Mission Sunday

First Reading: Exodus 17:8-13
Responsorial Psalm: Psalms 121:1-2, 3-4, 5-6, 7-8
Second Reading: Second Timothy 3:14-4:2
Gospel: Luke 18:1-8

First Reading
Exodus 17:8-13
In those days:Amalek came and fought with Israel at Rephidim. So Moses said to Joshua, “Choose for us men, and go out and fight with Amalek. Tomorrow I will stand on the top of the hill with the staff of God in my hand.” So Joshua did as Moses told him, and fought with Amalek, while Moses, Aaron, and Hur went up to the top of the hill. Whenever Moses held up his hand, Israel prevailed, and whenever he lowered his hand, Amalek prevailed. But Moses’ hands grew weary, so they took a stone and put it under him, and he sat on it, while Aaron and Hur held up his hands, one on one side, and the other on the other side. So his hands were steady until the going down of the sun. And Joshua overwhelmed Amalek and his people with the sword.

The word of the Lord.

Responsorial Psalm
Psalms 121:1-2, 3-4, 5-6, 7-8
R. Our help comes from the Lord, who made heaven and earth.

I lift up my eyes to the mountains; from where shall come my help? My help shall come from the Lord, who made heaven and earth.
R. Our help comes from the Lord, who made heaven and earth.

He will keep your foot from stumbling. Your guard will never slumber. No, he sleeps not nor slumbers, Israel’s guard.
R. Our help comes from the Lord, who made heaven and earth.

The Lord your guard, the Lord your shade at your right hand. By day the sun shall not smite you, nor the moon in the night.
R. Our help comes from the Lord, who made heaven and earth.

The Lord will guard you from evil; he will guard your soul. The Lord will guard your going and coming, both now and forever.
R. Our help comes from the Lord, who made heaven and earth.

Second Reading
Second Timothy 3:14-4:2
Beloved:Continue in what you have learned and have firmly believed, knowing from whom you learned it and how from childhood you have been acquainted with the sacred writings, which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus. All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness, that the man of God may be complete, equipped for every good work. I charge you in the presence of God and of Christ Jesus, who is to judge the living and the dead, and by his appearing and his kingdom: preach the word; be ready in season and out of season; reprove, rebuke, and exhort, with complete patience and teaching.

The word of the Lord.

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.