The 2nd of October, 2021, Saturday is the Memorial of the Holy Guardian Angels. The Holy Bible verses for the mass readings for this day came from the Liturgical Calendar Year 2021.
Reading 1: BAR 4:5-12, 27-29
The first reading from the Book of Baruch.
Be of good cheer, my people, the memorial of Israel.
You were not sold to the nations for destruction, but because you moved God to wrath, you were delivered to your adversaries.
For you provoked him who made you by sacrificing to demons and not to God.
You forgot the everlasting God who brought you up. You also grieved Jerusalem, who nursed you.
For she saw the wrath that came upon you from God, and said, Listen, you who dwell near Zion; for God has brought upon me great mourning.
For I have seen the captivity of my sons and daughters, which the Everlasting has brought upon them.
For with joy I nourished them, but sent them away with weeping and mourning.
Let no man rejoice over me, a widow and forsaken by many. For the sins of my children, I am left desolate, because they turned away from the law of God.
Take courage, my children, and cry to God; for you will be remembered by him who has brought this upon you.
For as it was your decision to go astray from God, return and seek him ten times more.
For he who brought these calamities upon you will bring you everlasting joy again with your salvation.
Responsorial Psalm: PS 69:32-34, 35-36
Response: For Yahweh hears the needy, and doesn’t despise his captive people.
The humble have seen it, and are glad. You who seek after God, let your heart live.
For Yahweh hears the needy, and doesn’t despise his captive people.
Let heaven and earth praise him; the seas, and everything that moves therein!
R: For Yahweh hears the needy, and doesn’t despise his captive people.
For God will save Zion, and build the cities of Judah. They shall settle there, and own it.
The children also of his servants shall inherit it. Those who love his name shall dwell therein.
R: For Yahweh hears the needy, and doesn’t despise his captive people.
Gospel of the Day: MT 18:1-5, 10
From the gospel scripture according to Matthew.
In that hour the disciples came to Jesus, saying, “Who then is greatest in the Kingdom of Heaven?”
Jesus called a little child to himself, and set him in the middle of them and said, “Most certainly I tell you, unless you turn and become as little children, you will in no way enter into the Kingdom of Heaven.
Whoever therefore humbles himself as this little child is the greatest in the Kingdom of Heaven.
Whoever receives one such little child in my name receives me.”
“See that you don’t despise one of these little ones, for I tell you that in heaven their angels always see the face of my Father who is in heaven.”
