Mass Readings for October 1, 2024

Job 3:1-3,11-17,20-23
Psalms 88:2-8
Luke 9:51-56

Job 3:1-3,11-17,20-23
(1) After this Job opened his mouth, and cursed the day of his birth. (2) Job answered: (3) “Let the day perish in which I was born, the night which said, ‘There is a boy conceived.’ (11) “Why didn’t I die from the womb? Why didn’t I give up the spirit when my mother bore me? (12) Why did the knees receive me? Or why the breast, that I should nurse? (13) For now should I have lain down and been quiet. I should have slept, then I would have been at rest, (14) with kings and counselors of the earth, who built up waste places for themselves; (15) or with princes who had gold, who filled their houses with silver: (16) or as a hidden untimely birth I had not been, as infants who never saw light. (17) There the wicked cease from troubling. There the weary are at rest. (20) “Why is light given to him who is in misery, life to the bitter in soul, (21) Who long for death, but it doesn’t come; and dig for it more than for hidden treasures, (22) who rejoice exceedingly, and are glad, when they can find the grave? (23) Why is light given to a man whose way is hidden, whom God has hedged in?

Psalms 88:2-8
(2) Let my prayer enter into your presence. Turn your ear to my cry. (3) For my soul is full of troubles. My life draws near to Sheol. (4) I am counted among those who go down into the pit. I am like a man who has no help, (5) set apart among the dead, like the slain who lie in the grave, whom you remember no more. They are cut off from your hand. (6) You have laid me in the lowest pit, in the darkest depths. (7) Your wrath lies heavily on me. You have afflicted me with all your waves. Selah. (8) You have taken my friends from me. You have made me an abomination to them. I am confined, and I can’t escape.

Luke 9:51-56
(51) It came to pass, when the days were near that he should be taken up, he intently set his face to go to Jerusalem, (52) and sent messengers before his face. They went, and entered into a village of the Samaritans, so as to prepare for him. (53) They didn’t receive him, because he was traveling with his face set towards Jerusalem. (54) When his disciples, James and John, saw this, they said, “Lord, do you want us to command fire to come down from the sky, and destroy them, just as Elijah did?” (55) But he turned and rebuked them, “You don’t know of what kind of spirit you are. (56) For the Son of Man didn’t come to destroy men’s lives, but to save them.” They went to another village.