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Lectionary Readings for the 26th Sunday of the Year, Year C
Readings, Responsorial Psalm and Gospel
Reading I, Am 6, 1. 4-7A Reading from the Book of the Prophet AmosYou who give yourself to licentiousness and revelry will be exiled. Woe to the complacent in Zion! Lying upon beds of ivory, stretched comfortably on their couches. They eat lambs taken from the flock, and calves from the stall! Improvising to the music of the harp, like David, they devise their own accompaniment. They drink wine from bowls and anoint themselves with the best oils; yet they are not made ill by the collapse of Joseph! Therefore, now they shall be the first to go into exile, and their wanton revelry shall be done away with. The Word of the Lord. Responsorial Psalm, Ps 146, 7. 8-9. 9-10. R. v. 2R. Praise the Lord, my soul!1. Happy he who keeps faith forever, secures justice for the oppressed, gives food to the hungry. The Lord sets captives free. R. 2. The Lord gives sight to the blind. The Lord raises up those that were bowed down; The Lord loves the just. The Lord protects strangers. R. 3. The fatherless and the widow he sustains, but the way of the wicked he thwarts. The Lord shall reign forever; your God, O Sion, through all generations. Alleluia. R. Reading II, 1 Tm 6, 11-16A Reading from the Letter of Paul to TimothyObey the commandments until the coming of the Lord. Man of God that you are, seek after integrity, piety, faith, love, steadfastness, and a gentle spirit. Fight the good fight of faith. Take firm hold on the everlasting life to which you were called when, in the presence of many witnesses, you made your noble profession of faith. Before God, who gives life to all, and before Christ Jesus, who in bearing witness made his noble profession before Pontius Pilate, I charge you to keep God's command without blame or reproach until our Lord Jesus Christ shall appear. This appearance God will bring to pass at his chosen time. He is the blessed and only ruler, the King of kings and Lord or lords who alone has immortality and who dwells in inapproachable light, whom no human being has ever seen or can see. To him be honor and everlasting rule! Amen. The Word of the Lord. Gospel, Lk 16, 19-31
Alleluia cf. Acts 16, 14
R. Alleluia. Open our hearts, O Lord, to listen to the words of your Son. R. Alleluia. A Reading from the Holy Gospel According to Luke During your life good things came your way just as bad things came the way of Lazarus. Now he is being comforted while you are in agony. Jesus said to the Pharisees: "Once there was a rich man who dressed in purple and linen and feasted splendidly every day. At his gate lay a beggar named Lazarus who was covered with sores. Lazarus longed to eat the scraps that fell from the rich man's table. The dogs even came and licked his sores. Eventually the beggar died. He was carried by angels to the bosom of Abraham. The rich man likewise died and was buried. From the abode of the dead where he was in torment, he raised his eyes and saw Abraham afar off, and Lazarus resting in his bosom. "He called out, 'Father Abraham, have pity on me. Send Lazarus to dip the tip of his finger in water to refresh my tongue, for I am tortured in these flames. 'My child,' replied Abraham, 'remember that you were well off in your lifetime, while Lazarus was in misery. Now he has found consolation here, but you have found torment. And that is not all. Between you and us there is fixed a great abyss, so that those who might wish to cross from here to you cannot do so, nor can anyone cross from your side to us.' "'Father, I ask you, then,' the rich man said, 'send him to my father's house where I have five brothers. Let him be a warning to them so that they may not end in this place of torment.' Abraham answered, 'They have Moses and the prophets. Let them hear them.' No, Father Abraham,' replied the rich man. 'But if someone would only go to them from the dead, then they would repent.' Abraham said to him, 'If they do not listen to Moses and the prophets, they will not be convinced even if one should rise from the dead.'" The Gospel of the Lord.
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