HOLY MASS READINGS FOR OCTOBER 2, 2024

Wednesday of the Twenty Sixth Week in Ordinary Weekday (White)

Memorial of the Holy Guardian Angels

LH: Office of the Memorial, Week II

Mass and Preface of the Memorial

FIRST READING
”How can a man be just before God?”
A reading from the Book of Job (Job 9:1-12.14-16)

Job answered his friends: “Truly I know that it is so: But how can a man be just before God? If sone wished to contend with him, one could not answer him once in a thousand times. He is wise in heart, and mighty in strength — who has hardened himself against him, and succeeded? — he who removes mountains, and they know it not, when he overturns them in his anger; who shakes the earth out of its place, and its pillars tremble; who commands the sun, and it does not rise; who seals up the stars; who alone stretched out the heavens, and trampled the Waves of the sea; who made the Bear and Orion, the Pleiades and the chambers of the south; who does great things beyond understanding, and marvellous things without number. Behold, he passes by me, and I see him not; he moves on, but I do not perceive him. Behold, he snatches away; who can hinder him? Who will say to him, ‘What are you doing?’ “How then can I answer him, choosing my words with him? Though I am innocent, I cannot answer him; I must appeal for mercy to my accuser. If I summoned him and he answered me, I would not believe that he was listening to my voice.”

The word of the Lord.

RESPONSORIAL PSALM 

Psalm 88: 10bc-11.12-13.14—15 (R. 3a)

R/. Let my prayer come into your presence, O Lord.

I call to you, Lord, all day long;
to you I stretch out my hands.
Will you work your wonders for the dead?
Will the shades rise up to praise you? R/.

Will your mercy be told in the grave,
or your faithfulness in the place of perdition?
Will your wonders be known in the dark,
your justice in the land of oblivion? R/.

But I, O Lord, cry out to you;
in the morning my prayer comes before you.
Why do you reject me, O Lord?
Why do you hide your face from me? R/.

GOSPEL ACCLAMATION

Philippians 3:8-9a

Alleluia. 

I count everything as refuse, in order that I may gain Christ and be found in him. 

Alleluia.

GOSPEL ACCLAMATION
“Unless you turn and become like children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven.”
A reading from the holy Gospel according to Matthew (Matthew 18:1-5)

At that time the disciples came to Jesus, saying, “Who is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven?” And calling to him a child, he put him in the midst of them, and said, “Truly, I say to you, unless you turn and become like children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven. Whoever humbles himself like this child, he is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven. Whoever receives one such child in my name receives me.”

The Gospel of the Lord.