Official Translation
Reading 1 – Ephesians 5.21-33
Brothers and sisters:
Submit yourselves to one another in the fear of Christ.
Wives, submit to your own husbands, as to the Lord.
For the husband is the head of the wife,
and Christ also is the head of the Church,
he is the Savior of his body.
As the Church submits to Christ,
so let wives also be to their own husbands in everything.
Husbands, love your wives,
just as Christ loved the Church,
and gave himself up for her,
that he might sanctify her,
having cleansed her by the washing of water with the word,
so that he might present the Church to himself in glory,
having no spot or wrinkle or any such thing,
but that she would be holy and without defect.
Just so, husbands also ought to love their own wives as their own bodies.
He who loves his own wife loves himself.
For no one ever hated their own flesh,
but nourishes and cherishes it,
just as the Lord does the Church,
because we are members of his body.
“For this reason a human will leave his father and mother,
and will be joined to his wife. The two will become one flesh.”
This mystery is great: I speak concerning Christ and the Church.
In any case, each one of you should love his wife as himself,
and the wife should respect her husband.
Responsorial – Psalm 128.1-2, 3, 4-5 Resp. 1a
R. Blessed is everyone who fears the Lord.
Blessed is everyone who fears the Lord,
who walks in his ways.
For you will eat the labor of your hands.
You will be happy, and it will be well with you.
R. Blessed is everyone who fears the Lord.
Your wife will be as a fruitful vine,
in the innermost parts of your house;
your children like olive plants,
around your table.
R. Blessed is everyone who fears the Lord.
Behold, thus is the man blessed
who fears the Lord.
May the Lord bless you from Zion,
and may you see the good of Jerusalem
all the days of your life.
R. Blessed is everyone who fears the Lord.
Gospel – Luke 13.18-21
Jesus said, “What is the Kingdom of God like? To what shall I compare it?
It is like a grain of mustard seed, which a man took, and put in his own garden.
It grew, and became a large tree, and the birds of the sky live in its branches.”
Again he said, “To what shall I compare the Kingdom of God?
It is like yeast, which a woman took and mixed in three measures of flour,
until it was all leavened.”
Mass Readings
Monday of the Thirtieth Week in Ordinary Time (II)
Official Translation
Reading 1 – Ephesians 4.32-5:8
Brothers and sisters:
Be kind to one another, tender hearted,
forgiving each other, just as God in Christ forgave you.
Be therefore imitators of God, as beloved children.
Walk in love, even as Christ also loved us, and gave himself up for us,
an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet-smelling fragrance.
But let perversion and all uncleanness, or covetousness,
not even be mentioned among you, as becomes saints;
nor filthiness, nor foolish talking, nor jesting, which are not appropriate,
but rather thanksgiving.
Know this for sure: no pervert, nor unclean person, nor coveter, who is an idolater,
has any inheritance in the Kingdom of Christ and God.
Let no one deceive you with empty words.
For because of these things, the wrath of God comes on the sons of disobedience.
Therefore do not be partners with them.
For you were once darkness, but are now light in the Lord.
Walk as children of light.
Responsorial – Psalm 1.1-2, 3, 4+6 Resp. Ephesians 5.1
R. Be therefore imitators of God, as beloved children.
Blessed is the man who does not walk
in the counsel of the wicked,
nor stand on the sinners’ path,
nor sit in the scoffers’ seat,
but whose delight is in the Lord’s law.
On his law he meditates day and night.
R. Be therefore imitators of God, as beloved children.
He will be like a tree
planted by the streams of water,
that produces its fruit in its season,
whose leaf does not wither.
Whatever he does shall prosper.
R. Be therefore imitators of God, as beloved children.
The wicked are not so,
but are like the chaff which the wind drives away.
For the Lord watches the way of the righteous,
but the way of the wicked shall perish.
R. Be therefore imitators of God, as beloved children.
Gospel – Luke 13.10-17
Jesus was teaching in one of the synagogues on the Sabbath day.
Behold, there was a woman who had a spirit of disability eighteen years,
and she was bent over, and could in no way straighten herself up.
When Jesus saw her, he called her, and said to her,
“Woman, you are freed from your infirmity.”
He laid his hands on her, and immediately she stood up straight, and glorified God.
The leader of the synagogue, being indignant because Jesus had healed on the Sabbath,
said to the crowd, “There are six days on which to work.
Therefore come on those days and be healed, and not on the Sabbath day!”
But the Lord answered him, “You hypocrites!
Do not each of you free his ox or his donkey from the stall on the Sabbath,
and lead him away to water?
Ought not this woman, being a daughter of Abraham,
whom Satan had bound eighteen long years,
be freed from this bondage on the Sabbath day?”
As he said these things, all his accusers were shamed,
and the whole crowd rejoiced for all the glorious things that were done by him.
Reading 1 – Ephesians 4.32-5:8
Brothers and sisters:
Be kind to one another, tender hearted,
forgiving each other, just as God in Christ forgave you.
Be therefore imitators of God, as beloved children.
Walk in love, even as Christ also loved us, and gave himself up for us,
an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet-smelling fragrance.
But let perversion and all uncleanness, or covetousness,
not even be mentioned among you, as becomes saints;
nor filthiness, nor foolish talking, nor jesting, which are not appropriate,
but rather thanksgiving.
Know this for sure: no pervert, nor unclean person, nor coveter, who is an idolater,
has any inheritance in the Kingdom of Christ and God.
Let no one deceive you with empty words.
For because of these things, the wrath of God comes on the sons of disobedience.
Therefore do not be partners with them.
For you were once darkness, but are now light in the Lord.
Walk as children of light.
Responsorial – Psalm 1.1-2, 3, 4+6 Resp. Ephesians 5.1
R. Be therefore imitators of God, as beloved children.
Blessed is the man who does not walk
in the counsel of the wicked,
nor stand on the sinners’ path,
nor sit in the scoffers’ seat,
but whose delight is in the Lord’s law.
On his law he meditates day and night.
R. Be therefore imitators of God, as beloved children.
He will be like a tree
planted by the streams of water,
that produces its fruit in its season,
whose leaf does not wither.
Whatever he does shall prosper.
R. Be therefore imitators of God, as beloved children.
The wicked are not so,
but are like the chaff which the wind drives away.
For the Lord watches the way of the righteous,
but the way of the wicked shall perish.
R. Be therefore imitators of God, as beloved children.
Gospel – Luke 13.10-17
Jesus was teaching in one of the synagogues on the Sabbath day.
Behold, there was a woman who had a spirit of disability eighteen years,
and she was bent over, and could in no way straighten herself up.
When Jesus saw her, he called her, and said to her,
“Woman, you are freed from your infirmity.”
He laid his hands on her, and immediately she stood up straight, and glorified God.
The leader of the synagogue, being indignant because Jesus had healed on the Sabbath,
said to the crowd, “There are six days on which to work.
Therefore come on those days and be healed, and not on the Sabbath day!”
But the Lord answered him, “You hypocrites!
Do not each of you free his ox or his donkey from the stall on the Sabbath,
and lead him away to water?
Ought not this woman, being a daughter of Abraham,
whom Satan had bound eighteen long years,
be freed from this bondage on the Sabbath day?”
As he said these things, all his accusers were shamed,
and the whole crowd rejoiced for all the glorious things that were done by him.
Thirtieth Sunday in Ordinary Time (B)
Official Translation
Reading 1 - Jeremiah 31.7-9
Thus says the Lord:
Sing with gladness for Jacob, and shout for the head of the nations:
proclaim praise, and say, “Lord, save your people, the remnant of Israel.”
Behold, I will bring them from the north country,
and gather them from the ends of the earth,
along with the blind and the lame,
the pregnant woman and her who is in labor together:
a great company shall return here.
They shall come with weeping,
and with pleas for mercy I will lead them.
I will cause them to walk by rivers of waters,
on a level road in which they shall not stumble,
for I am a father to Israel, and Ephraim is my firstborn.
Responsorial – Psalm 126.1-2, 2-3, 4-5, 6 Resp. 3
R. The Lord has done great things for us, and we are glad.
When the Lord brought back the captives of Zion,
we were like dreamers.
Then our mouth was filled with laughter,
and our tongue with singing.
R. The Lord has done great things for us, and we are glad.
Then they said among the nations,
“The Lord has done great things for them.”
The Lord has done great things for us,
and we are glad.
R. The Lord has done great things for us, and we are glad.
Restore our fortunes again, O Lord,
like the streams in the Negeb.
Those who sow in tears
will reap in joy.
R. The Lord has done great things for us, and we are glad.
They who go out weeping,
carrying seed for sowing,
will certainly come back with joy,
carrying their sheaves.
R. The Lord has done great things for us, and we are glad.
Reading 2 – Hebrews 5.1-6
Brothers and sisters:
Every high priest, being taken from among humans,
is appointed for humans in things pertaining to God,
that he may offer both gifts and sacrifices for sins.
The high priest can deal gently with those who are ignorant and going astray,
because he himself is also beset by weakness.
Because of this, he must make sin offerings for the people,
as well as for himself.
Nobody takes this honor on himself,
but he is called by God, just like Aaron was.
So also Christ did not glorify himself to be made a high priest,
but it was he who said to him,
“You are my Son. Today I have begotten you.”
As he says also in another place,
“You are a priest forever, according to the order of Melchizedek.”
Gospel – Mark 10.46-52
As Jesus was leaving Jericho, with his disciples and a great crowd,
the son of Timaeus, Bartimaeus, a blind beggar, was sitting by the road.
When he heard that it was Jesus of Nazareth,
he began to cry out, and say, “Jesus, Son of David, have mercy on me!”
Many rebuked him, that he should be quiet,
but he cried out all the more, “Son of David, have mercy on me!”
Jesus stopped and said, “Call him.”
They called the blind man, saying to him, “Take heart! Get up. He is calling you!”
He, casting away his cloak, sprang up, and came to Jesus.
Jesus asked him, “What do you want me to do for you?”
The blind man said to him, “Rabboni, that I may see again.”
Jesus said to him, “Go your way. Your faith has made you well.”
Immediately he received his sight, and followed Jesus on the way.
Reading 1 - Jeremiah 31.7-9
Thus says the Lord:
Sing with gladness for Jacob, and shout for the head of the nations:
proclaim praise, and say, “Lord, save your people, the remnant of Israel.”
Behold, I will bring them from the north country,
and gather them from the ends of the earth,
along with the blind and the lame,
the pregnant woman and her who is in labor together:
a great company shall return here.
They shall come with weeping,
and with pleas for mercy I will lead them.
I will cause them to walk by rivers of waters,
on a level road in which they shall not stumble,
for I am a father to Israel, and Ephraim is my firstborn.
Responsorial – Psalm 126.1-2, 2-3, 4-5, 6 Resp. 3
R. The Lord has done great things for us, and we are glad.
When the Lord brought back the captives of Zion,
we were like dreamers.
Then our mouth was filled with laughter,
and our tongue with singing.
R. The Lord has done great things for us, and we are glad.
Then they said among the nations,
“The Lord has done great things for them.”
The Lord has done great things for us,
and we are glad.
R. The Lord has done great things for us, and we are glad.
Restore our fortunes again, O Lord,
like the streams in the Negeb.
Those who sow in tears
will reap in joy.
R. The Lord has done great things for us, and we are glad.
They who go out weeping,
carrying seed for sowing,
will certainly come back with joy,
carrying their sheaves.
R. The Lord has done great things for us, and we are glad.
Reading 2 – Hebrews 5.1-6
Brothers and sisters:
Every high priest, being taken from among humans,
is appointed for humans in things pertaining to God,
that he may offer both gifts and sacrifices for sins.
The high priest can deal gently with those who are ignorant and going astray,
because he himself is also beset by weakness.
Because of this, he must make sin offerings for the people,
as well as for himself.
Nobody takes this honor on himself,
but he is called by God, just like Aaron was.
So also Christ did not glorify himself to be made a high priest,
but it was he who said to him,
“You are my Son. Today I have begotten you.”
As he says also in another place,
“You are a priest forever, according to the order of Melchizedek.”
Gospel – Mark 10.46-52
As Jesus was leaving Jericho, with his disciples and a great crowd,
the son of Timaeus, Bartimaeus, a blind beggar, was sitting by the road.
When he heard that it was Jesus of Nazareth,
he began to cry out, and say, “Jesus, Son of David, have mercy on me!”
Many rebuked him, that he should be quiet,
but he cried out all the more, “Son of David, have mercy on me!”
Jesus stopped and said, “Call him.”
They called the blind man, saying to him, “Take heart! Get up. He is calling you!”
He, casting away his cloak, sprang up, and came to Jesus.
Jesus asked him, “What do you want me to do for you?”
The blind man said to him, “Rabboni, that I may see again.”
Jesus said to him, “Go your way. Your faith has made you well.”
Immediately he received his sight, and followed Jesus on the way.
Saturday of the Twenty-ninth Week in Ordinary Time (II)
Official Translation
Reading 1 – Ephesians 4.7-16
Brothers and sisters:
But to each one of us was the grace given
according to the measure of the gift of Christ.
Therefore it says,
“When he ascended on high, he led captivity captive, and gave gifts to men.”
Now this, “He ascended”,
what is it but that he also first descended into the lower parts of the earth?
He who descended is the one who also ascended far above all the heavens,
that he might fill all things.
He gave some to be apostles; and some, prophets;
and some, evangelists; and some, pastors and teachers;
for the perfecting of the saints, to the work of serving,
to the building up of the body of Christ;
until we all attain to the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God,
to a full-grown man, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ.
that we may no longer be infants,
tossed back and forth and carried about with every wind of doctrine,
by the trickery of humans, in craftiness, after the wiles of error;
but speaking truth in love,
we may grow up in all things into him, who is the head, Christ;
from whom the whole body,
being fitted and knit together through that which every joint supplies,
according to the working in measure of each individual part,
makes the body increase to the building up of itself in love.
Responsorial – Psalm 122.1-2, 3-4ab, 4cd-5 Resp. 1
R. Let us gladly go to the house of the Lord.
I was glad when they said to me,
“Let us go to the house of the LORD.”
Our feet are standing
within your gates, O Jerusalem.
R. Let us gladly go to the house of the Lord.
Jerusalem is built as a city
that is compact together.
To it the tribes go up,
the tribes of the LORD.
R. Let us gladly go to the house of the Lord.
According to the covenant of Israel,
to give thanks unto the name of the LORD.
For there are set thrones of judgment,
the thrones of the house of David.
R. Let us gladly go to the house of the Lord.
Gospel – Luke 13.1-9
Now there were some present at that time who told him
about the Galileans, whose blood Pilate had mixed with their sacrifices.
Jesus answered them, “Do you think that these Galileans
were worse sinners than all the other Galileans, because they suffered such things?
I tell you, no, but unless you repent, you will all perish in the same way.
Or those eighteen, on whom the tower in Siloam fell, and killed them,
do you think that they were worse offenders than all the men who dwell in Jerusalem?
I tell you, no, but, unless you repent, you will all perish in the same way.”
He spoke this parable.
“Someone had a fig tree planted in his vineyard,
and he came seeking fruit on it, and found none.
He said to the vine dresser,
‘Behold, these three years I have come looking for fruit on this fig tree, and found none.
Cut it down. Why should it waste the soil?’
He answered, ‘Lord, leave it alone this year also,
until I dig around it, and fertilize it.
If it bears fruit, fine, but if not, after that, you can cut it down.’”
Reading 1 – Ephesians 4.7-16
Brothers and sisters:
But to each one of us was the grace given
according to the measure of the gift of Christ.
Therefore it says,
“When he ascended on high, he led captivity captive, and gave gifts to men.”
Now this, “He ascended”,
what is it but that he also first descended into the lower parts of the earth?
He who descended is the one who also ascended far above all the heavens,
that he might fill all things.
He gave some to be apostles; and some, prophets;
and some, evangelists; and some, pastors and teachers;
for the perfecting of the saints, to the work of serving,
to the building up of the body of Christ;
until we all attain to the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God,
to a full-grown man, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ.
that we may no longer be infants,
tossed back and forth and carried about with every wind of doctrine,
by the trickery of humans, in craftiness, after the wiles of error;
but speaking truth in love,
we may grow up in all things into him, who is the head, Christ;
from whom the whole body,
being fitted and knit together through that which every joint supplies,
according to the working in measure of each individual part,
makes the body increase to the building up of itself in love.
Responsorial – Psalm 122.1-2, 3-4ab, 4cd-5 Resp. 1
R. Let us gladly go to the house of the Lord.
I was glad when they said to me,
“Let us go to the house of the LORD.”
Our feet are standing
within your gates, O Jerusalem.
R. Let us gladly go to the house of the Lord.
Jerusalem is built as a city
that is compact together.
To it the tribes go up,
the tribes of the LORD.
R. Let us gladly go to the house of the Lord.
According to the covenant of Israel,
to give thanks unto the name of the LORD.
For there are set thrones of judgment,
the thrones of the house of David.
R. Let us gladly go to the house of the Lord.
Gospel – Luke 13.1-9
Now there were some present at that time who told him
about the Galileans, whose blood Pilate had mixed with their sacrifices.
