First Reading1 Corinthians 1:1-9

Paul, called by the will of God to be an apostle of Christ Jesus, and our brother Sos′thenes, To the Church of God which is at Corinth, to those sanctified in Christ Jesus, called to be saints together with all those who in every place call on the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, both their Lord and ours: Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. I give thanks to God a always for you because of the grace of God which was given you in Christ Jesus, that in every way you were enriched in him with all speech and all knowledge—even as the testimony to Christ was confirmed among you—so that you are not lacking in any spiritual gift, as you wait for the revealing of our Lord Jesus Christ; who will sustain you to the end, guiltless in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ. God is faithful, by whom you were called into the fellowship of his Son, Jesus Christ our Lord.

Responsorial PsalmPsalm 145:2-3, 4-5, 6-7

℟I will praise your name for ever, Lord.

Every day I will bless you, and praise your name for ever and ever.

Great is the Lord, and greatly to be praised, and his greatness is unsearchable.

℟I will praise your name for ever, Lord.

One generation shall laud your works to another, and shall declare your mighty acts.

On the glorious splendor of your majesty, and on your wondrous works, I will meditate.

℟I will praise your name for ever, Lord.

Men shall proclaim the might of your awesome acts, and I will declare your greatness.

They shall pour forth the fame of your abundant goodness, and shall sing aloud of your righteousness.

℟I will praise your name for ever, Lord.

AlleluiaMatthew 24:42, 44

℟Alleluia!

Watch therefore, for you do not know on what day your Lord is coming. 

There­ fore you also must be ready; for the Son of man is coming at an hour you do not expect.

℟Alleluia!

GospelMatthew 24:42-51

Watch therefore, for you do not know on what day your Lord is coming. But know this, that if the householder

had known in what part of the night the thief was coming, he would have watched and would not have let his house be broken into. There­ fore you also must be ready; for the Son of man is coming at an hour you do not expect. Who then is the faithful and wise servant, whom his master has set over his household, to give them their food at the proper time? Blessed is that servant whom his master when he comes will find so doing. Truly, I say to you, he will set him over all his possessions. But if that wicked servant says to himself, ‘My master is delayed,’ and begins to beat his fellow servants, and eats and drinks with the drunken, the master of that servant will come on a day when he does not expect him and at an hour he does not know, and will punish him, and put him with the hypocrites; there men will weep and gnash their teeth.