Catholic Daily Readings for October 4 2023: Wednesday of the Twenty-sixth Week in Ordinary Time – Lectionary: 457
| Catholic Daily Readings for October 4 2023, Wednesday of the Twenty-sixth Week in Ordinary Time | |
|---|---|
| 1st Reading | Nehemiah 2:1-8 |
| Responsorial Psalm | Psalms 137:1-2, 3, 4-5, 6 |
| Alleluia | Philippians 3:8-9 |
| Gospel | Luke 9:57-62 |
Daily Mass Readings for October 4 2023, Wednesday of the Twenty-sixth Week in Ordinary Time
1st Reading – Nehemiah 2:1-8
1 Now it happened that, in the month of Nisan, in the twentieth year of king Artaxerxes, wine was before him; and I lifted up the wine, and I gave it to the king. And I was like someone languishing before his face.
2 And the king said to me: “Why is your expression sad, though you do not appear to be sick? This is not without cause, but some evil, I know not what, is in your heart.” And I was struck with an exceedingly great fear.
3 And I said to the king: “O king, live forever. Why should my expression not be mournful, since the city of the house of the sepulchers of my father is desolate, and its gates have been burned with fire?”
4 And the king said to me: “What would you request?” And I prayed to the God of heaven.
5 And I said to the king: “If it seems good to the king, and if your servant is pleasing before your face: that you would send me into Judea, to the city of the sepulcher of my father. And I will rebuild it.”
6 And the king said to me, with the queen who was sitting beside him: “Until what time will your journey be, and when will you return?” And it was pleasing before the countenance of the king, and so he sent me. And I established a time for him.
7 And I said to the king: “If it seems good to the king, may he give me letters to the governors of the region beyond the river, so that they may lead me through, until I arrive in Judea,
8 and a letter to Asaph, the keeper of the king’s forest, so that he may give me timber, in order that I may be able to cover the gates of the tower of the house, and the walls of the city, and the house that I will enter.” And the king granted to me in accord with the good hand of my God, who is with me.
Responsorial Psalm – Psalms 137:1-2, 3, 4-5, 6
R. (6ab) Let my tongue be silenced if I ever forget you!
1 By the streams of Babylon
we sat and wept
when we remembered Zion.
2 On the aspens of that land
we hung up our harps.
R. Let my tongue be silenced if I ever forget you!
3 Though there our captors asked of us
the lyrics of our songs,
And our despoilers urged us to be joyous:
“Sing for us the songs of Zion!”
R. Let my tongue be silenced if I ever forget you!
4 How could we sing a song of the LORD
in a foreign land?
5 If I forget you, Jerusalem,
may my right hand be forgotten!
R. Let my tongue be silenced if I ever forget you!
6 May my tongue cleave to my palate
if I remember you not,
If I place not Jerusalem
ahead of my joy.
R. Let my tongue be silenced if I ever forget you!
Alleluia – Philippians 3:8-9
R. Alleluia, alleluia.
8 I consider all things so much rubbish
9 that I may gain Christ and be found in him.
R. Alleluia, alleluia.
Gospel – Luke 9:57-62
57 As Jesus and his disciples were proceeding on their journey, someone said to him, “I will follow you wherever you go.”
58 Jesus answered him, “Foxes have dens and birds of the sky have nests, but the Son of Man has nowhere to rest his head.”
59 And to another he said, “Follow me.” But he replied, “Lord, let me go first and bury my father.”
60 But he answered him, “Let the dead bury their dead. But you, go and proclaim the Kingdom of God.”
61 And another said, “I will follow you, Lord, but first let me say farewell to my family at home.”
62 Jesus answered him, “No one who sets a hand to the plow and looks to what was left behind is fit for the Kingdom of God.”
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