The 21st of October, 2021 is Thursday in the Twenty-Ninth Week of Ordinary Time. The Bible scriptures for the holy mass readings for this day came from the 2021 Liturgical Calendar.
Reading 1: ROM 6:19-23
The first reading from the Letter of Saint Paul to the Romans.
I speak in human terms because of the weakness of your flesh; for as you presented your members as servants to uncleanness and to wickedness upon wickedness, even so now present your members as servants to righteousness for sanctification.
For when you were servants of sin, you were free from righteousness.
What fruit then did you have at that time in the things of which you are now ashamed? For the end of those things is death.
But now, being made free from sin and having become servants of God, you have your fruit of sanctification and the result of eternal life.
For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Responsorial Psalm: PS 1:1-2, 3, 4 and 6
Response: Blessed is the man who makes Yahweh his trust, and doesn’t respect the proud, nor such as turn away to lies.
Blessed is the man who doesn’t walk in the counsel of the wicked, nor stand on the path of sinners, nor sit in the seat of scoffers; but his delight is in Yahweh’s law. On his law he meditates day and night.
R: Blessed is the man who makes Yahweh his trust, and doesn’t respect the proud, nor such as turn away to lies.
He will be like a tree planted by the streams of water, that produces its fruit in its season, whose leaf also does not wither. Whatever he does shall prosper.
R: Blessed is the man who makes Yahweh his trust, and doesn’t respect the proud, nor such as turn away to lies.
The wicked are not so, but are like the chaff which the wind drives away.
For Yahweh knows the way of the righteous, but the way of the wicked shall perish.
R: Blessed is the man who makes Yahweh his trust, and doesn’t respect the proud, nor such as turn away to lies.
Gospel of the Day: LK 12:49-53
From the gospel verse according to Luke.
“I came to throw fire on the earth. I wish it were already kindled.
But I have a baptism to be baptized with, and how distressed I am until it is accomplished!
Do you think that I have come to give peace in the earth? I tell you, no, but rather division.
For from now on, there will be five in one house divided, three against two, and two against three.
They will be divided, father against son, and son against father; mother against daughter, and daughter against her mother; mother-in-law against her daughter-in-law, and daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law.”
