Entrance antiphon

The Lord chose him for himself as high priest, and, opening his treasure house,made him rich in all good things.

The First Reading

A reading from the Letter of Saint Paul to the Romans 6:19-23

If I may use human terms to help your natural weakness: as once you put your bodies at

the service of vice and immorality, so now you must put them at the service of righteousness for your sanctification.When you were slaves of sin,

you felt no obligation to righteousness, and what did you get from this? Nothing but experiences that now make you blush, since that sort of behaviour ends in death. Now,

however, you have been set free from sin, you have been made slaves of God, and you get a reward leading to your sanctification and ending in eternal life. For the wage paid

by sin is death; the present given by God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

The Word

of the Lord

Thanks be to God.

Happy the man who has placed his trust in the Lord.

The Psalm

Happy indeed is the man who follows not the counsel of the wicked; nor lingers in the way of sinners nor sits in the company of scorners, but whose delight is the law of the Lord and who ponders his law day and night. The Psalm

Happy the man who has placed his trust in the Lord.

The Psalm

He is like a tree that is plantedbeside the flowing waters,that yields its fruit in due seasonand whose leaves shall never fade;and all that he does shall prosper.

The Psalm

Happy the man who has placed his trust in the Lord.

The Psalm

Not so are the wicked, not so!For they like winnowed chaffshall be driven away by the wind.for the Lord guards the way of the just but the way of the wicked leads to doom.

The Psalm

Happy the man who has placed his trust in the Lord.

The Psalm

Alleluia, alleluia!I am the light of the world, says the Lord;anyone who follows me will have the light of life.Alleluia! Gospel Acclamation

The Lord be with you.

And with your spirit. A Reading from the holy Gospel according to Luke 12:49-53

Glory to you, O Lord. The Gospel

Jesus said to his disciples: ‘I have come to bring fire to the earth, and how I wish it were blazing already! There is a baptism I must still receive, and how great is my distress

till it is over!‘Do you suppose that I am here to bring peace on earth? No, I tell you, but rather division. For from now on a household of five will be

divided: three against two and two against three; the father divided against the son, son against father, mother against daughter, daughter against mother, mother-in-law against

daughter-in-law, daughter-in-law against mother-in-law.’

The Gospel of the Lord

Praise to you, Lord Jesus Christ.

Lord, let me see your face, know your heart and

experience your love in my life. Strengthen in me the

precious gift of faith. I believe Lord, help my unbelief. Amen.