Official Translation
Reading 1 – Jeremiah 14.17-22
Let my eyes run with tears
night and day, without ceasing;
for the virgin daughter of my people
is broken with a great breach,
with a very grievous wound.
If I go out into the field,
then, behold, those slain with the sword!
and if I enter into the city,
then, behold, those who are sick with famine!
for both the prophet and the priest
go about in a land they do not know.
Have you utterly rejected Judah?
Has your soul loathed Zion?
Why have you struck us,
and there is no healing for us?
We looked for peace,
but no good came;
for a time of healing,
and behold, dismay!
We acknowledge, O Lord, our wickedness,
and the iniquity of our fathers;
for we have sinned against you.
For the sake of your name,
do not abhor us;
do not disgrace the throne of your glory:
remember and do not break
your covenant with us.
Are there any among the
vain idols of the nations that can cause rain?
or can the sky itself give showers?
Are you not he, the Lord our God?
Therefore we will wait for you;
for you have made all these things.
Responsorial – Psalm 79.8, 9, 11+13 Resp. 9
R. For the glory of your name, deliver us O Lord.
Do not hold the iniquities of our forefathers against us.
Let your tender mercies speedily meet us,
for we are in desperate need.
R. For the glory of your name, deliver us O Lord.
Help us, God of our salvation,
for the glory of your name.
Deliver us, and forgive our sins,
for your name’s sake.
R. For the glory of your name, deliver us O Lord.
Let the sighing of the prisoner come before you.
According to the greatness of your power, preserve those who are sentenced to death.
So we, your people and sheep of your pasture,
will give you thanks forever.
We will praise you forever, to all generations.
R. For the glory of your name, deliver us O Lord.
Gospel – Matthew 13.36-43
Then Jesus sent the crowds away
and went into the house.
His disciples came to him, saying,
“Explain to us the parable
of the weeds in the field.”
He answered them,
“He who sows the good seed
is the Son of Man,
the field is the world;
and the good seeds
are the sons of the Kingdom;
and the weeds
are the sons of the evil one.
The enemy who sowed them is the devil.
The harvest is the end of the age,
and the reapers are angels.
As the weeds are gathered up
and burned with fire,
so will it be at the end of this age.
The Son of Human will send out his angels,
and they will gather out of his Kingdom
all traps and all evildoers,
and will cast them into the furnace of fire,
where there will be
weeping and gnashing of teeth.
Then the righteous will shine like the sun
in the Kingdom of their Father.
whoever has ears to hear, let them hear.
Mass Readings
Monday of the Seventeenth Week in Ordinary Time (II)
Official Translation
Reading 1 – Jeremiah 13.1-11
The Lord says to me,
“Go and buy yourself a linen loincloth,
and put it on your loins,
and do not put it in water.”
So I bought a loincloth
according to the Lord’s word,
and put it on my loins.
The Lord’s word
came to me a second time, saying,
“Take the loincloth that you have bought,
which is on your loins,
and arise, go to the Parath,
and hide it there in a cleft of the rock.
So I went, and hid it by the Parath,
as the Lord commanded me.
After many days, the Lord said to me,
Arise, go to the Parath,
and take the loincloth from there,
which I commanded you to hide there.
Then I went to the Parath, and dug,
and took the loincloth
from the place where I had hidden it;
and behold, the loincloth was rotted,
it was profitable for nothing.
Then the Lord’s word came to me, saying,
“The Lord says, In this way I will
rot the pride of Judah,
and the great pride of Jerusalem.
This evil people, who refuse to hear my words,
who walk in the stubbornness of their heart,
and are gone after other gods to serve them,
and to worship them,
shall be as this loincloth,
which is profitable for nothing.
For as the loincloth clings to the loins of a man,
so have I caused to cling to me
the whole house of Israel
and the whole house of Judah, says the Lord;
that they may be to me a people,
and a name, and praise, and glory:
but they would not hear.
Responsorial - Deuteronomy 32.18-19, 20, 21 Resp. 18a
R. You have forgotten God who gave you birth.
Of the Rock your father, you are unmindful,
and have forgotten God who gave you birth.
The Lord saw and abhorred,
because of the provocation of his sons and his daughters.
R. You have forgotten God who gave you birth.
He said, “I will hide my face from them.
I will see what their end will be;
for they are a very perverse generation,
children in whom is no faithfulness.
R. You have forgotten God who gave you birth.
They have moved me to jealousy with their no-God.
They have provoked me to anger with their vanities.
I will move them to jealousy a no-people.
I will provoke them to anger with a foolish nation.
R. You have forgotten God who gave you birth.
Gospel – Matthew 13.31-35
Jesus set another parable before them, saying,
“The Kingdom of Heaven is like
a grain of mustard seed,
which a man took, and sowed in his field;
it indeed is smaller than all seeds.
But when it is grown, it is greater than the plants,
and becomes a bush,
so that the birds of the air
come and lodge in its branches.”
He spoke another parable to them.
“The Kingdom of Heaven is like yeast,
which a woman took, and hid in three measures of flour,
until it was all leavened.”
Jesus spoke all these things in parables to the crowds;
and without a parable, he didn’t speak to them,
that it might be fulfilled,
what was spoken through the prophet, saying,
“I will open my mouth in parables;
I will utter things hidden from the foundation of the world.”
Reading 1 – Jeremiah 13.1-11
The Lord says to me,
“Go and buy yourself a linen loincloth,
and put it on your loins,
and do not put it in water.”
So I bought a loincloth
according to the Lord’s word,
and put it on my loins.
The Lord’s word
came to me a second time, saying,
“Take the loincloth that you have bought,
which is on your loins,
and arise, go to the Parath,
and hide it there in a cleft of the rock.
So I went, and hid it by the Parath,
as the Lord commanded me.
After many days, the Lord said to me,
Arise, go to the Parath,
and take the loincloth from there,
which I commanded you to hide there.
Then I went to the Parath, and dug,
and took the loincloth
from the place where I had hidden it;
and behold, the loincloth was rotted,
it was profitable for nothing.
Then the Lord’s word came to me, saying,
“The Lord says, In this way I will
rot the pride of Judah,
and the great pride of Jerusalem.
This evil people, who refuse to hear my words,
who walk in the stubbornness of their heart,
and are gone after other gods to serve them,
and to worship them,
shall be as this loincloth,
which is profitable for nothing.
For as the loincloth clings to the loins of a man,
so have I caused to cling to me
the whole house of Israel
and the whole house of Judah, says the Lord;
that they may be to me a people,
and a name, and praise, and glory:
but they would not hear.
Responsorial - Deuteronomy 32.18-19, 20, 21 Resp. 18a
R. You have forgotten God who gave you birth.
Of the Rock your father, you are unmindful,
and have forgotten God who gave you birth.
The Lord saw and abhorred,
because of the provocation of his sons and his daughters.
R. You have forgotten God who gave you birth.
He said, “I will hide my face from them.
