Thursday, 10 October 2024
Thursday in Twenty-Seventh Week in Ordinary Time – Year II
St Daniel Comboni, Bishop, (Memorial)
Antiphons on p. 1924 and Readings on p. 1343 of the Daily Missal.
Entrance Antiphon.
O chosen people, proclaim the mighty works of him who called you out of darkness into his wonderful light.
First Reading: Galatians 3:1-5
A reading from the Letter of Saint Paul to the Galatians.
O foolish Galatians!
Who has bewitched you, before whose eyes
Jesus Christ was publicly portrayed as crucified?
Let me ask you only this:
Did you receive the Spirit by works of the law,
or by hearing with faith?
Are you so foolish?
Having begun with the Spirit,
are you now ending with the flesh?
Did you experience so many things in vain?
—if it really is in vain.
Does he who supplies the Spirit to you
and works miracles among you
do so by works of the law,
or by hearing with faith?
The Word of the Lord.
Responsorial Psalm: Luke 1:69-75 (R. see 68)
Let us now pray the Responsorial Psalm
R/. Blessed be the Lord God of Israel,
for he has visited his people.
He has raised up a horn of salvation for us
in the house of his servant David,
as he spoke by the mouth of his holy prophets
from of old.
That we should be saved from our enemies,
and from the hand of all who hate us;
to perform the mercy promised to our fathers,
and to remember his holy covenant.
The oath which he swore to our father Abraham, to grant us
that we, being delivered from the hand of our enemies,
might serve him without fear,
in holiness and righteousness before him
all the days of our life.
R/. Blessed be the Lord God of Israel,
for he has visited his people.
Please stand for the Gospel.
Alleluia, Alleluia.
Open our hearts, O Lord, that we may give heed to the words of your Son.
Alleluia.
Gospel: Luke 11:5-13
A reading from the Holy Gospel according to Luke.
At that time:
Jesus said to his disciples,
“Which of you who has a friend will go to him at midnight
and say to him, ‘Friend, lend me three loaves;
for a friend of mine has arrived on a journey,
and I have nothing to set before him’;
and he will answer from within, ‘
Do not bother me;
the door is now shut,
and my children are with me in bed;
I cannot get up and give you anything’?
I tell you,
though he will not get up and give him anything
because he is his friend,
yet because of his importunity he will rise
and give him whatever he needs.
And I tell you,
Ask, and it will be given you;
seek, and you will find;
knock, and it will be opened to you.
For everyone who asks receives,
and the one who seeks finds,
and to the one who knocks, it will be opened.
What parent among you,
if his child asks for a fish,
will instead of a fish give him a serpent;
or if they ask for an egg,
will give them a scorpion?
If you then, who are evil,
know how to give good gifts to your children,
how much more will the heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit
to those who ask him!”
The Gospel of the Lord.
Communion Antiphon.
I will pasture my sheep; I myself will give them rest, says the Lord.
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