Mass Readings for October 11, 2023

Jonah 4:1-11
Psalms 86:3-6,9-10
Luke 11:1-4

Jonah 4:1-11
(1) But it displeased Jonah exceedingly, and he was angry. (2) He prayed to Yahweh, and said, “Please, Yahweh, wasn’t this what I said when I was still in my own country? Therefore I hurried to flee to Tarshish, for I knew that you are a gracious God, and merciful, slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness, and you relent of doing harm. (3) Therefore now, Yahweh, take, I beg you, my life from me; for it is better for me to die than to live.” (4) Yahweh said, “Is it right for you to be angry?” (5) Then Jonah went out of the city, and sat on the east side of the city, and there made himself a booth, and sat under it in the shade, until he might see what would become of the city. (6) Yahweh God prepared a vine, and made it to come up over Jonah, that it might be a shade over his head, to deliver him from his discomfort. So Jonah was exceedingly glad because of the vine. (7) But God prepared a worm at dawn the next day, and it chewed on the vine, so that it withered. (8) When the sun arose, God prepared a sultry east wind; and the sun beat on Jonah’s head, so that he fainted, and requested for himself that he might die, and said, “It is better for me to die than to live.” (9) God said to Jonah, “Is it right for you to be angry about the vine?” He said, “I am right to be angry, even to death.” (10) Yahweh said, “You have been concerned for the vine, for which you have not labored, neither made it grow; which came up in a night, and perished in a night. (11) Shouldn’t I be concerned for Nineveh, that great city, in which are more than one hundred twenty thousand persons who can’t discern between their right hand and their left hand; and also much livestock?”

Psalms 86:3-6,9-10
(3) Be merciful to me, Lord, for I call to you all day long. (4) Bring joy to the soul of your servant, for to you, Lord, do I lift up my soul. (5) For you, Lord, are good, and ready to forgive; abundant in loving kindness to all those who call on you. (6) Hear, Yahweh, my prayer. Listen to the voice of my petitions. (9) All nations you have made will come and worship before you, Lord. They shall glorify your name. (10) For you are great, and do wondrous things. You are God alone.

Luke 11:1-4
(1) When he finished praying in a certain place, one of his disciples said to him, “Lord, teach us to pray, just as John also taught his disciples.” (2) He said to them, “When you pray, say, ‘Our Father in heaven, may your name be kept holy. May your Kingdom come. May your will be done on earth, as it is in heaven. (3) Give us day by day our daily bread. (4) Forgive us our sins, for we ourselves also forgive everyone who is indebted to us. Bring us not into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one.’”