WEEKLY READINGS

​Commemoration of St. Teresa of Avila

 

Christ has no body now but yours ;
No hands, no feet on earth but yours. 
Yours are the eyes through which He looks 
compassion on this world; 

Yours are the feet with which he walks to do good;
Yours are the hands, with which he blesses all the world.

Christ has no body now on earth but yours.​​​​​​

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The First Lesson

 

Ephesians 3:14-21

 

Reader: A reading from the letter of Paul to the Ephesians.

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For this reason I bow my knees before the Father, from whom every family in heaven and on earth takes its name. I pray that, according to the riches of his glory, he may grant that you may be strengthened in your inner being with power through his Spirit, and that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith, as you are being rooted and grounded in love. I pray that you may have the power to comprehend, with all the saints, what is the breadth and length and height and depth, and to know the love of Christ that surpasses knowledge, so that you may be filled with all the fullness of God.

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Now to him who by the power at work within us is able to accomplish abundantly far more than all we can ask or imagine, to him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus to all generations, for ever and ever.

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Reader: Hear what the Spirit is saying to God's people.

People: Thanks be to God.

 

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The Psalm

 

Psalm 35:1-10

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1 Fight those who fight me, O Lord; *
attack those who are attacking me.
2 Take up shield and armor *
and rise up to help me.
3 Draw the sword and bar the way against those
who pursue me; *
say to my soul, "I am your salvation."
4 Let those who seek after my life be shamed and humbled; *
let those who plot my ruin fall back and be dismayed.
5 Let them be like chaff before the wind, *
and let the angel of the Lord drive them away.

6 Let their way be dark and slippery, *
and let the angel of the Lord pursue them.
7 For they have secretly spread a net for me without a cause; *
without a cause they have dug a pit to take me alive.
8 Let ruin come upon them unawares; *
let them be caught in the net they hid;
let them fall into the pit they dug.
9 Then I will be joyful in the Lord; *
I will glory in his victory.
10 My very bones will say, "Lord, who is like you? *
You deliver the poor from those who are too strong for them,
the poor and needy from those who rob them."

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The Gospel

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Luke 12:49-53​​

 

Celebrant: The Holy Gospel of our Savior Jesus Christ according to Mark.

People: Glory to you, Lord Christ.​

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‘I came to bring fire to the earth, and how I wish it were already kindled!I have a baptism with which to be baptized, and what stress I am under until it is completed! Do you think that I have come to bring peace to the earth? No, I tell you, but rather division! From now on, five in one household will be divided, three against two and two against three; they will be divided:
father against son
  and son against father,
mother against daughter
  and daughter against mother,
mother-in-law against her daughter-in-law
  and daughter-in-law against mother-in-law.’ ​​​​​​​

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Celebrant: The Gospel of the Lord.

People: Praise to you, Lord Christ.

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