DAILY READINGS & REFLECTION
OCTOBER 9, 2024
WEDNESDAY OF THE TWENTY-SEVENTH WEEK IN ORDINARY TIME
(OPTIONAL MEMORIAL OF SAINT JOHN LEONARDI, PRIEST / SAINT DENIS, BISHOP AND MARTYR, AND HIS COMPANIONS, MARTYRS)
FIRST READING
GALATIANS 2:1-2, 7-14 OR (2 CORINTHIANS 4:1-2, 5-7 / 2 CORINTHIANS 6:4-10)
1 Then after fourteen years I went up again to Jerusalem with Barnabas, taking Titus along with me. 2 I went up by revelation; and I laid before them (but privately before those who were of repute) the gospel which I preach among the Gentiles, lest somehow I should be running or had run in vain. 7 but on the contrary, when they saw that I had been entrusted with the gospel to the uncircumcised, just as Peter had been entrusted with the gospel to the circumcised 8 (for he who worked through Peter for the mission to the circumcised worked through me also for the Gentiles), 9 and when they perceived the grace that was given to me, James and Cephas and John, who were reputed to be pillars, gave to me and Barnabas the right hand of fellowship, that we should go to the Gentiles and they to the circumcised; 10 only they would have us remember the poor, which very thing I was eager to do. 11 But when Cephas came to Antioch I opposed him to his face, because he stood condemned. 12 For before certain men came from James, he ate with the Gentiles; but when they came he drew back and separated himself, fearing the circumcision party. 13 And with him the rest of the Jews acted insincerely, so that even Barnabas was carried away by their insincerity. 14 But when I saw that they were not straightforward about the truth of the gospel, I said to Cephas before them all, "If you, though a Jew, live like a Gentile and not like a Jew, how can you compel the Gentiles to live like Jews?"
The Word of the Lord
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RESPONSORIAL PSALM
PSALMS 116(117):1-2 OR (PSALMS 96:1-3, 7-8, 10 / PSALMS 126:1-6)
Response: Go out to all the world, and tell the Good News.
Praise the LORD, all nations!
Extol him, all peoples!
R. Go out to all the world, and tell the Good News.
For great is his steadfast love toward us;
and the faithfulness of the LORD endures for ever.
Praise the LORD!
R. Go out to all the world, and tell the Good News.
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GOSPEL
Lord, teach us to pray
LUKE 11:1-4 OR (LUKE 5:1-11 / MATTHEW 5:13-16)
1 He was praying in a certain place, and when he ceased, one of his disciples said to him, "Lord, teach us to pray, as John taught his disciples." 2 And he said to them, "When you pray, say: "Father, hallowed be your name. Your kingdom come. 3 Give us each day our daily bread; 4 and forgive us our sins, for we ourselves forgive every one who is indebted to us; and lead us not into temptation."
The Gospel of the Lord
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REFLECTION
DAILY QUOTE FROM THE EARLY CHURCH FATHERS
The privilege and responsibility of calling God Father, by Cyril of Alexandria (376-444 AD)
"For the Savior said, 'When you pray, say, 'Our Father.' And another of the holy Evangelists adds, 'who art in heaven' (Matthew 6:9)... He gives his own glory to us. He raises slaves to the dignity of freedom. He crowns the human condition with such honor as surpasses the power of nature. He brings to pass what was spoken of old by the voice of the psalmist: 'I said, you are gods, and all of you children of the Most High' (Psalm 82:6). He rescues us from the measure of slavery, giving us by his grace what we did not possess by nature, and permits us to call God 'Father,' as being admitted to the rank of sons. We received this, together with all our other privileges, from him. One of these privileges is the dignity of freedom, a gift peculiarly befitting those who have been called to be sons. He commands us, therefore, to take boldness and say in our prayers, 'Our Father."
(excerpt from COMMENTARY ON LUKE, HOMILY 71)
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