Reading 1, Gn 18:1-10a

¹ Yahweh appeared to him at the Oak of Mamre while he was sitting by the entrance of the tent during the hottest part of the day.

² He looked up, and there he saw three men standing near him. As soon as he saw them he ran from the entrance of the tent to greet them, and bowed to the ground.

³ 'My lord,' he said, 'if I find favour with you, please do not pass your servant by.

⁴ Let me have a little water brought, and you can wash your feet and have a rest under the tree.

⁵ Let me fetch a little bread and you can refresh yourselves before going further, now that you have come in your servant's direction.' They replied, 'Do as you say.'

⁶ Abraham hurried to the tent and said to Sarah, 'Quick, knead three measures of best flour and make loaves.'

⁷ Then, running to the herd, Abraham took a fine and tender calf and gave it to the servant, who hurried to prepare it.

⁸ Then taking curds, milk and the calf which had been prepared, he laid all before them, and they ate while he remained standing near them under the tree.

⁹ 'Where is your wife Sarah?' they asked him. 'She is in the tent,' he replied.

¹⁰ Then his guest said, 'I shall come back to you next year, and then your wife Sarah will have a son.' Sarah was listening at the entrance of the tent behind him.

Gospel, Lk 10:38-42

³⁸ In the course of their journey he came to a village, and a woman named Martha welcomed him into her house.

³⁹ She had a sister called Mary, who sat down at the Lord's feet and listened to him speaking.

⁴⁰ Now Martha, who was distracted with all the serving, came to him and said, 'Lord, do you not care that my sister is leaving me to do the serving all by myself? Please tell her to help me.'

⁴¹ But the Lord answered, 'Martha, Martha,' he said, 'you worry and fret about so many things,

⁴² and yet few are needed, indeed only one. It is Mary who has chosen the better part, and it is not to be taken from her.'

Reading 2, Col 1:24-28

²⁴ It makes me happy to be suffering for you now, and in my own body to make up all the hardships that still have to be undergone by Christ for the sake of his body, the Church,

²⁵ of which I was made a servant with the responsibility towards you that God gave to me, that of completing God's message,

²⁶ the message which was a mystery hidden for generations and centuries and has now been revealed to his holy people.

²⁷ It was God's purpose to reveal to them how rich is the glory of this mystery among the gentiles; it is Christ among you, your hope of glory:

²⁸ this is the Christ we are proclaiming, admonishing and instructing everyone in all wisdom, to make everyone perfect in Christ.

September 2010

October 2010