Catholic Mass Readings for August 29 2024, Thursday of the Twenty-first Week in Ordinary Time & Memorial of the Beheading of Saint John the Baptist
Catholic Daily Mass Readings for August 29 2024, Thursday of the Twenty-first Week in Ordinary Time (2) & Memorial of the Beheading of Saint John the Baptist
First Reading – 1 Corinthians 1:1-9
1 Paul, called to be an Apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, and Sosthenes our brother,
2 to the Church of God that is in Corinth, to you who have been sanctified in Christ Jesus, called to be holy, with all those everywhere who call upon the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, their Lord and ours.
3 Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
4 I give thanks to my God always on your account for the grace of God bestowed on you in Christ Jesus,
5 that in him you were enriched in every way, with all discourse and all knowledge,
6 as the testimony to Christ was confirmed among you,
7 so that you are not lacking in any spiritual gift as you wait for the revelation of our Lord Jesus Christ.
8 He will keep you firm to the end, irreproachable on the day of our Lord Jesus Christ.
9 God is faithful, and by him you were called to fellowship with his Son, Jesus Christ our Lord.
Responsorial Psalm – Psalms 145:2-3, 4-5, 6-7
R. (1) I will praise your name for ever, Lord.
2 Every day will I bless you,
and I will praise your name forever and ever.
3 Great is the LORD and highly to be praised;
his greatness is unsearchable.
R. I will praise your name for ever, Lord.
4 Generation after generation praises your works
and proclaims your might.
5 They speak of the splendor of your glorious majesty
and tell of your wondrous works.
R. I will praise your name for ever, Lord.
6 They discourse of the power of your terrible deeds
and declare your greatness.
7 They publish the fame of your abundant goodness
and joyfully sing of your justice.
R. I will praise your name for ever, Lord.
Alleluia – Matthew 24:42A, 44
R. Alleluia, alleluia.
42A Stay awake!
44 For you do not know when the Son of Man will come.
R. Alleluia, alleluia.
Gospel Reading for August 29 2024 – Matthew 24:42-51
Jesus said to his disciples:
42 “Stay awake! For you do not know on which day your Lord will come.
43 Be sure of this: if the master of the house had known the hour of night when the thief was coming, he would have stayed awake and not let his house be broken into.
44 So too, you also must be prepared, for at an hour you do not expect, the Son of Man will come.
45 “Who, then, is the faithful and prudent servant, whom the master has put in charge of his household to distribute to them their food at the proper time?
46 Blessed is that servant whom his master on his arrival finds doing so.
47 Amen, I say to you, he will put him in charge of all his property.
48 But if that wicked servant says to himself, ‘My master is long delayed,’
49 and begins to beat his fellow servants, and eat and drink with drunkards,
50 the servant’s master will come on an unexpected day and at an unknown hour
51 and will punish him severely and assign him a place with the hypocrites, where there will be wailing and grinding of teeth.”
51 And he said to him, “Amen, amen, I say to you, you will see heaven opened and the angels of God ascending and descending on the Son of Man.”
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