HOLY MASS TODAY – CATHOLIC MASS 5TH NOVEMBER 2023

Thirty-First Sunday in Ordinary Time

First Reading: Malachi 1: 14b – 2: 2b, 8-10
14b For I am a great King, saith the Lord of hosts, and my name is dreadful among the Gentiles.

2:1 And now, O ye priests, this commandment is to you.

2ab If you will not hear, and if you will not lay it to heart, to give glory to my name, saith the Lord of hosts: I will send poverty upon you, and will curse your blessings, yea I will curse them.

8 But you have departed out of the way, and have caused many to stumble at the law: you have made void the covenant of Levi, saith the Lord of hosts.

9 Therefore have I also made you contemptible, and base before all people, as you have not kept my ways, and have accepted persons in the law.

10 Have we not all one father? hath not one God created us? why then doth every one of us despise his brother, violating the covenant of our fathers?

Responsorial Psalm: Psalms 131: 1, 2, 3
R. In you, Lord, I have found my peace.

1 Lord, my heart is not exalted: nor are my eyes lofty. Neither have I walked in great matters, nor in wonderful things above me.

R. In you, Lord, I have found my peace.

2 If I was not humbly minded, but exalted my soul: As a child that is weaned is towards his mother, so reward in my soul.

R. In you, Lord, I have found my peace.

3 Let Israel hope in the Lord, from henceforth now and for ever.

R. In you, Lord, I have found my peace.

Second Reading: First Thessalonians 2: 7b-9, 13
7b We became little ones in the midst of you, as if a nurse should cherish her children:

8 So desirous of you, we would gladly impart unto you not only the gospel of God, but also our own souls: because you were become most dear unto us.

9 For you remember, brethren, our labour and toil: working night and day, lest we should be chargeable to any of you, we preached among you the gospel of God.

13 Therefore, we also give thanks to God without ceasing: because, that when you had received of us the word of the hearing of God, you received it not as the word of men, but (as it is indeed) the word of God, who worketh in you that have believed.

Alleluia: Matthew 23: 9b, 10b
R. Alleluia, alleluia.

9b, 10b You have but one Father in heaven and one master, the Christ.

R. Alleluia, alleluia.

Gospel: Matthew 23: 1-12
1 Jesus spoke to the multitudes and to his disciples,

2 Saying: The scribes and the Pharisees have sitten on the chair of Moses.

3 All things therefore whatsoever they shall say to you, observe and do: but according to their works do ye not; for they say, and do not.

4 For they bind heavy and insupportable burdens, and lay them on men’s shoulders; but with a finger of their own they will not move them.

5 And all their works they do for to be seen of men. For they make their phylacteries broad, and enlarge their fringes.

6 And they love the first places at feasts, and the first chairs in the synagogues,

7 And salutations in the market place, and to be called by men, Rabbi.

8 But be not you called Rabbi. For one is your master; and all you are brethren.

9 And call none your father upon earth; for one is your father, who is in heaven.

10 Neither be ye called masters; for one is your master, Christ.

11 He that is the greatest among you shall be your servant.

12 And whosoever shall exalt himself shall be humbled: and he that shall humble himself shall be exalted.