon Peter, and to the other disciple whom Jesus loved, and said to them, “They have taken away the Lord out of the tomb, and we don’t know where they have laid him!” (11) But Mary was standing outside at the tomb weeping. So, as she wept, she stooped and looked into the tomb, (12) and she saw two angels in white sitting, one at the head, and one at the feet, where the body of Jesus had lain. (13) They told her, “Woman, why are you weeping?” She said to them, “Because they have taken away my Lord, and I don’t know where they have laid him.” (14) When she had said this, she turned around and saw Jesus standing, and didn’t know that it was Jesus. (15) Jesus said to her, “Woman, why are you weeping? Who are you looking for?” She, supposing him to be the gardener, said to him, “Sir, if you have carried him away, tell me where you have laid him, and I will take him away.” (16) Jesus said to her, “Mary.” She turned and said to him, “Rabboni!” which is to say, “Teacher!” (17) Jesus said to her, “Don’t hold me, for I haven’t yet ascended to my Father; but go to my brothers, and tell them, ‘I am ascending to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God.’” (18) Mary Magdalene came and told the disciples that she had seen the Lord, and that he had said these things to her.
In the charity of your prayers, please remember my 4 special intentions, especially for financial graces and blessings which I so urgently need right now. Thank you and united in prayer!