Tuesday of the Seventh Week in Ordinary Time (II)

Official Translation

Reading 1 – James 4.1-10

Beloved:
Where do the wars and battles among you
come from?
Do they not come from your desires
that make war among your own body parts?
You want and do not have.
You kill and envy but cannot obtain.
You fight and wage war.

You do not have, because you do not ask.
You ask and do not receive,
because you ask incorrectly,
to spend it for your desires.
Do you adulterers, not know that
love of the world is hostility toward God?

Therefore, whoever wants to be
a lover of the world
makes himself an enemy of God.
Or do you think that the Scripture says in vain,
“The Spirit who lives in us jealously yearns”?
But he gives more grace.
Therefore it says,
“God resists the proud,
but gives grace to the humble.”

Be subject therefore to God.
Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.
Draw near to God,
and he will draw near to you.
Cleanse your hands, you sinners;
and purify your hearts, you double-minded.
Lament, mourn, and weep.
Let your laughter be turned to mourning,
and your joy to gloom.
Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord,
and he will exalt you.

Responsorial – Psalm 55.7-8, 9-10a, 10b-11a, 23 Resp. 23a

R. Cast your burden on the Lord, and he will sustain you.

I said, “O to have wings like a dove!
I would fly away, and be at rest.
Behold, then I would wander far off.
I would lodge in the wilderness.”

R. Cast your burden on the Lord, and he will sustain you.

“I would hurry to a shelter
from the stormy wind and storm.”
Confuse them, Lord, and confound their language.

R. Cast your burden on the Lord, and he will sustain you.

I have seen violence and strife in the city.
Day and night they prowl around on its walls.

R. Cast your burden on the Lord, and he will sustain you.

Cast your burden on the Lord,
and he will sustain you.
He will never allow the righteous to be moved.

R. Cast your burden on the Lord, and he will sustain you.

Gospel – Mark 9.30-37

Jesus and his disciples
went away from there
and passed through Galilee.
He did not want anyone to know it.
For he was teaching his disciples
and said to them,
“The Son of human is being handed over
into the hands of humans,
and they will kill him;
and when he is killed,
on the third day he will rise again.”

They did not understand the saying,
and were afraid to ask him.
He came to Capernaum,
and when he was in the house he asked them,
“What were you arguing
among yourselves on the way?”
But they were silent,
for they had disputed
one with another on the way
about who was the greatest.
He sat down, and called the Twelve;
and he said to them,
“If anyone wants to be first,
they shall be last of all, and servant of all.”
He took an infant and stood him in their midst.
Taking him in his arms, he said to them,
“Whoever receives one such infant in my name,
receives me, and whoever receives me,
receives not me but him who sent me.”