Wednesday of the Thirty-Third Week in Ordinary Time – Year II

Send us Fan MailWednesday, 20 November 2024Wednesday of the Thirty-Third Week in Ordinary Time – Year IIAntiphons on p. 1458 and Readings on p. 1473 of the Daily MissalFirst Reading: Revelation 4:1-11Responsorial Psalm: Psalm 150:1b-2.3-4.5-6 (R. Rev. 4:8b)Let us now pray the Responsorial PsalmR/. Holy, holy, holy is the Lord God Almighty.Praise God in his holy place;praise him in his mighty firmament.Praise him for his powerful deeds;praise him for his boundless grandeur.O praise him with sound of trumpet;praise him with lute and harp.Praise him with timbrel and dance;praise him with strings and pipes.O praise him with resounding cymbals;praise him with clashing of cymbals.Let everything that breathes praise the Lord!R/. Holy, holy, holy is the Lord God Almighty.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 19:11-28A reading from the Holy Gospel according to Luke.At that time: Jesus proceeded to tell a parable, because he was near to Jerusalem, and because they supposed that the kingdom of God was to appear immediately. He said, therefore, “A nobleman went into a far country to receive kingly power and then return. Calling ten of his servants, he gave them ten pounds, and said to them, ‘Trade with these till I come.’ But his citizens hated him and sent an embassy after him, saying, ‘We do not want this man to reign over us.’ When he returned, having received the kingly power, he commanded these servants, to whom he had given the money, to be called to him, that he might know what they had gained by trading. The first came before him, saying, ‘Lord, your pound has made ten pounds more.’ And he said to him, ‘Well done, good servant! Because you have been faithful in a very little, you shall have authority over ten cities.’ And the second came, saying, ‘Lord, your pound has made five pounds.’ And he said to him, ‘And you are to be over five cities.’ Then another came, saying, ‘Lord, here is your pound, which I kept laid away in a napkin; for I was afraid of you, because you are a severe man; you take up what you did not lay down, and reap what you did not sow.’ He said to him, ‘I will condemn you out of your own mouth, you wicked servant! You knew that I was a severe man, taking up what I did not lay down and reaping what I did not sow? Why then did you not put my money into the bank, and at my coming, I should have collected it with interest?’ And he said to those who stood by, ‘Take the pound from him, and give it to him who has the ten pounds.’ (And they said to him, ‘Lord, he has ten pounds!’) ‘I tell you, that to everyone who has will more be given; but from him who has not, even what he has will be taken away. But as for these enemies of mine, who did not want me to reign over them, bring them here and slay them before me.’” And when he had said this, he went on ahead, going up to Jerusalem.The Gospel of the Lord.