DAILY READINGS & REFLECTION
OCTOBER 6, 2023
FRIDAY OF THE TWENTY-SIXTH WEEK IN ORDINARY TIME
(OPTIONAL MEMORIAL OF SAINT BRUNO, PRIEST / BLESSED MARIE-ROSE DUROCHER, VIRGIN)
FIRST READING
BARUCH 1:15-22 OR (PHILIPPIANS 3:8-14)
15 And you will say, 'To the Lord our God is justice, but to us is confusion of our face, just as it is this day for all of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem 16 even for our kings, and our leaders, and our priests, and our prophets, and our fathers 17 We have sinned before the Lord our God and we have not believed, lacking confidence in him 18 And we have not been submissive to him, and we have not listened to the voice of the Lord our God, so as to walk in his commandments, which he has given to us 19 From the day that he led our fathers out of the land of Egypt, even to this day, we were unfaithful to the Lord our God, and, having been scattered, we fell away. We did not listen to his voice 20 And we joined ourselves to many evils and to the curses which the Lord established through Moses, his servant, who led our fathers out of the land of Egypt, to give us a land flowing with milk and honey, just as it is in the present day 21 And we have not listened to the voice of the Lord our God, according to all the words of the prophets whom he sent to us 22 And we have gone astray, each one after the inclinations of his own malignant heart, serving strange gods and doing evil before the eyes of the Lord our God.
The Word of the Lord
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RESPONSORIAL PSALM
PSALMS 79:1-5, 8-9 OR (PSALMS 1:1-4, 6)
Response: For the glory of thy name, O Lord, deliver us.
O God, the heathen have come into thy inheritance;
they have defiled thy holy temple;
they have laid Jerusalem in ruins.
They have given the bodies of thy servants
to the birds of the air for food,
the flesh of thy saints to the beasts of the earth.
R. For the glory of thy name, O Lord, deliver us.
They have poured out their blood like water
round about Jerusalem,
and there was none to bury them.
We have become a taunt to our neighbors,
mocked and derided by those round about us.
How long, O LORD? Wilt thou be angry for ever?
Will thy jealous wrath burn like fire?
R. For the glory of thy name, O Lord, deliver us.
Do not remember against us the iniquities of our forefathers;
let thy compassion come speedily to meet us,
for we are brought very low.
R. For the glory of thy name, O Lord, deliver us.
Help us, O God of our salvation,
for the glory of thy name;
deliver us, and forgive our sins,
for thy name's sake!
R. For the glory of thy name, O Lord, deliver us.
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GOSPEL
He who hears you hears me
LUKE 10:13-16 OR (LUKE 9:57-62)
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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