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Monday, October 19, 2020
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Saints John de Brébeuf and Isaac Jogues, Priests, Martyrs and Companions (Memorial)
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Second Option
First Reading
Ephesians 2:1-10
1And you he made alive, when you were dead through the trespasses and sins
2in which you once walked, following the course of this world, following the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that is now at work in the sons of disobedience.
3Among these we all once lived in the passions of our flesh, following the desires of body and mind, and so we were by nature children of wrath, like the rest of mankind.
4But God, who is rich in mercy, out of the great love with which he loved us,
5even when we were dead through our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ (by grace you have been saved),
6and raised us up with him, and made us sit with him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus,
7that in the coming ages he might show the immeasurable riches of his grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus.
8For by grace you have been saved through faith; and this is not your own doing, it is the gift of God --
9not because of works, lest any man should boast.
10For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them.
Responsorial Psalm
Psalms 100:2-5
2Serve the LORD with gladness! Come into his presence with singing!
3Know that the LORD is God! It is he that made us, and we are his; we are his people, and the sheep of his pasture.
4Enter his gates with thanksgiving, and his courts with praise! Give thanks to him, bless his name!
5For the LORD is good; his steadfast love endures for ever, and his faithfulness to all generations.
Gospel
Luke 12:13-21
13One of the multitude said to him, "Teacher, bid my brother divide the inheritance with me."
14But he said to him, "Man, who made me a judge or divider over you?"
15And he said to them, "Take heed, and beware of all covetousness; for a man's life does not consist in the abundance of his possessions."
16And he told them a parable, saying, "The land of a rich man brought forth plentifully;
17and he thought to himself, `What shall I do, for I have nowhere to store my crops?'
18And he said, `I will do this: I will pull down my barns, and build larger ones; and there I will store all my grain and my goods.
19And I will say to my soul, Soul, you have ample goods laid up for many years; take your ease, eat, drink, be merry.'
20But God said to him, `Fool! This night your soul is required of you; and the things you have prepared, whose will they be?'
21So is he who lays up treasure for himself, and is not rich toward God."
First Reading
2 Corinthians 4:7-15
7But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, to show that the transcendent power belongs to God and not to us.
8We are afflicted in every way, but not crushed; perplexed, but not driven to despair;
9persecuted, but not forsaken; struck down, but not destroyed;
10always carrying in the body the death of Jesus, so that the life of Jesus may also be manifested in our bodies.
11For while we live we are always being given up to death for Jesus' sake, so that the life of Jesus may be manifested in our mortal flesh.
12So death is at work in us, but life in you.
13Since we have the same spirit of faith as he had who wrote, "I believed, and so I spoke," we too believe, and so we speak,
14knowing that he who raised the Lord Jesus will raise us also with Jesus and bring us with you into his presence.
15For it is all for your sake, so that as grace extends to more and more people it may increase thanksgiving, to the glory of God.
Responsorial Psalm
Psalms 126:1-6
1When the LORD restored the fortunes of Zion, we were like those who dream.
2Then our mouth was filled with laughter, and our tongue with shouts of joy; then they said among the nations, "The LORD has done great things for them."
3The LORD has done great things for us; we are glad.
4Restore our fortunes, O LORD, like the watercourses in the Negeb!
5May those who sow in tears reap with shouts of joy!
6He that goes forth weeping, bearing the seed for sowing, shall come home with shouts of joy, bringing his sheaves with him.
Gospel
Matthew 28:16-20
16Now the eleven disciples went to Galilee, to the mountain to which Jesus had directed them.
17And when they saw him they worshiped him; but some doubted.
18And Jesus came and said to them, "All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me.
19Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit,
20teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you; and lo, I am with you always, to the close of the age."
