
Reading I Jon 4:1-11
Jonah
was greatly displeased
and
became angry that God did not carry out the evil
he
threatened against Nineveh.
He
prayed, “I beseech you, LORD,
is not
this what I said while I was still in my own country?
This is
why I fled at first to Tarshish.
I knew
that you are a gracious and merciful God,
slow to
anger, rich in clemency, loath to punish.
And
now, LORD, please take my life from me;
for it
is better for me to die than to live.”
But the
LORD asked, “Have you reason to be angry?”
Jonah
then left the city for a place to the east of it,
where
he built himself a hut and waited under it in the shade,
to see
what would happen to the city.
And
when the LORD God provided a gourd plant
that
grew up over Jonah’s head,
giving
shade that relieved him of any discomfort,
Jonah
was very happy over the plant.
But the
next morning at dawn
God
sent a worm that attacked the plant,
so that
it withered.
And
when the sun arose, God sent a burning east wind;
and the
sun beat upon Jonah’s head till he became faint.
Then
Jonah asked for death, saying,
“I
would be better off dead than alive.”
But God
said to Jonah,
“Have
you reason to be angry over the plant?”
“I have
reason to be angry,” Jonah answered, “angry enough to die.”
Then
the LORD said,
“You
are concerned over the plant which cost you no labor
and
which you did not raise;
it came
up in one night and in one night it perished.
And
should I not be concerned over Nineveh, the great city,
in
which there are more than a hundred and twenty thousand persons
who
cannot distinguish their right hand from their left,
not to
mention the many cattle?”
Responsorial Psalm 86:3-4,
5-6, 9-10
R. (15) Lord, you are merciful and gracious.
Have
mercy on me, O Lord,
for to you I call all the day.
Gladden
the soul of your servant,
for to you, O Lord, I lift up my soul.
R. Lord, you are merciful and gracious.
For
you, O Lord, are good and forgiving,
abounding in kindness to all who call upon
you.
Hearken,
O LORD, to my prayer
and attend to the sound of my pleading.
R. Lord, you are merciful and gracious.
All the
nations you have made shall come
and worship you, O Lord,
and glorify your name.
For you
are great, and you do wondrous deeds;
you alone are God.
R. Lord, you are merciful and gracious.
Alleluia Rom 8:15bc
R.
Alleluia, alleluia.
You
have received a spirit of adoption as sons
through
which we cry: Abba! Father!
R.
Alleluia, alleluia.
Gospel Lk 11:1-4
Jesus
was praying in a certain place, and when he had finished,
one of
his disciples said to him,
“Lord,
teach us to pray just as John taught his disciples.”
He said
to them, “When you pray, say:
Father, hallowed be your name,
your Kingdom come.
Give us each day our daily bread
and forgive us our sins
for we ourselves forgive everyone in
debt to us,
and do not subject us to the final
test.”