Daily Reading for Thursday, November 2nd, 2023

Daily Reading for Thursday November 2, 2023

Reading 1, Wisdom 3:1-9
Responsorial Psalm, Psalms 103:8, 10, 13-14, 15-16, 17-18
Gospel, Matthew 25:31-46
Reading 2, Romans 6:3-9
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Gospel, Matthew 25:31-46

³¹ 'When the Son of man comes in his glory, escorted by all the angels, then he will take his seat on his throne of glory.

³² All nations will be assembled before him and he will separate people one from another as the shepherd separates sheep from goats.

³³ He will place the sheep on his right hand and the goats on his left.

³⁴ Then the King will say to those on his right hand, "Come, you whom my Father has blessed, take as your heritage the kingdom prepared for you since the foundation of the world.

³⁵ For I was hungry and you gave me food, I was thirsty and you gave me drink, I was a stranger and you made me welcome,

³⁶ lacking clothes and you clothed me, sick and you visited me, in prison and you came to see me."

³⁷ Then the upright will say to him in reply, "Lord, when did we see you hungry and feed you, or thirsty and give you drink?

³⁸ When did we see you a stranger and make you welcome, lacking clothes and clothe you?

³⁹ When did we find you sick or in prison and go to see you?"

⁴⁰ And the King will answer, "In truth I tell you, in so far as you did this to one of the least of these brothers of mine, you did it to me."

⁴¹ Then he will say to those on his left hand, "Go away from me, with your curse upon you, to the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels.

⁴² For I was hungry and you never gave me food, I was thirsty and you never gave me anything to drink,

⁴³ I was a stranger and you never made me welcome, lacking clothes and you never clothed me, sick and in prison and you never visited me."

⁴⁴ Then it will be their turn to ask, "Lord, when did we see you hungry or thirsty, a stranger or lacking clothes, sick or in prison, and did not come to your help?"

⁴⁵ Then he will answer, "In truth I tell you, in so far as you neglected to do this to one of the least of these, you neglected to do it to me."

⁴⁶ And they will go away to eternal punishment, and the upright to eternal life.'

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.

They are waiting for you. Will you answer?