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Readings for the Optional Memorial of Saint Faustina Kowalska, virgin
Reading I Jon 3:1-10

The word of the LORD came to Jonah a second time: 
“Set out for the great city of Nineveh,
and announce to it the message that I will tell you.”
So Jonah made ready and went to Nineveh,
according to the LORD’s bidding.
Now Nineveh was an enormously large city;

Readings for the Memorial of Saint Francis of Assisi, religious
Reading I Jon 1:1–2:1-2, 11

This is the word of the LORD that came to Jonah, son of Amittai:

“Set out for the great city of Nineveh, and preach against it;
their wickedness has come up before me.”
But Jonah made ready to flee to Tarshish away from the LORD.
He went down to Joppa,

Readings for the Memorial of the Guardian Angels
Reading I Bar 4:5-12, 27-29

Fear not, my people!
    Remember, Israel,
You were sold to the nations
    not for your destruction;
It was because you angered God
    that you were handed over to your foes.
For you provoked your Maker
    with sacrifices to demons, to no-gods;
You forsook the Eternal God who nourished you,

Readings for the Memorial of Saint Thérèse of the Child Jesus, virgin and doctor of the Church
Reading I Bar 1:15-22

During the Babylonian captivity, the exiles prayed:
“Justice is with the Lord, our God;
and we today are flushed with shame,
we men of Judah and citizens of Jerusalem,
that we, with our kings and rulers
and priests and prophets, and with our ancestors,

Readings for the Memorial of Saint Jerome, priest and doctor of the Church
Reading I Neh 8:1-4a, 5-6, 7b-12

The whole people gathered as one in the open space before the Water Gate,
and they called upon Ezra the scribe
to bring forth the book of the law of Moses
which the LORD prescribed for Israel.
On the first day of the seventh month, therefore,

Readings for the Memorial of Saint Vincent de Paul, priest
Reading I Zec 8:1-8

This word of the LORD of hosts came:

    Thus says the LORD of hosts:

I am intensely jealous for Zion,
        stirred to jealous wrath for her.
    Thus says the LORD:
I will return to Zion,
    and I will dwell within Jerusalem;
Jerusalem shall be called the faithful city,