June 7, 2006, the solemnity of the most holy body and blood of Christ.

A reading from the book of Deuteronomy.

Moses said to the people,

Remember how for 40 years now the Lord, your God, has directed all your journeying in the desert, so as to test you

by affliction and find out whether or not it was your intention to keep his commandments.

He therefore let you be afflicted with hunger and then fed you with manna, a food unknown to you and your fathers,

in order to show you that not by bread alone does one live, but by every word that comes forth

from the mouth of the Lord. Do not forget the Lord, your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt,

that place of slavery, who guided you through the vast and terrible desert with its seraphs

serpents and scorpions, its parched and waterless ground, who brought forth water for you

from the flinty rock and fed you in the desert with manna, a food unknown to your fathers.

The Word of the Lord.

Music The Word of the Lord Praise the Lord Jerusalem. Praise the Lord,

O Jerusalem

Praise your God, O Zion,

For he has strengthened the bars of your gates

He has blessed your children within you.

Praise the Lord Jerusalem.

He has granted peace in your borders With the best of wheat he fills you

He sends forth his command to the earth

Swiftly runs his word

Praise the Lord, Jerusalem.

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