Saturday of the Thirty‑second week in Ordinary Time

First Reading: Wisdom 18:14-16; 19:6-9
Responsorial Psalm: Psalms 105:2-3, 36-37, 42-43
Gospel: Luke 18:1-8

First Reading
Wisdom 18:14-16; 19:6-9
While gentle silence enveloped all things, and night in its swift course was now half gone, your all-powerful word leaped from heaven, from the royal throne, into the midst of the land that was doomed, a stern warrior carrying the sharp sword of your authentic command, and stood and filled all things with death and touched heaven while standing on the earth. For the whole creation in its nature was fashioned anew, complying with your commands, that your children might be kept unharmed. The cloud was seen overshadowing the camp, and dry land emerging where water had stood before, an unhindered way out of the Red Sea, and a grassy plain out of the raging waves, where those protected by your hand passed through as one nation, after gazing on marvellous wonders. For they ranged like horses and leaped like lambs, praising you, O Lord, who delivered them.

The word of the Lord.

Responsorial Psalm
Psalms 105:2-3, 36-37, 42-43
R. Remember the wonders the Lord has done.

O sing to him, sing his praise; tell all his wonderful works! Glory in his holy name; let the hearts that seek the Lord rejoice.
R. Remember the wonders the Lord has done.

He struck all the firstborn in their land, the first fruit of all their strength. He led out Israel with silver and gold. In his tribes were none who stumbled.
R. Remember the wonders the Lord has done.

For he remembered his holy word, spoken to Abraham his servant. So he brought out his people with joy, his chosen ones with shouts of rejoicing.
R. Remember the wonders the Lord has done.

Gospel
Luke 18:1-8
At that time:Jesus told his disciples a parable, to the effect that they ought always to pray and not lose heart. He said, “In a certain city there was a judge who neither feared God nor respected man. And there was a widow in that city who kept coming to him and saying, ‘Give me justice against my adversary.’ For a while he refused, but afterwards he said to himself, ‘Though I neither fear God nor respect man, yet because this widow keeps bothering me, I will give her justice, so that she will not beat me down by her continual coming.’” And the Lord said, “Hear what the unrighteous judge says. And will not God give justice to his elect, who cry to him day and night? Will he delay long over them? I tell you, he will give justice to them speedily. Nevertheless, when the Son of Man comes, will he find faith on earth?”

The Gospel of the Lord.