FIRST READING: Romans 11: 29 - 36
29 For the gifts and the call of God are irrevocable.
30 Just as you were once disobedient to God but now have received mercy because of their disobedience,
31 so they have now been disobedient in order that by the mercy shown to you they also may receive mercy.
32 For God has consigned all men to disobedience, that he may have mercy upon all.
33 O the depth of the riches and wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are his judgments and how inscrutable his ways!
34 "For who has known the mind of the Lord, or who has been his counselor?"
35 "Or who has given a gift to him that he might be repaid?"
36 For from him and through him and to him are all things. To him be glory for ever. Amen.
PSALM: Psalms 69: 30 - 31, 33 - 34, 36 - 37
Psalms 69: 30 - 31, 33 - 34, 36 - 37
30 But I am afflicted and in pain; let thy salvation, O God, set me on high!
31 I will praise the name of God with a song; I will magnify him with thanksgiving.
33 Let the oppressed see it and be glad; you who seek God, let your hearts revive.
34 For the LORD hears the needy, and does not despise his own that are in bonds.
36 For God will save Zion and rebuild the cities of Judah; and his servants shall dwell there and possess it;
37 the children of his servants shall inherit it, and those who love his name shall dwell in it.
GOSPEL: Luke 14: 12 - 14
12 He said also to the man who had invited him, "When you give a dinner or a banquet, do not invite your friends or your brothers or your kinsmen or rich neighbors, lest they also invite you in return, and you be repaid.
13 But when you give a feast, invite the poor, the maimed, the lame, the blind,
14 and you will be blessed, because they cannot repay you. You will be repaid at the resurrection of the just."
