HOLY MASS READINGS FOR OCTOBER 4, 2024

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

Memorial of St. Francis of Assisi

LH: Office of the Memorial, Week II

Mass and Preface of the Memorial

FIRST READING
Have you ever commanded the morning, and entered into the springs of the sea?
A reading from the Book of Job (Job 38:1.12-21; 40:3-5)

The Lord answered Job out of the whirlwind: “Have you commanded the morning since your days began, and caused the dawn to know its place, that it might take hold of the skirts of the earth, and the wicked be shaken out of it? It is changed like clay under the seal, and it is dyed like a garment. From the wicked their light is withheld, and their uplifted arm is broken. Have you entered into the springs of the sea, or walked in the recesses of the deep? Have the gates of death been revealed to you, or have you seen the gates of deep darkness? Have you comprehended the expanse of the earth? Declare, if you know all this. “Where is the way to the dwelling of light, and where is the place of darkness, that you may take it to its territory and that you may discern the paths to its home? You know, for you were born then, and the number of your days is great!” Then Job answered the Lord: “Behold, I am of small account; what shall I answer you? I lay my hand on my mouth. I have spoken once, and I will not answer; twice, but I will proceed no further.”

The word of the Lord.

RESPONSORIAL PSALM 

Psalm 139:1-3.7-8.9-10.13-14ab (R. 24b)

R/. Lead me, Lord, in the way everlasting.

O Lord, you search me and you know me,
You yourself know my resting and my rising;
you discern my thoughts from afar.
You mark when I walk or lie down;
you know all my ways through and through. R/.

O where can I go from your spirit,
or where can I flee from your face?
If I climb the heavens, you are there.
If I lie in the grave, you are there. R/.

If I take the wings of the dawn or dwell
at the sea’s furthest end,
even there your hand would lead me;
your right hand would hold me fast. R/.

For it was you who formed my inmost being,
knit me together in my mother’s womb.
I thank you who wonderfully made me;
how wonderful are your works. R/.

GOSPEL ACCLAMATION

Psalm 95:7d and 8a

Alleluia. 

Today, harden not your hearts, but listen to the voice of the Lord. 

Alleluia.

GOSPEL
“He who rejects me, rejects him who sent me.”
A reading from the holy Gospel according to Luke (Luke 10:13-16)

At that time: Jesus said, “Woe to you, Chorazin! Woe to you, Bethsaida! for if the mighty works done in you had been done in Tyre and Sidon, they would have repented long ago, sitting in sackcloth and ashes. But it shall be more tolerable in the judgement for Tyre and Sidon than for you. And you, Capernaum, will you be exalted to heaven? You shall be brought down to Hades. He who hears you hears me, and he who rejects you rejects me, and he who rejects me rejects him who sent me.”

The Gospel of the Lord.