The 11th of November, 2022, Friday is the Memorial of Saint Martin of Tours, Bishop. The Bible scriptures for the holy mass readings for this day came from the Year 2022 of Liturgical Calendar.
Reading 1: 2 JN 4-9
The first reading from the Letter of John.
I rejoice greatly that I have found some of your children walking in truth, even as we have been commanded by the Father.
Now I beg you, dear lady, not as though I wrote to you a new commandment, but that which we had from the beginning, that we love one another.
This is love, that we should walk according to his commandments. This is the commandment, even as you heard from the beginning, that you should walk in it.
For many deceivers have gone out into the world, those who don’t confess that Jesus Christ came in the flesh. This is the deceiver and the Antichrist.
Watch yourselves, that we don’t lose the things which we have accomplished, but that we receive a full reward.
Whoever transgresses and doesn’t remain in the teaching of Christ doesn’t have God. He who remains in the teaching has both the Father and the Son.
Responsorial Psalm: PS 119:1, 2, 10, 11, 17, 18
Response: Blessed are those who walk according to Yahweh’s law.
Blessed are those whose ways are blameless, who walk according to Yahweh’s law.
R: Blessed are those who walk according to Yahweh’s law.
Blessed are those who keep his statutes, who seek him with their whole heart.
R: Blessed are those who walk according to Yahweh’s law.
With my whole heart I have sought you. Don’t let me wander from your commandments.
R: Blessed are those who walk according to Yahweh’s law.
I have hidden your word in my heart, that I might not sin against you.
R: Blessed are those who walk according to Yahweh’s law.
Do good to your servant. I will live and I will obey your word.
R: Blessed are those who walk according to Yahweh’s law.
Open my eyes, that I may see wondrous things out of your law.
R: Blessed are those who walk according to Yahweh’s law.
Gospel of the Day: LK 17:26-37
From the gospel verse according to Luke.
“As it was in the days of Noah, even so it will also be in the days of the Son of Man.
They ate, they drank, they married, and they were given in marriage until the day that Noah entered into the ship, and the flood came and destroyed them all.
Likewise, even as it was in the days of Lot: they ate, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they built; but in the day that Lot went out from Sodom, it rained fire and sulfur from the sky and destroyed them all.
It will be the same way in the day that the Son of Man is revealed.
In that day, he who will be on the housetop and his goods in the house, let him not go down to take them away. Let him who is in the field likewise not turn back.
Remember Lot’s wife!
Whoever seeks to save his life loses it, but whoever loses his life preserves it.
I tell you, in that night there will be two people in one bed. One will be taken and the other will be left.
There will be two grinding grain together. One will be taken and the other will be left.”
They, answering, asked him, “Where, Lord?” He said to them, “Where the body is, there the vultures will also be gathered together.”
