Can someone help w/ this?

[imagine7777]

The Tuesday before Thanksgiving I went to Mass and one of the readings had a line in it that was like “I called you into the desert to speak to your heart”.

I had been somewhat distracted (by my active child ), but this line just kind of leapt out at me b/c it’s very much in line w/ some things going on w/ me.

I kept thinking about it all night (even wrote it in my journal to look it up, so I know the day’s correct [theoretically]), but can’t find the reading anywhere. I looked on our bulletin and the reading doesn’t correspond & I looked online & it didn’t contain the line either.

Can someone give me the reference for it if you know it?

 

[OhioBob]

imagine7777:

The Tuesday before Thanksgiving I went to Mass and one of the readings had a line in it that was like “I called you into the desert to speak to your heart”…Can someone give me the reference for it if you know it?

I think this is it:
So I will allure her; I will lead her into the desert and speak to her heart. From there I will give her the vineyards she had, and the valley of Achor as a door of hope. She shall respond there as in the days of her youth, when she came up from the land of Egypt. (Hosea 2:14-15)

I’m pretty dull regarding the Old Testament, but I think it relates to the Lord’s restoration of Israel.

Blessings.

 

[Shonmarie]

imagine7777:

The Tuesday before Thanksgiving I went to Mass and one of the readings had a line in it that was like “I called you into the desert to speak to your heart”.

I had been somewhat distracted (by my active child ), but this line just kind of leapt out at me b/c it’s very much in line w/ some things going on w/ me.

I kept thinking about it all night (even wrote it in my journal to look it up, so I know the day’s correct [theoretically]), but can’t find the reading anywhere. I looked on our bulletin and the reading doesn’t correspond & I looked online & it didn’t contain the line either.

Can someone give me the reference for it if you know it?

As far as I know, the reading(s) for the Tuesday before Thanksgiving should have been Daniel 2:31-45 and Luke 21:5-11. I see nothing in my book for the passage you described. Maybe I have the date wrong, but I thought all readings are consistent each day throughout the world.

Shonmarie

 

[imagine7777]

Shonmarie - exactly; that’s what’s confusing me. I know for a fact the lady read that, though. Maybe there was just a mixup? Or maybe b/c it was a communion service only (I mistyped earlier), they had a different reading?

Bob - thanks; that does sound like the line.

 

[Shonmarie]

imagine7777:

Shonmarie - exactly; that’s what’s confusing me. I know for a fact the lady read that, though. Maybe there was just a mixup? Or maybe b/c it was a communion service only (I mistyped earlier), they had a different reading?

Hmmm. You’re probably right - the readings could be different if it is a Communion service. Maybe someone else can help out here - I’d like to know, too.

 

[Joe_Kelley]

A Communion Service should use the same readings as the mass for the day. Hosea 2:16 is the reading for a weekday in July.

Maybe someone opened to the wrong page - it happens - don’t ask how I know .

 

[SHJ-BVM]

Imagine7777,

Sorry it took so long for me to get back to you, but I had to find Volume two of my daily missal.

Anyways, any day that is also a “memorial day for a saint”, there are optional readings (as opposed to the scheduled readings). November 22 (two days before Thanksgiving) was the memorial for St. Cecilia, Virgin and Martyr.

When I attend daily Mass at the local shrine, if Father Bob is saying Mass and it’s an optional memorial, he does the readings for the memorial. If Father Henry is saying Mass, and there’s an optional, he uses the regular readings no matter what.

Hope that helps.

 

[imagine7777]

Patricia,

Thanks for that information; I didn’t realize that. I always thought it was the same, no matter what.

Jenny