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grieve for the death of the cients, gather together the first-born. little ones, and them that Za 12, 11- In that day there shall be suck at the breasts: let the a great lamentation in Jeru- bridegroom go forth from salem like the lamentation of his bed, and the bride out of Adadremmon in the plain of her bride-chamber. Mageddon. And the land I will turn your Feasts into Am 8, 10 shall mourn families and mourning, and all your songs families apart: the families into lamentation: and I will of the House of David apart, bring up sackcloth upon and their women apart :-every back of yours, and The families of the house of baldness upon every head: Nathan apart, and their and I will make it as the women apart: the families mourning of an only son, of the house of Levi apart, and the latter end thereof as and their women apart: the a bitter day.

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families of Semei apart, and Upon every back there Je 48, 37-
their women apart. All the shall be haircloth,—And in
rest of the families, families the streets of Moab general
and families apart, and their mourning, because I have
women apart.
broken Moab as an useless

7. THE PEOPLE MOURN. vessel, saith the Lord. J2, 12-15 Now therefore saith the

Jn 11,35 Lu 2, 35 Is 33,7

La 3, 48
Mt 26,75

THE SANCTUARY.

Is 4,26

Cry, ye daughters of Rab- Je 49,3 Lord Be converted to Me bath, gird yourselves with with all your heart, in fasting haircloth, mourn and go and in weeping, and in about by the hedges, for mourning. And rend your Melchom shall be carried hearts and not your garments, into captivity, his priests, and and turn to the Lord your his princes together. God for He is gracious and 8. THE SCATTERED STONES OF merciful, patient and rich in mercy, and ready to repent of the evil.-Who knoweth but He will return, and forgive, and leave a blessing beThe bulwark hath mourned. hind Him, Sacrifice and Liba- They have laid it waste, tion to the Lord your God? and it hath mourned for Me. -Blow the Trumpet in Sion, The ground hath mourned, sanctify a fast, call a solemn because the Corn is wasted. assembly.-Gather together The ways of Sion mourn, the people, sanctify the because there are none that Church, assemble the An-come to the Solemn Feast.

Her gates shall lament and mourn, and she shall sit desolate on the ground.

La 2,8 Je 12, 11

л1,10

La 1, 4

Ph 3, 18

7. St. John the Evan- Ap 5,5

gelist.

8. St. Timothy.

9. St. Mary Magdalen.

2 Ti 1,4

Lu 7, 38

Is 2,2-3

27.—THE SEEKING FOR HIM WHOM THEY HAD LOST.

THE INVITATION HOME. THE RECONCILIATION.

In those days, saith the Lord,
The children of Israel shall come:
Going and weeping

They shall make haste,
and

Shall seek the Lord their God.
They shall ask the way
To Sion,*

Their faces are hitherward.
They shall come,

And shall be joined To THE LORD
by

An Everlasting Covenant,
Which shall never be forgotten.
Je 50, 4-5.

In the last days many and He will teach us His
people shall go and say: ways, and we will walk in
Come and let us go up to the His paths: For the law
House of the God of Jacob, shall come forth from Sion,

* Asceudamus in Sion, hoc est in Ecclesiam.-St. Jerome.

Za 8, 23

and the Word of the Lord
from Jerusalem.

All her people sigh, they

seek Bread.

Seek the Lord, all ye meek of the earth; you that have wrought His judgment:

the

We will go with you: for we have heard that God is with you. 2 P 15, 2-4 He went out to meet Asa, seek the Just, seek and said to him: Hear ye Meek: if by any means you me, Asa, and all Juda and may be hid in the day of the Benjamin The Lord is Lord's indignation.

La 1, 11

So 2, 3

with you, because you have They said to Him: All Mk 1,37 been with Him. If you seek for Thee.

seek Him, you shall find: You seek Me.
but if you forsake Him, He This is the generation of
will forsake you. And them that seek Him, of them
many days shall pass in that seek the Face of the
Israel without the true God, God of Jacob.
and without a Priest a The Lord is good to the
teacher, and without the soul that seeketh Him.
law. And when in their dis-

Jn 6, 26

Ps 23,6

La 3, 25

They came to Capharnaum

Jn 6, 24

Za 8, 21

Za 8, 22

Ca 3, 2-4

Is 45, 19

tress they shall return to the

seeking Jesus.

Lord the God of Israel, and When thou shalt seek there Dt 4, 29
shall seek Him, they shall the Lord thy God thou shalt
find Him.
find Him: yet so if thou
The inhabitants go one to seek Him with all thy heart,
another, saying: Let us go and all the affliction of thy
and entreat the Face of the soul.

Lord, and let us seek the They said to their mothers: La 2,12
Lord of Hosts. I also will go.

Where is Corn and Wine?

Many peoples, and strong when they fainted away as nations shall come to seek the the wounded in the streets of Lord of Hosts in Jerusalem. the City.

