Daily Mass Readings for November 02, 2026: Gospel — Lc 12,35-40

¹ Then Job answered: 2 ³ “O that my words were written down! O that they were written on a scroll! 2 7 :¹ And Job took up his discourse again: ² “As surely as God lives, who has denied me justice, the Almighty, who has made my life bitter— ³ for while my spirit is still in me, and the breath from God is in my nostrils, ⁴ my lips will not speak wickedness, and my tongue will whisper no deceit. ⁵ I will never declare that you three are in the right; until I die, I will not set aside my integrity! ⁶ I will maintain my righteousness and never let it go; my conscience will not reproach me for as long as I live. ⁷ “May my enemy be like the wicked, my adversary like the unrighteous. ⁸ For what hope does the godless have when he is cut off, when God takes away his life? ⁹ Does God listen to his cry when distress overtakes him? 1 ⁰ Will he find delight in the Almighty? Will he call out to God at all times? 1 ¹ I will teach you about the power of God; what is on the Almighty’s mind I will not conceal. 1 ² If you yourselves have all seen this, Why in the world do you continue this meaningless talk? 1 ³ This is the portion of the wicked man allotted by God, the inheritance that evildoers receive from the Almighty. 1 ⁴ If his children increase—it is for the sword! His offspring never have enough to eat. 1 ⁵ Those who survive him are buried by the plague, and their widows do not mourn for them. 1 ⁶ If he piles up silver like dust and stores up clothing like mounds of clay, 1 ⁷ what he stores up a righteous man will wear, and an innocent man will inherit his silver. 1 ⁸ The house he builds is as fragile as a moth’s cocoon, like a hut that a watchman has made. 1 ⁹ He goes to bed wealthy, but will do so no more. When he opens his eyes, it is all gone. 2 ⁰ Terrors overwhelm him like a flood; at night a whirlwind carries him off. 2 ¹ The east wind carries him away, and he is gone; it sweeps him out of his place. 2 ² It hurls itself against him without pity as he flees headlong from its power. 2 ³ It claps its hands at him in derision and hisses him away from his place.

2 ⁰ But now Christ has been raised from the dead, the firstfruits of those who have fallen asleep. 2 ¹ For since death came through a man, the resurrection of the dead also came through a man. 2 ² For just as in Adam all die, so also in Christ all will be made alive. 2 ³ But each in his own order: Christ, the firstfruits; then when Christ comes, those who belong to him. 2 ⁴ Then comes the end, when he hands over the kingdom to God the Father, when he has brought to an end all rule and all authority and power. 1 :¹ From Paul, called to be an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, and Sosthenes, our brother, ² to the church of God that is in Corinth, to those who are sanctified in Christ Jesus, and called to be saints, with all those in every place who call on the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, their Lord and ours. ³ Grace and peace to you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ! ⁴ I always thank my God for you because of the grace of God that was given to you in Christ Jesus. ⁵ For you were made rich in every way in him, in all your speech and in every kind of knowledge— ⁶ just as the testimony about Christ has been confirmed among you— ⁷ so that you do not lack any spiritual gift as you wait for the revelation of our Lord Jesus Christ. ⁸ He will also strengthen you to the end, so that you will be blameless on the day of our Lord Jesus Christ. ⁹ God is faithful, by whom you were called into fellowship with his son, Jesus Christ our Lord. 1 ⁰ I urge you, brothers and sisters, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, to agree together, to end your divisions, and to be united by the same mind and purpose. 1 ¹ For members of Chloe’s household have made it clear to me, my brothers and sisters, that there are quarrels among you. 1 ² Now I mean this, that each of you is saying, “I am with Paul,” or “I am with Apollos,” or “I am with Cephas,” or “I am with Christ.” 1 ³ Is Christ divided? Paul wasn’t crucified for you, was he? Or were you in fact baptized in the name of Paul? 1 ⁴ I thank God that I did not baptize any of you except Crispus and Gaius, 1 ⁵ so that no one can say that you were baptized in my name! 1 ⁶ (I also baptized the household of Stephanus. Otherwise, I do not remember whether I baptized anyone else.) 1 ⁷ For Christ did not send me to baptize, but to preach the gospel—and not with clever speech, so that the cross of Christ would not become useless. 1 ⁸ For the message about the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God. 1 ⁹ For it is written, “I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and I will thwart the cleverness of the intelligent.” 2 ⁰ Where is the wise man? Where is the expert in the Mosaic law? Where is the debater of this age? Has God not made the wisdom of the world foolish? 2 ¹ For since in the wisdom of God the world by its wisdom did not know God, God was pleased to save those who believe by the foolishness of preaching. 2 ² For Jews demand miraculous signs and Greeks ask for wisdom, 2 ³ but we preach about a crucified Christ, a stumbling block to Jews and foolishness to Gentiles. 2 ⁴ But to those who are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ is the power of God and the wisdom of God. 2 ⁵ For the foolishness of God is wiser than human wisdom, and the weakness of God is stronger than human strength. 2 ⁶ Think about the circumstances of your call, brothers and sisters. Not many were wise by human standards, not many were powerful, not many were born to a privileged position. 2 ⁷ But God chose what the world thinks foolish to shame the wise, and God chose what the world thinks weak to shame the strong. 2 ⁸ God chose what is low and despised in the world, what is regarded as nothing, to set aside what is regarded as something, 2 ⁹ so that no one can boast in his presence. 3 ⁰ He is the reason you have a relationship with Christ Jesus, who became for us wisdom from God, and righteousness and sanctification and redemption, 3 ¹ so that, as it is written, “Let the one who boasts, boast in the Lord.”