Today's Gospel November 2, 2020 with the words of Pope Francis

READING OF THE DAY
First Reading

From the book of Job
Job 19,1.23-27a

In reply Job began to say: «Oh, if my words were written, if they were fixed in a book, were impressed with an iron stylus and lead, they would be engraved on the rock forever! I know that my redeemer is alive and that, ultimately, he will stand on the dust! After this skin of mine is torn off, without my flesh, I will see God. I will see him, myself, my eyes will contemplate him and not another ».

Second reading

From the letter of Saint Paul the Apostle to the Romans
Rom 5,5-11

Brothers, hope does not disappoint, because God's love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who has been given to us. In fact, when we were still weak, in the appointed time Christ died for the wicked. Now, hardly anyone is willing to die for a righteous one; perhaps someone would dare to die for a good person. But God shows his love for us in the fact that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us. A fortiori now, justified in his blood, we will be saved from anger through him. For if, when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God through the death of his Son, much more, now that we are reconciled, we will be saved by his life.
Not only that, but we also glory in God, through our Lord Jesus Christ, thanks to whom we have now received reconciliation.
GOSPEL OF THE DAY
From the Gospel according to John
Jn 6,37-40

At that time, Jesus said to the crowd: "All that the Father gives me will come to me: he who comes to me, I will not cast out, because I came down from heaven not to do my will, but the will of he who sent me. And this is the will of him who sent me: that I do not lose anything of what he has given me, but that I raise him up on the last day. This, in fact, is the will of my Father: that everyone who sees the Son and believes in him may have eternal life; and I will raise him up on the last day ».

WORDS OF THE HOLY FATHER
Sometimes we hear this objection regarding the Holy Mass: “But what is the Mass for? I go to church when I feel like it, or rather I pray in solitude ”. But the Eucharist is not a private prayer or a beautiful spiritual experience, it is not a simple commemoration of what Jesus did at the Last Supper. We say, to understand well, that the Eucharist is "memorial", that is, a gesture that actualizes and makes present the event of Jesus' death and resurrection: the bread is really his Body given for us, the wine is really the his Blood shed for us. (Pope Francis, Angelus of August 16, 2015)