Wednesday, 4 September 2024
Wednesday in Twenty-Second week in Ordinary Time – Year II
Antiphons on p. 1214 and Readings on p. 1227 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 3:1-9
A reading from the First Letter of Saint Paul to the Corinthians.
Brothers and sisters:
I could not address you as spiritual people,
but as people of the flesh, as infants in Christ.
I fed you with milk, not solid food;
for you were not ready for it,
and even yet you are not ready, for you are still of the flesh.
For while there is jealousy and strife among you,
are you not of the flesh,
and behaving like ordinary men?
For when one says, “I belong to Paul,”
and another, “I belong to Apollos,”
are you not merely human?
What then is Apollos? What is Paul?
Servants through whom you believed,
as the Lord assigned to each.
I planted, Apollos watered,
but God gave the growth.
So neither the one who plants
nor the one who waters is anything,
but only God who gives the growth.
The one who plants and the one who waters are equal,
and each shall receive wages according to their labour.
For we are God’s fellow workers;
you are God’s field, God’s building.
The Word of the Lord.
Responsorial Psalm: Psalm 33:12-13, 14-15, 20-21 (R. 12b)
Let us now pray the Responsorial Psalm
R/. Blessed the people the Lord has chosen for his heritage.
Blessed the nation whose God is the Lord,
the people he has chosen as his heritage.
From the heavens the Lord looks forth;
he sees all the children of men.
From the place where he dwells he gazes
on all the dwellers on the earth,
he who shapes the hearts of them all,
and considers all their deeds.
Our soul is waiting for the Lord.
He is our help and our shield.
In him do our hearts find joy.
We trust in his holy name.
R/. Blessed the people the Lord has chosen for his heritage.
Please stand for the Gospel.
Alleluia, Alleluia.
The Lord has sent me to preach good news to the poor, to proclaim release to the captives.
Alleluia.
Gospel: Luke 4:38-44
A reading from the Holy Gospel according to Luke.
At that time:
Jesus arose and left the synagogue,
and entered Simon’s house.
Now Simon’s mother-in-law was ill with a high fever,
and they asked him about her.
And he stood over her and rebuked the fever,
and it left her;
and immediately she got up and served them.
Now when the sun was setting,
all those who had any who were sick with various kinds of diseases
brought them to him;
and he laid his hands on every one of them and healed them.
And demons also came out of many, crying,
“You are the Son of God!”
But he rebuked them,
and would not allow them to speak,
because they knew that he was the Christ.
And when it was day he departed
and went to a lonely place.
And the people sought him and came to him,
and would have kept him from leaving them;
but he said to them,
“I must preach the good news of the kingdom of God
to the other cities also;
for I was sent for this purpose.”
And he was preaching in the synagogues of Judea.
The Gospel of the Lord.
Communion Antiphon.
How great is the goodness, Lord, that you
