Daily Mass and Readings
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Thursday, November 12, 2015
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St. Josaphat, Bishop, Martyr (Memorial)
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First Reading
Wisdom 7:22--8:1
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22for wisdom, the fashioner of all things, taught me. For in her there is a spirit that is intelligent, holy, unique, manifold, subtle, mobile, clear, unpolluted, distinct, invulnerable, loving the good, keen, irresistible,
23beneficent, humane, steadfast, sure, free from anxiety, all-powerful, overseeing all, and penetrating through all spirits that are intelligent and pure and most subtle.
24For wisdom is more mobile than any motion; because of her pureness she pervades and penetrates all things.
25For she is a breath of the power of God, and a pure emanation of the glory of the Almighty; therefore nothing defiled gains entrance into her.
26For she is a reflection of eternal light, a spotless mirror of the working of God, and an image of his goodness.
27Though she is but one, she can do all things, and while remaining in herself, she renews all things; in every generation she passes into holy souls and makes them friends of God, and prophets;
28for God loves nothing so much as the man who lives with wisdom.
29For she is more beautiful than the sun, and excels every constellation of the stars. Compared with the light she is found to be superior,
30for it is succeeded by the night, but against wisdom evil does not prevail.
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1She reaches mightily from one end of the earth to the other, and she orders all things well.
Responsorial Psalm
Psalms 119:89-91, 130, 135, 175
89For ever, O LORD, thy word is firmly fixed in the heavens.
90Thy faithfulness endures to all generations; thou hast established the earth, and it stands fast.
91By thy appointment they stand this day; for all things are thy servants.
130The unfolding of thy words gives light; it imparts understanding to the simple.
135Make thy face shine upon thy servant, and teach me thy statutes.
175Let me live, that I may praise thee, and let thy ordinances help me.
Gospel
Luke 17:20-25
20Being asked by the Pharisees when the kingdom of God was coming, he answered them, “The kingdom of God is not coming with signs to be observed;
21nor will they say, ‘Lo, here it is!’ or ‘There!’ for behold, the kingdom of God is in the midst of you.”
22And he said to the disciples, “The days are coming when you will desire to see one of the days of the Son of man, and you will not see it.
23And they will say to you, ‘Lo, there!’ or ‘Lo, here!’ Do not go, do not follow them.
24For as the lightning flashes and lights up the sky from one side to the other, so will the Son of man be in his day.
25But first he must suffer many things and be rejected by this generation.
First Reading
Ephesians 4:1-7, 11-13
1I therefore, a prisoner for the Lord, beg you to lead a life worthy of the calling to which you have been called,
2with all lowliness and meekness, with patience, forbearing one another in love,
3eager to maintain the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace.
4There is one body and one Spirit, just as you were called to the one hope that belongs to your call,
5one Lord, one faith, one baptism,
6one God and Father of us all, who is above all and through all and in all.
7But grace was given to each of us according to the measure of Christ’s gift.
11And his gifts were that some should be apostles, some prophets, some evangelists, some pastors and teachers,
12for the equipment of the saints, for the work of ministry, for building up the body of Christ,
13until we all attain to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to mature manhood, to the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ;
Responsorial Psalm
Psalms 1:1-4, 6
1Blessed is the man who walks not in the counsel of the wicked, nor stands in the way of sinners, nor sits in the seat of scoffers;
2but his delight is in the law of the LORD, and on his law he meditates day and night.
3He is like a tree planted by streams of water, that yields its fruit in its season, and its leaf does not wither. In all that he does, he prospers.
4The wicked are not so, but are like chaff which the wind drives away.
6for the LORD knows the way of the righteous, but the way of the wicked will perish.
Gospel
John 17:20-26
20“I do not pray for these only, but also for those who believe in me through their word,
21that they may all be one; even as thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee, that they also may be in us, so that the world may believe that thou hast sent me.
22The glory which thou hast given me I have given to them, that they may be one even as we are one,
23I in them and thou in me, that they may become perfectly one, so that the world may know that thou hast sent me and hast loved them even as thou hast loved me.
24Father, I desire that they also, whom thou hast given me, may be with me where I am, to behold my glory which thou hast given me in thy love for me before the foundation of the world.
25O righteous Father, the world has not known thee, but I have known thee; and these know that thou hast sent me.
26I made known to them thy name, and I will make it known, that the love with which thou hast loved me may be in them, and I in them.”