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?”