Saturday of the 30th week of Ordinary Time

1Therefore, I say: Has God driven away his people? Let it not be so! For I, too, am an Israelite of the offspring of Abraham, from the tribe of Benjamin. 2God has not driven away his people, whom he foreknew. And do you not know what Scripture says in Elijah, how he calls upon God against Israel?

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11Therefore, I say: Have they stumbled in such a way that they should fall? Let it not be so! Instead, by their offense, salvation is with the Gentiles, so that they may be a rival to them. 12Now if their offense is the riches of the world, and if their diminution is the riches of the Gentiles, how much more is their fullness?

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25For I do not want you to be ignorant, brothers, of this mystery (lest you seem wise only to yourselves) that a certain blindness has occurred in Israel, until the fullness of the Gentiles has arrived. 26And in this way, all of Israel may be saved, just as it was written: “From Zion shall arrive he who delivers, and he shall turn impiety away from Jacob. 27And this will be my covenant for them, when I will take away their sins.” 28Certainly, according to the Gospel, they are enemies for your sake. But according to the election, they are most beloved for the sake of the fathers. 29For the gifts and the call of God are without regret.

12Blessed is the man whom you will instruct, O Lord. And you will teach him from your law.

13So may you soothe him from the evil days, until a pit may be dug for sinners.

14For the Lord will not drive away his people, and he will not abandon his inheritance,

15even until the time when justice is being converted into judgment, and when those who are close to justice are all those who are upright of heart.

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17Except that the Lord assisted me, my soul almost would have dwelt in Hell.

18If ever I said, “My foot is slipping,” then your mercy, O Lord, assisted me.

1And it happened that, when Jesus entered the house of a certain leader of the Pharisees on the Sabbath to eat bread, they were observing him.

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7Then he also told a parable, to those who were invited, noticing how they chose the first seats at the table, saying to them: 8“When you are invited to a wedding, do not sit down in the first place, lest perhaps someone more honored than yourself may have been invited by him. 9And then he who called both you and him, approaching, may say to you, ‘Give this place to him.’ And then you would begin, with shame, to take the last place. 10But when you are invited, go, sit down in the lowest place, so that, when he who invited you arrives, he may say to you, ‘Friend, go up higher.’ Then you will have glory in the sight of those who sit at table together with you. 11For everyone who exalts himself shall be humbled, and whoever humbles himself shall be exalted.”