The 22nd of October, 2021 is Friday in the Twenty-Ninth Week of Ordinary Time. The Holy Bible verses for the mass readings for this day came from the Liturgical Calendar Year 2021.
Reading 1: ROM 7:18-25A
The first reading from the Letter of Saint Paul to the Romans.
For I know that in me, that is, in my flesh, dwells no good thing. For desire is present with me, but I don’t find it doing that which is good.
For the good which I desire, I don’t do; but the evil which I don’t desire, that I practice.
But if what I don’t desire, that I do, it is no more I that do it, but sin which dwells in me.
I find then the law that, while I desire to do good, evil is present.
For I delight in God’s law after the inward person, but I see a different law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity under the law of sin which is in my members.
What a wretched man I am! Who will deliver me out of the body of this death?
I thank God through Jesus Christ, our Lord!
Responsorial Psalm: PS 119:66, 68, 76, 77, 93, 94
Response: Teach me your statutes.
Teach me good judgment and knowledge, for I believe in your commandments.
R: Teach me your statutes.
You are good, and do good. Teach me your statutes.
R: Teach me your statutes.
Please let your loving kindness be for my comfort, according to your word to your servant.
R: Teach me your statutes.
Let your tender mercies come to me, that I may live; for your law is my delight.
R: Teach me your statutes.
I will never forget your precepts, for with them, you have revived me.
R: Teach me your statutes.
I am yours. Save me, for I have sought your precepts.
R: Teach me your statutes.
Gospel of the Day: LK 12:54-59
From the gospel scripture according to Luke.
He said to the multitudes also, “When you see a cloud rising from the west, immediately you say, ‘A shower is coming,’ and so it happens.
When a south wind blows, you say, ‘There will be a scorching heat,’ and it happens.
You hypocrites! You know how to interpret the appearance of the earth and the sky, but how is it that you don’t interpret this time?”
“Why don’t you judge for yourselves what is right?
For when you are going with your adversary before the magistrate, try diligently on the way to be released from him, lest perhaps he drag you to the judge, and the judge deliver you to the officer, and the officer throw you into prison.
I tell you, you will by no means get out of there until you have paid the very last penny.”
Other Celebration
An optional celebration on this day is the Memorial of Saint John Paul II, Pope.
