Monday, 30 September 2024
Monday in Twenty-Sixth Week in Ordinary Time – Year II
Memorial, St Jerome, priest and doctor of the Church
Antiphons on p. 1768 and Readings on p. 1310 of the Daily Missal.
Entrance Antiphon.
Blessed indeed is the man who ponders the law of the Lord day and night: he will yield his fruit in due season.
First Reading: Job 1:6-22
A reading from the Book of Job.
There was a day when the sons of God came
to present themselves before the Lord,
and Satan also came among them.
The Lord said to Satan, “Whence have you come?”
Satan answered the Lord,
“From going to and fro on the earth,
and from walking up and down on it.”
And the Lord said to Satan,
“Have you considered my servant Job,
that there is none like him on the earth,
a blameless and upright man,
who fears God and turns away from evil?”
Then Satan answered the Lord,
“Does Job fear God for nothing?
Have you not put a hedge about him
and his house and all that he has, on every side?
You have blessed the work of his hands,
and his possessions have increased in the land.
But put forth thy hand now,
and touch all that he has,
and he will curse you to your face.”
And the Lord said to Satan,
“Behold, all that he has is in your power;
only upon himself do not put forth your hand.”
So Satan went forth from the presence of the Lord.
Now there was a day
when his sons and daughters were eating and drinking wine
in their eldest brother’s house;
and there came a messenger to Job, and said,
“The oxen were ploughing and the donkeys feeding beside them,
and the Sabeans fell upon them and took them,
and slew the servants with the edge of the sword:
and I alone have escaped to tell you.”
While he was yet speaking,
there came another, and said,
“The fire of God fell from heaven
and burned up the sheep and the servants,
and consumed them;
and I alone have escaped to tell you.”
While he was yet speaking,
there came another, and said,
“The Chaldeans formed three companies,
and made a raid upon the camels and took them,
and slew the servants with the edge of the sword;
and I alone have escaped to tell you.”
While he was yet speaking,
there came another, and said,
“Your sons and daughters
were eating and drinking wine in their eldest brother’s house;
and behold, a great wind came across the wilderness,
and struck the four corners of the house,
and it fell upon the young people, and they are dead;
and I alone have escaped to tell you.”
Then Job arose, and tore his robe,
and shaved his head,
and fell upon the ground, and worshipped.
And he said, “Naked I came from my mother’s womb,
and naked shall I return;
the Lord gave, and the Lord has taken away;
blessed be the name of the Lord.”
In all this Job did not sin or charge God with wrong.
The Word of the Lord.
Responsorial Psalm: Psalm 17:1.2-3.6-7 (R. 6b)
Let us now pray the Responsorial Psalm
R/. Lord, turn your ear to me; hear my words.
O Lord, hear a cause that is just;
pay heed to my cry.
Turn your ear to my prayer:
no deceit is on my lips.
From you may my justice come forth.
Your eyes discern what is upright.
Search my heart and visit me by night.
Test me by fire, and you will find no wrong in me.
To you I call; for you will surely heed me, O God.
Turn your ear to me; hear my
