Daily Reading for Saturday, November 2nd, 2019

Daily Reading for Saturday November 2, 2019

Reading 1, Wisdom 3:1-9
Responsorial Psalm, Psalms 23:1-3, 3-4, 5, 6
Gospel, John 6:37-40
Reading 2, Romans 5:5-11
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Reading 1, Wisdom 3:1-9

¹ But the souls of the upright are in the hands of God, and no torment can touch them.

² To the unenlightened, they appeared to die, their departure was regarded as disaster,

³ their leaving us like annihilation; but they are at peace.

⁴ If, as it seemed to us, they suffered punishment, their hope was rich with immortality;

⁵ slight was their correction, great will their blessings be. God was putting them to the test and has proved them worthy to be with him;

⁶ he has tested them like gold in a furnace, and accepted them as a perfect burnt offering.

⁷ At their time of visitation, they will shine out; as sparks run through the stubble, so will they.

⁸ They will judge nations, rule over peoples, and the Lord will be their king for ever.

⁹ Those who trust in him will understand the truth, those who are faithful will live with him in love; for grace and mercy await his holy ones, and he intervenes on behalf of his chosen.

Responsorial Psalm, Psalms 23:1-3, 3-4, 5, 6

¹ [Psalm Of David] Yahweh is my shepherd, I lack nothing.

² In grassy meadows he lets me lie. By tranquil streams he leads me

³ to restore my spirit. He guides me in paths of saving justice as befits his name.

⁴ Even were I to walk in a ravine as dark as death I should fear no danger, for you are at my side. Your staff and your crook are there to soothe me.

⁵ You prepare a table for me under the eyes of my enemies; you anoint my head with oil; my cup brims over.

⁶ Kindness and faithful love pursue me every day of my life. I make my home in the house of Yahweh for all time to come.

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Gospel, John 6:37-40

³⁷ Everyone whom the Father gives me will come to me; I will certainly not reject anyone who comes to me,

³⁸ because I have come from heaven, not to do my own will, but to do the will of him who sent me.

³⁹ Now the will of him who sent me is that I should lose nothing of all that he has given to me, but that I should raise it up on the last day.

⁴⁰ It is my Father's will that whoever sees the Son and believes in him should have eternal life, and that I should raise that person up on the last day.

Reading 2, Romans 5:5-11

⁵ and a hope which will not let us down, because the love of God has been poured into our hearts by the Holy Spirit which has been given to us.

⁶ When we were still helpless, at the appointed time, Christ died for the godless.

⁷ You could hardly find anyone ready to die even for someone upright; though it is just possible that, for a really good person, someone might undertake to die.

⁸ So it is proof of God's own love for us, that Christ died for us while we were still sinners.

⁹ How much more can we be sure, therefore, that, now that we have been justified by his death, we shall be saved through him from the retribution of God.

¹⁰ For if, while we were enemies, we were reconciled to God through the death of his Son, how much more can we be sure that, being now reconciled, we shall be saved by his life.

¹¹ What is more, we are filled with exultant trust in God, through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have already gained our reconciliation.

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