Monday, 29th week in Ordinary Time, Year II

Send us Fan MailMonday, 21 October 2024Monday, 29th week in Ordinary Time, Year IIAntiphons on p. 1371 and Readings on p. 1378 and of the Daily Missal. Entrance AntiphonTo you I call; for you will surely heed me, O God; turn your ear to me; hear my words. Guard me as the apple of your eye; hide me in the shadow of your wings. First Reading: Ephesians 2:1-10A reading from the Letter of Saint Paul to the Ephesians.Brothers and sisters: 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 humankind. 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 toward 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)Let us now pray the Responsorial PsalmR/. 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.Know that he, the Lord, is God.He made us; we belong to him.We are his people, the sheep of his flock.Enter his gates with thanksgivingand his courts with songs of praise.Give thanks to him, and bless his name.Indeed, how good is the Lord,eternal his merciful love.He is faithful from age to age.R/. The Lord made us; we belong to him. Please stand for the Gospel.Alleluia, Alleluia.Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.Alleluia.Gospel: Luke 12:13-21A reading from the holy Gospel according to Luke.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