Tuesday of Twenty-Third Week in Ordinary Time – Year II

Send us Fan MailTuesday, 10 September 2024Tuesday of Twenty-Third Week in Ordinary Time – Year IIAntiphons on p. 1235 and Readings on p. 1245 of the Daily Missal.Responsorial Psalm: Psalm Psalm 149:1b-2.3-4.5-6a and 9b (R. 4a)Let us now pray the Responsorial Psalm:R/. The Lord takes delight in his people.Sing a new song to the Lord,his praise in the assembly of the faithful.Let Israel rejoice in its Maker;let Sion’s children exult in their king.Let them praise his name with dancing,and make music with timbrel and harp.For the Lord takes delight in his people;he crowns the poor with salvation.Let the faithful exult in glory,and rejoice as they take their rest.Let the praise of God be in their mouths.This is an honour for all his faithful.R/. The Lord takes delight in his people. Please stand for the Gospel.Alleluia, Alleluia.I chose you from the world that you should go and bear fruit, and that your fruit should abide, says the Lord.Alleluia. Gospel: Luke 6:12-19A reading from the Holy Gospel according to Luke.It happened that in these days Jesus went out into the hills to pray, and all night he continued in prayer to God. And when it was day, he called his disciples and chose from them twelve, whom he named apostles; Simon, whom he named Peter, and Andrew his brother, and James and John, and Philip, and Bartholomew, and Matthew, and Thomas, and James the son of Alphaeus, and Simon who was called the Zealot, and Judas the son of James, and Judas Iscariot, who became a traitor. And he came down with them and stood on a level place, with a great crowd of his disciples and a great multitude of people from all Judea and Jerusalem and the seacoast of Tyre and Sidon, who came to hear him and to be healed of their diseases; and those who were troubled with unclean spirits were cured. And all the crowd sought to touch him, for power came forth from him and healed them all.The Gospel of the Lord. Communion Antiphon.Like 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.2