DAILY READINGS & REFLECTION
OCTOBER 4, 2024
FRIDAY - MEMORIAL OF SAINT FRANCIS OF ASSISI, RELIGIOUS
(SAINT FRANCIS OF ASSISI - SOLEMNITY)
FIRST READING
JOB 38:1, 12-21; 40:3-5 OR (GALATIANS 6:14-18 / SIRACH 50:1, 3-4, 6-7)
38 1 Then the LORD answered Job out of the whirlwind: 12 "Have you commanded the morning since your days began, and caused the dawn to know its place, 13 that it might take hold of the skirts of the earth, and the wicked be shaken out of it? 14 It is changed like clay under the seal, and it is dyed like a garment. 15 From the wicked their light is withheld, and their uplifted arm is broken. 16 "Have you entered into the springs of the sea, or walked in the recesses of the deep? 17 Have the gates of death been revealed to you, or have you seen the gates of deep darkness? 18 Have you comprehended the expanse of the earth? Declare, if you know all this. 19 "Where is the way to the dwelling of light, and where is the place of darkness, 20 that you may take it to its territory and that you may discern the paths to its home? 21 You know, for you were born then, and the number of your days is great! 40 3 Then Job answered the LORD: 4 "Behold, I am of small account; what shall I answer thee? I lay my hand on my mouth. 5 I have spoken once, and I will not answer; twice, but I will proceed no further."
The Word of the Lord
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RESPONSORIAL PSALM
PSALMS 138(139):1-3, 7-10, 13-14 OR (PSALMS 16:1-2, 5, 7-8, 11)
Response: Guide me, Lord, along the everlasting way.
O LORD, thou hast searched me and known me!
Thou knowest when I sit down and when I rise up;
thou discernest my thoughts from afar.
Thou searchest out my path and my lying down,
and art acquainted with all my ways.
R. Guide me, Lord, along the everlasting way.
Whither shall I go from thy Spirit?
Or whither shall I flee from thy presence?
If I ascend to heaven, thou art there!
If I make my bed in Sheol, thou art there!
R. Guide me, Lord, along the everlasting way.
If I take the wings of the morning
and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea,
even there thy hand shall lead me,
and thy right hand shall hold me.
R. Guide me, Lord, along the everlasting way.
For thou didst form my inward parts,
thou didst knit me together in my mother's womb.
I praise thee, for thou art fearful and wonderful.
Wonderful are thy works!
R. Guide me, Lord, along the everlasting way.
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SECOND READING (ST. FRANCIS OF ASSISI - SOLEMNITY)
GALATIANS 6:14-18
The Word of the Lord
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GOSPEL
He who hears you hears me
LUKE 10:13-16 OR (MATTHEW 11:25-30)
13 "Woe to you, Chorazin! woe to you, Bethsaida! for if the mighty works done in you had been done in Tyre and Sidon, they would have repented long ago, sitting in sackcloth and ashes. 14 But it shall be more tolerable in the judgment for Tyre and Sidon than for you. 15 And you, Capernaum, will you be exalted to heaven? You shall be brought down to Hades. 16 "He who hears you hears me, and he who rejects you rejects me, and he who rejects me rejects him who sent me."
The Gospel of the Lord
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REFLECTION
DAILY QUOTE FROM THE EARLY CHURCH FATHERS
Christ speaks through the disciples, by Cyril of Alexandria (376-444 AD)
"Christ gives those who love instruction the assurance that whatever is said concerning him by the holy apostles or evangelists is to be received necessarily without any doubt and to be crowned with the words of truth. He who hears them, hears Christ. For the blessed Paul also said, 'You desire proof that Christ is speaking in me' (2 Corinthians 13:3). Christ himself somewhere also said to the holy disciples, 'For it is not you that speak, but the Spirit of your Father that speaks in you' (Matthew 10:20). Christ speaks in them by the consubstantial Spirit. If it is true, and plainly it is, that they speak by Christ, how can they err? He affirms that he who does not hear them, does not hear Christ, and that he who rejects them rejects Christ, and with him the Father."
(excerpt from COMMENTARY ON LUKE, HOMILY 63)
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