I will see what their end will be;
for they are a very perverse generation,
children in whom is no faithfulness.
R. You have forgotten God who gave you birth.
They have moved me to jealousy with their no-God.
They have provoked me to anger with their vanities.
I will move them to jealousy a no-people.
I will provoke them to anger with a foolish nation.
R. You have forgotten God who gave you birth.
Gospel – Matthew 13.31-35
Jesus set another parable before them, saying,
“The Kingdom of Heaven is like
a grain of mustard seed,
which a man took, and sowed in his field;
it indeed is smaller than all seeds.
But when it is grown, it is greater than the plants,
and becomes a bush,
so that the birds of the air
come and lodge in its branches.”
He spoke another parable to them.
“The Kingdom of Heaven is like yeast,
which a woman took, and hid in three measures of flour,
until it was all leavened.”
Jesus spoke all these things in parables to the crowds;
and without a parable, he didn’t speak to them,
that it might be fulfilled,
what was spoken through the prophet, saying,
“I will open my mouth in parables;
I will utter things hidden from the foundation of the world.”
Seventeenth Sunday in Ordinary Time (B)
Official Translation
Reading 1 – 2 Kings 4.42-44
A man from Baal Shalishah came,
and brought Elisha the man of God
bread of the first fruits: twenty loaves of barley,
and fresh ears of grain in his sack.
He said, “Give to the people, that they may eat.”
His servant said,
“What, should I set this before a hundred men?”
But he said, “Give to the people, that they may eat;
for the Lord says,
‘They will eat, and will have some left over.’”
So he set it before them, and they ate,
and there were leftovers,
as the Lord’s word has said.
Responsorial – Psalm 145.10-11, 15-16, 17-18 Resp. 16
R. O Lord, you open your hand, and satisfy our desire.
Let all your works, O Lord, praise you,
and let your holy ones bless you.
They will speak of the glory of your kingdom:
and tell of your power.
R. O Lord, you open your hand, and satisfy our desire.
The eyes of all wait for you.
You give them their food in due season.
You open your hand,
and satisfy the desire of every living thing.
R. O Lord, you open your hand, and satisfy our desire.
The Lord is righteous in all his ways,
and gracious in all his works.
The Lord is near to all those who call on him,
to all who call on him in truth.
R. O Lord, you open your hand, and satisfy our desire.
Reading 2 – Ephesians 4.1-6
Brothers and sisters,
I, the prisoner in the Lord,
beg you to walk in a manner
worthy of the calling
with which you were called,
with all lowliness and humility, with patience,
bearing with one another in love;
being eager to keep
the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace.
There is one body, and one Spirit,
even as you also were called
in one hope of your calling;
one Lord, one faith, one baptism,
one God and Father of all,
who is over all and through all and in us all.
Gospel – John 6.1-15
Jesus went away
to the other side of the sea of Galilee,
A great crowd followed him,
because they saw his signs
which he did on those who were sick.
Jesus went up into the mountain,
and he sat there with his disciples.
Now the Passover, the feast of the Jews,
was at hand.
Jesus therefore lifting up his eyes,
and seeing that a great crowd
was coming to him,
said to Philip, “Where are we to buy bread,
that these may eat?”
This he said to test him,
for he himself knew what he would do.
Philip answered him,
“Two hundred denarii worth of bread
is not enough for everyone of them
to receive a little.”
One of his disciples,
Andrew, Simon Peter’s brother, said to him,
“There is a boy here who has
five barley loaves and two fish,
but what are these among so many?”
Jesus said, “Have the humans sit down.”
Now there was much grass in that place.
So the men sat down,
in number about five thousand.
Jesus took the loaves; and having given thanks,
he distributed to the disciples,
and the disciples to those who were sitting down;
likewise also of the fish as much as they desired.
When they were filled, he said to his disciples,
“Gather up the broken pieces which are left over,
that nothing be lost.”
So they gathered them up,
and filled twelve baskets with broken pieces
from the five barley loaves,
which were left over by those who had eaten.
When therefore the humans
saw the sign which Jesus did,
they said, “This is truly the prophet
who comes into the world.”
Jesus therefore, perceiving that
they were about to come
and take him by force, to make him king,
withdrew again to the mountain by himself.
Reading 1 – 2 Kings 4.42-44
A man from Baal Shalishah came,
and brought Elisha the man of God
bread of the first fruits: twenty loaves of barley,
and fresh ears of grain in his sack.
He said, “Give to the people, that they may eat.”
His servant said,
“What, should I set this before a hundred men?”
But he said, “Give to the people, that they may eat;
for the Lord says,
‘They will eat, and will have some left over.’”
So he set it before them, and they ate,
and there were leftovers,
as the Lord’s word has said.
Responsorial – Psalm 145.10-11, 15-16, 17-18 Resp. 16
R. O Lord, you open your hand, and satisfy our desire.
Let all your works, O Lord, praise you,
and let your holy ones bless you.
They will speak of the glory of your kingdom:
and tell of your power.
R. O Lord, you open your hand, and satisfy our desire.
The eyes of all wait for you.
You give them their food in due season.
You open your hand,
and satisfy the desire of every living thing.
R. O Lord, you open your hand, and satisfy our desire.
The Lord is righteous in all his ways,
and gracious in all his works.
The Lord is near to all those who call on him,
to all who call on him in truth.
R. O Lord, you open your hand, and satisfy our desire.
Reading 2 – Ephesians 4.1-6
Brothers and sisters,
I, the prisoner in the Lord,
beg you to walk in a manner
worthy of the calling
with which you were called,
with all lowliness and humility, with patience,
bearing with one another in love;
being eager to keep
the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace.
There is one body, and one Spirit,
even as you also were called
in one hope of your calling;
one Lord, one faith, one baptism,
one God and Father of all,
who is over all and through all and in us all.
Gospel – John 6.1-15
Jesus went away
to the other side of the sea of Galilee,
A great crowd followed him,
because they saw his signs
which he did on those who were sick.
Jesus went up into the mountain,
and he sat there with his disciples.
Now the Passover, the feast of the Jews,
was at hand.
Jesus therefore lifting up his eyes,
and seeing that a great crowd
was coming to him,
said to Philip, “Where are we to buy bread,
that these may eat?”
This he said to test him,
for he himself knew what he would do.
Philip answered him,
“Two hundred denarii worth of bread
is not enough for everyone of them
to receive a little.”
One of his disciples,
Andrew, Simon Peter’s brother, said to him,
“There is a boy here who has
five barley loaves and two fish,
but what are these among so many?”
Jesus said, “Have the humans sit down.”
Now there was much grass in that place.
So the men sat down,
in number about five thousand.
Jesus took the loaves; and having given thanks,
he distributed to the disciples,
and the disciples to those who were sitting down;
likewise also of the fish as much as they desired.
When they were filled, he said to his disciples,
“Gather up the broken pieces which are left over,
that nothing be lost.”
So they gathered them up,
and filled twelve baskets with broken pieces
from the five barley loaves,
which were left over by those who had eaten.
