1ST READING Isaiah speaks of a time of prosperity that will follow the suffering of exile in Babylon. Hope is a tremendously powerful reality, particularly when it is hope in the promises of the Lord. We know that they will be fulfilled. We should always reflect on God’s promise of eternal life for precisely this reason. If we want to be inspired to live good and holy lives, then think about the wonders promised to us in heaven. Isaiah 65:17-21 17 Thus says the Lord: Lo, I am about to create new heavens and a new earth; the things of the past shall not be remembered or come to mind. 18 Instead, there shall always be rejoicing and happiness in what I create; for I create Jerusalem to be a joy and its people to be a delight; 19 I will rejoice in Jerusalem and exult in my people. No longer shall the sound of weeping be heard there, or the sound of crying; 20 no longer shall there be in it an infant who lives but a few days, or an old man who does not round out his full lifetime; he dies a mere youth who reaches but a hundred years, and he who fails of a hundred shall be thought accursed. 21 They shall live in the houses they build, and eat the fruit of the vineyards they plant.
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