Wednesday of the Thirtieth week in Ordinary Time

First Reading: Romans 8:26-30
Responsorial Psalm: Psalms 13:4-5, 6
Gospel: Luke 13:22-30

First Reading
Romans 8:26-30
Brethren:The Spirit helps us in our weakness. For we do not know what to pray for as we ought, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us with groanings too deep for words. And he who searches hearts knows what is the mind of the Spirit, because the Spirit intercedes for the saints according to the will of God. And we know that for those who love God all things work together for good, for those who are called according to his purpose. For those whom he foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, in order that he might be the firstborn among many brothers. And those whom he predestined he also called, and those whom he called he also justified, and those whom he justified he also glorified.

The word of the Lord.

Responsorial Psalm
Psalms 13:4-5, 6
R. I trust in your merciful love, O Lord.

Look, answer me, Lord my God! Give light to my eyes lest I fall asleep in death; lest my enemy say, “I have overcome him”; lest my foes rejoice when they see me fall.
R. I trust in your merciful love, O Lord.

As for me, I trust in your merciful love. Let my heart rejoice in your salvation. I will sing to the Lord who has been bountiful with me. I will sing psalms to the name of the Lord Most High.
R. I trust in your merciful love, O Lord.

Gospel
Luke 13:22-30
At that time:Jesus went on his way through towns and villages, teaching and journeying towards Jerusalem. And someone said to him, “Lord, will those who are saved be few?” And he said to them, “Strive to enter through the narrow door. For many, I tell you, will seek to enter and will not be able. When once the master of the house has risen and shut the door, and you begin to stand outside and to knock at the door, saying, ‘Lord, open to us.’ Then he will answer you, ‘I do not know where you come from.’ Then you will begin to say, ‘We ate and drank in your presence, and you taught in our streets.’ But he will say, ‘I tell you, I do not know where you come from. Depart from me, all you workers of evil!’ In that place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth, when you see Abraham and Isaac and Jacob and all the prophets in the kingdom of God but you yourselves cast out. And people will come from east and west, and from north and south, and recline at table in the kingdom of God. And behold, some are last who will be first, and some are first who will be last.”

The Gospel of the Lord.