Daily Reading for Thursday, April 17th, 2025

Reading 1, Isaiah 61:1-3, 6, 8-9

¹ The spirit of Lord Yahweh is on me for Yahweh has anointed me. He has sent me to bring the news to the afflicted, to soothe the broken-hearted,

² to proclaim liberty to captives, release to those in prison, to proclaim a year of favour from Yahweh and a day of vengeance for our God, to comfort all who mourn

³ (to give to Zion's mourners), to give them for ashes a garland, for mourning-dress, the oil of gladness, for despondency, festal attire; and they will be called 'terebinths of saving justice', planted by Yahweh to glorify him.

⁶ but you will be called 'priests of Yahweh' and be addressed as 'ministers of our God'. You will feed on the wealth of nations, you will supplant them in their glory.

⁸ For I am Yahweh: I love fair judgement, I hate robbery and wrong-doing, and I shall reward them faithfully and make an everlasting covenant with them.

⁹ Their race will be famous throughout the nations and their offspring throughout the peoples. All who see them will admit that they are a race whom Yahweh has blessed.

Responsorial Psalm, Psalms 89:21-22, 25, 27

²¹ My hand will always be with him, my arm will make him strong.

²² 'No enemy will be able to outwit him, no wicked man overcome him;

²⁵ I shall establish his power over the sea, his dominion over the rivers.

²⁷ So I shall make him my first-born, the highest of earthly kings.

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