Readings at Mass, Thursday 26th October 2017 ~ CookingFood.Org

Readings at Mass,

Thursday 26th October 2017

29th Week in Ordinary Time

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First reading

Romans 6:19-23

If I may use human terms to help your natural weakness: as once you put your bodies at the service of vice and immorality, so now you must put them at the service of righteousness for your sanctification.

When you were slaves of sin, you felt no obligation to righteousness, and what did you get from this? Nothing but experiences that now make you blush, since that sort of behaviour ends in death. Now, however, you have been set free from sin, you have been made slaves of God, and you get a reward leading to your sanctification and ending in eternal life. For the wage paid by sin is death; the present given by God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

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Responsorial Psalm

Psalm 1:1-4,6

Happy are they who hope in the Lord. (R.)

Happy indeed is the man

who follows not the counsel of the wicked;

nor lingers in the way of sinners

nor sits in the company of scorners,

but whose delight is the law of the Lord

and who ponders his law day and night. (R.)

He is like a tree that is planted

beside the flowing waters,

that yields its fruit in due season

and whose leaves shall never fade;

and all that he does shall prosper. (R.)

Not so are the wicked, not so!

For they like winnowed chaff

shall be driven away by the wind.

for the Lord guards the way of the just

but the way of the wicked leads to doom. (R.)

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Gospel Acclamation

Phil3:8-9

Alleluia, alleluia!

I count all things worthless but this:

to gain Jesus Christ and to be found in him.

Alleluia!

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Gospel

Luke 12:49-53

Jesus said to his disciples: ‘I have come to bring fire to the earth, and how I wish it were blazing already! There is a baptism I must still receive, and how great is my distress till it is over!

‘Do you suppose that I am here to bring peace on earth? No, I tell you, but rather division. For from now on a household of five will be divided: three against two and two against three; the father divided against the son, son against father, mother against daughter, daughter against mother, mother-in-law against daughter-in-law, daughter-in-law against mother-in-law.’

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