Jesus answered them, “Do you think that these Galileans
were worse sinners than all the other Galileans, because they suffered such things?
I tell you, no, but unless you repent, you will all perish in the same way.
Or those eighteen, on whom the tower in Siloam fell, and killed them,
do you think that they were worse offenders than all the men who dwell in Jerusalem?
I tell you, no, but, unless you repent, you will all perish in the same way.”
He spoke this parable.
“Someone had a fig tree planted in his vineyard,
and he came seeking fruit on it, and found none.
He said to the vine dresser,
‘Behold, these three years I have come looking for fruit on this fig tree, and found none.
Cut it down. Why should it waste the soil?’
He answered, ‘Lord, leave it alone this year also,
until I dig around it, and fertilize it.
If it bears fruit, fine, but if not, after that, you can cut it down.’”
Friday of the Twenty-ninth Week in Ordinary Time (II)
Official Translation
Reading 1 – Ephesians 4.1-6
Brothers and sisters:
I, the prisoner in the Lord, beg you to walk in a manner
worthy of the calling with which you were called,
with all lowliness and humility, with patience,
bearing with one another in love;
being eager to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace.
There is one body, and one Spirit,
even as you also were called in one hope of your calling;
one Lord, one faith, one baptism, one God and Father of all,
who is over all and through all and in us all.
Responsorial – Psalm 24.1-2, 3-4ab, 5-6 Resp. 6
R. Lord, this is the people that seeks your face.
The Lord’s is the earth and its fullness,
the world and its inhabitants.
For he founded it upon the seas;
and upon the rivers made it firm.
R. Lord, this is the people that seeks your face.
Who shall ascend the mountain of the Lord?
Who shall stand in his holy place?
He who, with innocent hands and a clean of heart,
has not lifted up his soul to useless things.
R. Lord, this is the people that seeks your face.
He shall receive a blessing from the Lord,
and righteousness from God his Savior.
This is the nature of those who seek him,
who seek the face of the God of Jacob.
R. Lord, this is the people that seeks your face.
Gospel Luke 12.54-59
Jesus said to the crowds,
“When you see a cloud rising from the west,
immediately you say, ‘A shower is coming,’ and so it happens.
When a south wind blows, you say, ‘There will be a scorching heat,’ and it happens.
You hypocrites! You know how to interpret the appearance of the earth and the sky,
how is it that you do not interpret the present time?
Why do you not judge for yourselves what is right?
When you are going with your accuser before the magistrate,
try diligently to be released from him on the way,
lest he drag you to the judge,
and the judge hands you over to the officer,
and the officer throws you into prison.
I tell you, you will by no means get out until you have paid the very last penny.”
Reading 1 – Ephesians 4.1-6
Brothers and sisters:
I, the prisoner in the Lord, beg you to walk in a manner
worthy of the calling with which you were called,
with all lowliness and humility, with patience,
bearing with one another in love;
being eager to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace.
There is one body, and one Spirit,
even as you also were called in one hope of your calling;
one Lord, one faith, one baptism, one God and Father of all,
who is over all and through all and in us all.
Responsorial – Psalm 24.1-2, 3-4ab, 5-6 Resp. 6
R. Lord, this is the people that seeks your face.
The Lord’s is the earth and its fullness,
the world and its inhabitants.
For he founded it upon the seas;
and upon the rivers made it firm.
R. Lord, this is the people that seeks your face.
Who shall ascend the mountain of the Lord?
Who shall stand in his holy place?
He who, with innocent hands and a clean of heart,
has not lifted up his soul to useless things.
R. Lord, this is the people that seeks your face.
He shall receive a blessing from the Lord,
and righteousness from God his Savior.
This is the nature of those who seek him,
who seek the face of the God of Jacob.
R. Lord, this is the people that seeks your face.
Gospel Luke 12.54-59
Jesus said to the crowds,
“When you see a cloud rising from the west,
immediately you say, ‘A shower is coming,’ and so it happens.
When a south wind blows, you say, ‘There will be a scorching heat,’ and it happens.
You hypocrites! You know how to interpret the appearance of the earth and the sky,
how is it that you do not interpret the present time?
Why do you not judge for yourselves what is right?
When you are going with your accuser before the magistrate,
try diligently to be released from him on the way,
lest he drag you to the judge,
and the judge hands you over to the officer,
and the officer throws you into prison.
I tell you, you will by no means get out until you have paid the very last penny.”
Thursday of the Twenty-ninth Week in Ordinary Time (II)
Official Translation
Reading 1 – Ephesians 3.14-21
Brothers and sisters:
For this reason, I bow my knees to the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ,
from whom every family in heaven and on earth is named,
that he would grant you, according to the riches of his glory,
to be strengthened with power through his Spirit in the inward human;
that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith;
to the end that you, being rooted and grounded in love,
may be strengthened to comprehend with all the saints
what is the breadth and length and height and depth,
and to know Christ’s love which surpasses knowledge,
that you may be filled with all the fullness of God.
Now to him who is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or imagine,
according to the power that works in us,
to him be the glory in the Church and in Christ Jesus
to all generations forever and ever. Amen.
Responsorial – Psalm 33.1-2, 4-5, 11-12, 18-19 Resp. 5b
R. The earth is full of the loving kindness of the Lord.
Rejoice in the Lord, you righteous!
Praise is fitting for the upright.
Give thanks to the Lord with the lyre.
Sing praises to him with the harp of ten strings.
R. The earth is full of the loving kindness of the Lord.
The word of the Lord is right.
All his work is done in faithfulness.
He loves righteousness and justice.
The earth is full of the loving kindness of the Lord.
R. The earth is full of the loving kindness of the Lord.
The plan of the Lord stands fast forever,
the thoughts of his heart to all generations.
Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord,
the people whom he has chosen for his own inheritance.
R. The earth is full of the loving kindness of the Lord.
Behold, the eye of the Lord is on those who fear him,
on those who hope in his loving kindness;
to deliver their soul from death,
to keep them alive in famine.
R. The earth is full of the loving kindness of the Lord.
Gospel – Luke 12.49-53
Jesus said to his disciples:
“I came to set the earth on fire, and how I wish it were already kindled!
I have a baptism to be baptized with,
and how distressed I am until it is accomplished!
Do you think that I have come to give peace on earth?
No, I tell you, but rather division.
For from now on, there will be five in one house divided,
three against two, and two against three.
They will be divided, father against son, and son against father;
mother against daughter, and daughter against her mother;
mother-in-law against her daughter-in-law, and daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law.”
Reading 1 – Ephesians 3.14-21
Brothers and sisters:
For this reason, I bow my knees to the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ,
from whom every family in heaven and on earth is named,
that he would grant you, according to the riches of his glory,
to be strengthened with power through his Spirit in the inward human;
that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith;
to the end that you, being rooted and grounded in love,
may be strengthened to comprehend with all the saints
what is the breadth and length and height and depth,
and to know Christ’s love which surpasses knowledge,
that you may be filled with all the fullness of God.
Now to him who is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or imagine,
according to the power that works in us,
to him be the glory in the Church and in Christ Jesus
to all generations forever and ever. Amen.
Responsorial – Psalm 33.1-2, 4-5, 11-12, 18-19 Resp. 5b
R. The earth is full of the loving kindness of the Lord.
Rejoice in the Lord, you righteous!
Praise is fitting for the upright.
Give thanks to the Lord with the lyre.
Sing praises to him with the harp of ten strings.
R. The earth is full of the loving kindness of the Lord.
The word of the Lord is right.
All his work is done in faithfulness.
He loves righteousness and justice.
The earth is full of the loving kindness of the Lord.
R. The earth is full of the loving kindness of the Lord.
The plan of the Lord stands fast forever,
the thoughts of his heart to all generations.
Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord,
the people whom he has chosen for his own inheritance.
R. The earth is full of the loving kindness of the Lord.
Behold, the eye of the Lord is on those who fear him,
on those who hope in his loving kindness;
to deliver their soul from death,
to keep them alive in famine.
R. The earth is full of the loving kindness of the Lord.
Gospel – Luke 12.49-53
Jesus said to his disciples:
“I came to set the earth on fire, and how I wish it were already kindled!
I have a baptism to be baptized with,
and how distressed I am until it is accomplished!
Do you think that I have come to give peace on earth?
No, I tell you, but rather division.
For from now on, there will be five in one house divided,
three against two, and two against three.
They will be divided, father against son, and son against father;
mother against daughter, and daughter against her mother;
mother-in-law against her daughter-in-law, and daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law.”
Wednesday of the Twenty-ninth Week in Ordinary Time (II)
Official Translation
Reading 1 – Ephesians 3.2-12
Brothers and sisters:
You have heard of the stewardship of the grace of God
which was given to me for you;
how, by revelation, the mystery was made known to me.
as I wrote before in a few words.
When you read you can perceive my understanding in the mystery of Christ.
In other generations, it was not made known
to the sons and daughters of humans,
as it has now been revealed
to his holy apostles and prophets in the Spirit:
that the Gentiles are fellow heirs,
and fellow members of the body,
and fellow partakers of his promise
in Christ Jesus through the Gospel.
Of which I was made a servant,
according to the gift of that grace of God
which was given to me according to the working of his power.
To me, the very least of all saints, was this grace given:
to preach to the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ,
and to bring to light for everyone the economy of the mystery
which for ages has been hidden in God, who created all things;
so that now through the Church the manifold wisdom of God might be made known to
the principalities and the powers in the heavenly places,
according to the eternal purpose which he accomplished in Christ Jesus our Lord;
in whom we have boldness and confident access through our faith in him.
Responsorial – Isaiah 12.2-3, 4bcd, 5-6 Resp. 3
R. With joy you will draw water out of the wells of salvation.
Behold, God is my salvation.
I will trust and will not be afraid;
for the Lord, the Lord, is my strength and song;
and he has become my salvation.
Therefore with joy you will draw water
out of the wells of salvation.
R. With joy you will draw water out of the wells of salvation.
Give thanks to the Lord! Call on his name.
Declare his deeds among the nations.
Proclaim that his name is exalted!
R. With joy you will draw water out of the wells of salvation.
Sing to the Lord, for he has done excellent things!
Let this be known in all the earth!
Cry aloud and shout, you inhabitant of Zion;
For great in your midst
is the Holy One of Israel.
R. With joy you will draw water out of the wells of salvation.
Gospel – Luke 12.39-48
Jesus said to his disciples:
“But know this: if the master of the house had known in what hour the thief was coming,
he would not have allowed his house to be broken into.
Therefore be ready also, for the Son of Human is coming
at an hour that you do not expect.”
Peter said to him, “Lord, are you telling this parable to us, or to everybody?”
The Lord said, “Who then is the faithful and wise steward,
whom his master will set over his household,
to give them their portion of food at the right times?
Blessed is that servant whom his master will find doing so when he comes.
Truly I tell you, that he will set him over all that he has.
But if that servant says in his heart, ‘My master delays his coming,’
and begins to beat the menservants and the maidservants,
and to eat and drink, and to be drunken,
then the master of that servant will come on a day he does not expect,
and at an hour that he does not know,
and will cut him in pieces, and put him with the unfaithful.
That servant, who knew his master’s will, and did not prepare or do his will,
will be beaten much,
but he who did not know, and did what deserved a beating, will be beaten little.
To whomever much is given, much will be sought from them,
and to whom much was entrusted, more will be asked from them.
Reading 1 – Ephesians 3.2-12
Brothers and sisters:
You have heard of the stewardship of the grace of God
which was given to me for you;
how, by revelation, the mystery was made known to me.
as I wrote before in a few words.
When you read you can perceive my understanding in the mystery of Christ.
In other generations, it was not made known
to the sons and daughters of humans,
as it has now been revealed
to his holy apostles and prophets in the Spirit:
that the Gentiles are fellow heirs,
and fellow members of the body,
and fellow partakers of his promise
in Christ Jesus through the Gospel.
Of which I was made a servant,
according to the gift of that grace of God
which was given to me according to the working of his power.
To me, the very least of all saints, was this grace given:
to preach to the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ,
and to bring to light for everyone the economy of the mystery
which for ages has been hidden in God, who created all things;
so that now through the Church the manifold wisdom of God might be made known to
the principalities and the powers in the heavenly places,
according to the eternal purpose which he accomplished in Christ Jesus our Lord;
in whom we have boldness and confident access through our faith in him.
Responsorial – Isaiah 12.2-3, 4bcd, 5-6 Resp. 3
R. With joy you will draw water out of the wells of salvation.
Behold, God is my salvation.
I will trust and will not be afraid;
for the Lord, the Lord, is my strength and song;
and he has become my salvation.
Therefore with joy you will draw water
out of the wells of salvation.
R. With joy you will draw water out of the wells of salvation.
Give thanks to the Lord! Call on his name.
Declare his deeds among the nations.
Proclaim that his name is exalted!
R. With joy you will draw water out of the wells of salvation.
Sing to the Lord, for he has done excellent things!
Let this be known in all the earth!
Cry aloud and shout, you inhabitant of Zion;
For great in your midst
is the Holy One of Israel.
R. With joy you will draw water out of the wells of salvation.
Gospel – Luke 12.39-48
Jesus said to his disciples:
“But know this: if the master of the house had known in what hour the thief was coming,
he would not have allowed his house to be broken into.
Therefore be ready also, for the Son of Human is coming
at an hour that you do not expect.”
Peter said to him, “Lord, are you telling this parable to us, or to everybody?”
The Lord said, “Who then is the faithful and wise steward,
whom his master will set over his household,
to give them their portion of food at the right times?
Blessed is that servant whom his master will find doing so when he comes.
Truly I tell you, that he will set him over all that he has.
But if that servant says in his heart, ‘My master delays his coming,’
and begins to beat the menservants and the maidservants,
and to eat and drink, and to be drunken,
then the master of that servant will come on a day he does not expect,
and at an hour that he does not know,
and will cut him in pieces, and put him with the unfaithful.
That servant, who knew his master’s will, and did not prepare or do his will,
will be beaten much,
but he who did not know, and did what deserved a beating, will be beaten little.
To whomever much is given, much will be sought from them,
and to whom much was entrusted, more will be asked from them.
Tuesday of the Twenty-ninth Week in Ordinary Time (II)
Official Translation
Reading 1 – Ephesians 2.12-22
Brothers and sisters:
You were at that time separate from Christ,
alienated from the commonwealth of Israel,
and strangers from the covenants of the promise,
having no hope and without God in the world.
But now in Christ Jesus you who once were far off are made near in the blood of Christ.
For he is our peace, having made both one,
and has broken down the divider of fragmentation, the hostility,
in his flesh making ineffective the law of commandments in dogmas,
that he might create in himself one new human of the two, making peace,
and might reconcile them both in one body to God through the Cross,
putting hostility to death by it.
He came and preached peace to you who were far off and to those who were near.
For through him we both have our access in one Spirit to the Father.
You are no longer strangers and foreigners,
but you are fellow citizens with the saints,
and members of the household of God,
being built on the foundation of the Apostles and prophets,
Christ Jesus himself being the capstone;
in whom the whole building, fitted together, grows into a holy temple in the Lord;
in him you also are built together for a habitation of God in the Spirit.
Responsorial – Psalm 85.9ab-10, 11-12, 13-14 Resp. 9
R. The Lord will speak peace unto his people
I will hear what the Lord God has to say,
for he will speak peace unto his people,
Surely his salvation is near those who fear him,
that glory may dwell in our land.
R. The Lord will speak peace unto his people
Mercy and truth are met together.
Righteousness and peace have kissed each other.
Truth springs out of the earth,
and righteousness has looked down from heaven.
R. The Lord will speak peace unto his people
The Lord will give what is good,
and our land shall yield its increase.
Righteousness shall go before him,
and shall prepare a way for his footsteps to walk.
R. The Lord will speak peace unto his people
Gospel – Luke 12.35-38
Jesus said to his disciples: “Gird your loins and light your lamps.
Be like humans watching for their master to return from the marriage feast,
so that, when he comes and knocks, they may immediately open to him.
Blessed are those slaves, whom the master will find watching when he comes.
Amen I say to you, that he will dress himself, and make them recline,
and will come and serve them.
And if he comes in the second or third watch, and finds them thus, blessed are they!
Reading 1 – Ephesians 2.12-22
Brothers and sisters:
You were at that time separate from Christ,
alienated from the commonwealth of Israel,
and strangers from the covenants of the promise,
having no hope and without God in the world.
But now in Christ Jesus you who once were far off are made near in the blood of Christ.
For he is our peace, having made both one,
and has broken down the divider of fragmentation, the hostility,
in his flesh making ineffective the law of commandments in dogmas,
that he might create in himself one new human of the two, making peace,
and might reconcile them both in one body to God through the Cross,
putting hostility to death by it.
He came and preached peace to you who were far off and to those who were near.
For through him we both have our access in one Spirit to the Father.
You are no longer strangers and foreigners,
but you are fellow citizens with the saints,
and members of the household of God,
being built on the foundation of the Apostles and prophets,
Christ Jesus himself being the capstone;
in whom the whole building, fitted together, grows into a holy temple in the Lord;
in him you also are built together for a habitation of God in the Spirit.