When therefore the humans
saw the sign which Jesus did,
they said, “This is truly the prophet
who comes into the world.”
Jesus therefore, perceiving that
they were about to come
and take him by force, to make him king,
withdrew again to the mountain by himself.
Saturday of the Sixteenth Week in Ordinary Time (II)
Official Translation
Reading 1 – Jeremiah 7.1-11
The word that came to Jeremiah
from the Lord, saying,
“Stand in the gate of the Lord’s house,
and proclaim there this word, and say,
‘Hear the Lord’s word, all you of Judah,
who enter in at these gates
to worship the Lord.’”
The Lord of Hosts, the God of Israel says,
“Amend your ways and your deeds,
and I will cause you to dwell in this place.
Do not trust in lying words, saying,
‘The Temple of the Lord!’
‘The Temple of the Lord!’
‘The Temple of the Lord!’
For only if you thoroughly amend
your ways and your deeds;
if you thoroughly execute justice
between a man and his neighbor;
if you do not oppress
the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow,
and do not shed innocent blood in this place,
nor walk after other gods to your own harm:
then I will cause you to dwell in this place,
in the land that I gave to your fathers,
from of old and forevermore.
Behold, you trust in lying words
which cannot profit.
Will you steal, murder, and commit adultery,
and swear falsely, and burn incense to Baal,
and walk after other gods that you have not known,
and come and stand before me in this house,
which is called by my name, and say,
‘We are saved;’
that you may do all these abominations?
Has this house, which is called by my name,
become a den of robbers in your eyes?
Behold, I, even I, have seen it,” says the Lord.
Responsorial – Psalm 84.3, 4, 5-6a+8a, 11 Resp. 2
R. How lovely are your dwellings, Lord of Hosts!
My soul longs, and even faints
for the courts of the Lord.
My heart and my flesh
cry out for the living God.
R. How lovely are your dwellings, Lord of Hosts!
Lo, the sparrow has found a home,
and the swallow a nest for herself,
where she may have her young,
near your altars, Lord of Hosts,
my King, and my God.
R. How lovely are your dwellings, Lord of Hosts!
Blessed are those who dwell in your house.
They are always praising you.
Blessed are those whose strength is in you;
They go from strength to strength.
R. How lovely are your dwellings, Lord of Hosts!
For a day in your courts
is better than a thousand elsewhere
I would rather live in the threshold of the house of my God,
than to dwell in the tents of wickedness.
R. How lovely are your dwellings, Lord of Hosts!
Gospel – Matthew 13.24-30
Jesus set another parable before them, saying,
“The Kingdom of Heaven is like a human
who sowed good seed in his field,
but while people slept,
his enemy came and sowed
weeds among the wheat,
and went away.
But when the blade sprang up and produced fruit,
then the weeds appeared also.
The slaves of the householder
came and said to him,
‘Sir, did you not sow good seed in your field?
Where did these weeds come from?’
He said to them, ‘An enemy has done this.’
The servants asked him,
‘Do you want us to go and pull them up?’
But he said, ‘No, lest perhaps
while you pull up the weeds,
you uproot the wheat with them.
Let both grow together until the harvest,
and in the harvest time I will tell the reapers,
“First, gather up the weeds,
and bind them in bundles to burn them;
but gather the wheat into my barn.”’”
Reading 1 – Jeremiah 7.1-11
The word that came to Jeremiah
from the Lord, saying,
“Stand in the gate of the Lord’s house,
and proclaim there this word, and say,
‘Hear the Lord’s word, all you of Judah,
who enter in at these gates
to worship the Lord.’”
The Lord of Hosts, the God of Israel says,
“Amend your ways and your deeds,
and I will cause you to dwell in this place.
Do not trust in lying words, saying,
‘The Temple of the Lord!’
‘The Temple of the Lord!’
‘The Temple of the Lord!’
For only if you thoroughly amend
your ways and your deeds;
if you thoroughly execute justice
between a man and his neighbor;
if you do not oppress
the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow,
and do not shed innocent blood in this place,
nor walk after other gods to your own harm:
then I will cause you to dwell in this place,
in the land that I gave to your fathers,
from of old and forevermore.
Behold, you trust in lying words
which cannot profit.
Will you steal, murder, and commit adultery,
and swear falsely, and burn incense to Baal,
and walk after other gods that you have not known,
and come and stand before me in this house,
which is called by my name, and say,
‘We are saved;’
that you may do all these abominations?
Has this house, which is called by my name,
become a den of robbers in your eyes?
Behold, I, even I, have seen it,” says the Lord.
Responsorial – Psalm 84.3, 4, 5-6a+8a, 11 Resp. 2
R. How lovely are your dwellings, Lord of Hosts!
My soul longs, and even faints
for the courts of the Lord.
My heart and my flesh
cry out for the living God.
R. How lovely are your dwellings, Lord of Hosts!
Lo, the sparrow has found a home,
and the swallow a nest for herself,
where she may have her young,
near your altars, Lord of Hosts,
my King, and my God.
R. How lovely are your dwellings, Lord of Hosts!
Blessed are those who dwell in your house.
They are always praising you.
Blessed are those whose strength is in you;
They go from strength to strength.
R. How lovely are your dwellings, Lord of Hosts!
For a day in your courts
is better than a thousand elsewhere
I would rather live in the threshold of the house of my God,
than to dwell in the tents of wickedness.
R. How lovely are your dwellings, Lord of Hosts!
Gospel – Matthew 13.24-30
Jesus set another parable before them, saying,
“The Kingdom of Heaven is like a human
who sowed good seed in his field,
but while people slept,
his enemy came and sowed
weeds among the wheat,
and went away.
But when the blade sprang up and produced fruit,
then the weeds appeared also.
The slaves of the householder
came and said to him,
‘Sir, did you not sow good seed in your field?
Where did these weeds come from?’
He said to them, ‘An enemy has done this.’
The servants asked him,
‘Do you want us to go and pull them up?’
But he said, ‘No, lest perhaps
while you pull up the weeds,
you uproot the wheat with them.
Let both grow together until the harvest,
and in the harvest time I will tell the reapers,
“First, gather up the weeds,
and bind them in bundles to burn them;
but gather the wheat into my barn.”’”
Tuesday of the Sixteenth Week in Ordinary Time (II)
Official Translation
Reading 1 - Micah 7.14-15, 18-20
Shepherd your people with your staff,
the flock of your heritage,
who dwell by themselves in a forest,
in the middle of Carmel,
let them feed in Bashan and Gilead,
as in the days of old.
“As in the days when you
came out of the land of Egypt,
I will show them marvelous things.”
Who is a God like you, who pardons iniquity,
passing over the disobedience
of the remnant of his heritage,
who does not retain his anger forever,
but delights in loving kindness,
who will again have compassion on us,
treading our iniquities under foot,
and cast all our sins into the depths of the sea,
who gives faithfulness to Jacob,
and mercy to Abraham,
as you have sworn to our fathers
from the days of old?
