Friday of the Twenty‑seventh week in Ordinary Time

First Reading: Joel 1:13-15; 2:1-2
Responsorial Psalm: Psalms 9:2-3, 6, 16, 8-9
Gospel: Luke 11:15-26

First Reading
Joel 1:13-15; 2:1-2
Put on sackcloth and lament, O priests; wail, O ministers of the altar. Go in, pass the night in sackcloth, O ministers of my God! Because grain offering and drink offering are withheld from the house of your God. Consecrate a fast; call a solemn assembly. Gather the elders and all the inhabitants of the land to the house of the Lord your God, and cry out to the Lord. Alas for the day! For the day of the Lord is near, and as destruction from the Almighty it comes. Blow a trumpet in Sion; sound an alarm on my holy mountain! Let all the inhabitants of the land tremble, for the day of the Lord is coming; it is near, a day of darkness and gloom, a day of clouds and thick darkness! Like blackness there is spread upon the mountains a great and powerful people; their like has never been before, nor will be again after them through the years of all generations.

The word of the Lord.

Responsorial Psalm
Psalms 9:2-3, 6, 16, 8-9
R. The Lord will judge the world with justice.

I will praise you, Lord, with all my heart; all your wonders I will confess. I will rejoice in you and be glad, and sing psalms to your name, O Most High.
R. The Lord will judge the world with justice.

You have rebuked the nations, destroyed the wicked; you have wiped out their name forever and ever. The nations have fallen in the pit which they made; their feet have been caught in the snare they laid.
R. The Lord will judge the world with justice.

But the Lord sits enthroned forever; he has set up his throne for judgment. He will judge the world with justice; he will govern the peoples with equity.
R. The Lord will judge the world with justice.

Gospel
Luke 11:15-26
At that time:[When Jesus had cast out a demon,] some of the people said, “He casts out demons by Beelzebul, the prince of demons”, while others, to test him, kept seeking from him a sign from heaven. But he, knowing their thoughts, said to them, “Every kingdom divided against itself is laid waste, and a divided household falls. And if Satan also is divided against himself, how will his kingdom stand? For you say that I cast out demons by Beelzebul. And if I cast out demons by Beelzebul, by whom do your sons cast them out? Therefore they will be your judges. But if it is by the finger of God that I cast out demons, then the kingdom of God has come upon you. When a strong man, fully armed, guards his own palace, his goods are safe; but when one stronger than he attacks him and overcomes him, he takes away his armour in which he trusted and divides his spoil. Whoever is not with me is against me, and whoever does not gather with me scatters. “When the unclean spirit has gone out of a person, it passes through waterless places seeking rest, and finding none it says, ‘I will return to my house from which I came.’ And when it comes, it finds the house swept and put in order. Then it goes and brings seven other spirits more evil than itself, and they enter and dwell there. And the last state of that person is worse than the first.”

The Gospel of the Lord.