Wednesday, February 25, 2009

Office of Readings

Mid-morning reading (Terce) Ezekiel 18:30-32

Repent, renounce all your sins, avoid all occasions of sin! Shake off all the sins you have committed against me, and make yourselves a new heart and a new spirit! Why are you so anxious to die, House of Israel? I take no pleasure in the death of anyone – it is the Lord who speaks. Repent and live!


Noon reading (Sext) Zechariah 1:3-4

Return to me, says the Lord of Hosts, and I will return to you. Do not be like your ancestors, to whom the prophets in the past cried ‘Turn back from your evil ways and evil deeds’ but they would not listen.


Afternoon reading (None) Daniel 4:24

By virtuous actions break with your sins, break with your crimes by showing mercy to the poor, and so live long and peacefully.