Responsorial – Psalm 85.2-4, 5-6, 7-8 Resp. 8a
R. Show us your loving kindness, O Lord.
O Lord, you have been favorable to your land.
You have restored the fortunes of Jacob.
You have forgiven the iniquity of your people.
You have covered all their sins.
You have taken away all your wrath.
You have turned from the fierceness of your anger.
R. Show us your loving kindness, O Lord.
Return us, O God of our salvation,
and cause your indignation toward us to cease.
Will you be angry with us forever?
Will you draw out your anger to all generations?
R. Show us your loving kindness, O Lord.
Will you not revive us again,
that your people may rejoice in you?
Show us your loving kindness, O Lord.
Grant us your salvation.
R. Show us your loving kindness, O Lord.
Gospel – Matthew 12.46-50
While Jesus was still speaking to the crowds,
behold, his mother and his brothers
stood outside, seeking to speak with him.
Someone said to him,
“Behold, your mother and your brothers
stand outside, seeking to speak with you.”
But he answered the one who spoke to him,
“Who is my mother? Who are my brothers?”
He stretched out his hand towards his disciples,
and said, “Behold, my mother and my brothers!
For whoever does the will of
my Father who is in heaven,
is my brother, and sister, and mother.”
Reading 1 - Micah 7.14-15, 18-20
Shepherd your people with your staff,
the flock of your heritage,
who dwell by themselves in a forest,
in the middle of Carmel,
let them feed in Bashan and Gilead,
as in the days of old.
“As in the days when you
came out of the land of Egypt,
I will show them marvelous things.”
Who is a God like you, who pardons iniquity,
passing over the disobedience
of the remnant of his heritage,
who does not retain his anger forever,
but delights in loving kindness,
who will again have compassion on us,
treading our iniquities under foot,
and cast all our sins into the depths of the sea,
who gives faithfulness to Jacob,
and mercy to Abraham,
as you have sworn to our fathers
from the days of old?
Responsorial – Psalm 85.2-4, 5-6, 7-8 Resp. 8a
R. Show us your loving kindness, O Lord.
O Lord, you have been favorable to your land.
You have restored the fortunes of Jacob.
You have forgiven the iniquity of your people.
You have covered all their sins.
You have taken away all your wrath.
You have turned from the fierceness of your anger.
R. Show us your loving kindness, O Lord.
Return us, O God of our salvation,
and cause your indignation toward us to cease.
Will you be angry with us forever?
Will you draw out your anger to all generations?
R. Show us your loving kindness, O Lord.
Will you not revive us again,
that your people may rejoice in you?
Show us your loving kindness, O Lord.
Grant us your salvation.
R. Show us your loving kindness, O Lord.
Gospel – Matthew 12.46-50
While Jesus was still speaking to the crowds,
behold, his mother and his brothers
stood outside, seeking to speak with him.
Someone said to him,
“Behold, your mother and your brothers
stand outside, seeking to speak with you.”
But he answered the one who spoke to him,
“Who is my mother? Who are my brothers?”
He stretched out his hand towards his disciples,
and said, “Behold, my mother and my brothers!
For whoever does the will of
my Father who is in heaven,
is my brother, and sister, and mother.”
Monday of the Sixteenth Week in Ordinary Time (II)
Official Translation
Reading 1 – Micah 6.1-4, 6-8
Listen now to what the Lord says:
“Arise, plead your case before the mountains,
and let the hills hear what you have to say.
Hear, you mountains, the Lord’s controversy,
and you enduring foundations of the earth;
for the Lord has a controversy with his people,
and he will contend with Israel.
My people, what have I done to you?
How have I burdened you?
Answer me!
For I brought you up out of the land of Egypt,
and redeemed you out of the house of bondage.
I sent before you Moses, Aaron, and Miriam.
How shall I come before the Lord,
and bow myself before the exalted God?
Shall I come before him with burnt offerings,
with calves a year old?
Will the Lord be pleased with thousands of rams?
With tens of thousands of rivers of oil?
Shall I give my firstborn for my disobedience?
The fruit of my body for the sin of my soul?
He has shown you, O man, what is good.
What does the Lord require of you,
but to act justly, to love mercy,
and to walk humbly with your God?
Responsorial – Psalm 50.5-6, 8-9, 16bc-17, 21+23 Resp. 23b
R. I will show God’s salvation to the just.
“Gather my saints together with me,
those who made a covenant with me by sacrifice.”
The heavens shall declare his righteousness,
for God himself is judge.
R. I will show God’s salvation to the just.
I do not rebuke you for your sacrifices.
Your burnt offerings are continually before me.
I have no need for a bull from your stall,
nor male goats from your pens.
R. I will show God’s salvation to the just.
“What right do you have to declare my statutes,
and to have my covenant on your lips,
since you hate instruction,
and throw my words behind you?
R. I will show God’s salvation to the just.
You have done these things, and I kept silent,
so you thought that I was just like you.
I will rebuke you, and accuse you before your own eyes.
Whoever offers the sacrifice of thanksgiving glorifies me,
and to him who rightly goes his way, I will show God’s salvation .”
R. I will show God’s salvation to the just.
Gospel – Matthew 12.38-42
Then some of the scribes and Pharisees answered,
“Teacher, we want to see a sign from you.”
But he answered them,
“An evil and adulterous kind seeks after a sign,
but no sign will be given it
but the sign of Jonah the prophet.
For as Jonah was
three days and three nights
in the belly of the whale,
so will the Son of Man be
three days and three nights
in the heart of the earth.
The men of Nineveh will stand up
in the judgment with this kind,
and will condemn it,
for they repented at the preaching of Jonah;
and behold, someone greater than Jonah is here.
The queen of the south will rise up
in the judgment with this kind,
and will condemn it,
for she came from the ends of the earth
to hear the wisdom of Solomon,
and behold, someone greater than Solomon is here.”
Reading 1 – Micah 6.1-4, 6-8
Listen now to what the Lord says:
“Arise, plead your case before the mountains,
and let the hills hear what you have to say.
Hear, you mountains, the Lord’s controversy,
and you enduring foundations of the earth;
for the Lord has a controversy with his people,
and he will contend with Israel.
My people, what have I done to you?
How have I burdened you?
Answer me!
For I brought you up out of the land of Egypt,
and redeemed you out of the house of bondage.
I sent before you Moses, Aaron, and Miriam.
How shall I come before the Lord,
and bow myself before the exalted God?
Shall I come before him with burnt offerings,
with calves a year old?
Will the Lord be pleased with thousands of rams?
With tens of thousands of rivers of oil?
Shall I give my firstborn for my disobedience?
The fruit of my body for the sin of my soul?
He has shown you, O man, what is good.
What does the Lord require of you,
but to act justly, to love mercy,
and to walk humbly with your God?
Responsorial – Psalm 50.5-6, 8-9, 16bc-17, 21+23 Resp. 23b
R. I will show God’s salvation to the just.
“Gather my saints together with me,
those who made a covenant with me by sacrifice.”
