Daily Mass Readings for October 06, 2024: Gospel — Mc 10, 2-16

1 ⁸ The Lord God said, “It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make a companion for him who corresponds to him.” 1 ⁹ The Lord God formed out of the ground every living animal of the field and every bird of the air. He brought them to the man to see what he would name them, and whatever the man called each living creature, that was its name. 2 ⁰ So the man named all the animals, the birds of the air, and the living creatures of the field, but for Adam no companion who corresponded to him was found. 2 ¹ So the Lord God caused the man to fall into a deep sleep, and while he was asleep, he took part of the man’s side and closed up the place with flesh. 2 ² Then the Lord God made a woman from the part he had taken out of the man, and he brought her to the man. 2 ³ Then the man said, “This one at last is bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; this one will be called ‘woman,’ for she was taken out of man.” 2 ⁴ That is why a man leaves his father and mother and unites with his wife, and they become one family.

⁹ but we see Jesus, who was made lower than the angels for a little while, now crowned with glory and honor because he suffered death, so that by God’s grace he would experience death on behalf of everyone. 1 ⁰ For it was fitting for him, for whom and through whom all things exist, in bringing many sons to glory, to make the pioneer of their salvation perfect through sufferings. 1 ¹ For indeed he who makes holy and those being made holy all have the same origin, and so he is not ashamed to call them brothers and sisters,