The 5th of October, 2024 is Saturday in the Twenty-Sixth Week of Ordinary Time. The Holy Bible verses for the mass readings for this day came from the Liturgical Calendar Year 2024.
Reading 1: JB 42:1-3, 5-6, 12-17
The first reading from the Book of Job.
Then Job answered Yahweh: “I know that you can do all things, and that no purpose of yours can be restrained.
You asked, ‘Who is this who hides counsel without knowledge?’ therefore I have uttered that which I didn’t understand, things too wonderful for me, which I didn’t know.”
“I had heard of you by the hearing of the ear, but now my eye sees you.
Therefore I abhor myself, and repent in dust and ashes.”
So Yahweh blessed the latter end of Job more than his beginning. He had fourteen thousand sheep, six thousand camels, one thousand yoke of oxen, and a thousand female donkeys.
He had also seven sons and three daughters.
He called the name of the first, Jemimah; and the name of the second, Keziah; and the name of the third, Keren Happuch.
In all the land were no women found so beautiful as the daughters of Job. Their father gave them an inheritance among their brothers.
After this Job lived one hundred forty years, and saw his sons, and his sons’ sons, to four generations.
So Job died, being old and full of days.
Responsorial Psalm: PS 119:66, 71, 75, 91, 125, 130
Response: Make your face shine on your servant. Teach me your statutes.
Teach me good judgment and knowledge, for I believe in your commandments.
R: Make your face shine on your servant. Teach me your statutes.
It is good for me that I have been afflicted, that I may learn your statutes.
R: Make your face shine on your servant. Teach me your statutes.
Yahweh, I know that your judgments are righteous, that in faithfulness you have afflicted me.
R: Make your face shine on your servant. Teach me your statutes.
Your laws remain to this day, for all things serve you.
R: Make your face shine on your servant. Teach me your statutes.
I am your servant. Give me understanding, that I may know your testimonies.
R: Make your face shine on your servant. Teach me your statutes.
The entrance of your words gives light. It gives understanding to the simple.
R: Make your face shine on your servant. Teach me your statutes.
Gospel of the Day: LK 10:17-24
From the gospel scripture according to Luke.
The seventy returned with joy, saying, “Lord, even the demons are subject to us in your name!”
He said to them, “I saw Satan having fallen like lightning from heaven.
Behold, I give you authority to tread on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy. Nothing will in any way hurt you.
Nevertheless, don’t rejoice in this, that the spirits are subject to you, but rejoice that your names are written in heaven.”
In that same hour, Jesus rejoiced in the Holy Spirit, and said, “I thank you, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that you have hidden these things from the wise and understanding, and revealed them to little children. Yes, Father, for so it was well-pleasing in your sight.”
Turning to the disciples, he said, “All things have been delivered to me by my Father. No one knows who the Son is, except the Father, and who the Father is, except the Son, and he to whomever the Son desires to reveal him.”
Turning to the disciples, he said privately, “Blessed are the eyes which see the things that you see, for I tell you that many prophets and kings desired to see the things which you see, and didn’t see them, and to hear the things which you hear, and didn’t hear them.”
Other Celebration
An optional celebration on this day is the Memorial of Saint Faustina Kowalska, Virgin as well as Blessed Francis Xavier Seelos, Priest.