Sunday, 06 October 2024
Twenty-Seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time, Cycle B.
Antiphons on p. 1326 and Readings on p. 1329 of the Daily Missal and p. 743 of the Sunday Missal.
Entrance Antiphon.
Within your will, O Lord, all things are established and there is none that can resist your will. For you have made all things, the heaven and the earth, and all that is held within the circle of heaven; you are the Lord of all.
First Reading: Genesis 2:18-24
A reading from the Book of Genesis.
The Lord God said,
“It is not good that the man should be alone;
I will make him a helper fit for him.”
So out of the ground, the Lord God formed
every beast of the field and every bird of the air,
and brought them to the man to see what he would call them;
and whatever the man called every living creature,
that was its name.
The man gave names to all cattle,
and to the birds of the air,
and to every beast of the field,
but for the man, there was not found a helper fit for him.
So the Lord God caused a deep sleep to fall upon the man,
and while he slept took one of his ribs
and closed up its place with flesh,
and the rib which the Lord God had taken from the man
he made into a woman
and brought her to the man.
Then the man said,
“This, at last, is bone of my bones
and flesh of my flesh;
she shall be called Woman
because she was taken out of Man.”
Therefore a man leaves his father and his mother
and clings to his wife,
and they become one flesh.
The Word of the Lord.
Responsorial Psalm: Psalm 128:1-2.3.4-5.6 (R. see 5)
Let us now pray the Responsorial Psalm:
R/. May the Lord bless us all the days of our lives.
Blessed are all who fear the Lord,
and walk in his ways!
By the labour of your hands you shall eat.
You will be blessed and prosper.
Your wife like a fruitful vine
in the heart of your house;
your children like shoots of the olive
around your table.
Indeed thus shall be blessed
the man who fears the Lord.
May the Lord bless you from Sion.
May you see Jerusalem prosper
all the days of your life!
May you see your children’s children.
On Israel, peace!
R/. May the Lord bless us all the days of our lives.
Second Reading: Hebrews 2:9-11
A reading from the Letter to the Hebrews.
Brothers and sisters:
We see Jesus,
who for a little while was made lower than the angels,
crowned with glory and honour because of the suffering of death,
so that by the grace of God he might taste death for everyone.
For it was fitting that he,
for whom and by whom all things exist,
in bringing many people to glory,
should make the pioneer of their salvation
perfect through suffering.
For he who sanctifies and those who are sanctified
have all one origin.
That is why he is not ashamed to call them brothers and sisters.
The Word of the Lord.
Please stand for the Gospel
Alleluia, alleluia.
If we love one another, God abides in us, and his love is perfected in us.
Alleluia.
Gospel: Mark 10:2-16
A reading from the Holy Gospel according to Mark.
At that time:
Pharisees came up and in order to test Jesus asked,
“Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife?”
He answered them, “What did Moses command you?”
They said,
“Moses allowed a man to write a certificate of divorce,
and to put her away.”
But Jesus said to them,
“For
