Monday, Twenty-Second Week in Ordinary Time, Year II

Send us Fan MailMonday, 2 September 2024Monday, Twenty-Second Week in Ordinary Time, Year IIAntiphons on p 1214 and Readings on p 1222 of the Daily Missal.Entrance AntiphonHave mercy on me, O Lord, for I cry to you all the day long. O Lord, you are good and forgiving, full of mercy to all who call to you.First Reading: 1 Corinthians 2:1-5A reading from the First Letter of Saint Paul to the CorinthiansWhen I came to you, brothers and sisters, I did not come proclaiming to you the testimony of God in lofty words or wisdom. For I decided to know nothing among you except Jesus Christ and him crucified. And I was with you in weakness and in much fear and trembling; and my speech and my message were not in plausible words of wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and power, that your faith might not rest in the wisdom of people but in the power of God.The Word of the Lord Responsorial psalm: Psalm 119:97.98.99.100.101.102 (R. 97a)Let us now pray the Responsorial Psalm:R/. O Lord, how I love your law!O Lord, how I love your law:my meditation all the day!Your command makes me wiser that my foes,for it is with me always.I have more insight than all who teach me,for I ponder your decrees. I have gained more understanding than my elders,for I keep your precepts.I keep my feet from every evil path,to obey your word.I have not turned away from your decrees;your yourself have taught me.R/. O Lord, how I love your law!Please stand for the GospelAlleluia, alleluia. The Spirit of the Lord is upon me; he has sent me to preach good news to the poor.Alleluia. Gospel: Luke 4:16-30A reading from the Holy Gospel according to LukeAt that time: Jesus came to Nazareth, where he had been brought up; and he went to the synagogue, as was his custom, on the sabbath day. And he stood up to read, and there was given to him the book of the prophet Isaiah. He opened the book and found the place where it was written, “The Spirit of the Lord is upon me because he has anointed me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim release to the captives and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty those who are oppressed, to proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord.” And he closed the book, and gave it back to the attendant, and sat down, and the eyes of all in the synagogue were fixed on him. And he began to say to them, “Today this scripture has been fulfilled in your hearing.” And all spoke well of him, and wondered at the gracious words which proceeded out of his mouth; and they said, “Is not this Joseph’s son?” And he said to them, “Doubtless you will quote to me this proverb, ‘Physician, heal yourself; what we have heard you did at Capernaum, do here also in your own country.’” And he said, “Truly, I say to you, no prophet is acceptable in his own country. But in truth, I tell you, there were many widows in Israel in the days of Elijah, when the heaven was shut up three years and six months when there came a great famine over all the land; and Elijah was sent to none of them but only to Zarephath, in the land of Sidon, to a woman who was a widow. And there were many lepers in Israel in the time of the prophet Elisha, and none of them was cleansed, but only Naaman the Syrian.” When they heard this, all