Daily Reading for Thursday, October 17th, 2024

Reading 1, Ephesians 1:3-10

³ Blessed be God the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with all the spiritual blessings of heaven in Christ.

⁴ Thus he chose us in Christ before the world was made to be holy and faultless before him in love,

⁵ marking us out for himself beforehand, to be adopted sons, through Jesus Christ. Such was his purpose and good pleasure,

⁶ to the praise of the glory of his grace, his free gift to us in the Beloved,

⁷ in whom, through his blood, we gain our freedom, the forgiveness of our sins. Such is the richness of the grace

⁸ which he has showered on us in all wisdom and insight.

⁹ He has let us know the mystery of his purpose, according to his good pleasure which he determined beforehand in Christ,

¹⁰ for him to act upon when the times had run their course: that he would bring everything together under Christ, as head, everything in the heavens and everything on earth.

Responsorial Psalm, Psalms 98:1, 2-3, 3-4, 5-6

¹ [Psalm] Sing a new song to Yahweh, for he has performed wonders, his saving power is in his right hand and his holy arm.

² Yahweh has made known his saving power, revealed his saving justice for the nations to see,

³ mindful of his faithful love and his constancy to the House of Israel. The whole wide world has seen the saving power of our God.

⁴ Acclaim Yahweh, all the earth, burst into shouts of joy!

⁵ Play to Yahweh on the harp, to the sound of instruments;

⁶ to the sound of trumpet and horn, acclaim the presence of the King.

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