HOLY MASS READINGS FOR OCTOBER 10, 2024

Thursday of  the Twenty Seventh Week in Ordinary Weekday  (Green)

LH: Office of the Day, Week III

Mass and Preface of the day

FIRST READING
“Did you receive the Spirit by works of the law, or by hearing with faith?”
A reading from the Letter of Saint Paul to the Galatians (Galatians 3:1-5)

O foolish Galatians! Who has bewitched you, before whose eyes Jesus Christ was publicly portrayed as crucified? Let me ask you only this: Did you receive the Spirit by works of the law, or by hearing with faith? Are you so foolish? Having begun with the Spirit, are you now ending with the flesh? Did you experience so many things in vain? — if it really is in vain. Does he who supplies the Spirit to you and works miracles among you do so by works of the law, or by hearing with faith?

The word of the Lord.

RESPONSORIAL PSALM 

Luke 1:69-70.71-72.73-75 (R. b8)

R/. Blessed be the Lord GOD of Israel, for he has visited his people.

He has raised up a horn of salvation for us
in the house of his servant David,
as he spoke by the mouth of his holy prophets
from of old. R/.

That we should be saved from our enemies,
and from the hand of all who hate us;
to perform the mercy promised to our fathers,
and to remember his holy covenant. R/.

The oath which he swore to our father Abraham,
to grant us that we, being delivered from the hand of our enemies,
might serve him without fear,
in holiness and righteousness before him
all the days of our life. R/.

GOSPEL ACCLAMATION 

Acts 16:14b

Alleluia. 

Open our hearts, O Lord, that we may give heed to the words of your Son.

Alleluia.

GOSPEL
“Ask, and it will be given you.”
A reading from the holy Gospel according to Luke (Luke 11:5-13)

At that time: Jesus said to his disciples, “Which of you who has a friend will go to him at midnight and say to him, ‘Friend, lend me three loaves; for a friend of mine has arrived on a journey, and I have nothing to set before him’; and he will answer from within, ‘Do not bother me; the door is now shut, and my children are with me in bed; I cannot get up and give you anything’? I tell you, though he will not get up and give him anything because he is his friend, yet because of his importunity he will rise and give him whatever he needs. And I tell you, Ask, and it will be given you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you. For every one who asks receives, and he who seeks finds, and to him who knocks it will be opened. What father among you, if his son asks for a fish, will instead of a fish give him a serpent; or if he asks for an egg, will give him a scorpion? If you then, who are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will the heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask him!”

The Gospel of the Lord.