Daily Mass and Readings
Can’t make it to Holy Mass? EWTN offers the daily readings to enable viewers to accompany the Mass of the day as it is televised. They are also the perfect way to find time in your day for spiritual reflection. Listen, watch, or read from the comfort of your home. Our Catholic Daily Reading includes the readings of the day, along with online videos, and is a resource for all who desire to live a life of faith that is pleasing to our Lord.
Saturday, October 17, 2015
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St. Ignatius of Antioch, Bishop, Martyr (Memorial)
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Second Option
First Reading
Romans 4:13, 16-18
13The promise to Abraham and his descendants, that they should inherit the world, did not come through the law but through the righteousness of faith.
16That is why it depends on faith, in order that the promise may rest on grace and be guaranteed to all his descendants—not only to the adherents of the law but also to those who share the faith of Abraham, for he is the father of us all,
17as it is written, “I have made you the father of many nations”—in the presence of the God in whom he believed, who gives life to the dead and calls into existence the things that do not exist.
18In hope he believed against hope, that he should become the father of many nations; as he had been told, “So shall your descendants be.”
Responsorial Psalm
Psalms 105:6-9, 42-43
6O offspring of Abraham his servant, sons of Jacob, his chosen ones!
7He is the LORD our God; his judgments are in all the earth.
8He is mindful of his covenant for ever, of the word that he commanded, for a thousand generations,
9the covenant which he made with Abraham, his sworn promise to Isaac,
42For he remembered his holy promise, and Abraham his servant.
43So he led forth his people with joy, his chosen ones with singing.
Gospel
Luke 12:8-12
8“And I tell you, every one who acknowledges me before men, the Son of man also will acknowledge before the angels of God;
9but he who denies me before men will be denied before the angels of God.
10And every one who speaks a word against the Son of man will be forgiven; but he who blasphemes against the Holy Spirit will not be forgiven.
11And when they bring you before the synagogues and the rulers and the authorities, do not be anxious how or what you are to answer or what you are to say;
12for the Holy Spirit will teach you in that very hour what you ought to say.”
First Reading
Philippians 3:17--4:1
3
17Brethren, join in imitating me, and mark those who so live as you have an example in us.
18For many, of whom I have often told you and now tell you even with tears, live as enemies of the cross of Christ.
19Their end is destruction, their god is the belly, and they glory in their shame, with minds set on earthly things.
20But our commonwealth is in heaven, and from it we await a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ,
21who will change our lowly body to be like his glorious body, by the power which enables him even to subject all things to himself.
4
1Therefore, my brethren, whom I love and long for, my joy and crown, stand firm thus in the Lord, my beloved.
Responsorial Psalm
Psalms 34:2-9
1I will bless the LORD at all times; his praise shall continually be in my mouth.
2My soul makes its boast in the LORD; let the afflicted hear and be glad.
3O magnify the LORD with me, and let us exalt his name together!
4I sought the LORD, and he answered me, and delivered me from all my fears.
5Look to him, and be radiant; so your faces shall never be ashamed.
6This poor man cried, and the LORD heard him, and saved him out of all his troubles.
7The angel of the LORD encamps around those who fear him, and delivers them.
8O taste and see that the LORD is good! Happy is the man who takes refuge in him!
Gospel
John 12:24-26
24Truly, truly, I say to you, unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies, it remains alone; but if it dies, it bears much fruit.
25He who loves his life loses it, and he who hates his life in this world will keep it for eternal life.
26If any one serves me, he must follow me; and where I am, there shall my servant be also; if any one serves me, the Father will honor him.