Daily Reading for Tuesday, October 20th, 2020

Reading 1, Ephesians 2:12-22

¹² do not forget, I say, that you were at that time separate from Christ and excluded from membership of Israel, aliens with no part in the covenants of the Promise, limited to this world, without hope and without God.

¹³ But now in Christ Jesus, you that used to be so far off have been brought close, by the blood of Christ.

¹⁴ For he is the peace between us, and has made the two into one entity and broken down the barrier which used to keep them apart, by destroying in his own person the hostility,

¹⁵ that is, the Law of commandments with its decrees. His purpose in this was, by restoring peace, to create a single New Man out of the two of them,

¹⁶ and through the cross, to reconcile them both to God in one Body; in his own person he killed the hostility.

¹⁷ He came to bring the good news of peace to you who were far off and peace to those who were near.

¹⁸ Through him, then, we both in the one Spirit have free access to the Father.

¹⁹ So you are no longer aliens or foreign visitors; you are fellow-citizens with the holy people of God and part of God's household.

²⁰ You are built upon the foundations of the apostles and prophets, and Christ Jesus himself is the cornerstone.

²¹ Every structure knit together in him grows into a holy temple in the Lord;

²² and you too, in him, are being built up into a dwelling-place of God in the Spirit.

Responsorial Psalm, Psalms 85:9-10, 11-12, 13-14

⁹ His saving help is near for those who fear him, his glory will dwell in our land.

¹⁰ Faithful Love and Loyalty join together, Saving Justice and Peace embrace.

¹¹ Loyalty will spring up from the earth, and Justice will lean down from heaven.

¹² Yahweh will himself give prosperity, and our soil will yield its harvest.

¹³ Justice will walk before him, treading out a path.