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Tuesday, September 30, 2014
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Second Option
First Reading
Job 3:1-3, 11-17, 20-23
1After this Job opened his mouth and cursed the day of his birth.
2And Job said:
3“Let the day perish wherein I was born, and the night which said, ‘A man-child is conceived.’
11“Why did I not die at birth, come forth from the womb and expire?
12Why did the knees receive me? Or why the breasts, that I should suck?
13For then I should have lain down and been quiet; I should have slept; then I should have been at rest,
14with kings and counselors of the earth who rebuilt ruins for themselves,
15or with princes who had gold, who filled their houses with silver.
16Or why was I not as a hidden untimely birth, as infants that never see the light?
17There the wicked cease from troubling, and there the weary are at rest.
20“Why is light given to him that is in misery, and life to the bitter in soul,
21who long for death, but it comes not, and dig for it more than for hid treasures;
22who rejoice exceedingly, and are glad, when they find the grave?
23Why is light given to a man whose way is hid, whom God has hedged in?
Responsorial Psalm
Psalms 88:2-8
1O LORD, my God, I call for help by day; I cry out in the night before thee.
2Let my prayer come before thee, incline thy ear to my cry!
3For my soul is full of troubles, and my life draws near to Sheol.
4I am reckoned among those who go down to the Pit; I am a man who has no strength,
5like one forsaken among the dead, like the slain that lie in the grave, like those whom thou dost remember no more, for they are cut off from thy hand.
6Thou hast put me in the depths of the Pit, in the regions dark and deep.
7Thy wrath lies heavy upon me, and thou dost overwhelm me with all thy waves. Selah
Gospel
Luke 9:51-56
51When the days drew near for him to be received up, he set his face to go to Jerusalem.
52And he sent messengers ahead of him, who went and entered a village of the Samaritans, to make ready for him;
53but the people would not receive him, because his face was set toward Jerusalem.
54And when his disciples James and John saw it, they said, “Lord, do you want us to bid fire come down from heaven and consume them?”
55But he turned and rebuked them.
56And they went on to another village.
First Reading
2 Timothy 3:14-17
14But as for you, continue in what you have learned and have firmly believed, knowing from whom you learned it
15and how from childhood you have been acquainted with the sacred writings which are able to instruct you for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus.
16All scripture is inspired by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness,
17that the man of God may be complete, equipped for every good work.
Responsorial Psalm
Psalms 119:9-14
9How can a young man keep his way pure? By guarding it according to thy word.
10With my whole heart I seek thee; let me not wander from thy commandments!
11I have laid up thy word in my heart, that I might not sin against thee.
12Blessed be thou, O LORD; teach me thy statutes!
13With my lips I declare all the ordinances of thy mouth.
14In the way of thy testimonies I delight as much as in all riches.
Gospel
Matthew 13:47-52
47“Again, the kingdom of heaven is like a net which was thrown into the sea and gathered fish of every kind;
48when it was full, men drew it ashore and sat down and sorted the good into vessels but threw away the bad.
49So it will be at the close of the age. The angels will come out and separate the evil from the righteous,
50and throw them into the furnace of fire; there men will weep and gnash their teeth.
51“Have you understood all this?” They said to him, “Yes.”
52And he said to them, “Therefore every scribe who has been trained for the kingdom of heaven is like a householder who brings out of his treasure what is new and what is old.”