First
Reading, Colossians 2:6-15
6 So
then, as you received Jesus as Lord and Christ, now live your lives in him,
7 be
rooted in him and built up on him, held firm by the faith you have been taught,
and overflowing with thanksgiving.
8 Make
sure that no one captivates you with the empty lure of a 'philosophy' of the
kind that human beings hand on, based on the principles of this world and not
on Christ.
9 In
him, in bodily form, lives divinity in all its fullness,
10 and
in him you too find your own fulfilment, in the one who is the head of every
sovereignty and ruling force.
11 In
him you have been circumcised, with a circumcision performed, not by human
hand, but by the complete stripping of your natural self. This is circumcision according
to Christ.
12 You
have been buried with him by your baptism; by which, too, you have been raised
up with him through your belief in the power of God who raised him from the
dead.
13 You
were dead, because you were sinners and uncircumcised in body: he has brought
you to life with him, he has forgiven us every one of our sins.
14 He
has wiped out the record of our debt to the Law, which stood against us; he has
destroyed it by nailing it to the cross;
15 and
he has stripped the sovereignties and the ruling forces, and paraded them in
public, behind him in his triumphal procession.
Responsorial
Psalm, Psalms 145:1-2, 8-9, 10-11
1 [Hymn
of Praise Of David] I shall praise you to the heights, God my King, I shall
bless your name for ever and ever.
2 Day
after day I shall bless you, I shall praise your name for ever and ever.
8
Yahweh is tenderness and pity, slow to anger, full of faithful love.
9
Yahweh is generous to all, his tenderness embraces all his creatures.
10 All
your creatures shall thank you, Yahweh, and your faithful shall bless you.
11 They
shall speak of the glory of your kingship and tell of your might,
Gospel,
Luke 6:12-19
12 Now
it happened in those days that he went onto the mountain to pray; and he spent
the whole night in prayer to God.
13 When
day came he summoned his disciples and picked out twelve of them; he called
them 'apostles':
14
Simon whom he called Peter, and his brother Andrew, James, John, Philip,
Bartholomew,
15
Matthew, Thomas, James son of Alphaeus, Simon called the Zealot,
16
Judas son of James, and Judas Iscariot who became a traitor.
17 He
then came down with them and stopped at a piece of level ground where there was
a large gathering of his disciples, with a great crowd of people from all parts
of Judaea and Jerusalem and the coastal region of Tyre and Sidon
18 who
had come to hear him and to be cured of their diseases. People tormented by
unclean spirits were also cured,
19 and everyone in the crowd was trying to
touch him because power came out of him that cured them all.