Responsorial – Psalm 85.9ab-10, 11-12, 13-14 Resp. 9
R. The Lord will speak peace unto his people
I will hear what the Lord God has to say,
for he will speak peace unto his people,
Surely his salvation is near those who fear him,
that glory may dwell in our land.
R. The Lord will speak peace unto his people
Mercy and truth are met together.
Righteousness and peace have kissed each other.
Truth springs out of the earth,
and righteousness has looked down from heaven.
R. The Lord will speak peace unto his people
The Lord will give what is good,
and our land shall yield its increase.
Righteousness shall go before him,
and shall prepare a way for his footsteps to walk.
R. The Lord will speak peace unto his people
Gospel – Luke 12.35-38
Jesus said to his disciples: “Gird your loins and light your lamps.
Be like humans watching for their master to return from the marriage feast,
so that, when he comes and knocks, they may immediately open to him.
Blessed are those slaves, whom the master will find watching when he comes.
Amen I say to you, that he will dress himself, and make them recline,
and will come and serve them.
And if he comes in the second or third watch, and finds them thus, blessed are they!
Monday of the Twenty-ninth Week in Ordinary Time (II)
Official Translation
Reading 1 – Ephesians 2.1-10
Brothers and sisters:
You were dead in transgressions and sins,
in which you once walked according to the course of this world,
according to the prince of the power of the air,
the spirit who now works in the children of disobedience,
among whom we also all once lived in the desires of our flesh,
doing the wishes of the flesh and of the mind,
and were by nature children of wrath, like the rest.
God, being rich in mercy, because of his great love with which he loved us,
even when we were dead through our trespasses,
made us alive together with Christ (by grace you have been saved),
and raised us up with him,
and made us to sit with him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus,
that in the ages to come he might show the exceeding riches
of his grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus.
For by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves;
it is the gift of God, not of works, so that no one could boast.
For we are his handiwork, created in Christ Jesus for the good works
which God prepared ahead of time that we would walk in them.
Responsorial – Psalm 100.1b-2, 3, 4ab, 4c-5 Resp. 3b
R. The Lord has made us, and we are his.
Shout for joy to the Lord, all you lands!
Serve the Lord with gladness.
Come before his presence with singing.
R. The Lord has made us, and we are his.
Know that the Lord is God.
It is he who has made us, and we are his.
We are his people, and the sheep of his pasture.
R. The Lord has made us, and we are his.
Enter into his gates with thanksgiving,
into his courts with praise.
R. The Lord has made us, and we are his.
Give thanks to him, and bless his name, for the Lord is good.
His loving kindness endures forever,
his faithfulness to all generations.
R. The Lord has made us, and we are his.
Gospel – Luke 12.13-21
Someone in the crowd said to Jesus,
“Teacher, tell my brother to divide the inheritance with me.”
But he said to him, “Human, who made me a judge or an arbitrator over you?”
He said to them, “Beware! Keep yourselves from covetousness,
for not a life does not consist in the abundance of possessions.”
He spoke a parable to them, saying,
“The ground of a certain rich human produced abundantly.
He reasoned within himself, saying,
‘What will I do, since I do not have room to store my crops?’
He said, ‘This is what I will do. I will pull down my barns, and build bigger ones,
and there I will store all my grain and my goods.
I will tell my soul, “Soul, you have many goods laid up for many years.
Take your ease, eat, drink, be merry.”’
But God said to him, ‘You foolish one, tonight your soul is required of you.
The things which you have prepared—whose will they be?’
So is the one who lays up treasure for themself, and is not rich in God.”
Reading 1 – Ephesians 2.1-10
Brothers and sisters:
You were dead in transgressions and sins,
in which you once walked according to the course of this world,
according to the prince of the power of the air,
the spirit who now works in the children of disobedience,
among whom we also all once lived in the desires of our flesh,
doing the wishes of the flesh and of the mind,
and were by nature children of wrath, like the rest.
God, being rich in mercy, because of his great love with which he loved us,
even when we were dead through our trespasses,
made us alive together with Christ (by grace you have been saved),
and raised us up with him,
and made us to sit with him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus,
that in the ages to come he might show the exceeding riches
of his grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus.
For by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves;
it is the gift of God, not of works, so that no one could boast.
For we are his handiwork, created in Christ Jesus for the good works
which God prepared ahead of time that we would walk in them.
Responsorial – Psalm 100.1b-2, 3, 4ab, 4c-5 Resp. 3b
R. The Lord has made us, and we are his.
Shout for joy to the Lord, all you lands!
Serve the Lord with gladness.
Come before his presence with singing.
R. The Lord has made us, and we are his.
Know that the Lord is God.
It is he who has made us, and we are his.
We are his people, and the sheep of his pasture.
R. The Lord has made us, and we are his.
Enter into his gates with thanksgiving,
into his courts with praise.
R. The Lord has made us, and we are his.
Give thanks to him, and bless his name, for the Lord is good.
His loving kindness endures forever,
his faithfulness to all generations.
R. The Lord has made us, and we are his.
Gospel – Luke 12.13-21
Someone in the crowd said to Jesus,
“Teacher, tell my brother to divide the inheritance with me.”
But he said to him, “Human, who made me a judge or an arbitrator over you?”
He said to them, “Beware! Keep yourselves from covetousness,
for not a life does not consist in the abundance of possessions.”
He spoke a parable to them, saying,
“The ground of a certain rich human produced abundantly.
He reasoned within himself, saying,
‘What will I do, since I do not have room to store my crops?’
He said, ‘This is what I will do. I will pull down my barns, and build bigger ones,
and there I will store all my grain and my goods.
I will tell my soul, “Soul, you have many goods laid up for many years.
Take your ease, eat, drink, be merry.”’
But God said to him, ‘You foolish one, tonight your soul is required of you.
The things which you have prepared—whose will they be?’
So is the one who lays up treasure for themself, and is not rich in God.”
Twenty-ninth Sunday in Ordinary Time (B)
Official Translation
Reading 1 – Isaiah 53.10-11
It pleased the Lord to bruise him. He has caused him to suffer.
If he makes his soul an offering for sin,
he will see his descendants in a long life,
and the Lord’s pleasure will prosper in his hand.
After the suffering of his soul,
he will see the light and be satisfied.
Through his suffering, my righteous servant will justify many
and he will bear their iniquities.
Responsorial – Psalm 33.4-5, 18-19, 20+22 Resp. 22
R. Let your loving kindness be on us, O Lord, since we have hoped in you.
The word of the Lord is right.
All his work is done in faithfulness.
He loves righteousness and justice.
The earth is full of the loving kindness of the Lord.
R. Let your loving kindness be on us, O Lord, since we have hoped in you.
Behold, the eye of the Lord is on those who fear him,
on those who hope in his loving kindness;
to deliver their soul from death,
to keep them alive in famine.
R. Let your loving kindness be on us, O Lord, since we have hoped in you.
Our soul has waited for the Lord.
He is our help and our shield.
Let your loving kindness be on us, O Lord,
since we have hoped in you.
R. Let your loving kindness be on us, O Lord, since we have hoped in you.
Reading 2 – Hebrews 4.14-16
Brothers and sisters:
Having then a great high priest, who has passed through the heavens,
Jesus, the Son of God,
let us hold tightly to our confession.
For we do not have a high priest who is unable to sympathize with our infirmities,
but one who has been in all ways tempted like we are, though without sin.
Let us therefore draw near with boldness to the throne of grace,
that we may receive mercy, and find grace for help in time of need.
Gospel – Mark 10.35-45
James and John, the sons of Zebedee, came near to Jesus, saying,
“Teacher, we want you to do for us whatever we will ask.”
He said to them, “What do you want me to do for you?”
They said to him, “Grant to us that we may sit,
one at your right hand, and one at your left hand, in your glory.”
But Jesus said to them,
“You do not know what you are asking.
Are you able to drink the chalice that I drink,
and to be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with?”
They said to him, “We are able.”
Jesus said to them,
“You shall indeed drink the chalice that I drink,
and you shall be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with;
but to sit at my right hand and at my left hand is not mine to give,
but for whom it has been prepared.”
When the ten heard it, they began to be indignant towards James and John.
Jesus summoned them, and said to them,
“You know that they who are recognized as rulers over the Gentiles
lord it over them and their great ones exercise authority over them.
But it shall not be so among you,
but whoever wants to become great among you shall be your servant.
Whoever of you wants to become first among you, shall be the slave of all.
For the Son of Human did not come to be served,
but to serve and to give his life as a ransom for many.”
Reading 1 – Isaiah 53.10-11
It pleased the Lord to bruise him. He has caused him to suffer.
If he makes his soul an offering for sin,
he will see his descendants in a long life,
and the Lord’s pleasure will prosper in his hand.
After the suffering of his soul,
he will see the light and be satisfied.
Through his suffering, my righteous servant will justify many
and he will bear their iniquities.
Responsorial – Psalm 33.4-5, 18-19, 20+22 Resp. 22
R. Let your loving kindness be on us, O Lord, since we have hoped in you.
The word of the Lord is right.
All his work is done in faithfulness.
He loves righteousness and justice.
The earth is full of the loving kindness of the Lord.
R. Let your loving kindness be on us, O Lord, since we have hoped in you.
Behold, the eye of the Lord is on those who fear him,
on those who hope in his loving kindness;
to deliver their soul from death,
to keep them alive in famine.
R. Let your loving kindness be on us, O Lord, since we have hoped in you.
Our soul has waited for the Lord.
He is our help and our shield.
Let your loving kindness be on us, O Lord,
since we have hoped in you.
R. Let your loving kindness be on us, O Lord, since we have hoped in you.
Reading 2 – Hebrews 4.14-16
Brothers and sisters:
Having then a great high priest, who has passed through the heavens,
Jesus, the Son of God,
let us hold tightly to our confession.
For we do not have a high priest who is unable to sympathize with our infirmities,
but one who has been in all ways tempted like we are, though without sin.
Let us therefore draw near with boldness to the throne of grace,
that we may receive mercy, and find grace for help in time of need.
Gospel – Mark 10.35-45
James and John, the sons of Zebedee, came near to Jesus, saying,
“Teacher, we want you to do for us whatever we will ask.”
He said to them, “What do you want me to do for you?”
They said to him, “Grant to us that we may sit,
one at your right hand, and one at your left hand, in your glory.”
But Jesus said to them,
“You do not know what you are asking.
Are you able to drink the chalice that I drink,
and to be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with?”
They said to him, “We are able.”
Jesus said to them,
“You shall indeed drink the chalice that I drink,
and you shall be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with;
but to sit at my right hand and at my left hand is not mine to give,
but for whom it has been prepared.”
When the ten heard it, they began to be indignant towards James and John.
Jesus summoned them, and said to them,
“You know that they who are recognized as rulers over the Gentiles
lord it over them and their great ones exercise authority over them.
But it shall not be so among you,
but whoever wants to become great among you shall be your servant.
Whoever of you wants to become first among you, shall be the slave of all.
For the Son of Human did not come to be served,
but to serve and to give his life as a ransom for many.”
Saturday of the Twenty-eighth Week in Ordinary Time (II)
Official Translation
Reading 1 – Ephesians 1.15-23
Brothers and sisters:
Having heard of the faith in the Lord Jesus which is among you,
and the love which you have toward all the saints,
I do not cease to give thanks for you, making mention of you in my prayers.
May the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory,
give to you a spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him.
May the eyes of your hearts be enlightened
that you may know what is the hope of his calling,
and what are the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints,
and what is the exceeding greatness of his power toward us who believe,
according to that working of the strength of his might which he worked in Christ,
when he raised him from the dead, and made him sit at his right hand
in the heavenly places, far above all rule, and authority, and power, and dominion,
and every name that is named, not only in this age, but also in that which is to come.
He put all things in subjection under his feet, and gave him to be head over all things
for the Church, which is his body, the fullness of him who fills all in all.
Responsorial – Psalm 8.2-3ab, 4-5, 6-7 Resp. 7
R. You make your Son ruler over the works of your hands.
O Lord, our Lord,
how majestic is your name in all the earth,
who has set your glory above the heavens!
From the lips of babes and infants
you have established praise because of your adversaries.
R. You make your Son ruler over the works of your hands.
When I consider your heavens, the work of your fingers,
the moon and the stars, which you have ordained;
what is man, that you think of him?
What is the son of man, that you care for him?
R. You make your Son ruler over the works of your hands.
For you have made him a little lower than the gods,
and crowned him with glory and honor.
You make him ruler over the works of your hands.
You have put all things under his feet.
R. You make your Son ruler over the works of your hands.
Gospel – Luke 12.8-12
Jesus said to his disciples:
“I tell you, everyone who confesses me before humans,
the Son of Human will also confess before the angels of God,
but they who deny me in the presence of humans
will be denied in the presence of the angels of God.
Everyone who speaks a word against the Son of Human will be forgiven,
but those who blaspheme against the Holy Spirit will not be forgiven.
When they bring you before the synagogues, the rulers, and the authorities,
do not be anxious how or what you will answer, or what you will say,
for the Holy Spirit will teach you in that same hour what you must say.”
Reading 1 – Ephesians 1.15-23
Brothers and sisters:
Having heard of the faith in the Lord Jesus which is among you,
and the love which you have toward all the saints,
I do not cease to give thanks for you, making mention of you in my prayers.
May the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory,
give to you a spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him.
May the eyes of your hearts be enlightened
that you may know what is the hope of his calling,
and what are the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints,
and what is the exceeding greatness of his power toward us who believe,
according to that working of the strength of his might which he worked in Christ,
when he raised him from the dead, and made him sit at his right hand
in the heavenly places, far above all rule, and authority, and power, and dominion,
and every name that is named, not only in this age, but also in that which is to come.
He put all things in subjection under his feet, and gave him to be head over all things
for the Church, which is his body, the fullness of him who fills all in all.
Responsorial – Psalm 8.2-3ab, 4-5, 6-7 Resp. 7
R. You make your Son ruler over the works of your hands.
O Lord, our Lord,
how majestic is your name in all the earth,
who has set your glory above the heavens!
From the lips of babes and infants
you have established praise because of your adversaries.
R. You make your Son ruler over the works of your hands.
When I consider your heavens, the work of your fingers,
the moon and the stars, which you have ordained;
what is man, that you think of him?
What is the son of man, that you care for him?
R. You make your Son ruler over the works of your hands.
For you have made him a little lower than the gods,
and crowned him with glory and honor.
You make him ruler over the works of your hands.
You have put all things under his feet.
R. You make your Son ruler over the works of your hands.
Gospel – Luke 12.8-12
Jesus said to his disciples:
“I tell you, everyone who confesses me before humans,
the Son of Human will also confess before the angels of God,
but they who deny me in the presence of humans
will be denied in the presence of the angels of God.
Everyone who speaks a word against the Son of Human will be forgiven,
but those who blaspheme against the Holy Spirit will not be forgiven.
When they bring you before the synagogues, the rulers, and the authorities,
do not be anxious how or what you will answer, or what you will say,
for the Holy Spirit will teach you in that same hour what you must say.”
Friday of the Twenty-eighth Week in Ordinary Time (II)
Official Translation
Reading 1 – Ephesians 1.11-14
Brothers and sisters:
In Christ we were foreordained according to the purpose
of him who does all things after the counsel of his will;
to the end that we should be to the praise of his glory,
we who had before hoped in Christ.
In whom you also, having heard the word of the truth, the gospel of your salvation,
having also believed in him,
were sealed with the promised Holy Spirit, who is a pledge of our inheritance,
to the redemption of God’s own possession, to the praise of his glory.
Responsorial – Psalm 33.1-2, 4-5, 12-13 Resp. 12
R. Blessed is the people whom the Lord has chosen as his inheritance.
Rejoice in the Lord, you righteous!
Praise is fitting for the upright.
Give thanks to the Lord with the lyre.
Sing praises to him with the harp of ten strings.
R. Blessed is the people whom the Lord has chosen as his inheritance.
The word of the Lord is right.
All his work is done in faithfulness.
He loves righteousness and justice.
The earth is full of the loving kindness of the Lord.
R. Blessed is the people whom the Lord has chosen as his inheritance.
Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord,
the people whom he has chosen for his own inheritance.
The Lord looks from heaven.
He sees all the sons of men.
R. Blessed is the people whom the Lord has chosen as his inheritance.
Gospel – Luke 12.1-7
At that time:
A multitude of many thousands had gathered together,
so much so that they trampled on each other.
Jesus began to speak, first to his disciples,
“Beware of the yeast of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy.
There is nothing covered up, that will not be revealed,
nor hidden, that will not be known.
Therefore whatever you have said in the darkness will be heard in the light.
What you have whispered in the inner rooms will be proclaimed on the housetops.
I tell you, my friends, do not be afraid of those who kill the body,
but after that have no more that they can do.
But I will warn you whom you should fear.
Fear him, who after he has killed, has power to cast into Gehenna.
