October 7, 2017

Reading

Baruch   4: 5-12, 27-29

4:5 Be ever more peaceful in soul, O people of God, the memorial of Israel.
4:6 You have been sold to the nations, not into destruction, but because of this, in resentment, you provoked God to wrath, and so you have been delivered to adversity.
4:7 For you have exasperated him who made you, the eternal God, by sacrificing to evil spirits, and not to God.
4:8 For you have forgotten God, who nurtured you, and you have saddened Jerusalem, your nurse.
4:9 For she saw the wrath of God approaching you, and she said, “Listen, region of Zion, for God has brought upon me great sorrow.
4:10 For I have seen the captivity of my people, my sons and daughters, which the Eternal has led over them.
4:11 For I nurtured them with joy, but I sent them away with weeping and sorrow.
4:12 Let no one rejoice over me, a widow and a desolation, for I am forsaken by many because of the sins of my sons, because they strayed from the law of God.
4:25 Sons, endure patiently the wrath that has come upon you, for your enemy has persecuted you, but you will quickly see his destruction and you will climb over his neck.
4:26 My delicate ones have walked rough ways, for they were regarded as a flock torn apart by enemies.
4:27 Be ever more peaceful in soul, sons, and call out to the Lord, for you will be remembered by him who led you away.
4:28 For as much as you thought to go astray from God, ten times as much again he will require of you when converting.
4:29 For he who led you into evil, he himself will again lead you to eternal happiness with your salvation.”

Gospel

Luke   10: 17-24

10:17 Then the seventy-two returned with gladness, saying, “Lord, even the demons are subject to us, in your name.”
10:18 And he said to them: “I was watching as Satan fell like lightning from heaven.
10:19 Behold, I have given you authority to tread upon serpents and scorpions, and upon all the powers of the enemy, and nothing shall hurt you.
10:20 Yet truly, do not choose to rejoice in this, that the spirits are subject to you; but rejoice that your names are written in heaven.”
10:21 In the same hour, he exulted in the Holy Spirit, and he said: “I confess to you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because you have hidden these things from the wise and the prudent, and have revealed them to little ones. It is so, Father, because this way was pleasing before you.
10:22 All things have been delivered to me by my Father. And no one knows who the Son is, except the Father, and who the Father is, except the Son, and those to whom the Son has chosen to reveal him.”
10:23 And turning to his disciples, he said: “Blessed are the eyes that see what you see.
10:24 For I say to you, that many prophets and kings wanted to see the things that you see, and they did not see them, and to hear the things that you hear, and they did not hear them.”