Monday, 26 August 2024
Monday 21st Week in Ordinary Time, Year II
Antiphons on p 1192 and Readings on p 1200 and of the Daily Missal.
Entrance Antiphon
Turn your ear, O Lord, and answer me; save the servant who trusts in you, my God. Have mercy on me, O Lord, for I cry to you all the day long.
First Reading: 2 Thessalonians 1:1-5, 11b-12
The beginning of the Second Letter of Saint Paul to the Thessalonians
Paul, Silvanus, and Timothy,
to the church of the Thessalonians
in God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ:
Grace to you and peace from God the Father
and the Lord Jesus Christ.
We are bound to give thanks to God always for you,
brethren, as is fitting,
because your faith is growing abundantly,
and the love of every one of you for one another
is increasing.
Therefore we ourselves boast of you
in the churches of God for your steadfastness
and faith in all your persecutions
and in the afflictions which you are enduring.
This is evidence of the righteous judgment of God,
that you may be made worthy of the kingdom of God,
for which you are suffering.
May our God may make you worthy of his call,
and may fulfil every good resolve
and work of faith by his power,
so that the name of our Lord Jesus
may be glorified in you, and you in him,
according to the grace of our God and the Lord Jesus Christ.
The Word of the Lord
Responsorial psalm: Ps 96:1-2a.2b-3,4-5
Let us now pray the Responsorial Psalm:
R./ Tell among all the peoples the wonders of the Lord.
O sing to the Lord a new song;
sing to the Lord. All the earth!
Sing to the Lord, bless his name.
Proclaim his salvation day by day.
Tell among the nations his glory,
and his wonders among all the peoples.
For the Lord is great and highly to be praised,
to be feared above all gods.
For the gods of the nations are naught.
It was the Lord who made the heavens.
R./ Tell among all the peoples the wonders of the Lord.
Please stand for the Gospel
Alleluia, alleluia.
My sheep hear my voice, says the Lord;
and I know them, and they follow me.
Alleluia.
Gospel: Matthew 23:13-22
A reading from the Holy Gospel according to Matthew
At that time: Jesus said,
“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites!
because you shut the kingdom of heaven against men;
for you neither enter yourselves
nor allow those who would enter to go in.
Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites!
for you traverse sea and land to make a single proselyte,
and when he becomes a proselyte,
you make him twice as much a child of hell as yourselves.
“Woe to you, blind guides, who say,
‘If anyone swears by the temple, it is nothing;
but if anyone swears by the gold of the temple,
he is bound by his oath.’
You blind fools!
For which is greater,
the gold or the temple that has made the gold sacred?
And you say, ‘If anyone swears by the altar, it is nothing;
but if anyone swears by the gift that is on the altar,
he is bound by his oath.’
You blind men!
For which is greater,
the gift or the altar that makes the gift sacred?
So he who swears by the altar,
swears by it and by everything on it;
and he who swears by the temple,
swears by it and by Him who dwells in it;
and he who swears by heaven,
swears by the throne of God and by Him who sits upon it.”
