MASS READING - WEDNESDAY 12 OCTOBER 2016

Wednesday 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 5:18-25

If you are led by the Spirit, no law can touch you. When self-indulgence is at work the results are obvious: fornication, gross indecency and sexual irresponsibility; idolatry and sorcery; feuds and wrangling, jealousy, bad temper and quarrels; disagreements, factions, envy; drunkenness, orgies and similar things. I warn you now, as I warned you before: those who behave like this will not inherit the kingdom of God. What the Spirit brings is very different: love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, trustfulness, gentleness and self-control. There can be no law against things like that, of course. You cannot belong to Christ Jesus unless you crucify all self-indulgent passions and desires.
    Since the Spirit is our life, let us be directed by the Spirit.


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Responsorial Psalm
Psalm 1:1-4,6

Anyone who follows you, O Lord, will have the light of life.

Happy indeed is the man
    who follows not the counsel of the wicked;
nor lingers in the way of sinners
    nor sits in the company of scorners,
but whose delight is the law of the Lord
    and who ponders his law day and night.

Anyone who follows you, O Lord, will have the light of life.

He is like a tree that is planted
    beside the flowing waters,
that yields its fruit in due season
    and whose leaves shall never fade;
    and all that he does shall prosper.

Anyone who follows you, O Lord, will have the light of life.

Not so are the wicked, not so!
For they like winnowed chaff
    shall be driven away by the wind.
for the Lord guards the way of the just
    but the way of the wicked leads to doom.

Anyone who follows you, O Lord, will have the light of life.


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Gospel Acclamation
cf.Ps26:11

Alleluia, alleluia!

Instruct me, Lord, in your way;
on an even path lead me.

Alleluia!


Or
Jn10:27

Alleluia, alleluia!

The sheep that belong to me listen to my voice,
says the Lord,
I know them and they follow me.

Alleluia!


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Gospel
Luke 11:42-46

The Lord said to the Pharisees:
    ‘Alas for you Pharisees! You who pay your tithe of mint and rue and all sorts of garden herbs and overlook justice and the love of God! These you should have practised, without leaving the others undone. Alas for you Pharisees who like taking the seats of honour in the synagogues and being greeted obsequiously in the market squares! Alas for you, because you are like the unmarked tombs that men walk on without knowing it!
    A lawyer then spoke up. ‘Master,’ he said ‘when you speak like this you insult us too.’
    ‘Alas for you lawyers also,’ he replied ‘because you load on men burdens that are unendurable, burdens that you yourselves do not move a finger to lift.’


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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.