Yes, I tell you, fear him.
Are not five sparrows sold for two small coins? Yet not one of them is forgotten by God.
The very hairs of your head are all numbered.
Therefore do not be afraid. You are worth more than many sparrows.
Reading 1 – Ephesians 1.11-14
Brothers and sisters:
In Christ we were foreordained according to the purpose
of him who does all things after the counsel of his will;
to the end that we should be to the praise of his glory,
we who had before hoped in Christ.
In whom you also, having heard the word of the truth, the gospel of your salvation,
having also believed in him,
were sealed with the promised Holy Spirit, who is a pledge of our inheritance,
to the redemption of God’s own possession, to the praise of his glory.
Responsorial – Psalm 33.1-2, 4-5, 12-13 Resp. 12
R. Blessed is the people whom the Lord has chosen as his inheritance.
Rejoice in the Lord, you righteous!
Praise is fitting for the upright.
Give thanks to the Lord with the lyre.
Sing praises to him with the harp of ten strings.
R. Blessed is the people whom the Lord has chosen as his inheritance.
The word of the Lord is right.
All his work is done in faithfulness.
He loves righteousness and justice.
The earth is full of the loving kindness of the Lord.
R. Blessed is the people whom the Lord has chosen as his inheritance.
Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord,
the people whom he has chosen for his own inheritance.
The Lord looks from heaven.
He sees all the sons of men.
R. Blessed is the people whom the Lord has chosen as his inheritance.
Gospel – Luke 12.1-7
At that time:
A multitude of many thousands had gathered together,
so much so that they trampled on each other.
Jesus began to speak, first to his disciples,
“Beware of the yeast of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy.
There is nothing covered up, that will not be revealed,
nor hidden, that will not be known.
Therefore whatever you have said in the darkness will be heard in the light.
What you have whispered in the inner rooms will be proclaimed on the housetops.
I tell you, my friends, do not be afraid of those who kill the body,
but after that have no more that they can do.
But I will warn you whom you should fear.
Fear him, who after he has killed, has power to cast into Gehenna.
Yes, I tell you, fear him.
Are not five sparrows sold for two small coins? Yet not one of them is forgotten by God.
The very hairs of your head are all numbered.
Therefore do not be afraid. You are worth more than many sparrows.
Feast of Saint Luke, evangelist
Official Translation
Reading 1 – 2 Timothy 4.10-17b
Beloved:
Demas left me, enamored of this present world, and went to Thessalonica,
and Crescens to Galatia, and Titus to Dalmatia.
Only Luke is with me.
Take Mark, and bring him with you, for he is useful to me for service.
But I sent Tychicus to Ephesus.
Bring the cloak that I left at Troas with Carpus when you come,
and the scrolls, especially the parchments.
Alexander, the coppersmith, did much evil to me.
The Lord will repay him according to his deeds.
You also must beware of him, for he greatly opposed our words.
At my first defense, no one came to help me, but all left me.
May it not be held against them.
But the Lord stood by me, and strengthened me,
that through me the message might be fully proclaimed,
and that all the Gentiles might hear.
Responsorial – Psalm 145.10-11, 12-13, 17-18 Resp. 12
R. Your friends make known, O Lord, the glory of the majesty of your kingdom.
Let all your works, O Lord, praise you,
and let your holy ones bless you.
They will speak of the glory of your kingdom:
and tell of your power.
R. Your friends make known, O Lord, the glory of the majesty of your kingdom.
To make known to the sons of men his mighty acts,
the glory of the majesty of his kingdom.
Your kingdom is an everlasting kingdom.
Your dominion endures throughout all generations.
R. Your friends make known, O Lord, the glory of the majesty of your kingdom.
The Lord is righteous in all his ways,
and gracious in all his works.
The Lord is near to all those who call on him,
to all who call on him in truth.
R. Your friends make known, O Lord, the glory of the majesty of your kingdom.
Gospel – Luke 10.1-9
Now after these things, the Lord also appointed seventy-two others,
and sent them two by two ahead of him
into every city and place, where he was about to come.
Then he said to them, “The harvest is indeed plentiful, but the laborers are few.
Pray therefore to the Lord of the harvest, that he may send out laborers into his harvest.
Go your ways. Behold, I send you out as lambs among wolves.
Carry no purse, nor wallet, nor sandals.
Greet no one on the way. Into whatever house you enter, first say, ‘Peace be to this house.’
If a son of peace is there, your peace will rest on him; but if not, it will return to you.
Remain in that same house, eating and drinking the things they give,
for the laborer is worthy of his wages.
Do not go from house to house.
Into whatever city you enter, and they receive you, eat the things that are set before you.
Heal the sick who are there, and tell them, ‘The Kingdom of God is at hand for you.’
Reading 1 – 2 Timothy 4.10-17b
Beloved:
Demas left me, enamored of this present world, and went to Thessalonica,
and Crescens to Galatia, and Titus to Dalmatia.
Only Luke is with me.
Take Mark, and bring him with you, for he is useful to me for service.
But I sent Tychicus to Ephesus.
Bring the cloak that I left at Troas with Carpus when you come,
and the scrolls, especially the parchments.
Alexander, the coppersmith, did much evil to me.
The Lord will repay him according to his deeds.
You also must beware of him, for he greatly opposed our words.
At my first defense, no one came to help me, but all left me.
May it not be held against them.
But the Lord stood by me, and strengthened me,
that through me the message might be fully proclaimed,
and that all the Gentiles might hear.
Responsorial – Psalm 145.10-11, 12-13, 17-18 Resp. 12
R. Your friends make known, O Lord, the glory of the majesty of your kingdom.
Let all your works, O Lord, praise you,
and let your holy ones bless you.
They will speak of the glory of your kingdom:
and tell of your power.
R. Your friends make known, O Lord, the glory of the majesty of your kingdom.
To make known to the sons of men his mighty acts,
the glory of the majesty of his kingdom.
Your kingdom is an everlasting kingdom.
Your dominion endures throughout all generations.
R. Your friends make known, O Lord, the glory of the majesty of your kingdom.
The Lord is righteous in all his ways,
and gracious in all his works.
The Lord is near to all those who call on him,
to all who call on him in truth.
R. Your friends make known, O Lord, the glory of the majesty of your kingdom.
Gospel – Luke 10.1-9
Now after these things, the Lord also appointed seventy-two others,
and sent them two by two ahead of him
into every city and place, where he was about to come.
Then he said to them, “The harvest is indeed plentiful, but the laborers are few.
Pray therefore to the Lord of the harvest, that he may send out laborers into his harvest.
Go your ways. Behold, I send you out as lambs among wolves.
Carry no purse, nor wallet, nor sandals.
Greet no one on the way. Into whatever house you enter, first say, ‘Peace be to this house.’
If a son of peace is there, your peace will rest on him; but if not, it will return to you.
Remain in that same house, eating and drinking the things they give,
for the laborer is worthy of his wages.
Do not go from house to house.
Into whatever city you enter, and they receive you, eat the things that are set before you.
Heal the sick who are there, and tell them, ‘The Kingdom of God is at hand for you.’
Memorial of Saint Ignatius of Antioch, Bishop and Martyr
Official Translation (different readings)
Reading 1 – Philippians 3.17-4.1
Brothers and sisters , be imitators together of me,
and note those who walk this way,
even as you have us for an example.
For many walk, of whom I told you often, and now tell you even weeping,
as enemies of the cross of Christ, whose end is destruction,
whose god is the belly, and whose glory is in their shame,
who think about earthly things.
For our citizenship is in heaven, from where we await a Savior: the Lord Jesus Christ,
who will change our lowly body to be conformed to his glorified Body,
according to the power by which he is able even to subject all things to himself.
Therefore, my brothers and sisters, beloved and longed for, my joy and crown,
stand firm in the Lord, my beloved.
Responsorial – Psalm 34.2-3, 4-5, 6-7, 8-9 Resp. 5
R. The Lord delivered me from all my fears.
I will bless the Lord at all times.
His praise will always be in my mouth.
My soul shall boast in the Lord.
The humble shall hear of it, and be glad.
R. The Lord delivered me from all my fears.
Oh magnify the Lord with me.
Let us exalt his name together.
I sought the Lord, and he answered me,
and delivered me from all my fears.
R. The Lord delivered me from all my fears.
They looked to him, and were radiant.
Their faces shall never be covered with shame.
This poor man cried, and the Lord heard him,
and saved him out of all his troubles.
R. The Lord delivered me from all my fears.
The angel of the Lord encamps
around those who fear him and delivers them.
O taste and see that the Lord is good.
Blessed is the man who takes refuge in him.
R. The Lord delivered me from all my fears.
Gospel – John 12.24-26
Jesus said to his disciples:
“Amen, amen, I say to you, unless a grain of wheat
falls into the earth and dies, it remains by itself alone.
But if it dies, it bears much fruit.
Whoever loves their life will lose it.
Whoever hates their life in this world will keep it to eternal life.
If anyone serves me, let them follow me.
Where I am, there will my servant also be.
If anyone serves me, the Father will honor them.”
Reading 1 – Philippians 3.17-4.1
Brothers and sisters , be imitators together of me,
and note those who walk this way,
even as you have us for an example.
For many walk, of whom I told you often, and now tell you even weeping,
as enemies of the cross of Christ, whose end is destruction,
whose god is the belly, and whose glory is in their shame,
who think about earthly things.
For our citizenship is in heaven, from where we await a Savior: the Lord Jesus Christ,
who will change our lowly body to be conformed to his glorified Body,
according to the power by which he is able even to subject all things to himself.
Therefore, my brothers and sisters, beloved and longed for, my joy and crown,
stand firm in the Lord, my beloved.
Responsorial – Psalm 34.2-3, 4-5, 6-7, 8-9 Resp. 5
R. The Lord delivered me from all my fears.
I will bless the Lord at all times.
His praise will always be in my mouth.
My soul shall boast in the Lord.
The humble shall hear of it, and be glad.
R. The Lord delivered me from all my fears.
Oh magnify the Lord with me.
Let us exalt his name together.
I sought the Lord, and he answered me,
and delivered me from all my fears.
R. The Lord delivered me from all my fears.
They looked to him, and were radiant.
Their faces shall never be covered with shame.
This poor man cried, and the Lord heard him,
and saved him out of all his troubles.
R. The Lord delivered me from all my fears.
The angel of the Lord encamps
around those who fear him and delivers them.
O taste and see that the Lord is good.
Blessed is the man who takes refuge in him.
R. The Lord delivered me from all my fears.
Gospel – John 12.24-26
Jesus said to his disciples:
“Amen, amen, I say to you, unless a grain of wheat
falls into the earth and dies, it remains by itself alone.
But if it dies, it bears much fruit.
Whoever loves their life will lose it.
Whoever hates their life in this world will keep it to eternal life.
If anyone serves me, let them follow me.
Where I am, there will my servant also be.
If anyone serves me, the Father will honor them.”
Tuesday of the Twenty-eighth Week in Ordinary Time (II)
Official Translation
Reading 1 – Galatians 5.1-6
Brothers and sisters:
For freedom Christ has made us free.
Stand firm therefore, and do not submit again to a yoke of bondage.
Behold, I, Paul, tell you that if you receive circumcision, Christ will profit you nothing.
Yes, I testify again that every man who receives circumcision is bound to do the whole law.
You are alienated from Christ, you who desire to be justified by the law.
You have fallen away from grace.
For we, through the Spirit, by faith wait for the hope of righteousness.
For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision amounts to anything,
nor uncircumcision, but faith working through love.
Responsorial – Psalm 119.41, 43, 44, 45, 47, 48 Resp. 41a
R. Let your loving kindness also come on me, O Lord.
Let your loving kindness also come on me, O Lord,
your salvation, according to your word.
R. Let your loving kindness also come on me, O Lord.
Do not snatch the word of truth out of my mouth,
for I put my hope in your ordinances.
R. Let your loving kindness also come on me, O Lord.
I will walk in liberty,
for I have sought your precepts.
R. Let your loving kindness also come on me, O Lord.
I will delight myself in your commandments,
because I love them.
R. Let your loving kindness also come on me, O Lord.
I reach out my hands for your commandments, which I love.
I will meditate on your statutes.
R. Let your loving kindness also come on me, O Lord.
Gospel – Luke 11.37-41
After Jesus had spoken,
there was a Pharisee who asked him to dine with him.
He went in, and sat at the table.
When the Pharisee saw it, he marveled that he had not first washed himself before dinner.
The Lord said to him, “O you Pharisees
cleanse the outside of the cup and of the platter,
but your inward part is full of extortion and wickedness.
You foolish ones, did note the one what made outside make the inside also?
But give for gifts to the needy those things which are within,
and behold, all things will be clean to you.”
Reading 1 – Galatians 5.1-6
Brothers and sisters:
For freedom Christ has made us free.
Stand firm therefore, and do not submit again to a yoke of bondage.
Behold, I, Paul, tell you that if you receive circumcision, Christ will profit you nothing.
Yes, I testify again that every man who receives circumcision is bound to do the whole law.
You are alienated from Christ, you who desire to be justified by the law.
You have fallen away from grace.
For we, through the Spirit, by faith wait for the hope of righteousness.
For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision amounts to anything,
nor uncircumcision, but faith working through love.
Responsorial – Psalm 119.41, 43, 44, 45, 47, 48 Resp. 41a
R. Let your loving kindness also come on me, O Lord.
Let your loving kindness also come on me, O Lord,
your salvation, according to your word.
R. Let your loving kindness also come on me, O Lord.
Do not snatch the word of truth out of my mouth,
for I put my hope in your ordinances.
R. Let your loving kindness also come on me, O Lord.
I will walk in liberty,
for I have sought your precepts.
R. Let your loving kindness also come on me, O Lord.
I will delight myself in your commandments,
because I love them.
R. Let your loving kindness also come on me, O Lord.
I reach out my hands for your commandments, which I love.
I will meditate on your statutes.
R. Let your loving kindness also come on me, O Lord.
Gospel – Luke 11.37-41
After Jesus had spoken,
there was a Pharisee who asked him to dine with him.
He went in, and sat at the table.
When the Pharisee saw it, he marveled that he had not first washed himself before dinner.
The Lord said to him, “O you Pharisees
cleanse the outside of the cup and of the platter,
but your inward part is full of extortion and wickedness.
You foolish ones, did note the one what made outside make the inside also?
But give for gifts to the needy those things which are within,
and behold, all things will be clean to you.”
Monday of the Twenty-eighth Week in Ordinary Time (II)
Official Translation
Reading 1 - Galatians 4.22-24, 26-27, 31-5:1
Brothers and sisters:
It is written that Abraham had two sons,
one by theslave woman and one by the free woman.
However, the son by the slave woman was born according to the flesh,
but the son by the free woman was born through a promise.
These things contain an allegory, for these women are two covenants.
One is from Mount Sinai, bearing children to bondage: Hagar.
But the Jerusalem that is above is free; she is the mother of us all.
For it is written,“Rejoice, you barren who have not borne.
Break out and shout, you who have not labored.
For more are the children of the desolate than of her who has a husband.”
So then, brothers, we are not children of a slave woman, but of the free woman.
For freedom Christ has made us free.
Do not submit again to a yoke of bondage.
Responsorial – Psalm 113.1b-2, 3-4, 5a+6-7 Resp. 2
R. Blessed be the Lord’s name forever more. or R. Alleluia!
Praise, you servants of the Lord,
praise the Lord’s name.
Blessed be the Lord’s name,
from this time forward and forever more.
R. Blessed be the Lord’s name forever more. or R. Alleluia!
From the rising of the sun to the going down of the same,
the Lord’s name is to be praised
the Lord is high above all nations,
his glory above the heavens.
R. Blessed be the Lord’s name forever more. or R. Alleluia!
Who is like the Lord, our God,
who stoops down to see in heaven and in the earth?
He raises up the poor out of the dust.
He lifts up the needy from the ash heap.
R. Blessed be the Lord’s name forever more. or R. Alleluia!
Gospel – Luke 11.29-32
While the crowds were gathering together to Jesus, he began to say,
“This kind is a perverse kind.
It seeks a sign, and no sign will be given to it except the sign of Jonah, the prophet.
For even as Jonah became a sign to the Ninevites, so will the Son of Human be to this kind.
At the judgment, the queen of the south will rise up with the men of this kind,
and will condemn them:
for she came from the ends of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon;
and behold, something greater than Solomon is here.
The men of Nineveh will stand up in the judgment with this kind, and will condemn it:
for they repented at the preaching of Jonah, and behold, something greater than Jonah is here.”
Reading 1 - Galatians 4.22-24, 26-27, 31-5:1
Brothers and sisters:
It is written that Abraham had two sons,
one by theslave woman and one by the free woman.
However, the son by the slave woman was born according to the flesh,
but the son by the free woman was born through a promise.
These things contain an allegory, for these women are two covenants.
One is from Mount Sinai, bearing children to bondage: Hagar.
But the Jerusalem that is above is free; she is the mother of us all.
For it is written,“Rejoice, you barren who have not borne.
Break out and shout, you who have not labored.
