Reading 1

Rv 14:1-3, 4b-5

I, John, looked and there was the Lamb standing on Mount  Zion,
and with him a hundred and forty-four thousand
who had his name and his Father’s name written on their  foreheads.
I heard a sound from heaven
like the sound of rushing water or a loud peal of thunder.
The sound I heard was like that of harpists playing their  harps.
They were singing what seemed to be a new hymn before the  throne,
before the four living creatures and the elders.
No one could learn this hymn except the hundred and  forty-four thousand
who had been ransomed from the earth.
These are the ones who follow the Lamb wherever he goes.
They have been ransomed as the first fruits
of the human race for God and the Lamb.
On their lips no deceit has been found; they are  unblemished.

R. (see 6) Lord, this is the people that longs to see your  face.
The LORD’s are the  earth and its fullness;
the world and those who dwell in it.
For he founded it upon the seas
and established it upon the rivers.
R. Lord, this is the  people that longs to see your face.
Who can ascend the mountain of the LORD?
or who may stand in his holy place?
He whose hands are sinless, whose heart is clean,
who desires not what is vain.
R. Lord, this is the  people that longs to see your face.
He shall receive a blessing from the LORD,
a reward from God his savior.
Such is the race that seeks for him,
that seeks the face of the God of Jacob.
R. Lord, this is the  people that longs to see your face.

When Jesus looked up he saw some wealthy people
putting their offerings into the treasury
and he noticed a poor widow putting in two small coins.
He said, “I tell you truly,
this poor widow put in more than all the rest;
for those others have all made offerings from their surplus  wealth,
but she, from her poverty, has offered her whole  livelihood.”

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