Thursday, 10 September 2026 Thursday, Twenty-Third Week in Ordinary Time, Year II Antiphons on p 1235 and Readings on p.1250 of the Daily Missal

Send us Fan MailEntrance AntiphonYou are just, O Lord, and your judgement is right; treat your servant in accord with your merciful love.First Reading: 1 Corinthians 8: 1b-7, 11-13A reading from the Letter of Saint Paul to the Corinthians.Brothers and sisters: “Knowledge” puffs up, but love builds up. If any one imagines that he knows something, he does not yet know as he ought to know. But if one loves God, one is known by him.Hence, as to the eating of food offered to idols, we know that “an idol has no real existence,” and that “there is no God but one.” For although there may be so-called gods in heaven or on earth—as indeed there are many “gods” and many “lords”— yet for us there is one God, the Father, from whom are all things and for whom we exist, and one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom are all things and through whom we exist.However, not all possess this knowledge. But some, through being until now accustomed to idols, eat food as really offered to an idol; and their conscience, being weak, is defiled.  And so by your knowledge this weak man is destroyed, the brother for whom Christ died. Thus, sinning against your brethren and wounding their conscience when it is weak, you sin against Christ. Therefore, if food is a cause of my brother’s falling, I will never eat meat, lest I cause my brother to fall.The Word of the LordResponsorial psalm: Psalm 139:1-3.13-14ab.23-24R/. Lead me, Lord in the way everlasting.O Lord, you search me and you know me.Your 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.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.O search me, God, and know my heart.O test me, and know my thoughts.See that my path is not wicked,and lead me in the way everlasting. R/. Lead me, Lord in the way everlasting.Alleluia, alleluia.If we love one another, God abides in us, and his love is perfected in us.Alleluia.Gospel: Luke 6:27-38A reading from the Holy Gospel according to Luke.At that time: Jesus said to his disciples, “I say to you that hear, Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you, bless those who curse you, pray for those who abuse you. To the one who strikes you on the cheek, offer the other also; and from the one who takes away your cloak do not withhold your coat as well. Give to everyone who begs from you, and of the one who takes away your goods do not ask them again. And as you wish that people would do to you, do so to them.“If you love those who love you, what credit is that to you? For even sinners love those who love them. And if you do good to those who do good to you, what credit is that to you? For even sinners do the same. And if you lend to those from whom you hope to receive, what credit is that to you? Even sinners lend to sinners, to receive as much again. But love your enemies, and do good, and lend, expecting nothing in return; and your reward will be great, and you will be sons and daughters of the Most High; for he is kind to the ungrateful and the selfish. Be merciful, even as and your Father is merciful.“Judge not, and you will not be judged; condemn not, and you will not be condemned; forgive, and you will be forgiven; give, and it will be given to you; good measure, pressed down, shaken together, running over, will be put into your lap. For the measure you give will be the measure you get back.”The Gospel of the LordCommunion AntiphonLike the deer that yearns for running streams, so my soul is yearning for you, my God; my soul is thirsting for God, the living God.