For more are the children of the desolate than of her who has a husband.”
So then, brothers, we are not children of a slave woman, but of the free woman.
For freedom Christ has made us free.
Do not submit again to a yoke of bondage.
Responsorial – Psalm 113.1b-2, 3-4, 5a+6-7 Resp. 2
R. Blessed be the Lord’s name forever more. or R. Alleluia!
Praise, you servants of the Lord,
praise the Lord’s name.
Blessed be the Lord’s name,
from this time forward and forever more.
R. Blessed be the Lord’s name forever more. or R. Alleluia!
From the rising of the sun to the going down of the same,
the Lord’s name is to be praised
the Lord is high above all nations,
his glory above the heavens.
R. Blessed be the Lord’s name forever more. or R. Alleluia!
Who is like the Lord, our God,
who stoops down to see in heaven and in the earth?
He raises up the poor out of the dust.
He lifts up the needy from the ash heap.
R. Blessed be the Lord’s name forever more. or R. Alleluia!
Gospel – Luke 11.29-32
While the crowds were gathering together to Jesus, he began to say,
“This kind is a perverse kind.
It seeks a sign, and no sign will be given to it except the sign of Jonah, the prophet.
For even as Jonah became a sign to the Ninevites, so will the Son of Human be to this kind.
At the judgment, the queen of the south will rise up with the men of this kind,
and will condemn them:
for she came from the ends of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon;
and behold, something greater than Solomon is here.
The men of Nineveh will stand up in the judgment with this kind, and will condemn it:
for they repented at the preaching of Jonah, and behold, something greater than Jonah is here.”
Twenty-eighth Sunday in Ordinary Time (B)
Official Translation
Reading 1 – Wisdom 7.7-11
I prayed and understanding was given me.
I called upon God, and the spirit of wisdom came upon me.
And I preferred her to scepter and throne,
and esteemed riches nothing in comparison of her.
Nor did I compare her to any precious stone,
for all gold in comparison to her, is as a little sand,
and silver in respect to her shall be counted as clay.
I loved her above health and beauty,
and chose to have her instead of light:
for her light cannot be put out.
Now all good things came to me together with her,
and innumerable riches through her hands.
Responsorial – Psalm 90.12-13, 14-15, 16-17 Resp. 14
R. Satisfy us with your loving kindness, O Lord, that we may rejoice.
So teach us to number our days,
that we may gain a heart of wisdom.
Relent, O Lord! How long?
Have compassion on your servants!
R. Satisfy us with your loving kindness, O Lord, that we may rejoice.
Satisfy us in the morning with your loving kindness,
that we may rejoice and be glad all our days.
Make us glad for as many days as you have afflicted us,
for as many years as we have seen evil.
R. Satisfy us with your loving kindness, O Lord, that we may rejoice.
Let your work appear to your servants;
your glory to their children.
Let the favor of the Lord our God be upon us.
Establish the work of our hands for us.
Yes, establish the work of our hands.
R. Satisfy us with your loving kindness, O Lord, that we may rejoice.
Reading 2 – Hebrews 4.12-13
Brothers and sisters:
The word of God is living and effective, sharper than any two-edged sword,
piercing even between soul and spirit, joints and marrow,
and is able to discern the thoughts and intentions of the heart.
There is no creature that is hidden from his sight,
but all things are naked and laid open before the eyes of him
to whom we must give an account.
Gospel – Mark 10.17-30
As Jesus was going out on the way, someone ran to him and knelt before him,
and asked him, “Good Teacher,what shall I do that I may inherit eternal life?”
Jesus said to him, “Why do you call me good? No one is good if not one: God.
You know the commandments:
‘Do not murder,’
‘Do not commit adultery,’
‘Do not steal,’
‘Do not give false testimony,’
‘Do not defraud,’
‘Honor your father and mother.’”
He said to him, “Teacher, I have observed all these things from my youth.”
Jesus looking at him loved him, and said to him,
“One thing you lack. Go, sell whatever you have and give to the poor,
and you will have treasure in heaven; and come follow me.”
But his face darkened at that saying, and he went away sorrowful,
for he was one who had great possessions.
Jesus looked around, and said to his disciples,
“How difficult it is for those who have riches to enter into the Kingdom of God!”
The disciples were amazed at his words.
But Jesus answered again,
“Children, how hard it is to enter into the Kingdom of God!
It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of the needle
than for someone rich to enter into the Kingdom of God.”
They were exceedingly astonished, saying to him, “Then who can be saved?”
Jesus, looking at them, said,
“With humans it is impossible, but not with God, for all things are possible with God.”
Peter began to tell Jesus “Behold, we have left all, and have followed you.”
Jesus said, “Amen I tell you, there is no one
who has left house, or brothers, or sisters,
or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or land,
for my sake and for the sake of the Gospel,
but they will receive one hundred times more now in this time:
houses, brothers, sisters, mothers, children, and land, with persecutions,
and in the age to come eternal life.
Reading 1 – Wisdom 7.7-11
I prayed and understanding was given me.
I called upon God, and the spirit of wisdom came upon me.
And I preferred her to scepter and throne,
and esteemed riches nothing in comparison of her.
Nor did I compare her to any precious stone,
for all gold in comparison to her, is as a little sand,
and silver in respect to her shall be counted as clay.
I loved her above health and beauty,
and chose to have her instead of light:
for her light cannot be put out.
Now all good things came to me together with her,
and innumerable riches through her hands.
Responsorial – Psalm 90.12-13, 14-15, 16-17 Resp. 14
R. Satisfy us with your loving kindness, O Lord, that we may rejoice.
So teach us to number our days,
that we may gain a heart of wisdom.
Relent, O Lord! How long?
Have compassion on your servants!
R. Satisfy us with your loving kindness, O Lord, that we may rejoice.
Satisfy us in the morning with your loving kindness,
that we may rejoice and be glad all our days.
Make us glad for as many days as you have afflicted us,
for as many years as we have seen evil.
R. Satisfy us with your loving kindness, O Lord, that we may rejoice.
Let your work appear to your servants;
your glory to their children.
Let the favor of the Lord our God be upon us.
Establish the work of our hands for us.
Yes, establish the work of our hands.
R. Satisfy us with your loving kindness, O Lord, that we may rejoice.
Reading 2 – Hebrews 4.12-13
Brothers and sisters:
The word of God is living and effective, sharper than any two-edged sword,
piercing even between soul and spirit, joints and marrow,
and is able to discern the thoughts and intentions of the heart.
There is no creature that is hidden from his sight,
but all things are naked and laid open before the eyes of him
to whom we must give an account.
Gospel – Mark 10.17-30
As Jesus was going out on the way, someone ran to him and knelt before him,
and asked him, “Good Teacher,what shall I do that I may inherit eternal life?”
Jesus said to him, “Why do you call me good? No one is good if not one: God.
You know the commandments:
‘Do not murder,’
‘Do not commit adultery,’
‘Do not steal,’
‘Do not give false testimony,’
‘Do not defraud,’
‘Honor your father and mother.’”
He said to him, “Teacher, I have observed all these things from my youth.”
Jesus looking at him loved him, and said to him,
“One thing you lack. Go, sell whatever you have and give to the poor,
and you will have treasure in heaven; and come follow me.”
But his face darkened at that saying, and he went away sorrowful,
for he was one who had great possessions.
Jesus looked around, and said to his disciples,
“How difficult it is for those who have riches to enter into the Kingdom of God!”
The disciples were amazed at his words.
But Jesus answered again,
“Children, how hard it is to enter into the Kingdom of God!
It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of the needle
than for someone rich to enter into the Kingdom of God.”
They were exceedingly astonished, saying to him, “Then who can be saved?”
Jesus, looking at them, said,
“With humans it is impossible, but not with God, for all things are possible with God.”
Peter began to tell Jesus “Behold, we have left all, and have followed you.”
Jesus said, “Amen I tell you, there is no one
who has left house, or brothers, or sisters,
or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or land,
for my sake and for the sake of the Gospel,
but they will receive one hundred times more now in this time:
houses, brothers, sisters, mothers, children, and land, with persecutions,
and in the age to come eternal life.
Friday of the Twenty-seventh Week in Ordinary Time (II)
Official Translation
Reading 1 – Galatians 3.7-14
Brothers and sisters:
Know therefore that those who are of faith, they are children of Abraham.
The Scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the Gentiles by faith,
preached the Faith beforehand to Abraham, saying, “In you all the nations will be blessed.”
So then, those who are of faith are blessed with the faithful Abraham.
For as many as are of the works of the law are under a curse.
For it is written, “Cursed is everyone who does not continue
in all things that are written in the book of the law, to do them.”
Now that no one is justified by the law before God is evident, for, “The righteous will live by faith.”
The law is not of faith, but, “The doer of them will live by them.”
Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law, having become a curse for us.
For it is written, “Cursed is everyone who hangs on a tree,”
that the blessing of Abraham might come on the Gentiles through Christ Jesus,
that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith.
Responsorial – Psalm 111.1b-2, 3-4, 5-6 Resp. 5
R. The Lord always remembers his covenant.
I will give thanks to the Lord with my whole heart,
in the council of the upright, and in the congregation.
The Lord’s works are great,
pondered by all who delight in them.
R. The Lord always remembers his covenant.
His work is honor and majesty.
His righteousness endures forever.
He has caused his wonderful works to be remembered.
The Lord is gracious and merciful.
R. The Lord always remembers his covenant.
He has given food to those who fear him.
He always remembers his covenant.
He has shown his people the power of his works,
in giving them the heritage of the nations.
R. The Lord always remembers his covenant.
Gospel – Luke 11.15-26
When Jesus had driven out a demon, some of the crowd said,
“He casts out demons through Beelzebul, the prince of the demons.”
Others, testing him, sought from him a sign from heaven.
But he, knowing their thoughts, said to them,
“Every kingdom divided against itself is brought to desolation.
A house divided against itself falls.
If Satan also is divided against himself, how will his kingdom stand?
For you say that I cast out demons through Beelzebul,
but if I cast out demons through Beelzebul,
by whom do your sons cast them out?
Therefore they will be your judges.
But if by the finger of God I cast out demons,
then the Kingdom of God has come to you.
When the strong one, fully armed, guards his own dwelling,
his goods are at peace.
But when someone stronger attacks him and overcomes him,
he takes from him his whole armor on which he depended
and divides his plunder.
The one that is not with me is against me.
The one who does not gather with me scatters.
When the unclean spirit has gone out of a human,
it passes through waterless places seeking rest, and finding none, says,
‘I will turn back to my house from which I came out.’
When it returns, it finds it swept and put in order.
Then it goes, and takes seven other spirits more evil than itself,
and they enter in and dwell there.
The last state of the human becomes worse than the first.”
Reading 1 – Galatians 3.7-14
Brothers and sisters:
Know therefore that those who are of faith, they are children of Abraham.
The Scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the Gentiles by faith,
preached the Faith beforehand to Abraham, saying, “In you all the nations will be blessed.”
So then, those who are of faith are blessed with the faithful Abraham.
For as many as are of the works of the law are under a curse.
For it is written, “Cursed is everyone who does not continue
in all things that are written in the book of the law, to do them.”
Now that no one is justified by the law before God is evident, for, “The righteous will live by faith.”
The law is not of faith, but, “The doer of them will live by them.”
Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law, having become a curse for us.
For it is written, “Cursed is everyone who hangs on a tree,”
that the blessing of Abraham might come on the Gentiles through Christ Jesus,
that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith.
Responsorial – Psalm 111.1b-2, 3-4, 5-6 Resp. 5
R. The Lord always remembers his covenant.
I will give thanks to the Lord with my whole heart,
in the council of the upright, and in the congregation.
The Lord’s works are great,
pondered by all who delight in them.
R. The Lord always remembers his covenant.
His work is honor and majesty.
His righteousness endures forever.
He has caused his wonderful works to be remembered.
The Lord is gracious and merciful.
R. The Lord always remembers his covenant.
He has given food to those who fear him.
He always remembers his covenant.
He has shown his people the power of his works,
in giving them the heritage of the nations.
R. The Lord always remembers his covenant.
Gospel – Luke 11.15-26
When Jesus had driven out a demon, some of the crowd said,
“He casts out demons through Beelzebul, the prince of the demons.”
Others, testing him, sought from him a sign from heaven.
But he, knowing their thoughts, said to them,
“Every kingdom divided against itself is brought to desolation.
A house divided against itself falls.
If Satan also is divided against himself, how will his kingdom stand?
For you say that I cast out demons through Beelzebul,
but if I cast out demons through Beelzebul,
by whom do your sons cast them out?
Therefore they will be your judges.
But if by the finger of God I cast out demons,
then the Kingdom of God has come to you.
When the strong one, fully armed, guards his own dwelling,
his goods are at peace.
But when someone stronger attacks him and overcomes him,
he takes from him his whole armor on which he depended
and divides his plunder.
The one that is not with me is against me.
The one who does not gather with me scatters.
When the unclean spirit has gone out of a human,
it passes through waterless places seeking rest, and finding none, says,
‘I will turn back to my house from which I came out.’
When it returns, it finds it swept and put in order.
Then it goes, and takes seven other spirits more evil than itself,
and they enter in and dwell there.
The last state of the human becomes worse than the first.”
Thursday of the Twenty-seventh Week in Ordinary Time (II)
Official Translation
Reading 1 - Galatians 3.1-5
O foolish Galatians!
Who has bewitched you before whose eyes Jesus Christ was openly portrayed as crucified?
I just want to learn this from you:
Did you receive the Spirit by the works of the law, or by faith in what you heard?
Are you so foolish? Having begun in the Spirit, are you now ending with the flesh?
Did you suffer so many things in vain? If it is indeed in vain?
He therefore who supplies the Spirit to you, and does miracles among you,
does he do it by the works of the law, or by faith through hearing?
Responsorial - Luke 1.69-70, 71-72, 73-75 Resp. 68
R. Blessed be the Lord, the God of Israel, for he has visited his people
He has raised up a horn of salvation for us
in the house of his servant David.
R. Blessed be the Lord, the God of Israel, for he has visited his people
As he promised from of old by the mouth of his holy prophets:
to save us from our enemies
and from the hand of all who hate us.
R. Blessed be the Lord, the God of Israel, for he has visited his people
He promised to show mercy to our fathers;
and to remember his holy covenant.
R. Blessed be the Lord, the God of Israel, for he has visited his people
The oath which he spoke to Abraham, our father:
to grant to us that we, being delivered out of the hand of our enemies,
should serve him without fear,
in holiness and righteousness before him
all the days of our life.
R. Blessed be the Lord, the God of Israel, for he has visited his people
Gospel – Luke 11.5-13
Jesus said to his disciples:
“Suppose that one of you, goes to a friend at midnight, and tells him,
‘Friend, lend me three loaves of bread, for a friend of mine has come to me from a journey,
and I have nothing to set before him,”
And he from within will answer and say, “Do not bother me!
The door is now shut, and my children are with me in bed. I cannot get up and give it to you.’
I tell you, although he will not rise and give it to him because he is his friend,
yet because of his persistence, he will get up and give him as many as he needs.
I tell you, ask and you will receive; seek and you will find;
knock and the door will be opened to you.
For everyone who asks receives. They who seek, find.
To them who knock, the door will be opened.
Which of you fathers would give your son a snake instead of a fish?
Or give him a scorpion if he asks for an egg?
If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children,
how much more will your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask him?”
Reading 1 - Galatians 3.1-5
O foolish Galatians!
Who has bewitched you before whose eyes Jesus Christ was openly portrayed as crucified?
I just want to learn this from you:
Did you receive the Spirit by the works of the law, or by faith in what you heard?
Are you so foolish? Having begun in the Spirit, are you now ending with the flesh?
Did you suffer so many things in vain? If it is indeed in vain?
He therefore who supplies the Spirit to you, and does miracles among you,
does he do it by the works of the law, or by faith through hearing?
Responsorial - Luke 1.69-70, 71-72, 73-75 Resp. 68
R. Blessed be the Lord, the God of Israel, for he has visited his people
He has raised up a horn of salvation for us
in the house of his servant David.
R. Blessed be the Lord, the God of Israel, for he has visited his people
As he promised from of old by the mouth of his holy prophets:
to save us from our enemies
and from the hand of all who hate us.
R. Blessed be the Lord, the God of Israel, for he has visited his people
He promised to show mercy to our fathers;
and to remember his holy covenant.
R. Blessed be the Lord, the God of Israel, for he has visited his people
The oath which he spoke to Abraham, our father:
to grant to us that we, being delivered out of the hand of our enemies,
should serve him without fear,
in holiness and righteousness before him
all the days of our life.
R. Blessed be the Lord, the God of Israel, for he has visited his people
Gospel – Luke 11.5-13
Jesus said to his disciples:
“Suppose that one of you, goes to a friend at midnight, and tells him,
‘Friend, lend me three loaves of bread, for a friend of mine has come to me from a journey,
and I have nothing to set before him,”
And he from within will answer and say, “Do not bother me!
The door is now shut, and my children are with me in bed. I cannot get up and give it to you.’
