October 22nd : Gospel Do you not know how to interpret these times?A Reading form the Holy Gospel according to St. Luke 12: 54-59.

October 22nd :    Gospel 

Do you not know how to interpret these times?

A Reading form the Holy Gospel according to St. Luke 12: 54-59. 

Jesus said to the crowds: ‘When you see a cloud looming up in the west you say at once that rain is coming, and so it does. And when the wind is from the south you say it will be hot, and it is. Hypocrites! You know how to interpret the face of the earth and the sky. How is it you do not know how to interpret these times?

  ‘Why not judge for yourselves what is right? For example: when you go to court with your opponent, try to settle with him on the way, or he may drag you before the judge and the judge hand you over to the bailiff and the bailiff have you thrown into prison. I tell you, you will not get out till you have paid the very last penny.’

The Word of the Lord.

October 22nd : Responsorial PsalmPsalm 118(119):66,68,76-77,93-94 Lord, teach me your statutes.

October 22nd :   Responsorial Psalm

Psalm 118(119):66,68,76-77,93-94 

Lord, teach me your statutes.

Teach me discernment and knowledge

  for I trust in your commands.

You are good and your deeds are good;

  teach me your statutes.

Lord, teach me your statutes.

Let your love be ready to console me

  by your promise to your servant.

Let your love come and I shall live

  for your law is my delight.

Lord, teach me your statutes.

I will never forget your precepts

  for with them you give me life.

Save me, for I am yours

  since I seek your precepts.

Lord, teach me your statutes.

Gospel Acclamation Ps94:8

Alleluia, alleluia!

Harden not your hearts today,

but listen to the voice of the Lord.

Alleluia!

October 22nd : First Reading Every time I want to do good it is something evil that comes to hand.A Reading from the Letter of St.Paul to the Romans 7: 18-25.

October 22nd :  First Reading 

Every time I want to do good it is something evil that comes to hand.

A Reading from the Letter of St.Paul to the Romans 7: 18-25. 

I know of nothing good living in me – living, that is, in my unspiritual self – for though the will to do what is good is in me, the performance is not, with the result that instead of doing the good things I want to do, I carry out the sinful things I do not want. When I act against my will, then, it is not my true self doing it, but sin which lives in me.

  In fact, this seems to be the rule, that every single time I want to do good it is something evil that comes to hand. In my inmost self I dearly love God’s Law, but I can see that my body follows a different law that battles against the law which my reason dictates. This is what makes me a prisoner of that law of sin which lives inside my body.

  What a wretched man I am! Who will rescue me from this body doomed to death?

  Thanks be to God through Jesus Christ our Lord!

The Word of the Lord.