October 19, 2023 — Thursday, Twenty-eighth Week in Ordinary Time — I am the way and the truth and the life, says the Lord; no one comes to the Father except through me — Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint Luke (Lk 11: 47-54)

The Lord said:

“Woe to you who build the memorials of the prophets
whom your fathers killed.
Consequently, you bear witness and give consent
to the deeds of your ancestors,
for they killed them and you do the building.
Therefore, the wisdom of God said,

‘I will send to them prophets and Apostles;
some of them they will kill and persecute’

in order that this generation might be charged
with the blood of all the prophets
shed since the foundation of the world,
from the blood of Abel to the blood of Zechariah
who died between the altar and the temple building.
Yes, I tell you, this generation will be charged with their blood!
Woe to you, scholars of the law!
You have taken away the key of knowledge.
You yourselves did not enter and you stopped those trying to enter.”

When Jesus left, the scribes and Pharisees
began to act with hostility toward him
and to interrogate him about many things,
for they were plotting to catch him at something he might say.