I tell you, although he will not rise and give it to him because he is his friend,
yet because of his persistence, he will get up and give him as many as he needs.
I tell you, ask and you will receive; seek and you will find;
knock and the door will be opened to you.
For everyone who asks receives. They who seek, find.
To them who knock, the door will be opened.
Which of you fathers would give your son a snake instead of a fish?
Or give him a scorpion if he asks for an egg?
If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children,
how much more will your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask him?”
Wednesday of the Twenty-seventh Week in Ordinary Time (II)
Official Translation
Reading 1 – Galatians 2.1-2, 7-14
Brothers and sisters:
Then after a period of fourteen years
I went up again to Jerusalem with Barnabas, taking Titus with me also.
I went up by revelation, and I laid before them
the Gospel which I preach among the Gentiles,
but privately before those who were respected,
for fear that I might be running, or had run, in vain.
On the contrary, when they saw that
I had been entrusted with the Gospel for the uncircumcised, as Peter to preached to the circumcised
(for he who appointed Peter to preach to the circumcised appointed me also to the Gentiles);
and when they perceived the grace that was given to me,
James and Cephas and John, those who were reputed to be pillars,
gave to me and Barnabas the right hand of fellowship,
that we should go to the Gentiles, and they to the circumcision.
They only asked us to remember the poor—which very thing I was also zealous to do.
But when Kephas came to Antioch, I resisted him to his face, because he stood condemned.
For before some people came from James, he ate with the Gentiles.
But when they came, he drew back and separated himself,
fearing those who were of the circumcision.
And the rest of the Jews joined him in his hypocrisy,
so that even Barnabas was carried away with their hypocrisy.
But when I saw that they did not walk uprightly according to the truth of the Gospel,
I said to Peter before them all,
“If you, being a Jew, live as the Gentiles do, and not as the Jews do,
why do you compel the Gentiles to live as the Jews do?”
Responsorial – Psalm 117.1bc, 2 Resp. Mark 16.15
R. Go to all the world and preach the Gospel.
Praise the Lord, all you nations!
Extol him, all you peoples!
R. Go to all the world and preach the Gospel.
For his loving kindness is great toward us.
The Lord’s faithfulness endures forever.
R. Go to all the world and preach the Gospel.
Gospel – Luke 11.1-4
When Jesus finished praying in a certain place,
one of his disciples said to him,
“Lord, teach us to pray, just as John taught his disciples.”
He said to them, “When you pray, say,
Father, hallowed be your name.
Your Kingdom come.
Give us each day our supersubstantial bread.
And forgive us our sins,
for we also forgive all our debtors.
And lead us not into temptation.”
Reading 1 – Galatians 2.1-2, 7-14
Brothers and sisters:
Then after a period of fourteen years
I went up again to Jerusalem with Barnabas, taking Titus with me also.
I went up by revelation, and I laid before them
the Gospel which I preach among the Gentiles,
but privately before those who were respected,
for fear that I might be running, or had run, in vain.
On the contrary, when they saw that
I had been entrusted with the Gospel for the uncircumcised, as Peter to preached to the circumcised
(for he who appointed Peter to preach to the circumcised appointed me also to the Gentiles);
and when they perceived the grace that was given to me,
James and Cephas and John, those who were reputed to be pillars,
gave to me and Barnabas the right hand of fellowship,
that we should go to the Gentiles, and they to the circumcision.
They only asked us to remember the poor—which very thing I was also zealous to do.
But when Kephas came to Antioch, I resisted him to his face, because he stood condemned.
For before some people came from James, he ate with the Gentiles.
But when they came, he drew back and separated himself,
fearing those who were of the circumcision.
And the rest of the Jews joined him in his hypocrisy,
so that even Barnabas was carried away with their hypocrisy.
But when I saw that they did not walk uprightly according to the truth of the Gospel,
I said to Peter before them all,
“If you, being a Jew, live as the Gentiles do, and not as the Jews do,
why do you compel the Gentiles to live as the Jews do?”
Responsorial – Psalm 117.1bc, 2 Resp. Mark 16.15
R. Go to all the world and preach the Gospel.
Praise the Lord, all you nations!
Extol him, all you peoples!
R. Go to all the world and preach the Gospel.
For his loving kindness is great toward us.
The Lord’s faithfulness endures forever.
R. Go to all the world and preach the Gospel.
Gospel – Luke 11.1-4
When Jesus finished praying in a certain place,
one of his disciples said to him,
“Lord, teach us to pray, just as John taught his disciples.”
He said to them, “When you pray, say,
Father, hallowed be your name.
Your Kingdom come.
Give us each day our supersubstantial bread.
And forgive us our sins,
for we also forgive all our debtors.
And lead us not into temptation.”
Tuesday of the Twenty-seventh Week in Ordinary Time (II)
Official Translation
Tuesday of the Twenty-seventh Week in Ordinary Time
Reading 1 – Galatians 1.13-24
Brothers and sisters:
For you have heard of my way of life in time past in the Jewish religion,
how I, beyond measure, persecuted the assembly of God and ravaged it.
I advanced in the Jewish religion beyond many of my own age among my countrymen,
being more exceedingly zealous for the traditions of my fathers.
But when it was the good pleasure of God to reveal his Son to me,
having set me apart from my mother’s womb and called me through his grace,
that I might preach him among the Gentiles,
I did not immediately confer with flesh and blood,
nor did I go up to Jerusalem to those who were Apostles before me,
but I went away into Arabia. Then I returned to Damascus.
Then after three years I went up to Jerusalem to visit Kephas.
I stayed with him fifteen days,
but of the other Apostles I saw no one except James, the brother of the Lord.
Now about the things which I write to you.
Behold, before God, I am not lying.
Then I came to the regions of Syria and Cilicia.
I was still unknown by face to the Churches of Judea which are in Christ,
but they only heard:
“He who once persecuted us now preaches the faith that he once tried to destroy.”
And they glorified God because of me.
Responsorial – Psalm 139.1b-3, 13-14ab, 14c-15 Resp. 24b
R. Lead me, Lord, in the eternal way.
O Lord, you have searched me and known me;
you know my sitting down and my rising up.
You understood my thoughts from afar;
my resting and my rising you have searched out.
And you have understood all my ways.
R. Lead me, Lord, in the eternal way.
For you formed my inmost being.
You knit me together in my mother’s womb.
I will give thanks to you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made.
Your works are wonderful.
R. Lead me, Lord, in the eternal way.
My soul you know very well.
My frame was not hidden from you,
when I was made in secret,
woven together in the depths of the earth.
R. Lead me, Lord, in the eternal way.
Gospel – Luke 10.38-42
Jesus entered a certain village
where there was a woman named Martha who received him into her house.
She had a sister named Mary, who also sat at the Lord’s feet, and listened to his word.
But Martha was distracted with much serving, and she came up to him, and said,
“Lord, do you not care that my sister left me to serve alone? Tell her to help me then.”
Jesus answered her, “Martha, Martha, you are anxious and troubled about many things.
Only one thing is necessary.
Mary has chosen the good part, which will not be taken away from her.”
Tuesday of the Twenty-seventh Week in Ordinary Time
Reading 1 – Galatians 1.13-24
Brothers and sisters:
For you have heard of my way of life in time past in the Jewish religion,
how I, beyond measure, persecuted the assembly of God and ravaged it.
I advanced in the Jewish religion beyond many of my own age among my countrymen,
being more exceedingly zealous for the traditions of my fathers.
But when it was the good pleasure of God to reveal his Son to me,
having set me apart from my mother’s womb and called me through his grace,
that I might preach him among the Gentiles,
I did not immediately confer with flesh and blood,
nor did I go up to Jerusalem to those who were Apostles before me,
but I went away into Arabia. Then I returned to Damascus.
Then after three years I went up to Jerusalem to visit Kephas.
I stayed with him fifteen days,
but of the other Apostles I saw no one except James, the brother of the Lord.
Now about the things which I write to you.
Behold, before God, I am not lying.
Then I came to the regions of Syria and Cilicia.
I was still unknown by face to the Churches of Judea which are in Christ,
but they only heard:
“He who once persecuted us now preaches the faith that he once tried to destroy.”
And they glorified God because of me.
Responsorial – Psalm 139.1b-3, 13-14ab, 14c-15 Resp. 24b
R. Lead me, Lord, in the eternal way.
O Lord, you have searched me and known me;
you know my sitting down and my rising up.
You understood my thoughts from afar;
my resting and my rising you have searched out.
And you have understood all my ways.
R. Lead me, Lord, in the eternal way.
For you formed my inmost being.
You knit me together in my mother’s womb.
I will give thanks to you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made.
Your works are wonderful.
R. Lead me, Lord, in the eternal way.
My soul you know very well.
My frame was not hidden from you,
when I was made in secret,
woven together in the depths of the earth.
R. Lead me, Lord, in the eternal way.
Gospel – Luke 10.38-42
Jesus entered a certain village
where there was a woman named Martha who received him into her house.
She had a sister named Mary, who also sat at the Lord’s feet, and listened to his word.
But Martha was distracted with much serving, and she came up to him, and said,
“Lord, do you not care that my sister left me to serve alone? Tell her to help me then.”
Jesus answered her, “Martha, Martha, you are anxious and troubled about many things.
Only one thing is necessary.
Mary has chosen the good part, which will not be taken away from her.”
Monday of the Twenty-seventh Week in Ordinary Time (II)
Official Translation
Reading 1 – Galatians 1.6-12
Brothers and sisters:
I am amazed that you are so quickly deserting him who called you in the grace of Christ
for a different gospel, not that there is another gospel.
But there are some who trouble you, and want to pervert the Gospel of Christ.
But even if we, or an angel from heaven, preached to you any gospel
other than that which we have preached to you,
let him be cursed.
As we have said before, so I now say again:
if anyone preaches to you any gospel other than that which you received,
let him be excommunicated.
Am I now seeking the favor of humans or of God?
Am I striving to please humans?
For if I were trying to please humans, I would not be a slave of Christ.
I make known to you, brothers and sisters,
concerning the Gospel which was preached by me,
that it does not come from humans.
Nor did I receive it from a human, nor was I taught it,
but it was through a revelation of Jesus Christ.
Responsorial – Psalm 111.1b-2, 7-8, 9+10c Resp. 5
R. The Lord always remembers his covenant. or R. Alleluia!
I will give thanks to the Lord with my whole heart,
in the council of the upright, and in the congregation.
The works of the Lord are great,
pondered by all who delight in them.
R. The Lord always remembers his covenant. or R. Alleluia!
The works of his hands are truth and justice.
All his precepts are sure.
They are established forever and ever.
They are done in truth and uprightness.
R. The Lord always remembers his covenant. or R. Alleluia!
He has sent redemption to his people.
He has ordained his covenant forever.
His name is holy and awesome!
His praise endures forever!
R. The Lord always remembers his covenant. or R. Alleluia!
Gospel – Luke 10.25-37
There was a scholar of the law who stood up and tested Jesus, saying,
“Teacher, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?”
Jesus said to him, “What is written in the law? How do you read it?”
He answered, “You shall love the Lord your God
with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your strength, and with all your mind;
and your neighbor as yourself.”
He said to him, “You have answered correctly. Do this, and you will live.”
But he, desiring to justify himself, asked Jesus, “Who is my neighbor?”
Jesus answered, “A certain man was going down from Jerusalem to Jericho,
and he fell among robbers, who stripped him and beat him,
and departed, leaving him half dead.
By chance there was a priest going down that way.
When he saw him, he passed by on the other side.
In the same way a Levite also,
when he came to the place, and saw him, passed by on the other side.
But there was a Samaritan traveling, who came where he was.
When he saw him, he was moved with compassion,
came to him, and bound up his wounds, pouring on oil and wine.
He set him on his own animal, and brought him to an inn, and took care of him.
On the next day, when he departed, he took out two denarii,
and gave them to the host, and said to him,
‘Take care of him. Whatever you spend beyond that, I will repay you when I return.’
Now which of these three in your opinion was a neighbor to the robbers’ victim?”
He said, “He who showed mercy to him.”
Jesus said to him, “Go and do likewise.”
Reading 1 – Galatians 1.6-12
Brothers and sisters:
I am amazed that you are so quickly deserting him who called you in the grace of Christ
for a different gospel, not that there is another gospel.
But there are some who trouble you, and want to pervert the Gospel of Christ.
But even if we, or an angel from heaven, preached to you any gospel
other than that which we have preached to you,
let him be cursed.
As we have said before, so I now say again:
if anyone preaches to you any gospel other than that which you received,
let him be excommunicated.
Am I now seeking the favor of humans or of God?
Am I striving to please humans?
For if I were trying to please humans, I would not be a slave of Christ.
I make known to you, brothers and sisters,
concerning the Gospel which was preached by me,
that it does not come from humans.
Nor did I receive it from a human, nor was I taught it,
but it was through a revelation of Jesus Christ.
Responsorial – Psalm 111.1b-2, 7-8, 9+10c Resp. 5
R. The Lord always remembers his covenant. or R. Alleluia!
I will give thanks to the Lord with my whole heart,
in the council of the upright, and in the congregation.
The works of the Lord are great,
pondered by all who delight in them.
R. The Lord always remembers his covenant. or R. Alleluia!
The works of his hands are truth and justice.
All his precepts are sure.
They are established forever and ever.
They are done in truth and uprightness.
R. The Lord always remembers his covenant. or R. Alleluia!
He has sent redemption to his people.
He has ordained his covenant forever.
His name is holy and awesome!
His praise endures forever!
R. The Lord always remembers his covenant. or R. Alleluia!
Gospel – Luke 10.25-37
There was a scholar of the law who stood up and tested Jesus, saying,
“Teacher, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?”
Jesus said to him, “What is written in the law? How do you read it?”
He answered, “You shall love the Lord your God
with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your strength, and with all your mind;
and your neighbor as yourself.”
He said to him, “You have answered correctly. Do this, and you will live.”
But he, desiring to justify himself, asked Jesus, “Who is my neighbor?”
Jesus answered, “A certain man was going down from Jerusalem to Jericho,
and he fell among robbers, who stripped him and beat him,
and departed, leaving him half dead.
By chance there was a priest going down that way.
When he saw him, he passed by on the other side.
In the same way a Levite also,
when he came to the place, and saw him, passed by on the other side.
But there was a Samaritan traveling, who came where he was.
When he saw him, he was moved with compassion,
came to him, and bound up his wounds, pouring on oil and wine.
He set him on his own animal, and brought him to an inn, and took care of him.
On the next day, when he departed, he took out two denarii,
and gave them to the host, and said to him,
‘Take care of him. Whatever you spend beyond that, I will repay you when I return.’
Now which of these three in your opinion was a neighbor to the robbers’ victim?”
He said, “He who showed mercy to him.”
Jesus said to him, “Go and do likewise.”
Twenty-seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time (B)
Official Translation
Reading 1 – Genesis 2.18-24
The Lord God said, "It is not good that the man should be alone;
I will make him a helper suitable for him."
Out of the ground the Lord God formed every animal of the field, and every bird of the sky,
and brought them to the man to see what he would call them.
Whatever the man called every living creature, that was its name.
The man gave names to all livestock,
and to the birds of the sky, and to every animal of the field,
but for man there was not found a helper suitable for him.
The Lord God caused a deep sleep to fall on the man, and he slept,
and he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh in its place.
He made the rib, which the Lord God had taken from the man,
into a woman, and brought her to the man.
The man said, "This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh.
She will be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man."
Therefore a man will leave his father and his mother, and will join with his wife,
and they will be one flesh.
Responsorial – Psalm 128.1-2, 3, 4-5, 6 Resp. 5ac
R. The LORD will bless you from Zion all the days of your life.
Blessed is everyone who fears the LORD,
who walk in his ways.
For you shall eat by the labor of your hands;
You will be happy, and all will be well with you.
R. The LORD will bless you from Zion all the days of your life.
Your wife shall be like a fruitful vine
by the sides of your house;
your children like olive plants
around about your table.
R. The LORD will bless you from Zion all the days of your life.
Behold, that thus shall the man be blessed
who fears the LORD.
The LORD will bless you from Zion,
and you will see the good of Jerusalem
all the days of your life.
R. The LORD will bless you from Zion all the days of your life.
May you see your children's children.
May there be peace upon Israel!
R. The LORD will bless you from Zion all the days of your life.
Reading 2 – Hebrews 2.9-11
Brothers and sisters:
He has been made “for a little while” “lower than the angels”,
that by the grace of God he should taste death for everyone.
For it was fitting for him, for whom and through whom are all things,
in bringing many children to glory,
to make the author of their salvation perfect through sufferings.
For both he who sanctifies and those who are sanctified are all from one.
For this reason he is not ashamed to call them brothers.
Gospel – Mark 10.2-16
Pharisees came to Jesus and asked him, “Is it lawful for a man to divorce his woman?”
He answered, “What did Moses command you?”
They said, “Moses allowed a certificate of divorce to be written, and to divorce her.”
But Jesus said to them,
“For your hardness of heart, he wrote you this commandment.
But from the beginning of creation, God made them male and female.
