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Wednesday, October 23, 2019
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First Reading
Romans 6:12-18
12Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal bodies, to make you obey their passions.
13Do not yield your members to sin as instruments of wickedness, but yield yourselves to God as men who have been brought from death to life, and your members to God as instruments of righteousness.
14For sin will have no dominion over you, since you are not under law but under grace.
15What then? Are we to sin because we are not under law but under grace? By no means!
16Do you not know that if you yield yourselves to any one as obedient slaves, you are slaves of the one whom you obey, either of sin, which leads to death, or of obedience, which leads to righteousness?
17But thanks be to God, that you who were once slaves of sin have become obedient from the heart to the standard of teaching to which you were committed,
18and, having been set free from sin, have become slaves of righteousness.
Responsorial Psalm
Psalms 124:1-8
1If it had not been the LORD who was on our side, let Israel now say—
2if it had not been the LORD who was on our side, when men rose up against us,
3then they would have swallowed us up alive, when their anger was kindled against us;
4then the flood would have swept us away, the torrent would have gone over us;
5then over us would have gone the raging waters.
6Blessed be the LORD, who has not given us as prey to their teeth!
7We have escaped as a bird from the snare of the fowlers; the snare is broken, and we have escaped!
8Our help is in the name of the LORD, who made heaven and earth.
Gospel
Luke 12:39-48
39But know this, that if the householder had known at what hour the thief was coming, he would have been awake and would not have left his house to be broken into.
40You also must be ready; for the Son of man is coming at an hour you do not expect.”
41Peter said, “Lord, are you telling this parable for us or for all?”
42And the Lord said, “Who then is the faithful and wise steward, whom his master will set over his household, to give them their portion of food at the proper time?
43Blessed is that servant whom his master when he comes will find so doing.
44Truly, I tell you, he will set him over all his possessions.
45But if that servant says to himself, ‘My master is delayed in coming,’ and begins to beat the menservants and the maidservants, and to eat and drink and get drunk,
46the master of that servant will come on a day when he does not expect him and at an hour he does not know, and will punish him, and put him with the unfaithful.
47And that servant who knew his master’s will, but did not make ready or act according to his will, shall receive a severe beating.
48But he who did not know, and did what deserved a beating, shall receive a light beating. Every one to whom much is given, of him will much be required; and of him to whom men commit much they will demand the more.
First Reading
2 Corinthians 5:14-20
14For the love of Christ controls us, because we are convinced that one has died for all; therefore all have died.
15And he died for all, that those who live might live no longer for themselves but for him who for their sake died and was raised.
16From now on, therefore, we regard no one from a human point of view; even though we once regarded Christ from a human point of view, we regard him thus no longer.
17Therefore, if any one is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has passed away, behold, the new has come.
18All this is from God, who through Christ reconciled us to himself and gave us the ministry of reconciliation;
19that is, God was in Christ reconciling the world to himself, not counting their trespasses against them, and entrusting to us the message of reconciliation.
20So we are ambassadors for Christ, God making his appeal through us. We beseech you on behalf of Christ, be reconciled to God.
Responsorial Psalm
Psalms 16:1-2, 5, 7-8, 11
1Preserve me, O God, for in thee I take refuge.
2I say to the LORD, “Thou art my Lord; I have no good apart from thee.”
5The LORD is my chosen portion and my cup; thou holdest my lot.
7I bless the LORD who gives me counsel; in the night also my heart instructs me.
8I keep the LORD always before me; because he is at my right hand, I shall not be moved.
11Thou dost show me the path of life; in thy presence there is fulness of joy, in thy right hand are pleasures for evermore.
Gospel
Luke 9:57-62
57As they were going along the road, a man said to him, “I will follow you wherever you go.”
58And Jesus said to him, “Foxes have holes, and birds of the air have nests; but the Son of man has nowhere to lay his head.”
59To another he said, “Follow me.” But he said, “Lord, let me first go and bury my father.”
60But he said to him, “Leave the dead to bury their own dead; but as for you, go and proclaim the kingdom of God.”
61Another said, “I will follow you, Lord; but let me first say farewell to those at my home.”
62Jesus said to him, “No one who puts his hand to the plow and looks back is fit for the kingdom of God.”
From the Franciscan Lectionary
First Reading
Wisdom 10:10-14
10When a righteous man fled from his brother’s wrath, she guided him on straight paths; she showed him the kingdom of God, and gave him knowledge of angels; she prospered him in his labors, and increased the fruit of his toil.
11When his oppressors were covetous, she stood by him and made him rich.
12She protected him from his enemies, and kept him safe from those who lay in wait for him; in his arduous contest she gave him the victory, so that he might learn that godliness is more powerful than anything.
13When a righteous man was sold, wisdom did not desert him, but delivered him from sin. She descended with him into the dungeon,
14and when he was in prison she did not leave him, until she brought him the scepter of a kingdom and authority over his masters. Those who accused him she showed to be false, and she gave him everlasting honor.
Responsorial Psalm
Psalms 34:8-9, 16-20, 23
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!
15The eyes of the LORD are toward the righteous, and his ears toward their cry.
16The face of the LORD is against evildoers, to cut off the remembrance of them from the earth.
17When the righteous cry for help, the LORD hears, and delivers them out of all their troubles.
18The LORD is near to the brokenhearted, and saves the crushed in spirit.
19Many are the afflictions of the righteous; but the LORD delivers him out of them all.
22The LORD redeems the life of his servants; none of those who take refuge in him will be condemned.
Gospel
Luke 9:1-6
1And he called the twelve together and gave them power and authority over all demons and to cure diseases,
2and he sent them out to preach the kingdom of God and to heal.
3And he said to them, “Take nothing for your journey, no staff, nor bag, nor bread, nor money; and do not have two tunics.
4And whatever house you enter, stay there, and from there depart.
5And wherever they do not receive you, when you leave that town shake off the dust from your feet as a testimony against them.”
6And they departed and went through the villages, preaching the gospel and healing everywhere.