Daily Readings - October 29, 2011 - Saturday
First Reading: Romans 11:1-2, 11-12, 25-29
Responsorial Psalm: Psalm 94: 12-13, 14-15, 17-18
Holy Gospel: Luke 14: 1, 7-11
Holy Gospel:
1 One Sabbath Jesus had gone to eat a meal in the house of a leading Pharisee, and he was carefully watched.
7 Jesus then told a parable to the guests, for he had noticed how they tried to take the places of honor. And he said, 8 “When you are invited to a wedding party, do not choose the best seat. It may happen that someone more important than you has been invited, 9 and your host, who invited both of you, will come and say to you: ‘Please give this person your place.’ What shame is yours when you take the lowest seat!
10 Whenever you are invited, go rather to the lowest seat, so that your host may come and say to you: ‘Friend, you must come up higher.’ And this will be a great honor for you in the presence of all the other guests. 11 For whoever makes himself out to be great will be humbled, and whoever humbles himself will be raised.”
First Reading:
1 And so I ask: Has God rejected his people? Of course not. I myself am an Israelite, a descendant of Abraham, from the tribe of Benjamin. 2 No, God has not rejected the people he knew beforehand. Don’t you know what the Scripture says of Elijah when he was accusing Israel before God?
11 Again I ask: Did they stumble so as to fall? Of course not. Their stumbling allowed salvation to come to the pagan nations and this, in turn, will stir up the jealousy of Israel. 12 If Israel’s shortcoming made the world rich, if the pagan nations grew rich with what they lost, what will happen when Israel is restored?
25 I want you to understand the mysterious decree of God, lest you be too confident: a part of Israel will remain hardened until the majority of pagans have entered. 26 Then the whole of Israel will be saved, as Scripture says: From Zion will come the Liberator who will purify the descendants of Jacob from all sin. 27 And this is the covenant I will make with them: I will take away from them their sins.
28 Regarding the Gospel, the Jews are opponents, but it is for your benefit. Regarding election, they are beloved because of their ancestors; 29 because the call of God and his gifts cannot be nullified.
12 Fortunate the one you correct, O Lord, the one you teach your law;
13 you give them relief from distress while a pit is dug for the wicked.
14 The Lord will not reject his people nor will he forsake his heritage.
15 Justice will return to the just, and the upright will follow in its wake.
17 Had the Lord not helped me, I would have fallen into the silence of death.
18 No sooner did I say, “My foot is slipping,” your kindness, O Lord, held me up.
Responsorial Psalm: Psalm 94: 12-13, 14-15, 17-18
Holy Gospel: Luke 14: 1, 7-11
Holy Gospel:
1 One Sabbath Jesus had gone to eat a meal in the house of a leading Pharisee, and he was carefully watched.
7 Jesus then told a parable to the guests, for he had noticed how they tried to take the places of honor. And he said, 8 “When you are invited to a wedding party, do not choose the best seat. It may happen that someone more important than you has been invited, 9 and your host, who invited both of you, will come and say to you: ‘Please give this person your place.’ What shame is yours when you take the lowest seat!
10 Whenever you are invited, go rather to the lowest seat, so that your host may come and say to you: ‘Friend, you must come up higher.’ And this will be a great honor for you in the presence of all the other guests. 11 For whoever makes himself out to be great will be humbled, and whoever humbles himself will be raised.”
First Reading:
1 And so I ask: Has God rejected his people? Of course not. I myself am an Israelite, a descendant of Abraham, from the tribe of Benjamin. 2 No, God has not rejected the people he knew beforehand. Don’t you know what the Scripture says of Elijah when he was accusing Israel before God?
11 Again I ask: Did they stumble so as to fall? Of course not. Their stumbling allowed salvation to come to the pagan nations and this, in turn, will stir up the jealousy of Israel. 12 If Israel’s shortcoming made the world rich, if the pagan nations grew rich with what they lost, what will happen when Israel is restored?
25 I want you to understand the mysterious decree of God, lest you be too confident: a part of Israel will remain hardened until the majority of pagans have entered. 26 Then the whole of Israel will be saved, as Scripture says: From Zion will come the Liberator who will purify the descendants of Jacob from all sin. 27 And this is the covenant I will make with them: I will take away from them their sins.
28 Regarding the Gospel, the Jews are opponents, but it is for your benefit. Regarding election, they are beloved because of their ancestors; 29 because the call of God and his gifts cannot be nullified.
Responsorial Psalm:
12 Fortunate the one you correct, O Lord, the one you teach your law;
13 you give them relief from distress while a pit is dug for the wicked.
14 The Lord will not reject his people nor will he forsake his heritage.
15 Justice will return to the just, and the upright will follow in its wake.
17 Had the Lord not helped me, I would have fallen into the silence of death.
18 No sooner did I say, “My foot is slipping,” your kindness, O Lord, held me up.
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