Sunday Readings for Your Reflection: Liturgical Years 2011 (A), 2012 (B), and 2013 (C)
Sunday, October 6, 2013
Liturgical readings
Hebrews 1:2-3; 2:2-4
Psalm 95
2 Timothy 1:6-8, 13-14
Luke 17:5-10
"We have done no more than our duty."
The apostles said to the Lord,
"Increase our faith."
and he answered:
"If you had faith
the size of a mustard seed,
you could say to this sycamore,
'Be uprooted
and
transplanted into the sea,'
and it would obey you.
"If one of you had a servant
plowing or herding sheep
and he came in from the fields,
would you say to him,
'Come and sit down at table'?
Would you not rather say,
'Prepare my supper.
Put on your apron
and wait on me
while I eat and drink.
You can eat and drink afterward'?
Would he be grateful
to the servant who was only
carrying out his orders?
It is quite the same
with you who hear me.
When you have done
all you have been commanded to do,
say,
'We are useless servants.
We have done no more
than our duty.'"
Scripture verses from the readings:
"Let us kneel before the Lord who made us...for he is our God." (Psalm 95)
"With the strength which comes from God bear your share of the hardship which the gospel entails." (2 Timothy)
"The just man, because of his faith, shall live." (Hebrews 1)
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