For this reason a human will leave his father and mother, and will join to his woman,
and the two will become one flesh, so that they are no longer two, but one flesh.
What therefore God has joined together, no human may separate.”
In the house, his disciples asked him again about the same matter.
He said to them, “Whoever divorces his woman, and marries another,
commits adultery against her.
If a woman divorces her man, and marries another, she commits adultery.”
And then they were bringing to him little children, that he should touch them,
but the disciples rebuked those who were bringing them.
But when Jesus saw it, he was moved with indignation, and said to them,
“Allow the little children to come to me! Do not forbid them!
For the Kingdom of God belongs to such as these.
Amen I say to you, whoever will not receive the Kingdom of God like a little child,
will in no way enter into it.”
He took them in his arms, and blessed them, laying his hands on them.
Reading 1 – Genesis 2.18-24
The Lord God said, "It is not good that the man should be alone;
I will make him a helper suitable for him."
Out of the ground the Lord God formed every animal of the field, and every bird of the sky,
and brought them to the man to see what he would call them.
Whatever the man called every living creature, that was its name.
The man gave names to all livestock,
and to the birds of the sky, and to every animal of the field,
but for man there was not found a helper suitable for him.
The Lord God caused a deep sleep to fall on the man, and he slept,
and he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh in its place.
He made the rib, which the Lord God had taken from the man,
into a woman, and brought her to the man.
The man said, "This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh.
She will be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man."
Therefore a man will leave his father and his mother, and will join with his wife,
and they will be one flesh.
Responsorial – Psalm 128.1-2, 3, 4-5, 6 Resp. 5ac
R. The LORD will bless you from Zion all the days of your life.
Blessed is everyone who fears the LORD,
who walk in his ways.
For you shall eat by the labor of your hands;
You will be happy, and all will be well with you.
R. The LORD will bless you from Zion all the days of your life.
Your wife shall be like a fruitful vine
by the sides of your house;
your children like olive plants
around about your table.
R. The LORD will bless you from Zion all the days of your life.
Behold, that thus shall the man be blessed
who fears the LORD.
The LORD will bless you from Zion,
and you will see the good of Jerusalem
all the days of your life.
R. The LORD will bless you from Zion all the days of your life.
May you see your children's children.
May there be peace upon Israel!
R. The LORD will bless you from Zion all the days of your life.
Reading 2 – Hebrews 2.9-11
Brothers and sisters:
He has been made “for a little while” “lower than the angels”,
that by the grace of God he should taste death for everyone.
For it was fitting for him, for whom and through whom are all things,
in bringing many children to glory,
to make the author of their salvation perfect through sufferings.
For both he who sanctifies and those who are sanctified are all from one.
For this reason he is not ashamed to call them brothers.
Gospel – Mark 10.2-16
Pharisees came to Jesus and asked him, “Is it lawful for a man to divorce his woman?”
He answered, “What did Moses command you?”
They said, “Moses allowed a certificate of divorce to be written, and to divorce her.”
But Jesus said to them,
“For your hardness of heart, he wrote you this commandment.
But from the beginning of creation, God made them male and female.
For this reason a human will leave his father and mother, and will join to his woman,
and the two will become one flesh, so that they are no longer two, but one flesh.
What therefore God has joined together, no human may separate.”
In the house, his disciples asked him again about the same matter.
He said to them, “Whoever divorces his woman, and marries another,
commits adultery against her.
If a woman divorces her man, and marries another, she commits adultery.”
And then they were bringing to him little children, that he should touch them,
but the disciples rebuked those who were bringing them.
But when Jesus saw it, he was moved with indignation, and said to them,
“Allow the little children to come to me! Do not forbid them!
For the Kingdom of God belongs to such as these.
Amen I say to you, whoever will not receive the Kingdom of God like a little child,
will in no way enter into it.”
He took them in his arms, and blessed them, laying his hands on them.
Saturday of the Twenty-sixth Week in Ordinary Time (II)
Official Translation
Reading 1 – Job 42.1-3, 5-6, 12-17
Job answered the LORD and said:
“I know that you can do all things, and that no purpose of yours can be restrained.
I have uttered that which I did not understand;
things too wonderful for me, which I did not know.
I had heard of you by the hearing of the ear, but now my eye sees you.
Therefore I abhor myself, and repent in dust and ashes.”
And the Lord blessed the latter end of Job more than his beginning.
He had fourteen thousand sheep, six thousand camels,
one thousand yoke of oxen, and a thousand female donkeys.
He also had seven sons and three daughters.
He called the name of the first, Jemimah,
and the name of the second, Keziah,
and the name of the third, Kerenhappuch.
In all the land were no women found so beautiful as the daughters of Job.
Their father gave them an inheritance among their brothers.
After this Job lived one hundred forty years,
and saw his sons, and his sons’ sons, to four generations.
So Job died, being old and full of days.
Responsorial – Psalm 119.66, 71, 75, 91, 125, 130 Resp. 135
R. Let your face shine upon your servant, O Lord.
Teach me good judgment and knowledge,
for I trust in your commandments.
R. Let your face shine upon your servant, O Lord.
It is good for me that I have been afflicted,
that I may learn your statutes.
R. Let your face shine upon your servant, O Lord.
Lord, I know that your judgments are righteous,
that in faithfulness you have afflicted me.
R. Let your face shine upon your servant, O Lord.
By your decree the day goes on,
for all things serve you.
R. Let your face shine upon your servant, O Lord.
I am your servant. Give me understanding,
that I may know your testimonies.
R. Let your face shine upon your servant, O Lord.
The declaration of your words gives light;
it gives understanding to little ones.
R. Let your face shine upon your servant, O Lord.
Gospel – Luke 10.17-24
The seventy returned with joy, saying,
“Lord, even the demons are subject to us in your name!”
He said to them, “I saw Satan falling like lightning from heaven.
Behold, I give you authority to tread on serpents and scorpions,
and over all the power of the enemy. Nothing will in any way hurt you.
Nevertheless, do not rejoice that the spirits are subject to you,
but rejoice that your names are written in heaven.”
Jesus rejoiced in the Holy Spirit and said,
"I confess you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth,
that you have hidden these things from the wise and understanding
and revealed them to little children.
Yes, Father, for so it became benevolent in your sight.
All things have been handed to me by my Father,
and no one knows who the Son is if not the Father,
or who the Father is if not the Son
and those to whom the Son chooses to reveal him."
Then turning to the disciples, he spoke just to them:
"Blessed are the eyes that see what you see!
For I tell you that many prophets and kings
desired to see what you see, and did not see it,
and to hear what you hear, and did not hear it."
Reading 1 – Job 42.1-3, 5-6, 12-17
Job answered the LORD and said:
“I know that you can do all things, and that no purpose of yours can be restrained.
I have uttered that which I did not understand;
things too wonderful for me, which I did not know.
I had heard of you by the hearing of the ear, but now my eye sees you.
Therefore I abhor myself, and repent in dust and ashes.”
And the Lord blessed the latter end of Job more than his beginning.
He had fourteen thousand sheep, six thousand camels,
one thousand yoke of oxen, and a thousand female donkeys.
He also had seven sons and three daughters.
He called the name of the first, Jemimah,
and the name of the second, Keziah,
and the name of the third, Kerenhappuch.
In all the land were no women found so beautiful as the daughters of Job.
Their father gave them an inheritance among their brothers.
After this Job lived one hundred forty years,
and saw his sons, and his sons’ sons, to four generations.
So Job died, being old and full of days.
Responsorial – Psalm 119.66, 71, 75, 91, 125, 130 Resp. 135
R. Let your face shine upon your servant, O Lord.
Teach me good judgment and knowledge,
for I trust in your commandments.
R. Let your face shine upon your servant, O Lord.
It is good for me that I have been afflicted,
that I may learn your statutes.
R. Let your face shine upon your servant, O Lord.
Lord, I know that your judgments are righteous,
that in faithfulness you have afflicted me.
R. Let your face shine upon your servant, O Lord.
By your decree the day goes on,
for all things serve you.
R. Let your face shine upon your servant, O Lord.
I am your servant. Give me understanding,
that I may know your testimonies.
R. Let your face shine upon your servant, O Lord.
The declaration of your words gives light;
it gives understanding to little ones.
R. Let your face shine upon your servant, O Lord.
Gospel – Luke 10.17-24
The seventy returned with joy, saying,
“Lord, even the demons are subject to us in your name!”
He said to them, “I saw Satan falling like lightning from heaven.
Behold, I give you authority to tread on serpents and scorpions,
and over all the power of the enemy. Nothing will in any way hurt you.
Nevertheless, do not rejoice that the spirits are subject to you,
but rejoice that your names are written in heaven.”
Jesus rejoiced in the Holy Spirit and said,
"I confess you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth,
that you have hidden these things from the wise and understanding
and revealed them to little children.
Yes, Father, for so it became benevolent in your sight.
All things have been handed to me by my Father,
and no one knows who the Son is if not the Father,
or who the Father is if not the Son
and those to whom the Son chooses to reveal him."
Then turning to the disciples, he spoke just to them:
"Blessed are the eyes that see what you see!
For I tell you that many prophets and kings
desired to see what you see, and did not see it,
and to hear what you hear, and did not hear it."
Friday of the Twenty-sixth Week in Ordinary Time (II)
Official Translation
Reading 1 - Job 38.1, 12-21; 40.3-5
The LORD answered Job out of the whirlwind and said:
“Have you, in your days, commanded the morning, and caused the dawn to know its place?
Taken hold of the ends of the earth, and shaken the wicked out of it?
It is changed as clay under the seal, and presented as a garment.
From the wicked, the light is withheld. The proud arm is broken.
Have you entered into the springs of the sea?
Or have you walked in the recesses of the deep?
Have the gates of death been revealed to you?
Or have you seen the gates of the shadow of death?
Have you comprehended the earth in its width? Declare, if you know it all.
What is the way to the dwelling of light? As for darkness, where is its home?
That you should take them to their boundries, that you should discern the paths to their home?
Surely you know, for you were born then, and the number of your days is great!”
Then Job answered the Lord,
“Behold, I am of small account. What shall I answer you?
I lay my hand on my mouth.
I have spoken once, and I will not answer; yes, twice, but I will proceed no further.”
Responsorial – Psalm 139.1-3, 7-8, 9-10, 13-14ab Resp. 24b
R. Lead me, Lord, in the eternal way.
Lord, you have tested me and known me;
you know my sitting down and my rising up.
You understood my thoughts afar off;
my repast and my busying you have searched out.
And you have understood all my ways.
R. Lead me, Lord, in the eternal way.
To where shall I go from your spirit,
and where shall I flee from your face?
If I ascend into heaven, you are there.
If I descend into Sheol, you are present.
R. Lead me, Lord, in the eternal way.
If I take my wings early in the morning,
and dwell at the end of the sea,
even there your hand leads me,
your right hand would hold me.
R. Lead me, Lord, in the eternal way.
For you formed my inmost being.
You knit me together in my mother’s womb.
I will give thanks to you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made.
Your works are wonderful.
R. Lead me, Lord, in the eternal way.
Gospel – Luke 10.13-16
Jesus said to them,
“Woe to you, Chorazin! Woe to you, Bethsaida!
For if the mighty works had been done in Tyre and Sidon which were done in you,
they would have repented long ago, sitting in sackcloth and ashes.
But it will be more tolerable for Tyre and Sidon in the judgment than for you.
You, Capernaum, who are exalted to heaven, will be brought down to Hades.
Whoever listens to you listens to me, and whoever rejects you rejects me.
Whoever rejects me rejects him who sent me.”
Reading 1 - Job 38.1, 12-21; 40.3-5
The LORD answered Job out of the whirlwind and said:
“Have you, in your days, commanded the morning, and caused the dawn to know its place?
Taken hold of the ends of the earth, and shaken the wicked out of it?
It is changed as clay under the seal, and presented as a garment.
From the wicked, the light is withheld. The proud arm is broken.
Have you entered into the springs of the sea?
Or have you walked in the recesses of the deep?
Have the gates of death been revealed to you?
Or have you seen the gates of the shadow of death?
Have you comprehended the earth in its width? Declare, if you know it all.
What is the way to the dwelling of light? As for darkness, where is its home?
That you should take them to their boundries, that you should discern the paths to their home?
Surely you know, for you were born then, and the number of your days is great!”
Then Job answered the Lord,
“Behold, I am of small account. What shall I answer you?
I lay my hand on my mouth.
I have spoken once, and I will not answer; yes, twice, but I will proceed no further.”
Responsorial – Psalm 139.1-3, 7-8, 9-10, 13-14ab Resp. 24b
R. Lead me, Lord, in the eternal way.
Lord, you have tested me and known me;
you know my sitting down and my rising up.
You understood my thoughts afar off;
my repast and my busying you have searched out.
And you have understood all my ways.
R. Lead me, Lord, in the eternal way.
To where shall I go from your spirit,
and where shall I flee from your face?
If I ascend into heaven, you are there.
If I descend into Sheol, you are present.
R. Lead me, Lord, in the eternal way.
If I take my wings early in the morning,
and dwell at the end of the sea,
even there your hand leads me,
your right hand would hold me.
R. Lead me, Lord, in the eternal way.
For you formed my inmost being.
You knit me together in my mother’s womb.
I will give thanks to you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made.
Your works are wonderful.
R. Lead me, Lord, in the eternal way.
Gospel – Luke 10.13-16
Jesus said to them,
“Woe to you, Chorazin! Woe to you, Bethsaida!
For if the mighty works had been done in Tyre and Sidon which were done in you,
they would have repented long ago, sitting in sackcloth and ashes.
But it will be more tolerable for Tyre and Sidon in the judgment than for you.
You, Capernaum, who are exalted to heaven, will be brought down to Hades.
Whoever listens to you listens to me, and whoever rejects you rejects me.
Whoever rejects me rejects him who sent me.”
Thursday of the Twenty-sixth Week in Ordinary Time (II)
Official Translation
Reading 1 - Job 19.21-27
Job said:
“Have pity on me, have pity on me, my friends, for the hand of God has touched me.
Why do you, like God, persecute me and are not satisfied with my flesh?
O that my words were now written! O that they were inscribed in a book!
That with an iron pen and lead they were engraved in the rock forever!
I know that my Redeemer lives.
In the end, he will stand upon the earth.
After my skin is destroyed, then in my flesh shall I see God.
Whom I, even I, shall see. My eyes shall see, and not another.
My heart is faints within me.
Responsorial – Psalm 27.7-8a, 8b-9abc, 13-14 Resp. 13
R. I believe that I will see the good things of the Lord in the land of the living.
Hear, O Lord, when I cry with my voice.
Have mercy on me, and answer me.
My heart said to you, “I will seek your face, O Lord.”
R. I believe that I will see the good things of the Lord in the land of the living.
Your face, O Lord, I will seek.
Do not hide your face from me.
Do not put your servant away in anger.
You have been my help. Do not abandon me,
R. I believe that I will see the good things of the Lord in the land of the living.
I believe that I will see the good things of the Lord
in the land of the living.
Wait for the Lord with courage.
Let your heart take courage, and wait for the Lord.
R. I believe that I will see the good things of the Lord in the land of the living.
Gospel – Luke 10.1-12
Now after these things, the Lord also appointed seventy-two others,
and sent them two by two ahead of him
into every city and place, where he was about to come.
Then he said to them, “The harvest is indeed plentiful, but the laborers are few.
Pray therefore to the Lord of the harvest, that he may send out laborers into his harvest.
Go your ways. Behold, I send you out as lambs among wolves.
Carry no purse, nor wallet, nor sandals.
Greet no one on the way. Into whatever house you enter, first say, ‘Peace be to this house.’
If a son of peace is there, your peace will rest on him; but if not, it will return to you.
Remain in that same house, eating and drinking the things they give,
for the laborer is worthy of his wages.
Do not go from house to house.
Into whatever city you enter, and they receive you, eat the things that are set before you.
Heal the sick who are there, and tell them, ‘The Kingdom of God is at hand for you.’
But into whatever city you enter, and they do not receive you, go out into its streets and say,
‘Even the dust from your city that clings to us, we wipe off against you.
Nevertheless know this: the Kingdom of God is at hand.’
I tell you, it will be more tolerable in that day for Sodom than for that city.
Reading 1 - Job 19.21-27
Job said:
“Have pity on me, have pity on me, my friends, for the hand of God has touched me.
Why do you, like God, persecute me and are not satisfied with my flesh?
O that my words were now written! O that they were inscribed in a book!
That with an iron pen and lead they were engraved in the rock forever!
I know that my Redeemer lives.
In the end, he will stand upon the earth.
After my skin is destroyed, then in my flesh shall I see God.
Whom I, even I, shall see. My eyes shall see, and not another.
My heart is faints within me.
Responsorial – Psalm 27.7-8a, 8b-9abc, 13-14 Resp. 13
R. I believe that I will see the good things of the Lord in the land of the living.
Hear, O Lord, when I cry with my voice.
Have mercy on me, and answer me.
My heart said to you, “I will seek your face, O Lord.”
