Thursday, 26 September 2024
Thursday, Twenty-Fifth Week in Ordinary Time – Year II.
Saints Cosmas and Damien, martyrs
Antiphons on p. 1889 and Readings on p. 1295 and of the Daily Missal.
Entrance Antiphon.
The souls of the Saints are rejoicing in heaven, the Saints who followed the footsteps of Christ, and since for love of him they shed their blood, they now exult with Christ for ever.
First Reading: Ecclesiastes 1:2-11
A reading from the Book of Ecclesiastes.
Vanity of vanities, says the Preacher,
vanity of vanities! All is vanity.
What does man gain by all the toil
at which he toils under the sun?
A generation goes, and a generation comes,
but the earth remains forever.
The sun rises and the sun goes down,
and hastens to the place where it rises.
The wind blows to the south,
and goes round to the north;
round and round goes the wind,
and on its circuits the wind returns.
All streams run to the sea,
but the sea is not full;
to the place where the streams flow,
there they flow again.
All things are full of weariness;
a man cannot utter it;
the eye is not satisfied with seeing,
nor the ear filled with hearing.
What has been is what will be,
and what has been done is what will be done,
and there is nothing new under the sun.
Is there a thing of which it is said,
“See, this is new”?
It has been already, in the ages before us.
There is no remembrance of former things,
nor will there be any remembrance
of later things yet to happen
among those who come after.
The Word of the Lord.
Responsorial Psalm: Psalm 90:3-6.12-4 and 17 (R. 1)
Let us now pray the Responsorial Psalm
R/. O Lord, you have been our refuge,
from generation to generation.
You turn man back to dust,
and say, “Return, O children of men.”
To your eyes a thousand years
are like yesterday, come and gone,
or like a watch in the night.
You sweep them away like a dream,
like grass which is fresh in the morning.
In the morning it sprouts and is fresh;
by evening it withers and fades.
Then teach us to number our days,
that we may gain wisdom of heart.
Turn back, O Lord! How long?
Show pity to your servants.
At dawn, fill us with your merciful love;
we shall exult and rejoice all our days.
Let the favour of the Lord our God be upon us;
give success to the work of our hands.
O give success to the work of our hands.
R/. O Lord, you have been our refuge,
from generation to generation.
Please stand for the Gospel.
Alleluia, Alleluia.
I am the way, and the truth, and the life, says the Lord; no one comes to the Father, but by me.
Alleluia.
Gospel: Luke 9:7-9
A reading from the Holy Gospel according to Luke.
At that time:
Herod the tetrarch heard of all that was done by Jesus,
and he was perplexed,
because it was said by some
that John had been raised from the dead,
by some that Elijah had appeared,
and by others that one of the old prophets had risen.
Herod said, “John I beheaded;
but who is this about whom I hear such things?”
And he sought to see him.
The Gospel of the Lord.
Communion Antiphon.
It is you who have stood by me in my trials; and I confer a kingdom on you, says the Lord, that you may eat and drink at my table in my kingdom.
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