FIRST
READING: Ephesians
3: 14 - 21
14
For this reason I bow my knees before the Father,
15
from whom every family in heaven and on earth is named,
16
that according to the riches of his glory he may grant you to be
strengthened with might through his Spirit in the inner man,
17
and that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith; that you,
being rooted and grounded in love,
18
may have power to comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth
and length and height and depth,
19
and to know the love of Christ which surpasses knowledge, that you
may be filled with all the fulness of God.
20
Now to him who by the power at work within us is able to do far more
abundantly than all that we ask or think,
21
to him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus to all generations,
for ever and ever. Amen.
PSALM:
Psalms 33:
1 - 2, 4 - 5, 11 - 12, 18 - 19
1
Rejoice in the LORD, O you righteous! Praise befits the upright.
2
Praise the LORD with the lyre, make melody to him with the harp of
ten strings!
4
For the word of the LORD is upright; and all his work is done in
faithfulness.
5
He loves righteousness and justice; the earth is full of the
steadfast love of the LORD.
11
The counsel of the LORD stands for ever, the thoughts of his heart to
all generations.
12
Blessed is the nation whose God is the LORD, the people whom he has
chosen as his heritage!
18
Behold, the eye of the LORD is on those who fear him, on those who
hope in his steadfast love,
19
that he may deliver their soul from death, and keep them alive in
famine.
GOSPEL:
Luke 12:
49 - 53
49
"I came to cast fire upon the earth; and would that it were
already kindled!
50
I have a baptism to be baptized with; and how I am constrained until
it is accomplished!
51
Do you think that I have come to give peace on earth? No, I tell you,
but rather division;
52
for henceforth in one house there will be five divided, three against
two and two against three;
53
they will be divided, father against son and son against father,
mother against daughter and daughter against her mother,
mother-in-law against her daughter-in-law and daughter-in-law against
her mother-in-law."
The Holy Mass
