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?
PSALM:
Luke 1:
69 - 75
69
And has raised up a horn of salvation for us in the house of his
servant David,
70
as he spoke by the mouth of his holy prophets from of old,
71
that we should be saved from our enemies, and from the hand of all
who hate us;
72
to perform the mercy promised to our fathers, and to remember his
holy covenant,
73
the oath which he swore to our father Abraham,
74
to grant us that we, being delivered from the hand of our enemies,
might serve him without fear,
75
in holiness and righteousness before him all the days of our life.
GOSPEL:
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!"
