Friday, October 2, 2015

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Baruch 4:5-12, 27-29
5Take courage, my people, O memorial of Israel! 6It was not for destruction that you were sold to the nations, but you were handed over to your enemies because you angered God. 7For you provoked him who made you, by sacrificing to demons and not to God. 8You forgot the everlasting God, who brought you up, and you grieved Jerusalem, who reared you. 9For she saw the wrath that came upon you from God, and she said: "Hearken, you neighbors of Zion, God has brought great sorrow upon me; 10for I have seen the captivity of my sons and daughters, which the Everlasting brought upon them. 11With joy I nurtured them, but I sent them away with weeping and sorrow. 12Let no one rejoice over me, a widow and bereaved of many; I was left desolate because of the sins of my children, because they turned away from the law of God. 27"Take courage, my children, and cry to God, for you will be remembered by him who brought this upon you. 28For just as you purposed to go astray from God, return with tenfold zeal to seek him. 29For he who brought these calamities upon you will bring you everlasting joy with your salvation." 
Responsorial Psalm
Psalms 69:33-37
32Let the oppressed see it and be glad; you who seek God, let your hearts revive. 33For the LORD hears the needy, and does not despise his own that are in bonds. 34Let heaven and earth praise him, the seas and everything that moves therein. 35For God will save Zion and rebuild the cities of Judah; and his servants shall dwell there and possess it; 36the children of his servants shall inherit it, and those who love his name shall dwell in it.
Gospel
Luke 10:17-24
17The seventy returned with joy, saying, "Lord, even the demons are subject to us in your name!" 18And he said to them, "I saw Satan fall like lightning from heaven.  19Behold, I have given you authority to tread upon serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy; and nothing shall hurt you.  20Nevertheless do not rejoice in this, that the spirits are subject to you; but rejoice that your names are written in heaven."  21In that same hour he rejoiced in the Holy Spirit and said, "I thank thee, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that thou hast hidden these things from the wise and understanding and revealed them to babes; yea, Father, for such was thy gracious will.  22All things have been delivered to me by my Father; and no one knows who the Son is except the Father, or who the Father is except the Son and any one to whom the Son chooses to reveal him."  23Then turning to the disciples he said privately, "Blessed are the eyes which see what you see!  24For I tell you that many prophets and kings desired to see what you see, and did not see it, and to hear what you hear, and did not hear it."

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