Sunday – 25 Oct 2020

1st Reading: Ex 22:20-26

You shall not wrong or oppress a stranger, for you were strangers in the land of Egypt. You shall not harm the widow or the orphan. If you do harm to them and they cry out to me, I will heart them and my anger will blaze and I will kill you with the sword, and your own wives will be widows and your children orphans. If you lend money to any of my people who are poor, do not act like a moneylender and do not charge him interest. If ever you take a persons cloak as a pledge, you must give it back to him by sunset, for it is all the covering he has for his body. In what else will be sleep? And when he cries to me I will hear him, for I am full of pity

Responsorial: Psalm 18:2-3,3-4,47,51

Response: I love you, Lord, my strength

I love you, Lord, my strength, my rock, my fortress, my savior. My God is the rock where i take refuge my shield, my mighty help, my stronghold. The Lord is worthy of my praise, when I call I am saved from my foes (R)

Long life to the Lord my rock. Praised be the God who saves me. He has given great victories to his king and shown his love for his anointed (R)

Second Reading : 1 Thes 1:5-10

You also know how we dealt with you, for your sake. In return, you became followers of us and of the Lord, when on receiving the word, you experienced the joy of the Holy Spirit in the midst of great opposition. And you became a model for the faith of Macedonia and Achaia, since, from you, the word of the Lord spread to Macedonia and Achaia, and still further. The faith you have in God has become news to so may places that we need to say no more about it. Others will tell of how you welcomed us and turned from idols to the Lord. For you serve the Living and true God, and you wait for his Son from heaven, whom he raised from the dead, Jesus, who frees us from impending trial.

Gospel: Mt 22:34-40

When the Pharisees heard how Jesus had silenced the Sadducees, they assembled together. One of them, a lawyer, questioned him to test him, “Teacher, which commandment is the greatest?” Jesus answered, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind. This is the first and the most important of the commandments. The second is like it “You shall love your neighbour as yourself”. The whole law and the prophets are founded on these two commandments