FIRST
READING: Romans 11: 1-2, 11-12, 25-29
1
I say then: Hath God cast away his people? God forbid. For I also am
an Israelite of the seed of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin.
2
God hath not cast away his people, which he foreknew. Know you not
what the scripture saith of Elias; how he calleth on God against
Israel?
11
I say then, have they so stumbled, that they should fall? God forbid.
But by their offence, salvation is come to the Gentiles, that they
may be emulous of them.
12
Now if the offence of them be the riches of the world, and the
diminution of them, the riches of the Gentiles; how much more the
fulness of them?
25
For I would not have you ignorant, brethren, of this mystery, (lest
you should be wise in your own conceits), that blindness in part has
happened in Israel, until the fulness of the Gentiles should come in.
26
And so all Israel should be saved, as it is written: There shall come
out of Sion, he that shall deliver, and shall turn away ungodliness
from Jacob.
27
And this is to them my covenant: when I shall take away their sins.
28
As concerning the gospel, indeed, they are enemies for your sake: but
as touching the election, they are most dear for the sake of the
fathers.
29
For the gifts and the calling of God are without repentance.
PSALM:
Psalms 94: 12-15, 17-18
12
Blessed is the man whom thou shalt instruct, O Lord: and shalt teach
him out of thy law.
13
That thou mayst give him rest from the evil days: till a pit be dug
for the wicked.
14
For the Lord will not cast off his people: neither will he forsake
his own inheritance.
15
Until justice be turned into judgment: and they that are near it are
all the upright in heart.
17
Unless the Lord had been my helper, my soul had almost dwelt in hell.
18
If I said: My foot is moved: thy mercy, O Lord, assisted me.
GOSPEL:
Luke 14:
1, 7-11
1
And it came to pass, when Jesus went into the house of one of the
chief of the Pharisees, on the sabbath day, to eat bread, that they
watched him.
7
And he spoke a parable also to them that were invited, marking how
they chose the first seats at the table, saying to them:
8
When thou art invited to a wedding, sit not down in the first place,
lest perhaps one more honourable than thou be invited by him:
9
And he that invited thee and him, come and say to thee, Give this man
place: and then thou begin with shame to take the lowest place.
10
But when thou art invited, go, sit down in the lowest place; that
when he who invited thee, cometh, he may say to thee: Friend, go up
higher. Then shalt thou have glory before them that sit at table with
thee.
11
Because every one that exalteth himself, shall be humbled; and he
that humbleth himself, shall be exalted.
