Thursday of the Fifth Week in Ordinary Time (II)

Official Translation

Reading 1 – 1 Kings 11.4-13

When Solomon was old,
his wives turned away his heart to other gods;
and his heart was not perfectly
with the Lord his God,
as was the heart of David his father.
For Solomon went after
Astarte, the goddess of the Sidonians,
and after Milcom, the abomination of the Ammonites.
Solomon did evil in the sight of the Lord
and did not go fully after the Lord,
as did David his father.

Then Solomon built a high place for
Chemosh the abomination of Moab,
on the mountain that is opposite Jerusalem,
and for Molech the abomination of the children of Ammon.
So he did for all his foreign wives,
who burnt incense and sacrificed to their gods.

The Lord was angry with Solomon,
because his heart was turned away from
the Lord, the God of Israel,
who had appeared to him twice,
and had commanded him concerning this thing,
that he should not go after other gods:
but he did not keep the Lord's command.

Therefore the Lord said to Solomon,
“Because this is done by you,
and you have not kept my covenant and my statutes,
which I have commanded you,
I will surely tear the kingdom from you,
and will give it to your servant.
I will not do it in your days,
for David your father’s sake;
but I will tear it out of the hand of your son.
However I will not tear away all the kingdom;
I will give one tribe to your son,
for David my servant’s sake,
and for Jerusalem’s sake which I have chosen.”

Responsorial – Psalm 106.3-4, 35-36, 37+40 Resp. 4a

R. Remember us, O Lord, with the favor that you show to your people.

Blessed are those who keep justice.
Blessed is one who always does what is right.
Remember us, O Lord, with the favor that you show to your people.
Visit us with your salvation,

R. Remember us, O Lord, with the favor that you show to your people.

But they mixed themselves with the nations,
and learned their works.
They served their idols,
which became a snare to them.

R. Remember us, O Lord, with the favor that you show to your people.

Yes, they sacrificed their sons
and their daughters to demons.
Therefore the Lord burned with anger against his people.
He abhorred his inheritance.

R. Remember us, O Lord, with the favor that you show to your people.

Gospel - Mark 7.24-30

From there Jesus arose
and went away into
the borders of Tyre.
He entered into a house,
and did not want anyone to know it,
but he could not escape notice.
For a woman, whose little daughter
had an unclean spirit,
having heard of him,
came and fell down at his feet.
Now the woman was a Greek,
a Syrophoenician by race.

She begged him that he would cast
the demon out of her daughter.
But Jesus said to her,
“Let the children be filled first,
for it is not appropriate
to take the children’s bread
and throw it to the dogs.”
But she answered him,
“Yes, Lord. Yet even
the dogs under the table
eat the children’s crumbs.”
He said to her,
“For this saying,
go your way.
The demon has gone out of your daughter.”
She went away to her house,
and found the child
having been laid on the bed,
with the demon gone out.