HOLY MASS READINGS FOR OCTOBER 21, 2024

Monday of  the Twenty Ninth Week in Ordinary Weekday  (Green)

LH: Office of the Day, Week I

Mass and Preface of the day

FIRST READING
“He made us alive together with Christ and made us sit with him in the heavenly places.”
A reading from the Letter of Saint Paul to the Ephesians (Ephesians 2: 1-10)

Brethren: You he made alive, when you were dead through the trespasses and sins in which you once walked, following the course of this world, following the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that is now at work in the sons of disobedience. Among these we all once lived in the passions of our flesh, following the desires of body and mind, and so we were by nature children of wrath, like the rest of mankind. But God, who is rich in mercy, out of the great love with which he loved us, even when we were dead through our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ (by grace you have been saved), and raised us up with him, and made us sit, with him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus, that in the coming ages he might show the immeasurable riches of his grace in kindness towards us in Christ Jesus. For by grace you have been saved through faith; and this is not your own doing, it is the gift of God — not because of works, lest any man should boast. For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them.

The word of the Lord.

RESPONSORIAL PSALM 

Psalm 100: 1-2.3.4.5 (R. 3b)

R/. The Lord made us; we belong to him.

Cry out with joy to the Lord, all the earth.
Serve the Lord with gladness.
Come before him, singing for joy. R/.

Know that he, the Lord, is God.
He made us; we belong to him.
We are his people, the sheep of his flock. R/.

Enter his gates with thanksgiving
and his courts with songs of praise.
Give thanks to him, and bless his name. R/.

Indeed, how good is the Lord,
eternal his merciful love.
He is faithful from age to age. R/.

GOSPEL ACCLAMATION 

Matthew 5:3

Alleluia. 

Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. 

Alleluia.

GOSPEL
“The things you have prepared, whose will they be?”
A reading from the holy Gospel according to Luke (Luke 12: 13-21)

At that time: One of the multitude said to Jesus, “Teacher, bid my brother divide the inheritance with me.” But he said to him, “Man, who made me a judge or divider over you?” And he said to them, “Take heed, and beware of all covetousness; for a man’s life does not consist in the abundance of his possessions.” And he told them a parable, saying, “The land of a rich man brought forth plentifully; and he thought to himself, ‘What shall I do, for I have nowhere to store my crops?’ And he said, ‘I will do this: I will pull down my barns, and build larger ones; and there I will store all my grain and my goods. And I will say to my soul, Soul, you have ample goods laid up for many years; take your ease, eat, drink, be merry.’ “But God said to him, ‘Fool! This night your soul is required of you; and the things you have prepared, whose will they be?' “So is he who lays up treasure for himself, and is not rich toward God.”

The Gospel of the Lord.