R. I believe that I will see the good things of the Lord in the land of the living.
Your face, O Lord, I will seek.
Do not hide your face from me.
Do not put your servant away in anger.
You have been my help. Do not abandon me,
R. I believe that I will see the good things of the Lord in the land of the living.
I believe that I will see the good things of the Lord
in the land of the living.
Wait for the Lord with courage.
Let your heart take courage, and wait for the Lord.
R. I believe that I will see the good things of the Lord in the land of the living.
Gospel – Luke 10.1-12
Now after these things, the Lord also appointed seventy-two others,
and sent them two by two ahead of him
into every city and place, where he was about to come.
Then he said to them, “The harvest is indeed plentiful, but the laborers are few.
Pray therefore to the Lord of the harvest, that he may send out laborers into his harvest.
Go your ways. Behold, I send you out as lambs among wolves.
Carry no purse, nor wallet, nor sandals.
Greet no one on the way. Into whatever house you enter, first say, ‘Peace be to this house.’
If a son of peace is there, your peace will rest on him; but if not, it will return to you.
Remain in that same house, eating and drinking the things they give,
for the laborer is worthy of his wages.
Do not go from house to house.
Into whatever city you enter, and they receive you, eat the things that are set before you.
Heal the sick who are there, and tell them, ‘The Kingdom of God is at hand for you.’
But into whatever city you enter, and they do not receive you, go out into its streets and say,
‘Even the dust from your city that clings to us, we wipe off against you.
Nevertheless know this: the Kingdom of God is at hand.’
I tell you, it will be more tolerable in that day for Sodom than for that city.
Wednesday of the Twenty-sixth Week in Ordinary Time (II)
Official Translation
Reading 1 - Job 9.1-12, 14-16
Job answered his friends and said:
“Truly I know that it is so, but how can man be just with God?
If he is pleased to contend with him, he cannot answer him one time in a thousand.
God who is wise in heart, and mighty in strength:
who has hardened himself against him, and prospered?
He removes the mountains, and they do not know it, when he overturns them in his anger.
He shakes the earth out of its place. Its pillars tremble.
He commands the sun, and it does not rise, and seals up the stars.
He alone stretches out the heavens, and treads on the waves of the sea.
He makes the Bear, Orion, and the Pleiades, and the rooms of the south.
He does great things past finding out;
yes, marvelous things without number. Behold, he goes by me, and I don’t see him.
He passes on also, but I do not perceive him.
Behold, he snatches away. Who can hinder him?
Who will ask him, ‘What are you doing?’
How much less shall I answer him, and choose my words to argue with him?
Though I were righteous, yet I would not answer him.
I would make supplication to my judge.
If I had called, and he had answered me,
still I would not believe that he listened to my voice.
Responsorial – Psalm 88.10bc-11, 12-13, 14-15 Resp. 3
R. Let my prayer enter into your presence, Lord.
I have called on you daily, Lord.
I have spread out my hands to you.
Do you show wonders to the dead?
Do the departed spirits rise up and praise you?
R. Let my prayer enter into your presence, Lord.
Is your loving kindness declared in the grave?
Or your faithfulness in Destruction?
Are your wonders made known in the dark?
Or your righteousness in the land of forgetfulness?
R. Let my prayer enter into your presence, Lord.
But to you, O Lord, I have cried.
In the morning, my prayer comes before you.
O Lord,, why do you reject my soul?
Why do you hide your face from me?
R. Let my prayer enter into your presence, Lord.
Gospel – Luke 9.57-62
As Jesus and his disciples went on the way, a certain man said to him,
“I want to follow you wherever you go, Lord.”
Jesus said to him, “The foxes have holes, and the birds of the sky have nests,
but the Son of Man has no place to lay his head.”
He said to another, “Follow me!”
But he said, “Lord, allow me first to go and bury my father.”
But Jesus said to him, “Leave the dead to bury their own dead,
but you go and announce God’s Kingdom.”
Another also said, “I want to follow you, Lord,
but first allow me to say good-bye to those who are at my house.”
But Jesus said to him, “No one, having put his hand to the plow, and looking back,
is fit for the Kingdom of God.”
Reading 1 - Job 9.1-12, 14-16
Job answered his friends and said:
“Truly I know that it is so, but how can man be just with God?
If he is pleased to contend with him, he cannot answer him one time in a thousand.
God who is wise in heart, and mighty in strength:
who has hardened himself against him, and prospered?
He removes the mountains, and they do not know it, when he overturns them in his anger.
He shakes the earth out of its place. Its pillars tremble.
He commands the sun, and it does not rise, and seals up the stars.
He alone stretches out the heavens, and treads on the waves of the sea.
He makes the Bear, Orion, and the Pleiades, and the rooms of the south.
He does great things past finding out;
yes, marvelous things without number. Behold, he goes by me, and I don’t see him.
He passes on also, but I do not perceive him.
Behold, he snatches away. Who can hinder him?
Who will ask him, ‘What are you doing?’
How much less shall I answer him, and choose my words to argue with him?
Though I were righteous, yet I would not answer him.
I would make supplication to my judge.
If I had called, and he had answered me,
still I would not believe that he listened to my voice.
Responsorial – Psalm 88.10bc-11, 12-13, 14-15 Resp. 3
R. Let my prayer enter into your presence, Lord.
I have called on you daily, Lord.
I have spread out my hands to you.
Do you show wonders to the dead?
Do the departed spirits rise up and praise you?
R. Let my prayer enter into your presence, Lord.
Is your loving kindness declared in the grave?
Or your faithfulness in Destruction?
Are your wonders made known in the dark?
Or your righteousness in the land of forgetfulness?
R. Let my prayer enter into your presence, Lord.
But to you, O Lord, I have cried.
In the morning, my prayer comes before you.
O Lord,, why do you reject my soul?
Why do you hide your face from me?
R. Let my prayer enter into your presence, Lord.
Gospel – Luke 9.57-62
As Jesus and his disciples went on the way, a certain man said to him,
“I want to follow you wherever you go, Lord.”
Jesus said to him, “The foxes have holes, and the birds of the sky have nests,
but the Son of Man has no place to lay his head.”
He said to another, “Follow me!”
But he said, “Lord, allow me first to go and bury my father.”
But Jesus said to him, “Leave the dead to bury their own dead,
but you go and announce God’s Kingdom.”
Another also said, “I want to follow you, Lord,
but first allow me to say good-bye to those who are at my house.”
But Jesus said to him, “No one, having put his hand to the plow, and looking back,
is fit for the Kingdom of God.”
Memorial of the Guardian Angels
Official Translation
Reading 1 – Exodus 23.20-23
Behold, I send an angel before you,
to guard you on the way and to bring you into the place which I have prepared.
Pay attention to him and listen to his voice.
Do not provoke him, for he will not pardon your disobedience, for my name is in him.
But if you indeed listen to his voice, and do all that I speak,
then I will be an enemy to your enemies, and an adversary to your adversaries.
For my angel shall go before you, and bring you to
the Amorite, the Hittite, the Perizzite, the Canaanite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite,
and I will cut them off.
Responsorial - Psalm 91.1-2, 3-4ab, 4c-6, 10-11 Resp. 11
R. He will put his angels in charge of you, to guard you in all your ways.
He who dwells in the secret place of the Most High
who rest in the shadow of the Almighty.
Say to the Lord, “He is my refuge and my fortress;
my God, in whom I trust.”
R. He will put his angels in charge of you, to guard you in all your ways.
For he will deliver you from the snare of the fowler,
and from the deadly pestilence.
He will cover you with his feathers.
Under his wings you will take refuge.
R. He will put his angels in charge of you, to guard you in all your ways.
His faithfulness is your shield and rampart.
You shall not be afraid of the terror by night,
nor of the arrow that flies by day;
nor of the pestilence that walks in darkness,
nor of the destroying plague at noonday.
R. He will put his angels in charge of you, to guard you in all your ways.
No evil shall befall you,
nor shall any plague come near your dwelling.
For he will put his angels in charge of you,
to guard you in all your ways.
R. He will put his angels in charge of you, to guard you in all your ways.
Gospel – Matthew 18.1-5, 10
The disciples came to Jesus, saying,
“Who then is greatest in the Kingdom of Heaven?”
Jesus called a little child to himself, and set him in the middle of them,
and said, “Amen I say to you, unless you turn, and become as little children,
you will not even enter into the Kingdom of Heaven.
Whoever therefore humbles themself like this little child,
they are the greatest in the Kingdom of Heaven.
Whoever receives one such little child in my name receives me.
See that you do not despise one of these little ones,
for I tell you that in heaven their angels always see the face of my Father who is in heaven.
Reading 1 – Exodus 23.20-23
Behold, I send an angel before you,
to guard you on the way and to bring you into the place which I have prepared.
Pay attention to him and listen to his voice.
Do not provoke him, for he will not pardon your disobedience, for my name is in him.
But if you indeed listen to his voice, and do all that I speak,
then I will be an enemy to your enemies, and an adversary to your adversaries.
For my angel shall go before you, and bring you to
the Amorite, the Hittite, the Perizzite, the Canaanite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite,
and I will cut them off.
Responsorial - Psalm 91.1-2, 3-4ab, 4c-6, 10-11 Resp. 11
R. He will put his angels in charge of you, to guard you in all your ways.
He who dwells in the secret place of the Most High
who rest in the shadow of the Almighty.
Say to the Lord, “He is my refuge and my fortress;
my God, in whom I trust.”
R. He will put his angels in charge of you, to guard you in all your ways.
For he will deliver you from the snare of the fowler,
and from the deadly pestilence.
He will cover you with his feathers.
Under his wings you will take refuge.
R. He will put his angels in charge of you, to guard you in all your ways.
His faithfulness is your shield and rampart.
You shall not be afraid of the terror by night,
nor of the arrow that flies by day;
nor of the pestilence that walks in darkness,
nor of the destroying plague at noonday.
R. He will put his angels in charge of you, to guard you in all your ways.
No evil shall befall you,
nor shall any plague come near your dwelling.
For he will put his angels in charge of you,
to guard you in all your ways.
R. He will put his angels in charge of you, to guard you in all your ways.
Gospel – Matthew 18.1-5, 10
The disciples came to Jesus, saying,
“Who then is greatest in the Kingdom of Heaven?”
Jesus called a little child to himself, and set him in the middle of them,
and said, “Amen I say to you, unless you turn, and become as little children,
you will not even enter into the Kingdom of Heaven.
Whoever therefore humbles themself like this little child,
they are the greatest in the Kingdom of Heaven.
Whoever receives one such little child in my name receives me.
See that you do not despise one of these little ones,
for I tell you that in heaven their angels always see the face of my Father who is in heaven.
Monday of the Twenty-sixth Week in Ordinary Time (II)
Official Translation
Reading 1 – Job 1.6-22
One day, when the sons of God came to present themselves before the Lord,
Satan also came among them.
The Lord said to Satan, “Where have you come from?”
Satan answered the Lord, and said,
“From going back and forth on the earth, and from walking up and down on it.”
The Lord said to Satan, “Have you noticed my servant, Job?
For there is no one like him on the earth,
a blameless and an upright man who fears God, and turns away from evil.”
Satan answered the Lord, and said, “Does Job fear God for nothing?
Have you not made a hedge around him,
and around his house, and around all that he has, on every side?
You have blessed the work of his hands, and his substance is increased in the land.
But stretch out your hand now, and touch all that he has,
and he will renounce you to your face.”
The Lord said to Satan, “Behold, all that he has is in your power.
Only on he, himself, do not stretch out your hand.”
So Satan went out from the presence of the Lord.
It fell on a day when his sons and his daughters
were eating and drinking wine in their eldest brother’s house,
that a messenger came to Job, and said,
“The oxen were plowing, and the donkeys feeding beside them,
and the Sabeans attacked, and took them away.
Indeed, they have killed the young men with the edge of the sword,
and I alone have escaped to tell you.”
While he was still speaking, another also came and said,
“The fire of God has fallen from the sky,
and has burned up the sheep and the young men, and consumed them,
and I alone have escaped to tell you.”
While he was still speaking, another also came and said,
“The Chaldeans had three bands, and swept down on the camels,
and have taken them away, and killed the young men with the edge of the sword,
and I alone have escaped to tell you.”
While he was still speaking, another also came and said,
“Your sons and your daughters were eating and drinking wine
in their eldest brother’s house, and behold, there came a great wind from the desert,
and it struck the four corners of the house, and it fell on the young people, and they are dead.
I alone have escaped to tell you.”
Then Job arose, and tore his robe, and shaved his head, and fell down on the ground, and worshiped.
He said, “Naked I came out of my mother’s womb, and naked shall I return there.
The Lord gave, and the Lord has taken away. Blessed be the name of the Lord.”
In all this, Job did not sin, nor charge God with wrongdoing.
Responsorial – Psalm 17.1bcd, 2-3, 6-7 Resp. 6
R. Turn your ear to me. Hear my word.
Hear justice, O LORD,
attend unto my cry,
give ear unto my prayer, which does not come from lying lips.
R. Turn your ear to me. Hear my word.
Let my judgment come from you.
Your eyes look on equity.
You have tested my heart. You have visited me in the night.
You have tried me, and found nothing.
R. Turn your ear to me. Hear my word.
I have called on you, for you will answer me, O God.
Turn your ear to me. Hear my word.
Show your marvelous loving kindness,
Savior of those who take refuge
at your right hand from their enemies.
R. Turn your ear to me. Hear my word.
Gospel – Luke 9.46-50
An argument arose among the disciples about which of them was the greatest.
Jesus, perceiving the reasoning of their hearts,
took a little child, and set him by his side, and said to them,
“Whoever receives this little child in my name receives me.
Whoever receives me receives him who sent me.
For whoever is least among you all, this one will be great.”
John answered, “Master, we saw someone casting out demons in your name,
and we forbade him, because he does not follow with us.”
Jesus said to him, “Do not forbid him, for he who is not against you is for you.”
Reading 1 – Job 1.6-22
One day, when the sons of God came to present themselves before the Lord,
Satan also came among them.
The Lord said to Satan, “Where have you come from?”
Satan answered the Lord, and said,
“From going back and forth on the earth, and from walking up and down on it.”
The Lord said to Satan, “Have you noticed my servant, Job?
For there is no one like him on the earth,
a blameless and an upright man who fears God, and turns away from evil.”
Satan answered the Lord, and said, “Does Job fear God for nothing?
Have you not made a hedge around him,
and around his house, and around all that he has, on every side?
You have blessed the work of his hands, and his substance is increased in the land.
But stretch out your hand now, and touch all that he has,
and he will renounce you to your face.”
The Lord said to Satan, “Behold, all that he has is in your power.
Only on he, himself, do not stretch out your hand.”
So Satan went out from the presence of the Lord.
It fell on a day when his sons and his daughters
were eating and drinking wine in their eldest brother’s house,
that a messenger came to Job, and said,
“The oxen were plowing, and the donkeys feeding beside them,
and the Sabeans attacked, and took them away.
Indeed, they have killed the young men with the edge of the sword,
and I alone have escaped to tell you.”
While he was still speaking, another also came and said,
“The fire of God has fallen from the sky,
and has burned up the sheep and the young men, and consumed them,
and I alone have escaped to tell you.”
While he was still speaking, another also came and said,
“The Chaldeans had three bands, and swept down on the camels,
and have taken them away, and killed the young men with the edge of the sword,
and I alone have escaped to tell you.”
While he was still speaking, another also came and said,
“Your sons and your daughters were eating and drinking wine
in their eldest brother’s house, and behold, there came a great wind from the desert,
and it struck the four corners of the house, and it fell on the young people, and they are dead.
I alone have escaped to tell you.”
Then Job arose, and tore his robe, and shaved his head, and fell down on the ground, and worshiped.
He said, “Naked I came out of my mother’s womb, and naked shall I return there.
The Lord gave, and the Lord has taken away. Blessed be the name of the Lord.”
In all this, Job did not sin, nor charge God with wrongdoing.
Responsorial – Psalm 17.1bcd, 2-3, 6-7 Resp. 6
R. Turn your ear to me. Hear my word.
Hear justice, O LORD,
attend unto my cry,
give ear unto my prayer, which does not come from lying lips.
R. Turn your ear to me. Hear my word.
Let my judgment come from you.
Your eyes look on equity.
You have tested my heart. You have visited me in the night.
You have tried me, and found nothing.
R. Turn your ear to me. Hear my word.
I have called on you, for you will answer me, O God.
Turn your ear to me. Hear my word.
Show your marvelous loving kindness,
Savior of those who take refuge
at your right hand from their enemies.
R. Turn your ear to me. Hear my word.
Gospel – Luke 9.46-50
An argument arose among the disciples about which of them was the greatest.
Jesus, perceiving the reasoning of their hearts,
took a little child, and set him by his side, and said to them,
“Whoever receives this little child in my name receives me.
Whoever receives me receives him who sent me.
For whoever is least among you all, this one will be great.”
John answered, “Master, we saw someone casting out demons in your name,
and we forbade him, because he does not follow with us.”
Jesus said to him, “Do not forbid him, for he who is not against you is for you.”
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