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LITURGY OF THE WORD
First Reading
(Please be seated)
Stephen
A reading from Ecclesiastes 3:1-11
There is a season for everything, a time to every occupation under heaven.
A time for giving birth, a time for dying;
A time for planting, a time for uprooting what has been planted.
to pluck up that which is planted;
A time for killing, a time for healing.
A time for knowing down, a time for mourning.
A time for tears, a time for mourning,
A time for dancing, a time for throwing stones away, a time for gathering them.
A time for embracing, a time to refrain from embracing.
A time for searching, a time for losing.
A time for keeping, a time for discarding.
A time for tearing, a time for sewing.
A time for keeping silent, a time for speaking.
A time for. Loving, a time for hating, a tie for war, a time for peace.
What do people gain from the efforts they make?
I contemplate the task that God gives humanity to labour at.
All that he does is apt for its time, but although he has given us an awareness of
the passage of time, we can grasp neither the beginning nor the end of what
God does.
The Word of the Lord.
All:
Thanks be to God.