Twenty-Fourth Week in Ordinary Time
Year II
18th September 2024 (Wednesday)
Psalter: Week 4
Reading of the Day
| First Reading | 1 Corinthians 12:31-13:13 |
| Response | Blessed the people the Lord has chosen as his heritage. |
| Gospel | Luke 7:31-35 |
First Reading
1 Corinthians 12:31-13:13
Brethren: Earnestly desire the higher gifts. And I will show you a still more excellent way. If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. If I give away all I have, and if I deliver up my body to be burned, but have not love, I gain nothing. Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth. Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love never ends. As for prophecies, they will pass away; as for tongues, they will cease; as for knowledge, it will pass away. For we know in part and we prophesy in part, but when the perfect comes, the partial will pass away. When I was a child, I spoke like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I gave up childish ways. For now we see in a mirror dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I have been fully known. So now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; but the greatest of these is love.
Responsorial Psalm
Psalm 33:2-3, 4-5, 12 and 22 (R. 12b)
R/. Blessed the people the Lord has chosen as his heritage.
Give thanks to the Lord upon the harp;
with a ten-stringed lute sing him songs.
O sing him a song that is new;
play skillfully, with shouts of joy. R/.
For the word of the Lord is faithful,
and all his works to be trusted.
The Lord loves justice and right,
and his merciful love fills the earth. R/.
Blessed the nation whose God is the Lord,
the people he has chosen as his heritage.
May your merciful love be upon us,
as we hope in you, O Lord. R/.
Gospel Acclamation
See John 6:63c, 68c
V/. Alleluia
R/. Alleluia
V/. Your word, Lord, are Spirit and life; you have the words of eternal life.
R/. Alleluia.
Gospel
Luke 7:31-35
At that time: Jesus said, “To what then shall I compare the people of this generation, and what are they like? They are like children sitting in the market-place and calling to one another, ‘We played the flute for you, and you did not dance; we sang a dirge, and you did not weep.’ For John the Baptist has come eating no bread and drinking no wine, and you say, ‘He has a demon.’ The Son of Man has come eating and drinking, and you say, ‘Look at him! A glutton and a drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and sinners!’ Yet wisdom is justified by all her children.”