The heavens shall declare his righteousness,
for God himself is judge.
R. I will show God’s salvation to the just.
I do not rebuke you for your sacrifices.
Your burnt offerings are continually before me.
I have no need for a bull from your stall,
nor male goats from your pens.
R. I will show God’s salvation to the just.
“What right do you have to declare my statutes,
and to have my covenant on your lips,
since you hate instruction,
and throw my words behind you?
R. I will show God’s salvation to the just.
You have done these things, and I kept silent,
so you thought that I was just like you.
I will rebuke you, and accuse you before your own eyes.
Whoever offers the sacrifice of thanksgiving glorifies me,
and to him who rightly goes his way, I will show God’s salvation .”
R. I will show God’s salvation to the just.
Gospel – Matthew 12.38-42
Then some of the scribes and Pharisees answered,
“Teacher, we want to see a sign from you.”
But he answered them,
“An evil and adulterous kind seeks after a sign,
but no sign will be given it
but the sign of Jonah the prophet.
For as Jonah was
three days and three nights
in the belly of the whale,
so will the Son of Man be
three days and three nights
in the heart of the earth.
The men of Nineveh will stand up
in the judgment with this kind,
and will condemn it,
for they repented at the preaching of Jonah;
and behold, someone greater than Jonah is here.
The queen of the south will rise up
in the judgment with this kind,
and will condemn it,
for she came from the ends of the earth
to hear the wisdom of Solomon,
and behold, someone greater than Solomon is here.”
Friday of the Fifteenth Week in Ordinary Time (II)
Official Translation
Reading 1 – Isaiah 38.1-6, 21-22, 7-8
In those days
Hezekiah was sick and near death.
Isaiah the prophet, the son of Amoz,
came to him, and said to him,
“The Lord says,
‘Put your house in order,
for you will die, and not live.’”
Then Hezekiah turned his face to the wall
and prayed to the Lord,
and said, “Remember now, Lord, I beg you,
how I have walked before you
in truth and with a perfect heart,
and have done what is good in your sight.”
Hezekiah wept bitterly.
Then the Lord’s word came to Isaiah, saying,
“Go, and tell Hezekiah,
‘The Lord says, the God of David your father,
“I have heard your prayer.
I have seen your tears.
Behold, I will add fifteen years to your life.
I will deliver you and this city
out of the hand of the king of Assyria,
and I will defend this city.
Then Isaiah said,
“Let them take a cake of figs,
and lay it for a poultice on the boil,
and he shall recover.”
Hezekiah said,
“What is the sign
that I will go up to the Lord’s house?”
This shall be the sign to you from the Lord,
that the Lord will do this thing
that he has spoken.
Behold, I will cause the shadow on the sundial,
which has gone down on the sundial of Ahaz,
to return back ten steps.
So the sun returned ten steps
on the sundial on which it had gone down.”’”
Responsorial – Isaiah 38.10, 11, 12abcd, 16 Resp. 17b
R. You have in love for my soul delivered it from death, O Lord.
I said,
“In the noontime of my life I depart.
I go to the gates of Sheol.
I am deprived of the rest of my years.”
R. You have in love for my soul delivered it from death, O Lord.
I said, “I will not see the Lord,
in the land of the living.
I will see man no more
among the inhabitants of the world.
R. You have in love for my soul delivered it from death, O Lord.
My dwelling, like a shepherd’s tent,
is removed and is carried away from me.
You have rolled up, like a weaver, my life.
and will cut me off from the loom.
R. You have in love for my soul delivered it from death, O Lord.
Lord, men live by these things;
and my spirit finds life in all of them:
you restore me, and cause me to live.
R. You have in love for my soul delivered it from death, O Lord.
Gospel – Matthew 12.1-8
Jesus went on the Sabbath day
through the grain fields.
His disciples were hungry
and began to pluck heads of grain
and to eat.
But the Pharisees, when they saw it,
said to him,
“Behold, your disciples do
what is not lawful to do on the Sabbath.”
But he said to them,
“Have you not read what David did,
when he was hungry,
and those who were with him;
how he entered into God’s house,
and ate the show bread,
which was not lawful for him to eat,
nor for those who were with him,
but only for the priests?
Or have you not read in the law,
that on the Sabbath day,
the priests in the temple profane the Sabbath,
and are guiltless?
But I tell you that one greater
than the temple is here.
If you had known what this means,
‘I desire mercy, and not sacrifice,’
you would not have condemned the guiltless.
For the Son of Human is Lord of the Sabbath.”
Reading 1 – Isaiah 38.1-6, 21-22, 7-8
In those days
Hezekiah was sick and near death.
Isaiah the prophet, the son of Amoz,
came to him, and said to him,
“The Lord says,
‘Put your house in order,
for you will die, and not live.’”
Then Hezekiah turned his face to the wall
and prayed to the Lord,
and said, “Remember now, Lord, I beg you,
how I have walked before you
in truth and with a perfect heart,
and have done what is good in your sight.”
Hezekiah wept bitterly.
Then the Lord’s word came to Isaiah, saying,
“Go, and tell Hezekiah,
‘The Lord says, the God of David your father,
“I have heard your prayer.
I have seen your tears.
Behold, I will add fifteen years to your life.
I will deliver you and this city
out of the hand of the king of Assyria,
and I will defend this city.
Then Isaiah said,
“Let them take a cake of figs,
and lay it for a poultice on the boil,
and he shall recover.”
Hezekiah said,
“What is the sign
that I will go up to the Lord’s house?”
This shall be the sign to you from the Lord,
that the Lord will do this thing
that he has spoken.
Behold, I will cause the shadow on the sundial,
which has gone down on the sundial of Ahaz,
to return back ten steps.
So the sun returned ten steps
on the sundial on which it had gone down.”’”
Responsorial – Isaiah 38.10, 11, 12abcd, 16 Resp. 17b
R. You have in love for my soul delivered it from death, O Lord.
I said,
“In the noontime of my life I depart.
I go to the gates of Sheol.
I am deprived of the rest of my years.”
R. You have in love for my soul delivered it from death, O Lord.
I said, “I will not see the Lord,
in the land of the living.
I will see man no more
among the inhabitants of the world.
R. You have in love for my soul delivered it from death, O Lord.
My dwelling, like a shepherd’s tent,
is removed and is carried away from me.
You have rolled up, like a weaver, my life.
and will cut me off from the loom.
R. You have in love for my soul delivered it from death, O Lord.
Lord, men live by these things;
and my spirit finds life in all of them:
you restore me, and cause me to live.
R. You have in love for my soul delivered it from death, O Lord.
Gospel – Matthew 12.1-8
Jesus went on the Sabbath day
through the grain fields.
His disciples were hungry
and began to pluck heads of grain
and to eat.
But the Pharisees, when they saw it,
said to him,
“Behold, your disciples do
what is not lawful to do on the Sabbath.”
