Monday of the thirty-fourth week of Ordinary Time

And I beheld, and lo a lamb stood upon mount Sion, and with him an hundred forty-four thousand, having his name, and the name of his Father, written on their foreheads. ²And I heard a voice from heaven, as the noise of many waters, and as the voice of great thunder; and the voice which I heard, was as the voice of harpers, harping on their harps. ³And they sung as it were a new canticle, before the throne, and before the four living creatures, and the ancients; and no man could say the canticle, but those hundred forty-four thousand, who were purchased from the earth. ⁴These are they who were not defiled with women: for they are virgins. These follow the Lamb whithersoever he goeth. These were purchased from among men, the firstfruits to God and to the Lamb: ⁵And in their mouth there was found no lie; for they are without spot before the throne of God.

¹On the first day of the week, a psalm for David. The earth is the Lord’s and the fulness thereof: the world, and all they that dwell therein. ²For he hath founded it upon the seas; and hath prepared it upon the rivers. ³Who shall ascend into the mountain of the Lord: or who shall stand in his holy place? ⁴The innocent in hands, and clean of heart, who hath not taken his soul in vain, nor sworn deceitfully to his neighbour. ⁵He shall receive a blessing from the Lord, and mercy from God his Saviour. ⁶This is the generation of them that seek him, of them that seek the face of the God of Jacob.

℟ This is the generation of them that seek the face of the God of Jacob.

And looking on, he saw the rich men cast their gifts into the treasury. ²And he saw also a certain poor widow casting in two brass mites. ³And he said: Verily I say to you, that this poor widow hath cast in more than they all: ⁴For all these have of their abundance cast into the offerings of God: but she of her want, hath cast in all the living that she had.