Thursday of the Twenty-Eighth Week in Ordinary Time - Year II

Send us Fan MailThursday, 17 October 2024Thursday of the Twenty-Eighth Week in Ordinary Time - Year IISt Ignatius of Antioch, Bishop and martyr, memorialAntiphons on page 1786 and Readings on Page 1364 of the Daily Missal Entrance Antiphon.With Christ I am nailed to the cross, yet I am alive, though it is no longer I, but Christ who is alive in me. I live by faith in the Son of God who loved me, andgave himself up for me. First Reading: Ephesians 1:1-10The beginning of the Letter of Saint Paul to the Ephesians.Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, To the saints who are also faithful in Christ Jesus:Grace and peace to you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in Christ with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places, even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and blameless before him. He destined us in love to be his sons and daughters through Jesus Christ, according to the purpose of his will, to the praise of his glorious grace which he freely bestowed on us in the Beloved. In him, we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of his grace which he lavished upon us. For he has made known to us in all wisdom and insight the mystery of his will, according to his purpose which he set forth in Christ as a plan for the fullness of time, to unite all things in him, things in heaven and things on earth.The Word of the Lord. Responsorial Psalm: Psalm 98:1, 2-3ab, 3cd-4, 5-6 (R. 2a)Let us now pray the Responsorial PsalmR/. The Lord has made known his salvation.O sing a new song to the Lord,for he has worked wonders.His right hand and his holy armhave brought salvation.The Lord has made known his salvation,has shown his deliverance to the nations.He has remembered his merciful loveand his truth for the house of Israel.All the ends of the earth have seenthe salvation of our God.Shout to the Lord, all the earth;break forth into joyous song,and sing out your praise.Sing psalms to the Lord with the harp,with the harp and the sound of song.With trumpets and the sound of the horn,raise a shout before the King, the Lord.R/. The Lord has made known his salvation.  Please stand for the Gospel.Alleluia, Alleluia.I am the way, the truth, and the life, says the Lord; no one comes to the Father but by me.Alleluia. Gospel: Luke 11:47-54A reading from the Holy Gospel according to Luke.At that time, Jesus said: “Woe to you! for you build the tombs of the prophets whom your fathers killed. So you are witnesses and consent to the deeds of your fathers; for they killed them, and you build their tombs. Therefore also the Wisdom of God said, ‘I will send them prophets and apostles, some of whom they will kill and persecute,’ that the blood of all the prophets, shed from the foundation of the world, may be required of this generation, from the blood of Abel to the blood of Zechariah, who perished between the altar and the sanctuary. Yes, I tell you, it shall be required of this generation. Woe to you lawyers! for you have taken away the key of knowledge; you did not enter yourselves, and