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Weekday

First Reading

Malachi 3:13-20

13"Your words have been stout against me, says the LORD. Yet you say, `How have we spoken against thee?'  14You have said, `It is vain to serve God. What is the good of our keeping his charge or of walking as in mourning before the LORD of hosts?  15Henceforth we deem the arrogant blessed; evildoers not only prosper but when they put God to the test they escape.'"  16Then those who feared the LORD spoke with one another; the LORD heeded and heard them, and a book of remembrance was written before him of those who feared the LORD and thought on his name. 17"They shall be mine, says the LORD of hosts, my special possession on the day when I act, and I will spare them as a man spares his son who serves him.  18Then once more you shall distinguish between the righteous and the wicked, between one who serves God and one who does not serve him.

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Responsorial Psalm

Psalms 1:1-4, 6

1Blessed is the man who walks not in the counsel of the wicked, nor stands in the way of sinners, nor sits in the seat of scoffers; 2but his delight is in the law of the LORD, and on his law he meditates day and night. 3He is like a tree planted by streams of water, that yields its fruit in its season, and its leaf does not wither. In all that he does, he prospers. 4The wicked are not so, but are like chaff which the wind drives away. 6for the LORD knows the way of the righteous, but the way of the wicked will perish.

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Gospel

Luke 11:5-13

5And he said to them, "Which of you who has a friend will go to him at midnight and say to him, `Friend, lend me three loaves;  6for a friend of mine has arrived on a journey, and I have nothing to set before him';  7and he will answer from within, `Do not bother me; the door is now shut, and my children are with me in bed; I cannot get up and give you anything'?  8I tell you, though he will not get up and give him anything because he is his friend, yet because of his importunity he will rise and give him whatever he needs.  9And I tell you, Ask, and it will be given you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you.  10For every one who asks receives, and he who seeks finds, and to him who knocks it will be opened.  11What father among you, if his son asks for a fish, will instead of a fish give him a serpent;  12or if he asks for an egg, will give him a scorpion?  13If you then, who are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will the heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask him!"