FIRST READING: Romans 11: 29 - 36
29
For the gifts and the calling of God are without repentance.
30
For as you also in times past did not believe God, but now have
obtained mercy, through their unbelief;
31
So these also now have not believed, for your mercy, that they also
may obtain mercy.
32
For God hath concluded all in unbelief, that he may have mercy on
all.
33
O the depth of the riches of the wisdom and of the knowledge of God!
How incomprehensible are his judgments, and how unsearchable his
ways!
34
For who hath known the mind of the Lord? Or who hath been his
counsellor?
35
Or who hath first given to him, and recompense shall be made him?
36
For of him, and by him, and in him, are all things: to him be glory
for ever. Amen.
30
But I am poor and sorrowful: thy salvation, O God, hath set me up.
31
I will praise the name of God with a canticle: and I will magnify him
with praise.
33
Let the poor see and rejoice: seek ye God, and your soul shall live.
34
For the Lord hath heard the poor: and hath not despised his
prisoners.
36
For God will save Sion, and the cities of Juda shall be built up. And
they shall dwell there, and acquire it by inheritance.
37
And the seed of his servants shall possess it; and they that love his
name shall dwell therein.
12
And he said to him also that had invited him: When thou makest a
dinner or a supper, call not thy friends, nor thy brethren, nor thy
kinsmen, nor thy neighbours who are rich; lest perhaps they also
invite thee again, and a recompense be made to thee.
13
But when thou makest a feast, call the poor, the maimed, the lame,
and the blind;
14
And thou shalt be blessed, because they have not wherewith to make
thee recompense: for recompense shall be made thee at the
resurrection of the just.
