Man is like to vanity:
his days pass away like a shadow.
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-- Thursday, 30th Week in Ordinary Time --
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FIRST READING – Eph 6:10-20
Put on the armour of God, that you may be able,
having done everything, to hold your ground.
Finally, brethren,
be strengthened in the Lord,
and in the might of his power.
Put you on the armour of God,
that you may be able to stand against the deceits of the devil.
For our wrestling is not against flesh and blood;
but against principalities and power,
against the rulers of the world of this darkness,
against the spirits of wickedness in the high places.
Therefore take unto you the armour of God,
that you may be able to resist in the evil day,
and to stand in all things perfect.
Stand therefore, having your loins girt about with truth,
and having on the breastplate of justice,
And your feet shod with the preparation of the gospel of peace:
In all things taking the shield of faith, wherewith you may be able
to extinguish all the fiery darts of the most wicked one.
And take unto you the helmet of salvation,
and the sword of the Spirit (which is the word of God).
By all prayer and supplication praying at all times in the spirit;
and in the same watching with all instance
and supplication for all the saints:
And for me, that speech may be given me,
that I may open my mouth with confidence,
to make known the mystery of the gospel.
For which I am an ambassador in a chain,
so that therein I may be bold to speak according as I ought.
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12 "In the high places"... or heavenly places. That is to say, in the air, the lowest of the celestial regions; in which God permits these wicked spirits or fallen angels to wander.
RESPONSORIAL PSALM – 143:1b, 2, 9-10
Benedíctus Dóminus, præsídium meum!
(NAB: Blessed be the Lord, my rock.)
Blessed be the Lord my God
Blessed be the Lord my God,
who teacheth my hands to fight, and my fingers to war.
My mercy, and my refuge: my support, and my deliverer:
My protector, and I have hoped in him:
who subdueth my people under me.
Lord, what is man, that thou art made known to him?
or the son of man, that thou makest account of him?
Man is like to vanity: his days pass away like a shadow.
Lord, bow down thy heavens and descend:
touch the mountains and they shall smoke.
Send forth lightning, and thou shalt scatter them:
shoot out thy arrows, and thou shalt trouble them.
Put forth thy hand from on high, take me out,
and deliver me from many waters:
from the hand of strange children:
Whose mouth hath spoken vanity:
and their right hand is the right hand of iniquity.
To thee, O God, I will sing a new canticle:
on the psaltery and an instrument of ten strings
I will sing praises to thee. Who givest salvation to kings:
who hast redeemed thy servant David from the malicious sword:
Deliver me,
And rescue me out of the hand of strange children;
whose mouth hath spoken vanity:
and their right hand is the right hand of iniquity:
Whose sons are as new plants in their youth:
Their daughters decked out,
adorned round about after the similitude of a temple:
Their storehouses full, flowing out of this into that.
Their sheep fruitful in young, abounding in their goings forth:
Their oxen fat.
There is no breach of wall,
nor passage, nor crying out in their streets.
They have called the people happy, that hath these things:
but happy is that people whose God is the Lord.
ALLELUIA – Lk 19:38, 2:14
Benedíctus qui venit rex in nominee Dómini;
pax in cælo et glória in excélsis.
R. Alleluia, alleluia
Saying:
Blessed be the king who cometh in the name of the Lord,
peace in heaven, and glory on high!
Glory to God in the highest;
and on earth peace to men of good will.
R. Alleluia, alleluia
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(NAB: …. “and on earth peace to “those on whom his favor
rests” not “men of good (or God’s) will” *)
GOSPEL – Luke 13:31-35
It is impossible a prophet should die outside of Jerusalem.
The same day, there came some of the Pharisees, saying to him:
Depart, and get thee hence, for Herod hath a mind to kill thee.
And he said to them:
Go and tell that fox, Behold, I cast out devils,
and do cures today and tomorrow,
and the third day I am consummated.
Nevertheless I must walk today and tomorrow,
and the day following,
because it cannot be that a prophet perish, out of Jerusalem.
Jerusalem, Jerusalem, that killest the prophets,
and stonest them that are sent to thee,
how often would I have gathered thy children
as the bird doth her brood under her wings,
and thou wouldest not?
Behold your house shall be left to you desolate.
And I say to you, that you shall not see me till the time come,
when you shall say:
Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord.
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