MASS READING - THURSDAY 20 OCTOBER 2016

 

Thursday of week 29 in Ordinary Time 
 or Saint Paul of the Cross, Priest 

Liturgical Colour: Green.


Readings at Mass

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Entrance Antiphon
Cf. Ps 16: 6, 8

To you I call; for you will surely heed me, O God;
turn your ear to me; hear my words.
Guard me as the apple of your eye;
in the shadow of your wings protect me.


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Collect

Almighty ever-living God,
grant that we may always conform our will to yours
and serve your majesty in sincerity of heart.
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 3:14-21

This is what I pray, kneeling before the Father, from whom every family, whether spiritual or natural, takes its name:
    Out of his infinite glory, may he give you the power through his Spirit for your hidden self to grow strong, so that Christ may live in your hearts through faith, and then, planted in love and built on love, you will with all the saints have strength to grasp the breadth and the length, the height and the depth; until, knowing the love of Christ, which is beyond all knowledge, you are filled with the utter fullness of God.
    Glory be to him whose power, working in us, can do infinitely more than we can ask or imagine; glory be to him from generation to generation in the Church and in Christ Jesus for ever and ever. Amen.


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Responsorial Psalm
Psalm 32:1-2,4-5,11-12,18-19

The Lord fills the earth with his love.

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.

The Lord fills the earth with his love.

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.

The Lord fills the earth with his love.
U His own designs shall stand for ever,
    the plans of his heart from age to age.
They are happy, whose God is the Lord,
    the people he has chosen as his own.

The Lord fills the earth with his love.

The Lord looks on those who revere him,
    on those who hope in his love,
to rescue their souls from death,
    to keep them alive in famine.

The Lord fills the earth with his love.


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Gospel Acclamation
Jn8:12

Alleluia, alleluia!

I am the light of the world, says the Lord;
anyone who follows me will have the light of life.

Alleluia!


Or
Ph3:8-9

Alleluia, alleluia!

I have accepted the loss of everything
and I look on everything as so much rubbish
if only I can have Christ
and be given a place in him.

Alleluia!


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Gospel
Luke 12:49-53

Jesus said to his disciples: ‘I have come to bring fire to the earth, and how I wish it were blazing already! There is a baptism I must still receive, and how great is my distress till it is over!
    ‘Do you suppose that I am here to bring peace on earth? No, I tell you, but rather division. For from now on a household of five will be divided: three against two and two against three; the father divided against the son, son against father, mother against daughter, daughter against mother, mother-in-law against daughter-in-law, daughter-in-law against mother-in-law.’


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Prayer over the Offerings

Grant us, Lord, we pray,
a sincere respect for your gifts,
that, through the purifying action of your grace,
we may be cleansed by the very mysteries we serve.
Through Christ our Lord.


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Communion Antiphon
Cf. Ps 32: 18-19

Behold, the eyes of the Lord
are on those who fear him,
who hope in his merciful love,
to rescue their souls from death,
to keep them alive in famine.


Or
Mk 10: 45

The Son of Man has come
to give his life as a ransom for many.


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Prayer after Communion

Grant, O Lord, we pray,
that, benefiting from participation in heavenly things,
we may be helped by what you give in this present age
and prepared for the gifts that are eternal.
Through Christ our Lord.