• St. Lucy

• First Reading: Sirach 48:1-4, 9-11

  1: Then the prophet Elijah arose like a fire, and his word burned like a torch.
  
  2: He brought a famine upon them, and by his zeal he made them few in number.
  
  3: By the word of the Lord he shut up the heavens, and also three times brought down fire.
  
  4: How glorious you were, O Elijah, in your wondrous deeds! And who has the right to boast
  which you have?
  
  9: You who were taken up by a whirlwind of fire, in a chariot with horses of fire;
  
  10: you who are ready at the appointed time, it is written, to calm the wrath of God before it breaks out in fury, to turn the heart of the father to the son, and to restore the tribes of Jacob.
  
  11: Blessed are those who saw you, and those who have been adorned in love; for we also shall surely live.
  

• Psalm: Psalms 80:2ac and 3b, 15-16, 18-19

  2: before E'phraim and Benjamin and Manas'seh! Stir up thy might, and come to save us!
  
  3: Restore us, O God; let thy face shine, that we may be saved!
  
  4: O LORD God of hosts, how long wilt thou be angry with thy people's prayers?
  
  5: Thou hast fed them with the bread of tears, and given them tears to drink in full measure.
  
  6: Thou dost make us the scorn of our neighbors; and our enemies laugh among themselves.
  
  7: Restore us, O God of hosts; let thy face shine, that we may be saved!
  
  8: Thou didst bring a vine out of Egypt; thou didst drive out the nations and plant it.
  
  9: Thou didst clear the ground for it; it took deep root and filled the land.
  
  10: The mountains were covered with its shade, the mighty cedars with its branches;
  
  11: it sent out its branches to the sea, and its shoots to the River.
  
  12: Why then hast thou broken down its walls, so that all who pass along the way pluck its fruit?
  
  13: The boar from the forest ravages it, and all that move in the field feed on it.
  
  14: Turn again, O God of hosts! Look down from heaven, and see; have regard for this vine,
  
  15: the stock which thy right hand planted.
  
  16: They have burned it with fire, they have cut it down; may they perish at the rebuke of thy countenance!
  
  17: But let thy hand be upon the man of thy right hand, the son of man whom thou hast made strong for thyself!
  
  18: Then we will never turn back from thee; give us life, and we will call on thy name!
  
  19: Restore us, O LORD God of hosts! let thy face shine, that we may be saved!
  

• Gospel: Matthew 17:9a, 10-13

  9: And as they were coming down the mountain,
  
  10: the disciples asked him, "Then why do the scribes say that first Eli'jah must come?"
  
  11: He replied, "Eli'jah does come, and he is to restore all things;
  
  12: but I tell you that Eli'jah has already come, and they did not know him, but did to him whatever they pleased. So also the Son of man will suffer at their hands."
  
  13: Then the disciples understood that he was speaking to them of John the Baptist.
  

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