Monday of the Third Week in Ordinary Time (II)

Official Translation

Reading 1 - 2 Samuel 5.1-7, 10

All the tribes of Israel
came to David at Hebron,
and spoke, saying,
“Behold, we are your bone and your flesh.
In times past, when Saul was king over us,
it was you who led out and brought in Israel.
The Lord said to you,
‘You shall be shepherd of my people Israel,
and you shall be prince over Israel.’”
So all the elders of Israel
came to the king at Hebron;
and King David made a covenant with them
in Hebron before the Lord;
and they anointed David king over Israel.

David was thirty years old
when he began to reign,
and he reigned forty years.
In Hebron he reigned over Judah
seven years and six months;
and in Jerusalem he reigned
thirty-three years over all Israel and Judah.

The king and his men went to Jerusalem
against the Jebusites,
the inhabitants of the land,
who spoke to David, saying,
“The blind and the lame will chase you away.
You shall not come in here”;
thinking, “David cannot come in here.”
But David took the stronghold of Zion;
the city of David.

David grew greater and greater;
for the Lord of Hosts was with him.

Responsorial - Psalm 89.20, 21-22, 25-26 Resp. 25a

R. My faithfulness and my loving kindness will be with him.

Then you spoke in vision
to your saints you said,
“I have bestowed strength on the warrior.
I have exalted a young man from the people.

R. My faithfulness and my loving kindness will be with him.

I have found David, my servant.
I have anointed him with my holy oil,
With him my hand shall be established.
My arm will strengthen him.

R. My faithfulness and my loving kindness will be with him.

My faithfulness and my loving kindness will be with him.
In my name, his horn will be exalted.
I will set his hand also on the sea,
and his right hand on the rivers.

R. My faithfulness and my loving kindness will be with him.

Gospel – Mark 3.22-30

The scribes who came down
from Jerusalem said,
“Beelzebul has him,” and,
“By the prince of the demons
he casts out the demons.”
He summoned them,
and said to them in parables,
“How can Satan cast out Satan?
If a kingdom is divided against itself,
that kingdom cannot stand.
If a house is divided against itself,
that house cannot stand.
If Satan has risen up against himself,
and is divided, he cannot stand,
but is at an end.
But no one can enter into
the house of the strong man to plunder,
unless he first ties up the strong man;
and then he will plunder his house.
Amen I say to you,
all sins of the sons and daughters of humans
will be forgiven,
even their blasphemies which they might blaspheme;
but whoever may blaspheme
against the Holy Spirit
has no forgiveness in eternity,
but is bound by an eternal sin.”
because they said, “He has an unclean spirit.”