But he said to them,
“Have you not read what David did,
when he was hungry,
and those who were with him;
how he entered into God’s house,
and ate the show bread,
which was not lawful for him to eat,
nor for those who were with him,
but only for the priests?
Or have you not read in the law,
that on the Sabbath day,
the priests in the temple profane the Sabbath,
and are guiltless?
But I tell you that one greater
than the temple is here.
If you had known what this means,
‘I desire mercy, and not sacrifice,’
you would not have condemned the guiltless.
For the Son of Human is Lord of the Sabbath.”
Thursday of the Fifteenth Week in Ordinary Time (II)
Official Translation
Reading 1 – Isaiah 26.7-9, 12, 16-19
The way of the just is smooth.
You who are upright
make the path of the righteous level.
Yes, in the way of your judgments, O Lord,
we have waited for you.
Your name and your renown
are the desire of our soul.
With my soul I have desired you in the night.
Yes, with my spirit within me
seeks you earnestly;
for when your judgments are on the earth,
the inhabitants of the world
learn righteousness.
O Lord, you will ordain peace for us,
for you have also done all our work for us.
O Lord, in trouble we have visited you.
We poured out a prayer
when your chastening was upon us.
Like a woman with child,
who draws near the time of her delivery,
is in pain and cries out in her pangs;
so we have been before you, O Lord.
We have been with child.
We have been in pain.
We gave birth only to wind.
We have not worked any deliverance on the earth;
nor have the inhabitants of the world.
Your dead shall live.
Their dead bodies shall arise.
Awake and sing, you who dwell in the dust;
for your dew is like the dew of herbs,
and the earth will cast out the departed spirits.
Responsorial – Psalm 102.13-14ab+15, 16-18, 19-21 Resp. 20b
R. From heaven, the Lord saw the earth.
But you, the Lord, will remain forever;
your renown endures to all generations.
You will arise and have mercy on Zion;
for the time has come to pity her.
For your servants take pleasure in her stones,
and have pity on her dust.
R. From heaven, the Lord saw the earth.
The nations will fear the Lord’s name,
and all the kings of the earth your glory.
For the Lord has built up Zion.
He has appeared in his glory.
He has responded to the prayer of the destitute,
and has not despised their prayer.
R. From heaven, the Lord saw the earth.
This will be written for the generation to come;
a people yet to be created will praise the Lord.
For he has looked down from the height of his sanctuary.
From heaven, the Lord saw the earth;
to hear the groans of the prisoner;
to free those who are condemned to death;
R. From heaven, the Lord saw the earth.
Gospel – Matthew 11.28-30
Jesus said:
“Come to me, all you who labor and are burdened, and I will give you rest.
Take my yoke upon you, and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble of heart,
and you will find rest for your souls, for my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.”
Reading 1 – Isaiah 26.7-9, 12, 16-19
The way of the just is smooth.
You who are upright
make the path of the righteous level.
Yes, in the way of your judgments, O Lord,
we have waited for you.
Your name and your renown
are the desire of our soul.
With my soul I have desired you in the night.
Yes, with my spirit within me
seeks you earnestly;
for when your judgments are on the earth,
the inhabitants of the world
learn righteousness.
O Lord, you will ordain peace for us,
for you have also done all our work for us.
O Lord, in trouble we have visited you.
We poured out a prayer
when your chastening was upon us.
Like a woman with child,
who draws near the time of her delivery,
is in pain and cries out in her pangs;
so we have been before you, O Lord.
We have been with child.
We have been in pain.
We gave birth only to wind.
We have not worked any deliverance on the earth;
nor have the inhabitants of the world.
Your dead shall live.
Their dead bodies shall arise.
Awake and sing, you who dwell in the dust;
for your dew is like the dew of herbs,
and the earth will cast out the departed spirits.
Responsorial – Psalm 102.13-14ab+15, 16-18, 19-21 Resp. 20b
R. From heaven, the Lord saw the earth.
But you, the Lord, will remain forever;
your renown endures to all generations.
You will arise and have mercy on Zion;
for the time has come to pity her.
For your servants take pleasure in her stones,
and have pity on her dust.
R. From heaven, the Lord saw the earth.
The nations will fear the Lord’s name,
and all the kings of the earth your glory.
For the Lord has built up Zion.
He has appeared in his glory.
He has responded to the prayer of the destitute,
and has not despised their prayer.
R. From heaven, the Lord saw the earth.
This will be written for the generation to come;
a people yet to be created will praise the Lord.
For he has looked down from the height of his sanctuary.
From heaven, the Lord saw the earth;
to hear the groans of the prisoner;
to free those who are condemned to death;
R. From heaven, the Lord saw the earth.
Gospel – Matthew 11.28-30
Jesus said:
“Come to me, all you who labor and are burdened, and I will give you rest.
Take my yoke upon you, and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble of heart,
and you will find rest for your souls, for my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.”
Wednesday of the Fifteenth Week in Ordinary Time (II)
Official Translation
Reading 1 – Isaiah 10:5-7, 13b-16
Thus says the LORD:
Woe to Assyria,
the rod of my anger,
my staff in indignation!
will send him against a profane nation,
and against the people who anger me
I will give him a command
to take the plunder and to take the prey,
and to tread them down
like the mire of the streets.
However he does not intend this,
nor does his heart think thus;
but it is in his heart to destroy,
and to cut off not a few nations.
For he has said,
“By the strength of my hand I have done it,
and by my wisdom; for I have understanding:
and I have removed the boundaries of the peoples,
and have robbed their treasures.
Like a valiant man I have brought down their rulers.
My hand has found
the riches of the peoples like a nest,
and like one gathers eggs that are abandoned,
have I gathered all the earth.
There was no one who moved their wing,
or that opened their mouth, or chirped.”
Should an ax brag against him who chops with it?
Should a saw exalt itself above him who saws with it?
As if a rod should lift those who lift it up,
or as if a staff should lift up someone who is not wood.
Therefore the Lord God of hosts,
will send among his fat ones leanness;
and under his glory
a burning will be kindled like the burning of fire.
Responsorial – Psalm 94.5-6, 7-8, 9-10, 14-15 Resp. 14a
R. The Lord will not forsake his people
They break your people in pieces, O Lord,
and afflict your heritage.
They kill the widow and the alien,
and murder the fatherless.
R. The Lord will not forsake his people
They say, “The Lord will not see,
nor will the God of Jacob consider.”
Consider, you senseless among the people;
you fools, when will you be wise?
R. The Lord will not forsake his people
He who formed the ear, will he not hear?
He who formed the eye, will he not see?
He who disciplines the nations, will he not punish?
He who teaches man knowledge.
R. The Lord will not forsake his people
For the Lord will not cast off his people:
nor forsake his own inheritance.
For judgment will return to justice,
and all the upright of heart will follow it.
R. The Lord will not forsake his people
Gospel – Matthew 11.25-27
At that time, Jesus answered,
“I thank you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth,
that you hid these things from the wise and understanding, and revealed them to infants.
