The 3rd of October, 2024 is Thursday in the Twenty-Sixth Week of Ordinary Time. The Holy Bible verses for the mass readings for this day came from the Liturgical Calendar of the Year 2024.
Reading 1: JB 19:21-27
The first reading from the Book of Job.
“Have pity on me. Have pity on me, you my friends, for the hand of God has touched me.
Why do you persecute me as God, and are not satisfied with my flesh?”
“Oh that my words were now written! Oh that they were inscribed in a book!
That with an iron pen and lead they were engraved in the rock forever!
But as for me, I know that my Redeemer lives. In the end, he will stand upon the earth.
After my skin is destroyed, then I will see God in my flesh, whom I, even I, will see on my side. My eyes will see, and not as a stranger.”
Responsorial Psalm: PS 27:7-8A, 8B-9ABC, 13-14
Response: I am still confident of this: I will see the goodness of Yahweh in the land of the living.
Hear, Yahweh, when I cry with my voice. Have mercy also on me, and answer me.
When you said, “Seek my face,” my heart said to you.
R: I am still confident of this: I will see the goodness of Yahweh in the land of the living.
“I will seek your face, Yahweh.”
Don’t hide your face from me. Don’t put your servant away in anger. You have been my help. Don’t abandon me.
R: I am still confident of this: I will see the goodness of Yahweh in the land of the living.
I am still confident of this: I will see the goodness of Yahweh in the land of the living.
Wait for Yahweh. Be strong, and let your heart take courage. Yes, wait for Yahweh.
R: I am still confident of this: I will see the goodness of Yahweh in the land of the living.
Gospel of the Day: LK 10:1-12
From the gospel scripture according to Luke.
Now after these things, the Lord also appointed seventy others, and sent them two by two ahead of him into every city and place where he was about to come.
Then he said to them, “The harvest is indeed plentiful, but the laborers are few. Pray therefore to the Lord of the harvest, that he may send out laborers into his harvest.
Go your ways. Behold, I send you out as lambs among wolves.
Carry no purse, nor wallet, nor sandals. Greet no one on the way.
Into whatever house you enter, first say, ‘Peace be to this house.’
If a son of peace is there, your peace will rest on him; but if not, it will return to you.
Remain in that same house, eating and drinking the things they give, for the laborer is worthy of his wages. Don’t go from house to house.
Into whatever city you enter and they receive you, eat the things that are set before you.
Heal the sick who are there and tell them, ‘God’s Kingdom has come near to you.’
But into whatever city you enter and they don’t receive you, go out into its streets and say, ‘Even the dust from your city that clings to us, we wipe off against you. Nevertheless know this, that God’s Kingdom has come near to you.’
I tell you, it will be more tolerable in that day for Sodom than for that city.”