Monday, 2 September 2024
Monday, Twenty-Second Week in Ordinary Time, Year II
Antiphons on p 1214 and Readings on p 1222 of the Daily Missal.
Entrance Antiphon
Have mercy on me, O Lord, for I cry to you all the day long. O Lord, you are good and forgiving, full of mercy to all who call to you.
First Reading: 1 Corinthians 2:1-5
A reading from the First Letter of Saint Paul to the Corinthians
When I came to you, brothers and sisters,
I did not come proclaiming to you
the testimony of God in lofty words or wisdom.
For I decided to know nothing among you
except Jesus Christ and him crucified.
And I was with you in weakness
and in much fear and trembling;
and my speech and my message
were not in plausible words of wisdom,
but in demonstration of the Spirit and power,
that your faith might not rest
in the wisdom of people but in the power of God.
The Word of the Lord
Responsorial psalm: Psalm 119:97.98.99.100.101.102 (R. 97a)
Let us now pray the Responsorial Psalm:
R/. O Lord, how I love your law!
O Lord, how I love your law:
my meditation all the day!
Your command makes me wiser that my foes,
for it is with me always.
I have more insight than all who teach me,
for I ponder your decrees.
I have gained more understanding than my elders,
for I keep your precepts.
I keep my feet from every evil path,
to obey your word.
I have not turned away from your decrees;
your yourself have taught me.
R/. O Lord, how I love your law!
Please stand for the Gospel
Alleluia, alleluia.
The Spirit of the Lord is upon me;
he has sent me to preach good news to the poor.
Alleluia.
Gospel: Luke 4:16-30
A reading from the Holy Gospel according to Luke
At that time:
Jesus came to Nazareth, where he had been brought up;
and he went to the synagogue, as was his custom,
on the sabbath day.
And he stood up to read,
and there was given to him the book of the prophet Isaiah.
He opened the book and found the place where it was written,
“The Spirit of the Lord is upon me
because he has anointed me
to preach good news to the poor.
He has sent me to proclaim release to the captives
and recovering of sight to the blind,
to set at liberty those who are oppressed,
to proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord.”
And he closed the book,
and gave it back to the attendant, and sat down,
and the eyes of all in the synagogue were fixed on him.
And he began to say to them,
“Today this scripture has been fulfilled in your hearing.”
And all spoke well of him,
and wondered at the gracious words
which proceeded out of his mouth;
and they said, “Is not this Joseph’s son?”
And he said to them,
“Doubtless you will quote to me this proverb,
‘Physician, heal yourself;
what we have heard you did at Capernaum,
do here also in your own country.’”
And he said, “Truly, I say to you,
no prophet is acceptable in his own country.
But in truth, I tell you,
there were many widows in Israel in the days of Elijah,
when the heaven was shut up three years and six months
when there came a great famine over all the land;
and Elijah was sent to none of them but only to Zarephath,
in the land of Sidon, to a woman who was a widow.
And there were many lepers in Israel
in the time of the prophet Elisha,
and none of them was cleansed,
but only Naaman the Syrian.”
When they heard this,
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