Daily Readings - October 19, 2011 - Wednesday
First Reading: Romans 6: 12-18
Responsorial Psalm: Psalm 124: 1-3, 4-6, 7-8
Holy Gospel: Luke 12: 39-48
Holy Gospel:
39 Pay attention to this: If the master of the house had known at what time the thief would come, he would not have let his house be broken into. 40 You also must be ready, for the Son of Man will come at an hour you do not expect.”
41 Peter said, “Lord, did you tell this parable only for us, or for everyone?” 42 And the Lord replied, “Imagine, then, the wise and faithful steward whom the master sets over his other servants to give them food rations at the proper time. 43 Fortunate is this servant if his master on coming home finds him doing his work. 44 Truly, I say to you, the master will put him in charge of all his property.
45 But it may be that the steward thinks: ‘My Lord delays in coming,’ and he begins to abuse the menservants and the servant girls, eating and drinking and getting drunk. 46 Then the master will come on a day he does not expect him and at an hour he doesn’t know. He will cut him off and send him to the same fate as the unfaithful.
47 The servant who knew his master’s will, but did not prepare to do what his master wanted, will be punished with sound blows; 48 but the one who did what deserved a punishment without knowing it shall receive fewer blows. Much will be required of the one who has been given much, and more will be asked of the one entrusted with more.
First Reading:
12 Do not allow sin any control over your mortal bodies; do not submit yourselves to its evil inclinations, 13 and do not give your members over to sin, as instruments to do evil. On the contrary, offer yourselves as persons returned from death to life, and let the members of your body be as holy instruments at the service of God. 14 Sin will not lord it over you again, for you are not under the law, but under grace.
15 I ask again: are we to sin because we are not under the Law, but under grace? Certainly not. 16 If you have given yourselves up to someone as his slave, you are to obey the one who commands you, aren’t you? Now with sin you go to death, and by accepting faith you go the right way. 17 Let us give thanks to God for, after having sin as your master, you have been given to another, that is, to the doctrine of faith, to which you listen willingly. 18 And being free from sin, you began to serve true righteousness
Responsorial Psalm:
1 Had not the Lord been on our side
let Israel say
2 had not the Lord been on our side,
when people rose up against us,
3 then they would have swallowed us alive;
such was their anger against us.
4 A bit more and the flood would have engulfed us,
the torrent would have swept over us,
5 the raging waters would have swept us away.
6 Blessed be the Lord,
who did not let us be devoured.
7 Like a bird our soul escaped
from the snare of the fowler;
the snare was broken and we were freed.
8 Our help is in the name of the Lord,
who made heaven and earth.
Responsorial Psalm: Psalm 124: 1-3, 4-6, 7-8
Holy Gospel: Luke 12: 39-48
Holy Gospel:
39 Pay attention to this: If the master of the house had known at what time the thief would come, he would not have let his house be broken into. 40 You also must be ready, for the Son of Man will come at an hour you do not expect.”
41 Peter said, “Lord, did you tell this parable only for us, or for everyone?” 42 And the Lord replied, “Imagine, then, the wise and faithful steward whom the master sets over his other servants to give them food rations at the proper time. 43 Fortunate is this servant if his master on coming home finds him doing his work. 44 Truly, I say to you, the master will put him in charge of all his property.
45 But it may be that the steward thinks: ‘My Lord delays in coming,’ and he begins to abuse the menservants and the servant girls, eating and drinking and getting drunk. 46 Then the master will come on a day he does not expect him and at an hour he doesn’t know. He will cut him off and send him to the same fate as the unfaithful.
47 The servant who knew his master’s will, but did not prepare to do what his master wanted, will be punished with sound blows; 48 but the one who did what deserved a punishment without knowing it shall receive fewer blows. Much will be required of the one who has been given much, and more will be asked of the one entrusted with more.
First Reading:
12 Do not allow sin any control over your mortal bodies; do not submit yourselves to its evil inclinations, 13 and do not give your members over to sin, as instruments to do evil. On the contrary, offer yourselves as persons returned from death to life, and let the members of your body be as holy instruments at the service of God. 14 Sin will not lord it over you again, for you are not under the law, but under grace.
15 I ask again: are we to sin because we are not under the Law, but under grace? Certainly not. 16 If you have given yourselves up to someone as his slave, you are to obey the one who commands you, aren’t you? Now with sin you go to death, and by accepting faith you go the right way. 17 Let us give thanks to God for, after having sin as your master, you have been given to another, that is, to the doctrine of faith, to which you listen willingly. 18 And being free from sin, you began to serve true righteousness
Responsorial Psalm:
1 Had not the Lord been on our side
let Israel say
2 had not the Lord been on our side,
when people rose up against us,
3 then they would have swallowed us alive;
such was their anger against us.
4 A bit more and the flood would have engulfed us,
the torrent would have swept over us,
5 the raging waters would have swept us away.
6 Blessed be the Lord,
who did not let us be devoured.
7 Like a bird our soul escaped
from the snare of the fowler;
the snare was broken and we were freed.
8 Our help is in the name of the Lord,
who made heaven and earth.
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