DAILY READINGS & REFLECTION

10 October, 2024 - Thursday

arrow_back CALENDAR arrow_forward

DAILY READINGS & REFLECTION

OCTOBER 10, 2024

THURSDAY OF THE TWENTY-SEVENTH WEEK IN ORDINARY TIME

FIRST READING

GALATIANS 3:1-5

1 O foolish Galatians! Who has bewitched you, before whose eyes Jesus Christ was publicly portrayed as crucified? 2 Let me ask you only this: Did you receive the Spirit by works of the law, or by hearing with faith? 3 Are you so foolish? Having begun with the Spirit, are you now ending with the flesh? 4 Did you experience so many things in vain? if it really is in vain. 5 Does he who supplies the Spirit to you and works miracles among you do so by works of the law, or by hearing with faith?

The Word of the Lord
_

RESPONSORIAL PSALM

LUKE 1:69-75

Response: Blessed be the Lord, the God of Israel; he has come to his people.

And has raised up a horn of salvation for us
in the house of his servant David.

R. Blessed be the Lord, the God of Israel; he has come to his people.

As he spoke by the mouth of his holy prophets from of old,
that we should be saved from our enemies,
and from the hand of all who hate us.

R. Blessed be the Lord, the God of Israel; he has come to his people.

To perform the mercy promised to our fathers,
and to remember his holy covenant.

R. Blessed be the Lord, the God of Israel; he has come to his people.

The oath which he swore to our father Abraham, to grant us
that we, being delivered from the hand of our enemies,
might serve him without fear,
in holiness and righteousness before him all the days of our life.

R. Blessed be the Lord, the God of Israel; He has come to his people.
_

GOSPEL

How much more will the heavenly Father give!

LUKE 11:5-13

5 And he said to them, "Which of you who has a friend will go to him at midnight and say to him, Friend, lend me three loaves; 6 for a friend of mine has arrived on a journey, and I have nothing to set before him'; 7 and he will answer from within, Do not bother me; the door is now shut, and my children are with me in bed; I cannot get up and give you anything'? 8 I tell you, though he will not get up and give him anything because he is his friend, yet because of his importunity he will rise and give him whatever he needs. 9 And I tell you, Ask, and it will be given you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you. 10 For every one who asks receives, and he who seeks finds, and to him who knocks it will be opened. 11 What father among you, if his son asks for a fish, will instead of a fish give him a serpent; 12 or if he asks for an egg, will give him a scorpion? 13 If you then, who are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will the heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask him!"

The Gospel of the Lord
_

REFLECTION

DAILY QUOTE FROM THE EARLY CHURCH FATHERS

Ask by praying, seek by proper living, knock by persevering, by Bede the Venerable, 672-735 A.D.

"Desiring that we arrive at the joys of the heavenly kingdom, our Lord and Savior taught us to ask these joys of him and promised that he would give them to us if we asked for them. 'Ask,' he said, 'and it will be given to you, seek and you will find, knock and it will be opened to you.' Dearly beloved..., we earnestly and with our whole heart must ponder these words of our Lord. He bears witness that the kingdom of heaven is not given to, found by and opened to those who are idle and unoccupied but to those who ask for it, seek after it and knock at its gates. The gate of the kingdom must be asked for by praying. It must be sought after by living properly. It must be knocked at by persevering."

(excerpt from HOMILIES ON THE GOSPEL OF LUKE 2.51.20)
_

Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition (RSVCE)
The Revised Standard Version of the Bible: Catholic Edition, copyright © 1965, 1966 the Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved.

arrow_back CALENDAR arrow_forward