First ReadingJob 9:1-12, 14-16

Then Job answered: “Truly I know that it is so: But how can a man be just before God? If one wished to contend with him, one could not answer him once in a thousand times.

He is wise in heart, and mighty in strength—who has hardened himself against him, and succeeded?—he who removes mountains, and they know it not, when he overturns them in his anger; who shakes the earth out of its place, and its pillars tremble; who commands the sun, and it does not rise; who seals up the stars; who alone stretched out the heavens, and trampled the waves of the sea; who made the Bear and Ori′on, the Plei′ades and the chambers of the south; who does great things beyond understanding, and marvelous things without number. Behold, he passes by me, and I see him not; he moves on, but I do not perceive him. Behold, he snatches away; who can hinder him? Who will say to him, ‘What are you doing?’

How then can I answer him, choosing my words with him? Though I am innocent, I cannot answer him; I must appeal for mercy to my accuser. If I summoned him and he answered me, I would not believe that he was listening to my voice.

Responsorial PsalmPsalm 88:10-11, 12-13, 14-15

℟Let my prayer come before you, Lord.

Do you work wonders for the dead? Do the shades rise up to praise you? Selah

Is your mercy declared in the grave, or your faithfulness in Abad′don?

℟Let my prayer come before you, Lord.

Are your wonders known in the darkness, or your saving help in the land of forgetfulness?

But I, O Lord, cry to you; in the morning my prayer comes before you.

℟Let my prayer come before you, Lord.

O Lord, why do you cast me off? Why do you hide your face from me?

Afflicted and close to death from my youth, I suffer your terrors; I am helpless. 

℟Let my prayer come before you, Lord.

AlleluiaPhilippians 3:8-9

℟Alleluia!

Indeed I count everything as loss because of the surpassing worth of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord. For his sake I have suffered the loss of all things, and count them as refuse, in order that I may gain Christ and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own, based on law, but that which is through faith in Christ, the righteousness from God that depends on faith.

℟Alleluia!

GospelLuke 9:57-62

As they were going along the road, a man said to him, “I will follow you wherever you go.” And Jesus said to him, “Foxes have holes, and birds of the air have nests; but the Son of man has nowhere to lay his head.” To another he said, “Follow me.” But he said, “Lord, let me first go and bury my father.” But he said to him, “Leave

the dead to bury their own dead; but as for you, go and proclaim the kingdom of God.” 61Another said, “I will follow you, Lord; but let me first say farewell to those at my home.” Jesus said to him, “No one who puts his hand to the plow and looks back is fit for the kingdom of God.”