Readings

First Reading
Rom 9:1-5

I could wish that I were accursed for the sake of my own people.

A reading from the Letter of Saint Paul to the Romans

Brothers and sisters:
I speak the truth in Christ, I do not lie;
   my conscience joins with the Holy Spirit in bearing me witness
   that I have great sorrow and constant anguish in my heart.
For I could wish that I myself were accursed and cut off from Christ
   for the sake of my own people,
   my kindred according to the flesh.
They are children of Israel;
   theirs the adoption, the glory, the covenants,
   the giving of the law, the worship, and the promises;
   theirs the patriarchs, and from them,
   according to the flesh, is the Christ,
   who is over all, God blessed forever. Amen.

The word of the Lord.

Responsorial Psalm
Ps 147:12-13, 14-15, 19-20

R. :

℟. Praise the Lord, Jerusalem.

Glorify the LORD, O Jerusalem;
   praise your God, O Zion.
For he has strengthened the bars of your gates;
   he has blessed your children within you.

℟. Praise the Lord, Jerusalem.

He has granted peace in your borders;
   with the best of wheat he fills you.
He sends forth his command to the earth;
   swiftly runs his word!

℟. Praise the Lord, Jerusalem.

He has proclaimed his word to Jacob,
   his statutes and his ordinances to Israel.
He has not done thus for any other nation;
   his ordinances he has not made known to them. Alleluia.

℟. Praise the Lord, Jerusalem.

Acclamation before the Gospel
Jn 10:27

℟. Alleluia, alleluia.

My sheep hear my voice, says the Lord;
I know them, and they follow me.

℟. Alleluia, alleluia.

Gospel
Lk 14:1-6

Who among you, if your son or ox falls into a cistern, would not immediately pull him out on the sabbath day?

✠ A reading from the holy Gospel according to Luke

On a sabbath Jesus went to dine
   at the home of one of the leading Pharisees,
   and the people there were observing him carefully.
In front of him there was a man suffering from dropsy.
Jesus spoke to the scholars of the law and Pharisees in reply, asking,
   “Is it lawful to cure on the sabbath or not?”
But they kept silent; so he took the man and,
   after he had healed him, dismissed him.
Then he said to them
   “Who among you, if your son or ox falls into a cistern,
   would not immediately pull him out on the sabbath day?”
But they were unable to answer his question.

At the end of the Gospel, the Deacon, or the Priest, acclaims:

The Gospel of the Lord.

All reply:

Praise to you, Lord Jesus Christ.

Then he kisses the book, saying quietly:

Through the words of the Gospel
may our sins be wiped away.