Daily Readings for November 5, 2018

1st READING

We discover the gift of salvation and the power to live as Jesus’ disciples, by living in unity with one another and with God. Let us remember that we need each other’s help to maintain a disciple’s life; we need a community to live out the life of a follower of Jesus.

Philippians 2:1-4

1 Brothers and sisters: If there is any encouragement in Christ, any solace in love, any participation in the Spirit, any compassion and mercy, 2 complete my joy by being of the same mind, with the same love, united in heart, thinking one thing. 3 Do nothing out of selfishness or out of vainglory; rather, humbly regard others as more important than yourselves, 4 each looking out not for his own interests, but also everyone for those of others.

P S A L M 

Psalm 131:1, 2, 3

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

1 O Lord, my heart is not proud, nor are my eyes haughty; I busy not myself with great things, nor with things too sublime for me. (R) 2 Nay rather, I have stilled and quieted my soul like a weaned child. Like a weaned child on its mother’s lap, so is my soul within me. (R) 3 O Israel, hope in the Lord, both now and forever. (R) 

GOSPEL 

Staying in our comfort zone is understandable. But it can also be dangerous because it can lead to presumption, one of the harbingers of sin. Let us strive to grow in our faith by taking risks and setting out into the deep. If we do not try to open the next door, we will remain as we are. But God has more in store for us.

GOSPEL ACCLAMATION 

If you remain in my word, you will truly be my disciples, and you will know the truth, says the Lord.

Luke 14:12-14

12 On a Sabbath Jesus went to dine at the home of one of the leading Pharisees. He said to the host who invited him, “When you hold a lunch or a dinner, do not invite your friends or your brothers or sisters or your relatives or your wealthy neighbors, in case they may invite you back and you have repayment. 13 Rather, when you hold a banquet, invite the poor, the crippled, the lame, the blind; 14 blessed indeed will you be because of their inability to repay you. For you will be repaid at the resurrection of the righteous.”