Daily Gospel Reading and Reflection

Tuesday of the Thirty-second Week in Ordinary Time Lk 17:7-10 "When you have done all you have been commanded, say, ‘We are unprofitable servants; we have done what we were obliged to do.’”

Monday of the Thirty-second Week in Ordinary Time Lk 17:1-6 And the Apostles said to the Lord, "Increase our faith." The Lord replied, "If you have faith the size of a mustard seed, you would say to this mulberry tree, 'Be uprooted and planted in the sea,' and it would obey you."

Memorial of Saint Charles Borromeo, Bishop LK 16:1-8 "And the master commended that dishonest steward for acting prudently. For the children of this world are more prudent in dealing with their own generation than the children of light.”

Thursday of the Thirty-first Week in Ordinary Time LK 15:1-10 “Or what woman having ten coins and losing one would not light a lamp and sweep the house, searching carefully until she finds it? And when she does find it, she calls together her friends and neighbors and says to them, ‘Rejoice with me because I have found the coin that I lost.’ In just the same way, I tell you, there will be rejoicin...

The Commemoration of All the Faithful Departed (All Souls) Jn 6:37-40 "For this is the will of my Father, that everyone who sees the Son and believes in him may have eternal life, and I shall raise him on the last day.”

Solemnity of All Saints Mt 11:28 " Blessed are they who are persecuted for the sake of righteousness,         for theirs is the Kingdom of heaven.     Blessed are you when they insult you and persecute you         and utter every kind of evil against you falsely because of me.     Rejoice and be glad,         for your reward will be great in heaven.”

Monday of the Thirty-first Week in Ordinary Time Lk 14:12-14 "Rather, when you hold a banquet, invite the poor, the crippled, the lame, the blind; blessed indeed will you be because of their inability to repay you.”

Feast of Saints Simon and Jude, Apostles Lk 6:12-16 When day came, he called his disciples to himself, and from them he chose Twelve, whom he also named Apostles: Simon, whom he named Peter, and his brother Andrew, James, John, Philip, Bartholomew, Matthew, Thomas, James the son of Alphaeus, Simon who was called a Zealot, and Judas the son of James, and Judas Iscariot, who became a traitor.

Thursday of the Thirtieth Week in Ordinary Time LK 13:31-35 "Behold, your house will be abandoned. But I tell you, you will not see me until the time comes when you say, Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord.”

Wednesday of the Thirtieth Week in Ordinary Time Lk 13:22-30 "And people will come from the east and the west and from the north and the south and will recline at table in the Kingdom of God. For behold, some are last who will be first, and some are first who will be last."

Tuesday of the Thirtieth Week in Ordinary Time LK 13:18-21 Jesus said, “What is the Kingdom of God like? To what can I compare it? It is like a mustard seed that a man took and planted in the garden. When it was fully grown, it became a large bush and the birds of the sky dwelt in its branches.”

Monday of the Thirtieth Week in Ordinary Time LK 13:10-17  Jesus was teaching in a synagogue on the sabbath. And a woman was there who for eighteen years had been crippled by a spirit; she was bent over, completely incapable of standing erect. When Jesus saw her, he called to her and said, “Woman, you are set free of your infirmity.”

Friday of the Twenty-ninth Week in Ordinary Time LK 12:54-59 "You know how to interpret the appearance of the earth and the sky; why do you not know how to interpret the present time?"

Thursday of the Twenty-ninth Week in Ordinary Time LK 12:49-53 Jesus said to his disciples: “I have come to set the earth on fire, and how I wish it were already blazing! There is a baptism with which I must be baptized, and how great is my anguish until it is accomplished!"

Memorial of Saints John de Brébeuf and Isaac Jogues, priests and martyrs, and their companions, martyrs Mt 28:16-20 Then Jesus approached and said to them, "All power in heaven and on earth has been given to me. Go, therefore, and make disciples of all nations.”

Feast of Saint Luke, evangelist Lk 10:1-9 The Lord Jesus appointed seventy-two disciples whom he sent ahead of him in pairs to every town and place he intended to visit. He said to them, “The harvest is abundant but the laborers are few; so ask the master of the harvest to send out laborers for his harvest."

Memorial of Saint Ignatius of Antioch, Bishop and Martyr Jn 12:24-26 Jesus said to his disciples: "Amen, amen, I say to you, unless a grain of wheat falls to the ground and dies, it remains just a grain of wheat; but if it dies, it produces much fruit.”

Friday of the Twenty-eighth Week in Ordinary Time LK 12:1-7 "Therefore whatever you have said in the darkness will be heard in the light, and what you have whispered behind closed doors will be proclaimed on the housetops."

Thursday of the Twenty-eighth Week in Ordinary Time LK 11:47-54 When Jesus left, the scribes and Pharisees began to act with hostility toward him and to interrogate him about many things, for they were plotting to catch him at something he might say.

Wednesday of the Twenty-eighth Week in Ordinary Time LK 11:42-46 And he said, “Woe also to you scholars of the law! You impose on people burdens hard to carry, but you yourselves do not lift one finger to touch them.”

Tuesday of the Twenty-eighth Week in Ordinary Time LK 11:37-41  The Lord said to him, “Oh you Pharisees! Although you cleanse the outside of the cup and the dish, inside you are filled with plunder and evil."

Monday of the Twenty-eighth Week in Ordinary Time LK 11:29-32 "At the judgment the men of Nineveh will arise with this generation and condemn it, because at the preaching of Jonah they repented, and there is something greater than Jonah here.”

Memorial of Our Lady of the Rosary Lk 1:26-38 And the angel said to her in reply, "The Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you. Therefore the child to be born will be called holy, the Son of God."

Thursday of the Twenty-seventh Week in Ordinary Time LK 11:5-13 “And I tell you, ask and you will receive; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you. For everyone who asks, receives; and the one who seeks, finds; and to the one who knocks, the door will be opened."

Wednesday of the Twenty-seventh Week in Ordinary Time Lk 11:1-4 He said to them, "When you pray, say: Father, hallowed be your name, your Kingdom come. Give us each day our daily bread and forgive us our sins for we ourselves forgive everyone in debt to us, and do not subject us to the final test."