Readings at Mass Monday 8 November 2021

 Readings at Mass

Monday 8 November 2021

32nd Week in Ordinary Time 

Liturgical Colour: Green.

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First reading

Wisdom 1:1-7

Love virtue, you who are judges on earth,

let honesty prompt your thinking about the Lord,

seek him in simplicity of heart;

since he is to be found by those who do not put him to the test,

he shows himself to those who do not distrust him.

But selfish intentions divorce from God;

and Omnipotence, put to the test, confounds the foolish.

No, Wisdom will never make its way into a crafty soul

nor stay in a body that is in debt to sin;

the holy spirit of instruction shuns deceit,

it stands aloof from reckless purposes,

is taken aback when iniquity appears.

Wisdom is a spirit, a friend to man,

though she will not pardon the words of a blasphemer,

since God sees into the innermost parts of him,

truly observes his heart,

and listens to his tongue.

The spirit of the Lord, indeed, fills the whole world,

and that which holds all things together knows every word that is said.

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Responsorial Psalm

Psalm 139:1-10

Response: Lead me, O Lord, in the path of life eternal.

O Lord, you search me and you know me,

    you know my resting and my rising,

    you discern my purpose from afar.

You mark when I walk or lie down,

    all my ways lie open to you.

Before ever a word is on my tongue

    you know it, O Lord, through and through.

Behind and before you besiege me,

    your hand ever laid upon me.

Too wonderful for me this knowledge,

    too high, beyond my reach.

O where can I go from your spirit,

    or where can I flee from your face?

If I climb the heavens, you are there.

    If I lie in the grave, you are there.

If I take the wings of the dawn

    and dwell at the sea’s furthest end,

even there your hand would lead me,

    your right hand would hold me fast.

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Gospel Acclamation

Ph 2:15-16

Alleluia, alleluia!

You will shine in the world like bright stars

because you are offering it the word of life.

Alleluia!

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Gospel

Luke 17:1-6

Jesus said to his disciples: ‘Obstacles are sure to come, but alas for the one who provides them! It would be better for him to be thrown into the Sea with a millstone put round his neck than that he should lead astray a single one of these little ones. Watch yourselves!

    If your brother does something wrong, reprove him and, if he is sorry, forgive him. And if he wrongs you seven times a day and seven times comes back to you and says, “I am sorry,” you must forgive him.’

    The apostles said to the Lord, ‘Increase our faith.’ The Lord replied, ‘Were your faith the size of a mustard seed you could say to this mulberry tree, “Be uprooted and planted in the sea,” and it would obey you.’

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