FIRST
READING: Ephesians
2: 12 - 22
12
remember that you were at that time separated from Christ, alienated
from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers to the covenants of
promise, having no hope and without God in the world.
13
But now in Christ Jesus you who once were far off have been brought
near in the blood of Christ.
14
For he is our peace, who has made us both one, and has broken down
the dividing wall of hostility,
15
by abolishing in his flesh the law of commandments and ordinances,
that he might create in himself one new man in place of the two, so
making peace,
16
and might reconcile us both to God in one body through the cross,
thereby bringing the hostility to an end.
17
And he came and preached peace to you who were far off and peace to
those who were near;
18
for through him we both have access in one Spirit to the Father.
19
So then you are no longer strangers and sojourners, but you are
fellow citizens with the saints and members of the household of God,
20
built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Christ Jesus
himself being the cornerstone,
21
in whom the whole structure is joined together and grows into a holy
temple in the Lord;
22
in whom you also are built into it for a dwelling place of God in the
Spirit.
PSALM:
Psalms 85:
9 - 14
9
Surely his salvation is at hand for those who fear him, that glory
may dwell in our land.
10
Steadfast love and faithfulness will meet; righteousness and peace
will kiss each other.
11
Faithfulness will spring up from the ground, and righteousness will
look down from the sky.
12
Yea, the LORD will give what is good, and our land will yield its
increase.
13
Righteousness will go before him, and make his footsteps a way.
GOSPEL:
Luke 12: 35
- 38
35
"Let your loins be girded and your lamps burning,
36
and be like men who are waiting for their master to come home from
the marriage feast, so that they may open to him at once when he
comes and knocks.
37
Blessed are those servants whom the master finds awake when he comes;
truly, I say to you, he will gird himself and have them sit at table,
and he will come and serve them.
38
If he comes in the second watch, or in the third, and finds them so,
blessed are those servants!
The Mass And The Saints
