Daily Reading for Thursday, October 3rd, 2024

Daily Reading for Thursday October 3, 2024

Reading 1, Job 19:21-27
Responsorial Psalm, Psalms 27:7-8, 8-9, 13-14
Gospel, Luke 10:1-12
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Reading 1, Job 19:21-27

²¹ Pity me, pity me, my friends, since I have been struck by the hand of God.

²² Must you persecute me just as God does, and give my body no peace?

²³ Will no one let my words be recorded, inscribed on some monument

²⁴ with iron chisel and engraving tool, cut into the rock for ever?

²⁵ I know that I have a living Defender and that he will rise up last, on the dust of the earth.

²⁶ After my awakening, he will set me close to him, and from my flesh I shall look on God.

²⁷ He whom I shall see will take my part: my eyes will be gazing on no stranger. My heart sinks within me.

Responsorial Psalm, Psalms 27:7-8, 8-9, 13-14

⁷ Yahweh, hear my voice as I cry, pity me, answer me!

⁸ Of you my heart has said, 'Seek his face!' Your face, Yahweh, I seek;

⁹ do not turn away from me. Do not thrust aside your servant in anger, without you I am helpless. Never leave me, never forsake me, God, my Saviour.

¹³ This I believe: I shall see the goodness of Yahweh, in the land of the living.

¹⁴ Put your hope in Yahweh, be strong, let your heart be bold, put your hope in Yahweh.

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Gospel, Luke 10:1-12

¹ After this the Lord appointed seventy-two others and sent them out ahead of him in pairs, to all the towns and places he himself would be visiting.

² And he said to them, 'The harvest is rich but the labourers are few, so ask the Lord of the harvest to send labourers to do his harvesting.

³ Start off now, but look, I am sending you out like lambs among wolves.

⁴ Take no purse with you, no haversack, no sandals. Salute no one on the road.

⁵ Whatever house you enter, let your first words be, "Peace to this house!"

⁶ And if a man of peace lives there, your peace will go and rest on him; if not, it will come back to you.

⁷ Stay in the same house, taking what food and drink they have to offer, for the labourer deserves his wages; do not move from house to house.

⁸ Whenever you go into a town where they make you welcome, eat what is put before you.

⁹ Cure those in it who are sick, and say, "The kingdom of God is very near to you."

¹⁰ But whenever you enter a town and they do not make you welcome, go out into its streets and say,

¹¹ "We wipe off the very dust of your town that clings to our feet, and leave it with you. Yet be sure of this: the kingdom of God is very near."

¹² I tell you, on the great Day it will be more bearable for Sodom than for that town.

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