The 30th of October, 2022 is the Thirty-First Sunday of Ordinary Time. The Bible scriptures for the holy mass readings for this day came from the Year 2022 of Liturgical Calendar.
Reading 1: WIS 11:22-12:2
The first reading from the Wisdom of Solomon.
Because the whole world before you is as a grain in a balance, and as a drop of dew that comes down upon the earth in the morning.
But you have mercy on all men, because you have power to do all things, and you overlook the sins of men to the end that they may repent.
For you love all things that are, and abhor none of the things which you made; For you never would have formed anything if you hated it.
How would anything have endured unless you had willed it? Or that which was not called by you, how would it have been preserved?
But you spare all things, because they are yours, O Sovereign Lord, you who love the living.
For your incorruptible spirit is in all things.
Therefore you convict little by little those who fall from the right way, and, putting them in remembrance by the things wherein they sin, you admonish them, that escaping from their wickedness they may believe in you, O Lord.
Responsorial Psalm: PS 145:1-2, 8-9, 10-11, 13-14
Response: I will exalt you, my God, the King. I will praise your name forever and ever.
I will exalt you, my God, the King. I will praise your name forever and ever.
Every day I will praise you. I will extol your name forever and ever.
R: I will exalt you, my God, the King. I will praise your name forever and ever.
Yahweh is gracious, merciful, slow to anger, and of great loving kindness.
Yahweh is good to all. His tender mercies are over all his works.
R: I will exalt you, my God, the King. I will praise your name forever and ever.
All your works will give thanks to you, Yahweh. Your saints will extol you.
They will speak of the glory of your kingdom, and talk about your power.
R: I will exalt you, my God, the King. I will praise your name forever and ever.
Your kingdom is an everlasting kingdom. Your dominion endures throughout all generations. Yahweh is faithful in all his words, and loving in all his deeds.
Yahweh upholds all who fall, and raises up all those who are bowed down.
R: I will exalt you, my God, the King. I will praise your name forever and ever.
Reading 2: 2 THES 1:11-2:2
The second reading from the Letter of Saint Paul to the Thessalonians.
To this end we also pray always for you that our God may count you worthy of your calling, and fulfill every desire of goodness and work of faith with power, that the name of our Lord Jesus may be glorified in you, and you in him, according to the grace of our God and the Lord Jesus Christ.
Now, brothers, concerning the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and our gathering together to him, we ask you not to be quickly shaken in your mind or troubled, either by spirit or by word or by letter as if from us, saying that the day of Christ has already come.
Gospel of the Day: LK 19:1-10
From the gospel verse according to Luke.
He entered and was passing through Jericho.
There was a man named Zacchaeus. He was a chief tax collector, and he was rich.
He was trying to see who Jesus was, and couldn’t because of the crowd, because he was short.
He ran on ahead and climbed up into a sycamore tree to see him, for he was going to pass that way.
When Jesus came to the place, he looked up and saw him, and said to him, “Zacchaeus, hurry and come down, for today I must stay at your house.”
He hurried, came down, and received him joyfully.
When they saw it, they all murmured, saying, “He has gone in to lodge with a man who is a sinner.”
Zacchaeus stood and said to the Lord, “Behold, Lord, half of my goods I give to the poor. If I have wrongfully exacted anything of anyone, I restore four times as much.”
Jesus said to him, “Today, salvation has come to this house, because he also is a son of Abraham.
For the Son of Man came to seek and to save that which was lost.”