Yes, Father, for so it was well-pleasing in your sight.
All things have been delivered to me by my Father.
No one knows the Son, except the Father;
nor does anyone know the Father, except the Son and anyone to whom the Son desires to reveal him.”
Reading 1 – Isaiah 10:5-7, 13b-16
Thus says the LORD:
Woe to Assyria,
the rod of my anger,
my staff in indignation!
will send him against a profane nation,
and against the people who anger me
I will give him a command
to take the plunder and to take the prey,
and to tread them down
like the mire of the streets.
However he does not intend this,
nor does his heart think thus;
but it is in his heart to destroy,
and to cut off not a few nations.
For he has said,
“By the strength of my hand I have done it,
and by my wisdom; for I have understanding:
and I have removed the boundaries of the peoples,
and have robbed their treasures.
Like a valiant man I have brought down their rulers.
My hand has found
the riches of the peoples like a nest,
and like one gathers eggs that are abandoned,
have I gathered all the earth.
There was no one who moved their wing,
or that opened their mouth, or chirped.”
Should an ax brag against him who chops with it?
Should a saw exalt itself above him who saws with it?
As if a rod should lift those who lift it up,
or as if a staff should lift up someone who is not wood.
Therefore the Lord God of hosts,
will send among his fat ones leanness;
and under his glory
a burning will be kindled like the burning of fire.
Responsorial – Psalm 94.5-6, 7-8, 9-10, 14-15 Resp. 14a
R. The Lord will not forsake his people
They break your people in pieces, O Lord,
and afflict your heritage.
They kill the widow and the alien,
and murder the fatherless.
R. The Lord will not forsake his people
They say, “The Lord will not see,
nor will the God of Jacob consider.”
Consider, you senseless among the people;
you fools, when will you be wise?
R. The Lord will not forsake his people
He who formed the ear, will he not hear?
He who formed the eye, will he not see?
He who disciplines the nations, will he not punish?
He who teaches man knowledge.
R. The Lord will not forsake his people
For the Lord will not cast off his people:
nor forsake his own inheritance.
For judgment will return to justice,
and all the upright of heart will follow it.
R. The Lord will not forsake his people
Gospel – Matthew 11.25-27
At that time, Jesus answered,
“I thank you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth,
that you hid these things from the wise and understanding, and revealed them to infants.
Yes, Father, for so it was well-pleasing in your sight.
All things have been delivered to me by my Father.
No one knows the Son, except the Father;
nor does anyone know the Father, except the Son and anyone to whom the Son desires to reveal him.”
Tuesday of the Fifteenth Week in Ordinary Time (II)
Official Translation
Reading 1 – Isaiah 7.1-9
In the days of Ahaz,
the son of Jotham, the son of Uzziah,
king of Judah,
Rezin the king of Syria,
and Pekah the son of Remaliah,
king of Israel,
went up to Jerusalem to war against it,
but could not prevail against it.
It was said to the house of David,
“Aram is allied with Ephraim.”
His heart trembled,
and the heart of his people,
as the trees of the forest
tremble with the wind.
Then the Lord said to Isaiah,
“Go out now to meet Ahaz,
you, and Shearjashub your son,
at the end of the conduit of the upper pool,
on the highway of the fuller’s field.
Tell him, ‘Be careful, and keep calm.
Do not be afraid,
nor let your heart be faint
because of these two stumps of smoking torches,
for the fierce anger of Rezin and Aram,
and of the son of Remaliah.
Because Aram, Ephraim, and the son of Remaliah,
have plotted evil against you, saying,
“Let us go up against Judah, and tear it apart,
and let us divide it among ourselves,
and set up a king within it,
even the son of Tabeel.”
This is what the Lord says:
“It shall not stand, nor shall it happen.”
For the head of Aram is Damascus,
and the head of Damascus is Rezin;
and within sixty-five years
Ephraim shall be broken in pieces,
so that it shall not be a people;
and the head of Ephraim is Samaria,
and the head of Samaria is Remaliah’s son.
If your faith is not firm,
you will not be firm.
Responsorial – Psalm 48.2-3a, 3b-4, 5-6, 7-8 Resp. 9d
R. God will establish his city forever.
Great is the Lord, and greatly to be praised,
in the city of our God,
in his holy mountain, beautiful on the heights,
the joy of the whole earth.
R. God will establish his city forever.
Mount Zion, in the far north,
the city of the great King.
God has shown himself in her citadels
as a refuge.
R. God will establish his city forever.
For, behold, the kings assembled themselves,
they passed by together.
They saw it, then they were amazed.
They were dismayed; they hurried away.
R. God will establish his city forever.
Trembling took hold of them there,
pain, as of a woman in travail.
With the east wind,
you break the ships of Tarshish.
R. God will establish his city forever.
Gospel – Matthew 11.20-24
Jesus began to denounce
the cities in which
most of his mighty works had been done,
because they did not repent.
“Woe to you, Chorazin!
Woe to you, Bethsaida!
For if the mighty works had been done
in Tyre and Sidon which were done in you,
they would have repented long ago
in sackcloth and ashes.
But I tell you,
it will be more tolerable
for Tyre and Sidon
on the day of judgment than for you.
You, Capernaum, who are exalted to heaven,
you will go down to Hades.
For if the mighty works
had been done in Sodom
which were done in you,
it would have remained until this day.
But I tell you that it will be
more tolerable for the land of Sodom,
on the day of judgment, than for you.”
Reading 1 – Isaiah 7.1-9
In the days of Ahaz,
the son of Jotham, the son of Uzziah,
king of Judah,
Rezin the king of Syria,
and Pekah the son of Remaliah,
king of Israel,
went up to Jerusalem to war against it,
but could not prevail against it.
It was said to the house of David,
“Aram is allied with Ephraim.”
His heart trembled,
and the heart of his people,
as the trees of the forest
tremble with the wind.
Then the Lord said to Isaiah,
“Go out now to meet Ahaz,
you, and Shearjashub your son,
at the end of the conduit of the upper pool,
on the highway of the fuller’s field.
Tell him, ‘Be careful, and keep calm.
Do not be afraid,
nor let your heart be faint
because of these two stumps of smoking torches,
for the fierce anger of Rezin and Aram,
and of the son of Remaliah.
Because Aram, Ephraim, and the son of Remaliah,
have plotted evil against you, saying,
“Let us go up against Judah, and tear it apart,
and let us divide it among ourselves,
and set up a king within it,
even the son of Tabeel.”
This is what the Lord says:
“It shall not stand, nor shall it happen.”
For the head of Aram is Damascus,
and the head of Damascus is Rezin;
and within sixty-five years
Ephraim shall be broken in pieces,
so that it shall not be a people;
and the head of Ephraim is Samaria,
and the head of Samaria is Remaliah’s son.
If your faith is not firm,
you will not be firm.
