The 8th of November, 2021 is Monday in the Thirty-Second Week of Ordinary Time. The Bible scriptures for the holy mass readings for this day came from the Year 2021 of Liturgical Calendar.
Reading 1: WIS 1:1-7
The first reading from the Wisdom of Solomon.
Love righteousness, all you who are judges of the earth. Think of the Lord with a good mind. Seek him in singleness of heart, because he is found by those who don’t put him to the test, and is manifested to those who trust him.
For crooked thoughts separate from God. His Power convicts when it is tested, and exposes the foolish; because wisdom will not enter into a soul that devises evil, nor dwell in a body that is enslaved by sin.
For a holy spirit of discipline will flee deceit, and will depart from thoughts that are without understanding, and will be ashamed when unrighteousness has come in.
For wisdom is a spirit who loves man, and she will not hold a blasphemer guiltless for his lips, because God is witness of his inmost self, and is a true overseer of his heart, and a hearer of his tongue.
Because the spirit of the Lord has filled the world, and that which holds all things together knows what is said.
Responsorial Psalm: PS 139:1-3, 4-6, 7-8, 9-10
Response: And lead me in the everlasting way.
Yahweh, you have searched me, and you know me.
You know my sitting down and my rising up. You perceive my thoughts from afar.
You search out my path and my lying down, and are acquainted with all my ways.
R: And lead me in the everlasting way.
For there is not a word on my tongue, but behold, Yahweh, you know it altogether.
You hem me in behind and before. You laid your hand on me.
This knowledge is beyond me. It’s lofty. I can’t attain it.
R: And lead me in the everlasting way.
Where could I go from your Spirit? Or where could I flee from your presence?
If I ascend up into heaven, you are there. If I make my bed in Sheol, behold, you are there!
R: And lead me in the everlasting way.
If I take the wings of the dawn, and settle in the uttermost parts of the sea, even there your hand will lead me, and your right hand will hold me.
R: And lead me in the everlasting way.
Gospel of the Day: LK 17:1-6
From the gospel verse according to Luke.
He said to the disciples, “It is impossible that no occasions of stumbling should come, but woe to him through whom they come!
It would be better for him if a millstone were hung around his neck, and he were thrown into the sea, rather than that he should cause one of these little ones to stumble.
Be careful. If your brother sins against you, rebuke him. If he repents, forgive him.
If he sins against you seven times in the day, and seven times returns, saying, ‘I repent,’ you shall forgive him.”
The apostles said to the Lord, “Increase our faith.”
The Lord said, “If you had faith like a grain of mustard seed, you would tell this sycamore tree, ‘Be uprooted and be planted in the sea,’ and it would obey you.”
