Readings at Mass Thursday 21 October 2021

 Readings at Mass

Thursday 21 October 2021

29th Week in Ordinary Time

Liturgical Colour: Green.

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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

Response: Happy the man who has placed his trust in the Lord.

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.

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.

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.

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Gospel Acclamation

John 8:12

Alleluia, alleluia!

I am the light of the world, says the Lord;

anyone who follows me will have the light of life.

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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Scripture readings from the Jerusalem Bible, Text of the Psalms from The Grail