MASS READING - MONDAY 10 OCTOBER 2016

Monday of week 28 in Ordinary Time 

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
Galatians 4:22-24,26-27,31-5:1

The Law says, if you remember, that Abraham had two sons, one by the slave-girl, and one by his free-born wife. The child of the slave-girl was born in the ordinary way; the child of the free woman was born as the result of a promise. This can be regarded as an allegory: the women stand for the two covenants. The first who comes from Mount Sinai, and whose children are slaves, is Hagar – The Jerusalem above, however, is free and is our mother, since scripture says: Shout for joy, you barren women who bore no children! Break into shouts of joy and gladness, you who were never in labour. For there are more sons of the forsaken one than sons of the wedded wife. So, my brothers, we are the children, not of the slave-girl, but of the free-born wife.
    When Christ freed us, he meant us to remain free. Stand firm, therefore, and do not submit again to the yoke of slavery.


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Responsorial Psalm
Psalm 112:1-7

May the name of the Lord be blessed for evermore!
or
Alleluia!

Praise, O servants of the Lord,
    praise the name of the Lord!
May the name of the Lord be blessed
    both now and for evermore!

May the name of the Lord be blessed for evermore!
or
Alleluia!

From the rising of the sun to its setting
    praised be the name of the Lord!
High above all nations is the Lord,
    above the heavens his glory.

May the name of the Lord be blessed for evermore!
or
Alleluia!

Who is like the Lord, our God,
    who has risen on high to his throne
yet stoops from the heights to look down,
    to look down upon heaven and earth?
From the dust he lifts up the lowly,
    from the dungheap he raises the poor

May the name of the Lord be blessed for evermore!
or
Alleluia!


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Gospel Acclamation
Ps118:88

Alleluia, alleluia!

Because of your love give me life,
and I will do your will.

Alleluia!


Or
Ps94:8

Alleluia, alleluia!

Harden not your hearts today,
but listen to the voice of the Lord.

Alleluia!


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Gospel
Luke 11:29-32

The crowds got even bigger and Jesus addressed them, ‘This is a wicked generation; it is asking for a sign. The only sign it will be given is the sign of Jonah. For just as Jonah became a sign to the Ninevites, so will the Son of Man be to this generation. On Judgement day the Queen of the South will rise up with the men of this generation and condemn them, because she came from the ends of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon; and there is something greater than Solomon here. On Judgement day the men of Nineveh will stand up with this generation and condemn it, because when Jonah preached they repented; and there is something greater than Jonah here.’


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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.