NOVEMBER 01, 2021, MONDAY
SOLEMNITY OF ALL SAINTS (White)
CYCLE B - YEAR I
Lectionary: 667
Reading I
Rv 7:2-4, 9-14
holding the seal of the living God.
He cried out in a loud voice to the four angels
who were given power to damage the land and the sea,
“Do not damage the land or the sea or the trees
until we put the seal on the foreheads of the servants of our God.”
I heard the number of those who had been marked with the seal,
one hundred and forty-four thousand marked
from every tribe of the children of Israel.
After this I had a vision of a great multitude,
which no one could count,
from every nation, race, people, and tongue.
They stood before the throne and before the Lamb,
wearing white robes and holding palm branches in their hands.
They cried out in a loud voice:
“Salvation comes from our God, who is seated on the throne,
and from the Lamb.”
All the angels stood around the throne
and around the elders and the four living creatures.
They prostrated themselves before the throne,
worshiped God, and exclaimed:
“Amen. Blessing and glory, wisdom and thanksgiving,
honor, power, and might
be to our God forever and ever. Amen.”
Then one of the elders spoke up and said to me,
“Who are these wearing white robes, and where did they come from?”
I said to him, “My lord, you are the one who knows.”
He said to me,
“These are the ones who have survived the time of great distress;
they have washed their robes
and made them white in the Blood of the Lamb.”
Responsorial Psalm
24:1bc-2, 3-4ab, 5-6
R. (see 6) Lord, this is the people that longs to see your face.
the world and those who dwell in it.
For he founded it upon the seas
and established it upon the rivers.
R. Lord, this is the people that longs to see your face.
or who may stand in his holy place?
One whose hands are sinless, whose heart is clean,
who desires not what is vain.
R. Lord, this is the people that longs to see your face.
a reward from God his savior.
Such is the race that seeks him,
that seeks the face of the God of Jacob.
R. Lord, this is the people that longs to see your face.
Reading II
1 Jn 3:1-3
See what love the Father has bestowed on us
that we may be called the children of God.
Yet so we are.
The reason the world does not know us
is that it did not know him.
Beloved, we are God’s children now;
what we shall be has not yet been revealed.
We do know that when it is revealed we shall be like him,
for we shall see him as he is.
Everyone who has this hope based on him makes himself pure,
as he is pure.
Alleluia
Mt 11:28
R. Alleluia, alleluia.
and I will give you rest, says the Lord.
R. Alleluia, alleluia.
GOSPEL
Mt 5:1-12a
When Jesus saw the crowds, he went up the mountain; and after he sat down, his disciples came to him. Then he began to speak, and taught them, saying:
for theirs is the kingdom of heaven."
"Blessed are those who mourn,
for they will be comforted."
"Blessed are the meek,
for they will inherit the earth."
"Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness,
for they will be filled."
"Blessed are the merciful,
for they will be shown mercy."
"Blessed are the pure in heart,
for they will see God."
"Blessed are the peacemakers,
for they will be called children of God."
for theirs is the kingdom of heaven."
“Blessed are you when people insult you, persecute you and falsely say all kinds of evil against you because of me."
Rejoice and be glad, because great is your reward in heaven, for in the same way they persecuted the prophets who were before you.
REFLECTION:
What the world sees as tragic or empty, Jesus sees as blessed: humility, mourning, gentleness, peacefulness and other virtues. Jesus lived by these qualities himself and we can notice them in his words and actions during his life with us on earth. He could encourage us to live in the spirit of the Beatitudes because he himself lived them and knew that a life of integrity and honesty is indeed a blessed life.
PRAYER:
We have no portrait of you, Lord, but in the Beatitudes you show us your interior landscape, the source of your joy. This is not a set of regulations, but a vision of where true happiness lies. Let me taste it, phrase by phrase.
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