MASS READING - FRIDAY 14 OCTOBER 2016

Friday of week 28 in Ordinary Time 
 or Saint Callistus, Pope, Martyr 

Liturgical Colour: Green.


Readings at Mass

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Entrance Antiphon
Ps 129: 3-4

If you, O Lord, should mark iniquities,
Lord, who could stand?
But with you is found forgiveness,
O God of Israel.


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Collect

May your grace, O Lord, we pray,
at all times go before us and follow after
and make us always determined
to carry out good works.
Through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son,
who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit,
one God, for ever and ever.


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First reading
Ephesians 1:11-14


It is in Christ that we were claimed as God’s own,
chosen from the beginning,
under the predetermined plan of the one who guides all things
as he decides by his own will;
chosen to be,
for his greater glory,
the people who would put their hopes in Christ before he came.
Now you too, in him,
have heard the message of the truth and the good news of your salvation,
and have believed it;
and you too have been stamped with the seal of the Holy Spirit of the Promise,
the pledge of our inheritance
which brings freedom for those whom God has taken for his own, to make his glory praised.


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Responsorial Psalm
Psalm 32:1-2,4-5,12-13

Happy the people the Lord has chosen as his own.

Ring out your joy to the Lord, O you just;
    for praise is fitting for loyal hearts.
Give thanks to the Lord upon the harp,
    with a ten-stringed lute sing him songs.

Happy the people the Lord has chosen as his own.

For the word of the Lord is faithful
    and all his works to be trusted.
The Lord loves justice and right
    and fills the earth with his love.

Happy the people the Lord has chosen as his own.

They are happy, whose God is the Lord,
    the people he has chosen as his own.
From the heavens the Lord looks forth,
    he sees all the children of men.

Happy the people the Lord has chosen as his own.


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Gospel Acclamation
cf.Ps18:9

Alleluia, alleluia!

Your words gladden the heart, O Lord,
they give light to the eyes.

Alleluia!


Or
Ps32:22

Alleluia, alleluia!

May your love be upon us, O Lord,
as we place all our hope in you.

Alleluia!


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Gospel
Luke 12:1-7

The people had gathered in their thousands so that they were treading on one another. And Jesus began to speak, first of all to his disciples. ‘Be on your guard against the yeast of the Pharisees – that is, their hypocrisy. Everything that is now covered will be uncovered, and everything now hidden will be made clear. For this reason, whatever you have said in the dark will be heard in the daylight, and what you have whispered in hidden places will be proclaimed on the housetops.
    ‘To you my friends I say: Do not be afraid of those who kill the body and after that can do no more. I will tell you whom to fear: fear him who, after he has killed, has the power to cast into hell. Yes, I tell you, fear him. Can you not buy five sparrows for two pennies? And yet not one is forgotten in God’s sight. Why, every hair on your head has been counted. There is no need to be afraid: you are worth more than hundreds of sparrows.’


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Prayer over the Offerings

Accept, O Lord, the prayers of your faithful
with the sacrificial offerings,
that, through these acts of devotedness,
we may pass over to the glory of heaven.
Through Christ our Lord.


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Communion Antiphon
Cf. Ps 33: 11

The rich suffer want and go hungry,
but those who seek the Lord lack no blessing.


Or
1 Jn 3: 2

When the Lord appears, we shall be like him,
for we shall see him as he is.


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Prayer after Communion

We entreat your majesty most humbly, O Lord,
that, as you feed us with the nourishment
which comes from the most holy Body and Blood of your Son,
so you may make us sharers of his divine nature.
Who lives and reigns for ever and ever.