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Liturgical Colour: Red. Year: C(I).

Readings for the feria

Readings for the memorial

These are the readings for the feria

First reading	Wisdom 6:1-11

Hear, kings, that you may learn wisdom.

Hear, O kings, and understand;

learn, you magistrates of the earth’s expanse!

Hearken, you who are in power over the multitude

and lord it over throngs of peoples!

Because authority was given you by the Lord

and sovereignty by the Most High,

who shall probe your works and scrutinize your counsels.

Because, though you were ministers of his kingdom, you judged not rightly,

and did not keep the law,

nor walk according to the will of God,

Terribly and swiftly shall he come against you,

because judgment is stern for the exalted–

For the lowly may be pardoned out of mercy

but the mighty shall be mightily put to the test.

For the Lord of all shows no partiality,

nor does he fear greatness,

Because he himself made the great as well as the small,

and he provides for all alike;

but for those in power a rigorous scrutiny impends.

To you, therefore, O princes, are my words addressed

that you may learn wisdom and that you may not sin.

For those who keep the holy precepts hallowed shall be found holy,

and those learned in them will have ready a response.

Desire therefore my words;

long for them and you shall be instructed.

Responsorial Psalm
Psalm 82:3-4, 6-7

Rise up, O God, bring judgment to the earth.

Defend the lowly and the fatherless;

render justice to the afflicted and the destitute.

Rescue the lowly and the poor;

from the hand of the wicked deliver them.

Rise up, O God, bring judgment to the earth.

I said: “You are gods,

all of you sons of the Most High;

yet like men you shall die,

and fall like any prince.”

Rise up, O God, bring judgment to the earth.

Gospel Acclamation
1 Thessalonians 5:18

Alleluia, alleluia.

In all circumstances, give thanks,

for this is the will of God for you in Christ Jesus.

Alleluia, alleluia.

Gospel	Luke 17:11-19

Has none but this foreigner returned to give thanks to God?

As Jesus continued his journey to Jerusalem, he traveled through Samaria and Galilee. As he was entering a village, ten lepers met him. They stood at a distance from him and raised their voice, saying, “Jesus, Master! Have pity on us!” And when he saw them, he said, “Go show yourselves to the priests.” As they were going they were cleansed. And one of them, realizing he had been healed, returned, glorifying God in a loud voice; and he fell at the feet of Jesus and thanked him. He was a Samaritan. Jesus said in reply, “Ten were cleansed, were they not? Where are the other nine? Has none but this foreigner returned to give thanks to God?” Then he said to him, “Stand up and go; your faith has saved you.”

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These are the readings for the memorial

First reading
Ephesians 4:1-7, 11-13

For the work of ministry, for building up the Body of Christ.

Brothers and sisters: I, a prisoner for the Lord, urge you to live in a manner worthy of the call you have received, with all humility and gentleness, with patience, bearing with one another through love, striving to preserve the unity of the Spirit through the bond of peace: one Body and one Spirit, as you were also called to the one hope of your call; one Lord, one faith, one baptism; one God and Father of all, who is over all and through all and in all.

But grace was given to each of us according to the measure of Christ’s gift.

And he gave some as Apostles, others as prophets, others as evangelists, others as pastors and teachers, to equip the holy ones for the work of ministry, for building up the Body of Christ, until we all attain to the unity of faith and knowledge of the Son of God, to mature manhood, to the extent of the full stature of Christ.

Responsorial Psalm
Psalm 1:1-2, 3, 4 and 6

Blessed are they who hope in the Lord.

Blessed are they who delight in the law of the Lord.

The just will flourish like the palm tree in the garden of the Lord.

Blessed the man who follows not

the counsel of the wicked

Nor walks in the way of sinners,

nor sits in the company of the insolent,

But delights in the law of the Lord

and meditates on his law day and night.

Blessed are they who hope in the Lord.

Blessed are they who delight in the law of the Lord.

The just will flourish like the palm tree in the garden of the Lord.

He is like a tree

planted near running water,

That yields its fruit in due season,

and whose leaves never fade.

Whatever he does, prospers.

Blessed are they who hope in the Lord.

Blessed are they who delight in the law of the Lord.

The just will flourish like the palm tree in the garden of the Lord.

Not so, the wicked, not so;

they are like chaff which the wind drives away.

For the Lord watches over the way of the just,

but the way of the wicked vanishes.

Blessed are they who hope in the Lord.

Blessed are they who delight in the law of the Lord.

The just will flourish like the palm tree in the garden of the Lord.

Gospel Acclamation	John 15:9b, 5b

Alleluia, alleluia.

Remain in my love, says the Lord;

whoever lives in me and I in him will bear much fruit.

Alleluia, alleluia.

Gospel	John 17:20-26

I wish that where I am they also may be with me.

Jesus raised his eyes to heaven and said: “Holy Father, I pray not only for these, but also for those who will believe in me through their word, so that they may all be one, as you, Father, are in me and I in you, that they also may be in us, that the world may believe that you sent me. And I have given them the glory you gave me, so that they may be one, as we are one, I in them and you in me, that they may be brought to perfection as one, that the world may know that you sent me, and that you loved them even as you loved me. Father, they are your gift to me. I wish that where I am they also may be with me, that they may see my glory that you gave me, because you loved me before the foundation of the world. Righteous Father, the world also does not know you, but I know you, and they know that you sent me. I made known to them your name and I will make it known, that the love with which you loved me may be in them and I in them.”

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