First Option - First Reading: Ecclesiastes 1:2-11

² Vanity of vanities, says the Preacher, vanity of vanities! All is vanity.
³ What does man gain by all the toil at which he toils under the sun?
⁴ A generation goes, and a generation comes, but the earth remains for ever.
⁵ The sun rises and the sun goes down, and hastens to the place where it rises.
⁶ The wind blows to the south, and goes round to the north; round and round goes the wind, and on its circuits the wind returns.
⁷ All streams run to the sea, but the sea is not full; to the place where the streams flow, there they flow again.
⁸ All things are full of weariness; a man cannot utter it; the eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear filled with hearing.
⁹ What has been is what will be, and what has been done is what will be done; and there is nothing new under the sun.
¹⁰ Is there a thing of which it is said, “See, this is new”? It has been already, in the ages before us.
¹¹ There is no remembrance of former things, nor will there be any remembrance of later things yet to happen among those who come after.