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First reading: Ephesians 2:1-10
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You were dead through the crimes and the sins in which you used to live when you were following the way of this world, obeying the ruler who governs the air, the spirit who is at work in the rebellious. We all were among them too in the past, living sensual lives, ruled entirely by our own physical desires and our own ideas; so that by nature we were as much under God’s anger as the rest of the world. But God loved us with so much love that he was generous with his mercy: when we were dead through our sins, he brought us to life with Christ – it is through grace that you have been saved – and raised us up with him and gave us a place with him in heaven, in Christ Jesus.
This was to show for all ages to come, through his goodness towards us in Christ Jesus, how infinitely rich he is in grace. Because it is by grace that you have been saved, through faith; not by anything of your own, but by a gift from God; not by anything that you have done, so that nobody can claim the credit. We are God’s work of art, created in Christ Jesus to live the good life as from the beginning he had meant us to live it.
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Responsorial Psalm: Psalm 99(100)
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He made us, we belong to him.
Cry out with joy to the Lord, all the earth.
Serve the Lord with gladness.
Come before him, singing for joy.
He made us, we belong to him.
Know that he, the Lord, is God.
He made us, we belong to him,
we are his people, the sheep of his flock.
He made us, we belong to him.
Go within his gates, giving thanks.
Enter his courts with songs of praise.
Give thanks to him and bless his name.
He made us, we belong to him.
Indeed, how good is the Lord,
eternal his merciful love.
He is faithful from age to age.
He made us, we belong to him.
Alleluia, alleluia!
Teach me your paths, my God,
make me walk in your truth.
Alleluia!
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