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.”