La 4, 4

Os 3, 5

I will rise, and will go The little ones have asked about the City, in the streets for Bread, and there was and the broad ways I will none to break it unto them. seek Him Whom my soul After this the children of loveth I sought Him and I Israel shall return, and shall found Him not.-The watch-seek the Lord their God, and man who kept te City found David their King. me: Have you seen Him In their affliction they will Os 6, 1-3 Whom my soul loveth ?- rise early to Me: Come, and When I had a little passed let us return to the Lord :by them, I found Him For He hath taken us, and Whom my soul loveth: I He will heal us: He will held Him and I will not strike, and He will cure let Him go, till I bring Him us. He will revive us into my mother's house, and after two days: into the chamber of her that the third day He will raise us up, and we shall live in His sight. We shall know, and we shall follow on.

bore me.

I have not said to the seed of Jacob Seek Me in vain.

on the

2 K 19, 33

Is 26, 9

Is 28, 19

Je 3, 1

that we may know the Lord. | thee.

His going forth is prepared The young lions roar after Ps 103,21 as the morning light, and their Bread, seeking their

He will come to us as the meat from God.

early and the latter rain to

the earth.

Come with Me that thou mayest rest secure with Me in Jerusalem.

My people shall long for Os 11, 7 My return.

O that some man would 2 K 23, 15 give me a drink of the Water out of the Cistern that is in hath desired Bethlehem by the gate.

My soul
Thee in the night.

Vexation alone shall make
you understand what you
hear.

Return to Me, saith the
Lord, and I will receive seek.

28. THE PENITENTIAL CONFESSIONS AND

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SUPPLICATIONS.

Je 3, 21-25 A voice was heard in the shall sleep in our confusion,
highways, weeping and and our shame shall cover
howling of the children of us, because we have sinned
Israel because they have against the Lord our God,
made their way wicked, they we and our fathers from our
have forgotten the Lord youth even to this day, and
their God.-Return, you we have not hearkened to
rebellious children, and I the Voice of the Lord our
will heal your rebellions. God.

Behold we come to Thee : If thou wilt return, O Je 4, 1-2
for Thou art the Lord our Israel, saith the Lord, return
God. In very deed the hills to Me: if thou wilt take
were liars, and the multi-away thy stumbling-blocks
tude of the mountains out of My sight, thou shalt
truly in the Lord our God not be moved.--And thou
is the Salvation of Israel.-shalt swear: As the Lord
Confusion hath devoured liveth, in truth, and in judg-
the labour of our fathers ment, and in justice and
from our youth, their flocks the Gentiles shall bless
and their herds, their sons Him, and shall praise
and their daughters.-We Him.

29..—THE REBUILDING OF JERUSALEM, THE CITY OF PEACE.

Je 3, 14

Return, O ye revolting| The Places that have been Is 58, 12 children, saith the Lord: desolate for ages shall be and I will take you, one of built in Thee: Thou shalt a city, and two of a kin- raise up the foundations of dred, and will bring you generation and generation : into Sion. and Thou shalt be called the

Is 61, 4

Ez 36, 33

15

Repairer of the fences, turn- walls thereof, and repair ing the paths into rest. what was fallen and I will They shall build the Places rebuild it as in the days of that have been waste from old,-That they may possess of old, and shall raise up the remnant of Edom, and ancient ruins, and shall re- all nations, because My pair the desolate Cities, that Name is invoked upon were destroyed for genera- them: saith the Lord that tion and generation. doth these things. Thus saith the Lord God: Behold the days come, Am 8,13In the day that I shall saith the Lord, when the cleanse you from all your ploughman shall overtake iniquities, and shall cause the reaper, and the treader the Cities to be inhabited, of grapes him that soweth and shall repair the ruinous seed: and the mountains Places, shall drop sweetness, and Ez 36, 34- And the desolate Land every hill shall be tilled.shall be tilled, which before And I will bring back the was waste in the sight of captivity of My people all that passed by,-They Israel: and they shall shall say This Land that build the abandoned Cities, was untilled is become as a and inhabit them and they garden of pleasure: and the shall plant vineyards, and Cities that were abandoned, drink the wine of them: and desolate, and destroyed, and shall make gardens, and are peopled and fenced. eat the fruits of them.

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Ez 36, 36

Ez 36, 3738

Am 9, 1112

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And the nations, that shall And I will plant them upon be left round about you, their own Land: and I will shall know that I the Lord no more pluck them out of have built up what was de- their Land which I have stroyed, and planted what given them, saith the Lord was desolate, that I the thy God. Lord have spoken and done Lift up thy eyes round Is 60, 4-5 it. about, and see all these are Thus saith the Lord God: gathered together, they are Moreover in this shall the come to thee: thy sons shall House of Israel find Me, come from afar, and thy that I will do it for them: daughters shall rise up at I will multiply them as a thy side.-Then shalt thou flock of men,-As a holy see, and abound, and thy flock, as the flock of Jerusa- heart shall wonder and be lem in her solemn feasts: enlarged, when the multitude so shall the waste Cities be of the sea shall be converted full of flocks of men and to thee, the strength of the they shall know that I am Gentiles shall come to thee. the Lord. The multitude of camels Is 60,6-7 In that day I will raise up shall cover thee, the dromethe Tabernacle of David, daries of Madian and Epha: that is fallen and I will all they from Saba shall close up the breaches of the come, bringing gold and

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