Monday of the Thirty-First Week in Ordinary Time (I)

Official Translation

Reading 1 - Romans 11.29-36

Brothers and Sisters:
The gifts and the call of God are not regretted.

For as you also in times past did not obey God,
but now have obtained mercy,
through their disobedience;

So also now they have not obeyed,
(for your mercy)
so that they also may now be given mercy.

For God has gathered all in disobedience,
so that he can be merciful to all.

O the depth of the riches and of the wisdom and of the knowledge of God!
How incomprehensible are his judgments, and how unsearchable his ways!

For who has known the mind of the Lord? Or who has become his advisor?
Or who has given to him first
that he could be repaid?

For from him, and through him, and in him, all things are:
to him be glory forever. Amen.

Responsorial - Psalm 69:30-31, 33-34, 36; Resp: 16

R. Hear me, O Lord, according to the greatness of your love.

But I am poor and sorrowful:
Your salvation, O God, protects me.
I will praise the name of God with a song,
and I will magnify him with praise.

R. Hear me, O Lord, according to the greatness of your love.

Let the poor see and rejoice:
seek God, and your soul shall live.
For the Lord has heard the poor:
and has not despised his prisoners.

R. Hear me, O Lord, according to the greatness of your love.

For God will save Zion,
and the cities of Judah will be built up.
And they shall dwell there, and inherit it.
And the descendents of his servants shall possess it;
and those who love his name will dwell there.

R. Hear me, O Lord, according to the greatness of your love.

Gospel - Luke 14.12-14

When Jesus went into the house of one of the chief of the Pharisees,
on the Sabbath, to eat bread,
he said to the one who had invited him:
When you have a meal or a banquet,
Do not call your friends or your brothers
or your relatives, or your rich neighbors,
lest perhaps they also invite you in return, and you are repaid.

But when you put on a feast,
invite the poor, the maimed, the lame, and the blind,
and you shall be blessed, because they do not have the ability to repay you:
for you will be repaid in the resurrection of the just.