First ReadingIsaiah 26:7-9, 12, 16-19

The way of the righteous is level; you make smooth the path of the righteous. In the path of your judgments, O Lord, we wait for you; your memorial name is the desire of our soul. My soul yearns for you in the night, my spirit within me earnestly seeks you. For when your judgments are in the earth, the inhabitants of the world learn righteousness.

O Lord, you will ordain peace for us, you have wrought for us all our works.

O Lord, in distress they sought you, they poured out a prayer when your chastening was upon them. Like a woman with child, who writhes and cries out in her pangs, when she is near her time, so were we because of you, O Lord; we were with child, we writhed, but we gave birth only to wind. We have wrought no deliverance in the earth, and the inhabitants of the world have not fallen. Your dead shall live, their bodies o shall rise. O dwellers in the dust, awake and sing for joy! For your dew is a dew of light, and on the land of the shades you will let it fall.

Responsorial PsalmPsalm 102:13-15, 16-18, 19-21

℟From heaven the Lord looks down on the earth.

You will arise and have pity on Zion; it is the time to favor her; the appointed time has come.

For your servants hold her stones dear, and have pity on her dust.

The nations will fear the name of the Lord, and all the kings of the earth your glory.

℟From heaven the Lord looks down on the earth.

For the Lord will build up Zion, he will appear in his glory;

he will regard the prayer of the destitute, and will not despise their supplication.

Let this be recorded for a generation to come, so that a people yet unborn may praise the Lord:

℟From heaven the Lord looks down on the earth.

He looked down from his holy height, from heaven the Lord looked at the earth,

to hear the groans of the prisoners, to set free those who were doomed to die;

that men may declare in Zion the name of the Lord, and in Jerusalem his praise.

℟From heaven the Lord looks down on the earth.

AlleluiaMatthew 11:28

℟Alleluia!

Come to me, all who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.

℟Alleluia!

GospelMatthew 11:28-30

Come to me, all who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you, and learn from me; for I am gentle and lowly in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.”