Ordinary Weekday/ Jane Frances De Chantal, Married Woman, Religious Founder
Responsorial Psalm: Deuteronomy 32: 3-4ab, 7, 8, 9 and 12
Alleluia: Matthew 11: 29ab
Gospel: Matthew 18: 1-5, 10, 12-14
First Reading: Deuteronomy 31: 1-8
1 And Moses went, and spoke all these words to all Israel,
2 And he said to them: I am this day a hundred and twenty years old, I can no longer go out and come in, especially as the Lord also hath said to me: O Thou shalt not pass over this Jordan.
3 The Lord thy God then will pass over before thee: he will destroy all these nations in thy sight, and thou shalt possess them: and this Josue shall go over before thee, as the Lord hath spoken.
4 And the Lord shall do to them as he did to Sehon and Og the kings of the Amorrhites, and to their land, and shall destroy them.
5 Therefore when the Lord shall have delivered these also to you, you shall do in like manner to them as I have commanded you,
6 Do manfully and be of good heart: fear not, nor be ye dismayed at their sight: for the Lord thy God he himself is thy leader, and will not leave thee nor forsake thee.
7 And Moses called Josue, and said to him before all Israel: Take courage, and be valiant: for thou shalt bring this people into the land which the Lord swore he would give to their fathers, and thou shalt divide it by lot.
8 And the Lord who is your leader, he himself will be with thee: he will not leave thee, nor forsake thee: fear not, neither be dismayed.
Responsorial Psalm: Deuteronomy 32: 3-4ab, 7, 8, 9 and 12
R. (9a) The portion of the Lord is his people.
3 Because I will invoke the name of the Lord: give ye magnificence to our God.
4ab The works of God are perfect, and all his ways are judgments.
R. The portion of the Lord is his people.
7 Remember the days of old, think upon every generation: ask thy father, and he will declare to thee: thy elders and they will tell thee.
R. The portion of the Lord is his people.
8 When the Most High divided the nations: when he separated the sons of Adam, he appointed the bounds of people according to the number of the children of Israel.
R. The portion of the Lord is his people.
9 But the Lord’s portion is his people: Jacob the lot of his inheritance.
12 The Lord alone was his leader: and there was no strange god with him.
R. The portion of the Lord is his people.
Alleluia: Matthew 11: 29ab
R. Alleluia, alleluia.
29ab Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am meek and humble of heart.
R. Alleluia, alleluia.
Gospel: Matthew 18: 1-5, 10, 12-14
1 At that hour the disciples came to Jesus, saying: Who thinkest thou is the greater in the kingdom of heaven?
2 And Jesus calling unto him a little child, set him in the midst of them,
3 And said: Amen I say to you, unless you be converted, and become as little children, you shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven.
4 Whosoever therefore shall humble himself as this little child, he is the greater in the kingdom of heaven.
5 And he that shall receive one such little child in my name, receiveth me.
10 See that you despise not one of these little ones: for I say to you, that their angels in heaven always see the face of my Father who is in heaven.
12 What think you? If a man have an hundred sheep, and one of them should go astray: doth he not leave the ninety-nine in the mountains, and go to seek that which is gone astray?
13 And if it so be that he find it: Amen I say to you, he rejoiceth more for that, than for the ninety-nine that went not astray.
14 Even so it is not the will of your Father, who is in heaven, that one of these little ones should perish.
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