Twenty-Eighth Week in Ordinary Time
Year II
19th October 2024 (Saturday)
Psalter: Week 4
Reading of the Day
| First Reading | Ephesians 1:15-23 |
| Response | You have given your Son power over the works of your hands. |
| Gospel | Luke 12:8-12 |
First Reading
Ephesians 1:15-23
Brethren: Because I have heard of your faith in the Lord Jesus and your love towards all the saints, do not cease to give thanks for you, remembering you in my prayers, that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give you the Spirit of wisdom and of revelation in the knowledge of him, having the eyes of your hearts enlightened, that you may know what is the hope to which he has called you, what are the riches of his glorious inheritance in the saints, and what is the immeasurable greatness of his power towards us who believe, according to the working of his great might that he worked in Christ when he raised him from the dead and seated him at his right hand in the heavenly places, far above all rule and authority and power and dominion, and above every name that is named, not only in this age but also in the one to come. And he put all things under his feet and gave him as head over all things to the church, which is his body, the fullness of him who fills all in all.
Responsorial Psalm
Psalm 8:2-3a, 4-5, 6-7 (R. see 7a)
R/. You have given your Son power over the works of your hands.
O Lord, our Lord, how majestic is
your name through all the earth!
Your majesty is set above the heavens.
From the mouths of children and of babes. R/.
When I see the heavens, the work of
your fingers, the moon and the
stars which you arranged,
what is man that you should keep him in mind,
the son of man that you care for him? R/.
Yet you have made him little lower than the angels;
with glory and honour you crowned him,
gave him power over the works of your hands:
you put all things under his feet. R/.
Gospel Acclamation
See John 15:26b, 27a
V/. Alleluia
R/. Alleluia
V/. The Spirit of truth will bear witness about me, says the Lord; you also will bear witness.
R/. Alleluia.
Gospel
Luke 12:8-12
At that time: Jesus said to his disciples, “And I tell you, everyone who acknowledges me before men, the Son of Man also will acknowledge before the angels of God, but the one who denies me before men will be denied before the angels of God. And everyone who speaks a word against the Son of Man will be forgiven, but the one who blasphemes against the Holy Spirit will not be forgiven. And when they bring you before the synagogues and the rulers and the authorities, do not be anxious about how you should defend yourself or what you should say, for the Holy Spirit will teach you in that very hour what you ought to say.”
