Thirty-second Sunday in Ordinary Time Year A Second Reading (Alternative reading)

THIRTY-SECOND SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME — Year A

Alternate Second Reading: Jeremiah 31:15

Refrain: In Ramah is heard the sound of moaning, of bitter weeping!

Rachel mourns her children. She refuses to be consoled because her children are no more.

Scientists say the homes of billions are on track to become uninhabitable as the earth temperature continues to rise.

Water levels on the Mississippi River are nearing historic lows, triggering a drinking water emergency in Louisiana as salty ocean water flows upstream.

A ten-year-old boy fights his seventh Covid -19 infection. He also has long-haul Covid.

Nearly half of flowering plant species face the threat of extinction.

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UN report finds 165 million were pushed into poverty over the past 3 years.

2023 migrant deaths spike in El Paso Sector.

Risk of nuclear weapon use higher than at any time since the Cold War, Disarmament Affairs Chief warns Security Council.

Across the world, 6,933,583 people have died so far from the coronavirus COVID-19 outbreak as of Nov 1, 2023. Over 1 million deaths from COVID-19 in US.

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Almost half of the tap water in the US is contaminated with “forever chemicals” according to a new study from the US Geological Survey.

The risk of simultaneous crop failures are occurring in multiple regions across the globe, driven by climate change, a catastrophe that poses an underestimated threat to the global food supply.

Clouds now contain plastic, risking contamination of “everything we eat and drink.”

We remember our own personal illness and suffering, and the death of loved ones.

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