First Reading3 John 5-8

Beloved, it is a loyal thing you do when you render any service to the brethren, especially to strangers, who have testified to your love before the Church. You will do well to send them on their journey as befits God’s service. For they have set out for his sake and have accepted nothing from the heathen. So we ought to support such men, that we may be fellow workers in the truth.

Responsorial PsalmPsalm 112:1-2, 3-4, 5-6

℟Blessed the man who fears the Lord.

Praise the Lord! Blessed is the man who fears the Lord, who greatly delights in his commandments!

His descendants will be mighty in the land; the generation of the upright will be blessed.

℟Blessed the man who fears the Lord.

Wealth and riches are in his house; and his righteousness endures for ever.

Light rises in the darkness for the upright; the Lord is gracious, merciful, and righteous.

℟Blessed the man who fears the Lord.

It is well with the man who deals generously and lends, who conducts his affairs with justice.

For the righteous will never be moved; he will be remembered for ever.

℟Blessed the man who fears the Lord.

Alleluia2 Thessalonians 2:14

℟Alleluia!

To this he called you through our gospel, so that you may obtain the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ.

℟Alleluia!

GospelLuke 18:1-8

And he told them 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 regarded man; and there was a widow in that city who kept coming to him and saying, ‘Vindicate me against my adversary.’ For a while he refused; but afterward he said to himself, ‘Though I neither fear God nor regard man, yet because this widow bothers me, I will vindicate her, or she will wear me out by her continual coming.’” And the Lord said, “Hear what the unrighteous judge says. And will not God vindicate his elect, who cry to him day and night? Will he delay long over them? I tell you, he will vindicate them speedily. Nevertheless, when the Son of man comes, will he find faith on earth?”