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| "The Importunate Neighbour" -- by William Holman Hunt |
FIRST
READING:
Galatians 3:
1 - 5
1
O senseless Galatians, who hath bewitched you that you should not
obey the truth, before whose eyes Jesus Christ hath been set forth,
crucified among you?
2
This only would I learn of you: Did you receive the Spirit by the
works of the law, or by the hearing of faith?
3
Are you so foolish, that, whereas you began in the Spirit, you would
now be made perfect by the flesh?
4
Have you suffered so great things in vain? If it be yet in vain.
5
He therefore who giveth to you the Spirit, and worketh miracles among
you; doth he do it by the works of the law, or by the hearing of the
faith?
PSALM:
Luke 1:
69 - 75
69
And hath raised up an horn of salvation to us, in the house of David
his servant:
70
As he spoke by the mouth of his holy prophets, who are from the
beginning:
71
Salvation from our enemies, and from the hand of all that hate us:
72
To perform mercy to our fathers, and to remember his holy testament,
73
The oath, which he swore to Abraham our father, that he would grant
to us,
74
That being delivered from the hand of our enemies, we may serve him
without fear,
75
In holiness and justice before him, all our days.
GOSPEL:
Luke 11:
5 - 13
5
And he said to them: Which of you shall have a friend, and shall go
to him at midnight, and shall say to him: Friend, lend me three
loaves,
6
Because a friend of mine is come off his journey to me, and I have
not what to set before him.
7
And he from within should answer, and say: Trouble me not, the door
is now shut, and my children are with me in bed; I cannot rise and
give thee.
8
Yet if he shall continue knocking, I say to you, although he will not
rise and give him, because he is his friend; yet, because of his
importunity, he will rise, and give him as many as he needeth.
9
And I say to you, Ask, and it shall be given you: seek, and you shall
find: knock, and it shall be opened to you.
10
For every one that asketh, receiveth; and he that seeketh, findeth;
and to him that knocketh, it shall be opened.
11
And which of you, if he ask his father bread, will he give him a
stone? or a fish, will he for a fish give him a serpent?
12
Or if he shall ask an egg, will he reach him a scorpion?
13
If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your
children, how much more will your Father from heaven give the good
Spirit to them that ask him?
