Tuesday of the Ninth Week in Ordinary Time (II)

Official Translation

Reading 1 – 2 Peter 3.12-15a, 17-18

Beloved:
Wait for and hasten the revelation of God’s day,
through which the heavens will be on fire and dissolved,
and the elements shall melt with fervent heat.

But, according to his promise,
we await a new heavens and a new earth,
in which justice will dwell.
Therefore, beloved, since you wait for these things,
be careful that you may be found by him at peace,
spotless and blameless.
Regard the patience of our Lord as salvation.

You therefore, beloved,
knowing these things beforehand,
beware, lest being carried away
with the error of the wicked,
you fall from your own steadfastness.
But grow in the grace and knowledge
of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.
To him be the glory both now and forever. Amen.

Responsorial – Psalm 90.2, 3-4, 10, 14+16 Resp. 1

R. Lord, you have been our refuge for all generations.

Before the mountains were born,
before you had formed the earth and the world,
even from everlasting to everlasting, you are God.

R. Lord, you have been our refuge for all generations.

You turn man to dust, saying,
“Return, you children of men.”
For a thousand years in your sight
are just like yesterday when it is past,
like a watch in the night.

R. Lord, you have been our refuge for all generations.

The days of our years are seventy,
or eighty, if we are strong,
yet their vanity is but labor and sorrow,
for it passes quickly, and we fly away.

R. Lord, you have been our refuge for all generations.

Satisfy us in the morning with your loving kindness,
that we may rejoice and be glad all our days.
Let your work appear to your servants;
your glory to their children.

R. Lord, you have been our refuge for all generations.

Gospel – Mark 12.13-17

They sent some of the
Pharisees and the Herodians to him,
that they might trap him with words.
When they had come, they asked him,
“Teacher, we know that you are honest,
and do not defer to anyone;
for you are not partial to anyone,
but truly teach the way of God.
Is it lawful to pay taxes to Caesar, or not?
Shall we give, or shall we not give?”

But he, knowing their hypocrisy, said to them,
“Why do you test me?
Bring me a denarius, that I may see it.”
They brought it.
He said to them,
“Whose is this image and inscription?”
They said to him, “Caesar’s.”
Jesus answered them,
“Render to Caesar
the things that are Caesar’s,
and to God the things that are God’s.”
They marveled greatly at him.