Mass Readings for October 21, 2023

Romans 4:13,16-18
Psalms 105:6-9,42-43
Luke 12:8-12

Romans 4:13,16-18
(13) For the promise to Abraham and to his offspring that he should be heir of the world wasn’t through the law, but through the righteousness of faith. (16) For this cause it is of faith, that it may be according to grace, to the end that the promise may be sure to all the offspring, not to that only which is of the law, but to that also which is of the faith of Abraham, who is the father of us all. (17) As it is written, “I have made you a father of many nations.” This is in the presence of him whom he believed: God, who gives life to the dead, and calls the things that are not, as though they were. (18) Besides hope, Abraham in hope believed, to the end that he might become a father of many nations, according to that which had been spoken, “So will your offspring be.”

Psalms 105:6-9,42-43
(6) you offspring of Abraham, his servant, you children of Jacob, his chosen ones. (7) He is Yahweh, our God. His judgments are in all the earth. (8) He has remembered his covenant forever, the word which he commanded to a thousand generations, (9) the covenant which he made with Abraham, his oath to Isaac, (42) For he remembered his holy word, and Abraham, his servant. (43) He brought his people out with joy, his chosen with singing.

Luke 12:8-12
(8) “I tell you, everyone who confesses me before men, him will the Son of Man also confess before the angels of God; (9) but he who denies me in the presence of men will be denied in the presence of the angels of God. (10) Everyone who speaks a word against the Son of Man will be forgiven, but those who blaspheme against the Holy Spirit will not be forgiven. (11) When they bring you before the synagogues, the rulers, and the authorities, don’t be anxious how or what you will answer, or what you will say; (12) for the Holy Spirit will teach you in that same hour what you must say.”