Daily Reading for Monday, October 30th, 2023

Reading 1, Romans 8:12-17

¹² So then, my brothers, we have no obligation to human nature to be dominated by it.

¹³ If you do live in that way, you are doomed to die; but if by the Spirit you put to death the habits originating in the body, you will have life.

¹⁴ All who are guided by the Spirit of God are sons of God;

¹⁵ for what you received was not the spirit of slavery to bring you back into fear; you received the Spirit of adoption, enabling us to cry out, 'Abba, Father!'

¹⁶ The Spirit himself joins with our spirit to bear witness that we are children of God.

¹⁷ And if we are children, then we are heirs, heirs of God and joint-heirs with Christ, provided that we share his suffering, so as to share his glory.

Responsorial Psalm, Psalms 68:2, 4, 6-7, 20-21

² You disperse them like smoke; as wax melts in the presence of a fire, so the wicked melt at the presence of God.

⁴ Sing to God, play music to his name, build a road for the Rider of the Clouds, rejoice in Yahweh, dance before him.

⁶ God gives the lonely a home to live in, leads prisoners out into prosperity, but rebels must live in the bare wastelands.

⁷ God, when you set out at the head of your people, when you strode over the desert,

²⁰ This God of ours is a God who saves; from Lord Yahweh comes escape from death;

²¹ but God smashes the head of his enemies, the long-haired skull of the prowling criminal.