Mass Readings for : Friday, 22nd November, 2024

Liturgical Readings for : Friday, 22nd November, 2024

Friday, Thirty Third Week in Ordinary Time, Year 2
O
ptional Memorial of St Cecilia, 2nd/3rd century martyr for her faith , Patron of music and musicians.

FIRST READING

A reading from the Book of the  Apocalypse        10:8-11
 I took the book and swallowed it.

I, John, heard the voice I had heard from heaven speaking to me again.
Go,’ it said ‘and take that open scroll out of the hand of the angel standing on sea and land.
I went to the angel and asked him to give me the small scroll, and he said,
Take it and eat it; it will turn your stomach sour, but in your mouth it will taste as sweet as honey’.
So I took it out of the angel’s hand, and swallowed it; it was as sweet as honey in my mouth, but when I had eaten it my stomach turned sour. Then I was told,
You are to prophesy again, this time about many different nations and countries and languages and emperors’.

The Word of the Lord          Thanks be to God.

Responsorial Psalm       Ps 118
Response                           Your promise is sweet to my taste, O Lord

1. I rejoiced to do your will as though all riches were mine.
Your will is my delight; your statutes are my counsellors.                              Response

2. The law from your mouth means more to me than silver and gold.
Your promise is sweeter to my taste than honey in the mouth.                    Response

3. Your will is my heritage for ever, the joy of my heart.
I open my mouth and I sigh as I yearn for your commands.                        Response

Gospel  Acclamation      2 Tim 1: 10
Alleluia, Alleluia!
Our saviour Christ Jesus abolished death,
and he has proclaimed life and immortality through the Good News.
Alleluia!

Or                                         Jn 10:27
Alleluia, Alleluia!

The sheep that belong to me listen to my voice, says the lord, I know them and they follow me.
Alleluia!

jesus-clears-the-temple

GOSPEL

The Lord be with you.                            And with your spirit
A reading from the holy Gospel according to Luke    19:45-48        Glory to you, O Lord
You have turned the house of God into a robbers’ den.

J
esus went into the Temple and began driving out those who were selling. 
‘According to scripture,’ 
he said ‘my house will be a house of prayer.
But you have turned it into a robbers’ den’.

He taught in the Temple every day. The chief priests and the scribes, with the support of the leading citizens, tried to do away with him, but they did not see how they could carry this out because the people as a whole hung on his words.

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The Gospel of the Lord.            Praise to you, Lord Jesus Christ.

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Gospel Reflection           Friday        Thirty Third Week in Ordinary Time      Luke 19:45-48

In today’s gospel reading Jesus shows his displeasure at what is happening in the Temple in Jerusalem. Instead of serving its original purpose as a house of prayer for everyone, it had come to serve the interests of a few. Every human institution needs ongoing reform and renewal, and that includes religious institutions, like the church. The Lord is always prompting us to reform and renew our institutions so that they serve God’s purposes more fully, rather than our own purposes.

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No human institution, no matter how revered, is perfect; it will always be in need of renewal, because it will always be shaped by people who are tainted by sin. What is important is to acknowledge this in an ongoing way and to be open to the Lord’s call to repentance and renewal. This was not the case with those responsible for the Jewish temple in Jerusalem. After Jesus’ actions in the temple, the gospel reading says that the chief priests and the scribes tried to do away with Jesus.

To resist ongoing renewal is to resist the Lord. Our journey towards God, both as individuals and as communities, will always involve repentance, a willingness to keep on turning more fully towards what God wants for our lives, which is revealed to us through Jesus’ life, death and resurrection.

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The Scripture Readings are taken from The Jerusalem Bible, published 1966 by Darton, Longman & Todd Ltd. 

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