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Daily Reading for Monday, November 2nd, 2020

Daily Reading for Monday November 2, 2020

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

³ You cannot have forgotten that all of us, when we were baptised into Christ Jesus, were baptised into his death.

⁴ So by our baptism into his death we were buried with him, so that as Christ was raised from the dead by the Father's glorious power, we too should begin living a new life.

⁵ If we have been joined to him by dying a death like his, so we shall be by a resurrection like his;

⁶ realising that our former self was crucified with him, so that the self which belonged to sin should be destroyed and we should be freed from the slavery of sin.

⁷ Someone who has died, of course, no longer has to answer for sin.

⁸ But we believe that, if we died with Christ, then we shall live with him too.

⁹ We know that Christ has been raised from the dead and will never die again. Death has no power over him any more.

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