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Lectionary Readings for the 22nd Sunday of the Year, Year C
Readings, Responsorial Psalm and Gospel
Reading I, Sir 3, 17-18. 20. 28-29A Reading from the Book of the SirachHumble yourself and you will find favor with the Lord. My son, conduct your affairs with humility, and you will be loved more than a giver of gifts. Humble yourself the more, the greater you are, and you will find favor with God. What is too sublime for you, seek not, into things beyond your strength search not. The mind of a sage appreciates proverbs, and an attentive ear is the wise man's joy. Water quenches a flaming fire, and alms atone for sins. The Word of the Lord. Responsorial Psalm, Ps 68, 4-5. 6-7. 10-11. R. v. 11R. God, in your goodness, you have made a home forthe poor. 1. The just rejoice and exult before God; they are glad and rejoice. Sing to God, chant praise to his name; whose name is the Lord. R. 2. The father of orphans and the defender of widows is God in his holy dwelling. God gives a home to the forsaken; he leads forth prisoners to prosperity. R. 3. A bountiful rain you showered down, O God, upon your inheritance; you restored the land when it languished; Your flock settled in it; in your goodness, O God, you provided it for the needy. R. Reading II, Heb 12, 11-19. 22-24A Reading from the Letter to the HebrewsYou have come to Mount Zion and to the city of the living God. You have not drawn near to an untouchable mountain and a blazing fire, and gloomy darkness and storm and trumpet blast, and a voice speaking words such that those who heard begged that they be not addressed to them. No, you have drawn near to Mount Zion and the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, to myriads of angels in festal gathering, to the assembly of the first-born enrolled in heaven, to God the judge of all, to the spirits of just men made perfect, to Jesus, the mediator of a new covenant. The Word of the Lord. Gospel, Lk 14, 1. 7-14
Alleluia Jn 14, 23
R. Alleluia. If anyone loves me, he will hold to my words, and my Father will love him, and we will come to him. R. Alleluia. A Reading from the Holy Gospel According to Luke The man who exalts himself shall be humbled and he who humbles himself shall be exalted. When Jesus came on a sabbath to eat a meal in the house of one of the leading Pharisees, they observed him closely. He went on to address a parable to the guests, noticing how they were trying to get the places of honor at the table: "When you are invited by someone to a wedding party, do not sit in the place of honor in case some greater dignitary has been invited. Then the host might come and say to you, 'Make room for this man', and you would have to proceed shamefacedly to the lowest place. What you should do when you have been invited is go and sit in the lowest place, so that when your host approaches you he will say, 'My friend, come up higher.' This will win you the esteem of your fellow guests. For everyone who exalts himself shall be humbled and he who humbles himself shall be exalted." He said to the one who had invited him: "Whenever you give a lunch or dinner, do not invite your friends or brothers or relatives or wealthy neighbors. They might invite you in return and thus repay you. No, when you have a reception, invite beggars and the crippled, the the lame and the blind. You should be pleased that they cannot repay you, for you will be repaid in the resurrection of the just." The Gospel of the Lord.
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