Daily Reading for Sunday, October 7th, 2018

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Responsorial Psalm, Psalms 128:1-2, 3, 4-5, 6

¹ [Song of Ascents] How blessed are all who fear Yahweh, who walk in his ways!

² Your own labours will yield you a living, happy and prosperous will you be.

³ Your wife a fruitful vine in the inner places of your house. Your children round your table like shoots of an olive tree.

⁴ Such are the blessings that fall on those who fear Yahweh.

⁵ May Yahweh bless you from Zion! May you see Jerusalem prosper all the days of your life,

⁶ and live to see your children's children! Peace to Israel!

Gospel, Mark 10:2-16

² Some Pharisees approached him and asked, 'Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife?' They were putting him to the test.

³ He answered them, 'What did Moses command you?'

⁴ They replied, 'Moses allowed us to draw up a writ of dismissal in cases of divorce.'

⁵ Then Jesus said to them, 'It was because you were so hard hearted that he wrote this commandment for you.

⁶ But from the beginning of creation he made them male and female.

⁷ This is why a man leaves his father and mother,

⁸ and the two become one flesh. They are no longer two, therefore, but one flesh.

⁹ So then, what God has united, human beings must not divide.'

¹⁰ Back in the house the disciples questioned him again about this,

¹¹ and he said to them, 'Whoever divorces his wife and marries another is guilty of adultery against her.

¹² And if a woman divorces her husband and marries another she is guilty of adultery too.'

¹³ People were bringing little children to him, for him to touch them. The disciples scolded them,

¹⁴ but when Jesus saw this he was indignant and said to them, 'Let the little children come to me; do not stop them; for it is to such as these that the kingdom of God belongs.

¹⁵ In truth I tell you, anyone who does not welcome the kingdom of God like a little child will never enter it.'

¹⁶ Then he embraced them, laid his hands on them and gave them his blessing.

Reading 2, Hebrews 2:9-11

⁹ but we do see Jesus, who was for a short while made less than the angels, now crowned with glory and honour because he submitted to death; so that by God's grace his experience of death should benefit all humanity.

¹⁰ It was fitting that God, for whom and through whom everything exists, should, in bringing many sons to glory, make perfect through suffering the leader of their salvation.

¹¹ For consecrator and consecrated are all of the same stock; that is why he is not ashamed to call them brothers