The 10th of October, 2021 is the Twenty-Eighth Sunday in Ordinary Time. The Holy Bible verses for the mass readings for this day came from the Liturgical Calendar Year 2021.
Reading 1: WIS 7:7-11
The first reading from the Wisdom of Solomon.
For this cause I prayed, and understanding was given to me. I asked, and a spirit of wisdom came to me.
I preferred her before sceptres and thrones. I considered riches nothing in comparison to her.
Neither did I liken to her any priceless gem, because all gold in her presence is a little sand, and silver will be considered as clay before her.
I loved her more than health and beauty, and I chose to have her rather than light, because her bright shining is never laid to sleep.
All good things came to me with her, and innumerable riches are in her hands.
Responsorial Psalm: PS 90:12-13, 14-15, 16-17
Response: Satisfy us in the morning with your loving kindness, that we may rejoice and be glad all our days.
So teach us to count our days, that we may gain a heart of wisdom.
Relent, Yahweh! How long? Have compassion on your servants!
R: Satisfy us in the morning with your loving kindness, that we may rejoice and be glad all our days.
Satisfy us in the morning with your loving kindness, that we may rejoice and be glad all our days.
Make us glad for as many days as you have afflicted us, for as many years as we have seen evil.
R: Satisfy us in the morning with your loving kindness, that we may rejoice and be glad all our days.
Let your work appear to your servants, your glory to their children.
Let the favor of the Lord our God be on us. Establish the work of our hands for us. Yes, establish the work of our hands.
R: Satisfy us in the morning with your loving kindness, that we may rejoice and be glad all our days.
Reading 2: HEB 4:12-13
The second reading from The Letter to the Hebrews.
For the word of God is living and active, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the dividing of soul and spirit, of both joints and marrow, and is able to discern the thoughts and intentions of the heart.
There is no creature that is hidden from his sight, but all things are naked and laid open before the eyes of him to whom we must give an account.
Gospel of the Day: MK 10:17-30 or MK 10:17-27
From the gospel scripture according to Mark.
As he was going out into the way, one ran to him, knelt before him, and asked him, “Good Teacher, what shall I do that I may inherit eternal life?”
Jesus said to him, “Why do you call me good? No one is good except one-God.
You know the commandments: ‘Do not murder,’ ‘Do not commit adultery,’ ‘Do not steal,’ ‘Do not give false testimony,’ ‘Do not defraud,’ ‘Honor your father and mother.’_”
He said to him, “Teacher, I have observed all these things from my youth.”
Jesus looking at him loved him, and said to him, “One thing you lack. Go, sell whatever you have and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven; and come, follow me, taking up the cross.”
But his face fell at that saying, and he went away sorrowful, for he was one who had great possessions.
Jesus looked around and said to his disciples, “How difficult it is for those who have riches to enter into God’s Kingdom!”
The disciples were amazed at his words. But Jesus answered again, “Children, how hard it is for those who trust in riches to enter into God’s Kingdom!
It is easier for a camel to go through a needle’s eye than for a rich man to enter into God’s Kingdom.”
They were exceedingly astonished, saying to him, “Then who can be saved?”
Jesus, looking at them, said, “With men it is impossible, but not with God, for all things are possible with God.”
Peter began to tell him, “Behold, we have left all and have followed you.”
Jesus said, “Most certainly I tell you, there is no one who has left house, or brothers, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or land, for my sake, and for the sake of the Good News, but he will receive one hundred times more now in this time: houses, brothers, sisters, mothers, children, and land, with persecutions; and in the age to come eternal life.”
