The 2nd of September, 2024 is Monday in the Twenty-Second Week of Ordinary Time. The Bible scriptures for the holy mass readings for this day came from the 2024 Liturgical Calendar.
Reading 1: 1 COR 2:1-5
The first reading from the Letter of Saint Paul to the Corinthians.
When I came to you, brothers, I didn’t come with excellence of speech or of wisdom, proclaiming to you the testimony of God.
For I determined not to know anything among you except Jesus Christ and him crucified.
I was with you in weakness, in fear, and in much trembling.
My speech and my preaching were not in persuasive words of human wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power, that your faith wouldn’t stand in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God.
Responsorial Psalm: PS 119:97, 98, 99, 100, 101, 102
Response: How I love your law! It is my meditation all day.
How I love your law! It is my meditation all day.
R: How I love your law! It is my meditation all day.
Your commandments make me wiser than my enemies, for your commandments are always with me.
R: How I love your law! It is my meditation all day.
I have more understanding than all my teachers, for your testimonies are my meditation.
R: How I love your law! It is my meditation all day.
I understand more than the aged, because I have kept your precepts.
R: How I love your law! It is my meditation all day.
I have kept my feet from every evil way, that I might observe your word.
R: How I love your law! It is my meditation all day.
I have not turned away from your ordinances, for you have taught me.
R: How I love your law! It is my meditation all day.
Gospel of the Day: LK 4:16-30
From the gospel verse according to Luke.
He came to Nazareth, where he had been brought up. He entered, as was his custom, into the synagogue on the Sabbath day, and stood up to read.
The book of the prophet Isaiah was handed to him. He opened the book, and found the place where it was written, “The Spirit of the Lord is on me, because he has anointed me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent me to heal the broken hearted, to proclaim release to the captives, recovering of sight to the blind, to deliver those who are crushed, and to proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord.”
He closed the book, gave it back to the attendant, and sat down. The eyes of all in the synagogue were fastened on him.
He began to tell them, “Today, this Scripture has been fulfilled in your hearing.”
All testified about him and wondered at the gracious words which proceeded out of his mouth; and they said, “Isn’t this Joseph’s son?”
He said to them, “Doubtless you will tell me this proverb, ‘Physician, heal yourself! Whatever we have heard done at Capernaum, do also here in your hometown.’_”
He said, “Most certainly I tell you, no prophet is acceptable in his hometown.
But truly I tell you, there were many widows in Israel in the days of Elijah, when the sky was shut up three years and six months, when a great famine came over all the land.
Elijah was sent to none of them, except to Zarephath, in the land of Sidon, to a woman who was a widow.
There were many lepers in Israel in the time of Elisha the prophet, yet not one of them was cleansed, except Naaman, the Syrian.”
They were all filled with wrath in the synagogue as they heard these things.
They rose up, threw him out of the city, and led him to the brow of the hill that their city was built on, that they might throw him off the cliff.
But he, passing through the middle of them, went his way.