Responsorial – Psalm 48.2-3a, 3b-4, 5-6, 7-8 Resp. 9d
R. God will establish his city forever.
Great is the Lord, and greatly to be praised,
in the city of our God,
in his holy mountain, beautiful on the heights,
the joy of the whole earth.
R. God will establish his city forever.
Mount Zion, in the far north,
the city of the great King.
God has shown himself in her citadels
as a refuge.
R. God will establish his city forever.
For, behold, the kings assembled themselves,
they passed by together.
They saw it, then they were amazed.
They were dismayed; they hurried away.
R. God will establish his city forever.
Trembling took hold of them there,
pain, as of a woman in travail.
With the east wind,
you break the ships of Tarshish.
R. God will establish his city forever.
Gospel – Matthew 11.20-24
Jesus began to denounce
the cities in which
most of his mighty works had been done,
because they did not repent.
“Woe to you, Chorazin!
Woe to you, Bethsaida!
For if the mighty works had been done
in Tyre and Sidon which were done in you,
they would have repented long ago
in sackcloth and ashes.
But I tell you,
it will be more tolerable
for Tyre and Sidon
on the day of judgment than for you.
You, Capernaum, who are exalted to heaven,
you will go down to Hades.
For if the mighty works
had been done in Sodom
which were done in you,
it would have remained until this day.
But I tell you that it will be
more tolerable for the land of Sodom,
on the day of judgment, than for you.”
Monday of the Fifteenth Week in Ordinary Time (II)
Official Translation
Reading 1 – Isaiah 1.10-17
Hear the word of the Lord,
rulers of Sodom!
Listen to the law of our God,
people of Gomorrah!
“What are the multitude
of your sacrifices to me?”, says the Lord.
“I have had enough of the burnt offerings of rams,
and the fat of fed animals.
I do not delight in the blood
of bulls or lambs or male goats.
When you come to appear before me,
who has required this at your hand,
to trample my courts?
Bring no more vain offerings.
Incense is an abomination to me;
new moons, Sabbaths, and convocations:
I cannot bear with octaves of wickedness.
My soul hates your new moons
and your appointed feasts.
They are a burden to me.
I am weary of bearing them.
When you spread out your hands,
I will hide my eyes from you.
Yes, when you make many prayers,
I will not hear.
Your hands are full of blood.
Wash yourselves,
make yourself clean.
Put away the evil of your doings
from before my eyes.
Cease to do evil.
Learn to do good.
Seek justice.
Relieve the oppressed.
Judge the fatherless.
Plead for the widow.
Responsorial – Psalm 50.8-9, 16bc-17, 21+23 Resp. 23b
R. I will show God’s salvation to the just.
I do not rebuke you for your sacrifices.
Your burnt offerings are continually before me.
I have no need for a bull from your stall,
nor male goats from your pens.
R. I will show God’s salvation to the just.
“What right do you have to declare my statutes,
and to have my covenant on your lips,
since you hate instruction,
and throw my words behind you?
R. I will show God’s salvation to the just.
You have done these things, and I kept silent,
so you thought that I was just like you.
I will rebuke you, and accuse you before your own eyes.
Whoever offers the sacrifice of thanksgiving glorifies me,
and to him who rightly goes his way, I will show God’s salvation .”
R. I will show God’s salvation to the just.
Gospel – Matthew 10.34-11.1
Jesus said to his Apostles:
“Do not think that I came to
bring peace on earth.
I did not come to bring peace
but a sword.
For I came to set
a human against their father,
and a daughter against her mother,
and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law.
The foes of a human
will be those of their own household.
The one who loves father or mother
more than me is not worthy of me;
and the one who loves son or daughter
more than me is not worthy of me.
The one who does not
take their cross and follow after me,
is not worthy of me.
He who seeks his life will lose it,
and he who loses his life for my sake, will find it.
Whoever receives you receives me,
Whoever receives me receives
him who sent me.
Whoever receives a prophet
because of the name of prophet
will receive a prophet’s reward.
Whoever receives a righteous man
because of the name of righteous man
will receive a righteous man’s reward.
Whoever gives one of these little ones
just a cup of cold water to drink
because of the name of disciple,
Amen I say to you,
they will in no way lose their reward.”
When Jesus had finished directing his Twelve disciples,
he departed from there to teach and preach in their cities.
Reading 1 – Isaiah 1.10-17
Hear the word of the Lord,
rulers of Sodom!
Listen to the law of our God,
people of Gomorrah!
“What are the multitude
of your sacrifices to me?”, says the Lord.
“I have had enough of the burnt offerings of rams,
and the fat of fed animals.
I do not delight in the blood
of bulls or lambs or male goats.
When you come to appear before me,
who has required this at your hand,
to trample my courts?
Bring no more vain offerings.
Incense is an abomination to me;
new moons, Sabbaths, and convocations:
I cannot bear with octaves of wickedness.
My soul hates your new moons
and your appointed feasts.
They are a burden to me.
I am weary of bearing them.
When you spread out your hands,
I will hide my eyes from you.
Yes, when you make many prayers,
I will not hear.
Your hands are full of blood.
Wash yourselves,
make yourself clean.
Put away the evil of your doings
from before my eyes.
Cease to do evil.
Learn to do good.
Seek justice.
Relieve the oppressed.
Judge the fatherless.
Plead for the widow.
Responsorial – Psalm 50.8-9, 16bc-17, 21+23 Resp. 23b
R. I will show God’s salvation to the just.
I do not rebuke you for your sacrifices.
Your burnt offerings are continually before me.
I have no need for a bull from your stall,
nor male goats from your pens.
R. I will show God’s salvation to the just.
“What right do you have to declare my statutes,
and to have my covenant on your lips,
since you hate instruction,
and throw my words behind you?
R. I will show God’s salvation to the just.
You have done these things, and I kept silent,
so you thought that I was just like you.
I will rebuke you, and accuse you before your own eyes.
Whoever offers the sacrifice of thanksgiving glorifies me,
and to him who rightly goes his way, I will show God’s salvation .”
R. I will show God’s salvation to the just.
Gospel – Matthew 10.34-11.1
Jesus said to his Apostles:
“Do not think that I came to
bring peace on earth.
I did not come to bring peace
but a sword.
For I came to set
a human against their father,
and a daughter against her mother,
and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law.
The foes of a human
will be those of their own household.
The one who loves father or mother
more than me is not worthy of me;
and the one who loves son or daughter
more than me is not worthy of me.
The one who does not
take their cross and follow after me,
is not worthy of me.
He who seeks his life will lose it,
and he who loses his life for my sake, will find it.
Whoever receives you receives me,
Whoever receives me receives
him who sent me.
Whoever receives a prophet
because of the name of prophet
will receive a prophet’s reward.
Whoever receives a righteous man
because of the name of righteous man
will receive a righteous man’s reward.
Whoever gives one of these little ones
just a cup of cold water to drink
because of the name of disciple,
Amen I say to you,
they will in no way lose their reward.”
When Jesus had finished directing his Twelve disciples,
he departed from there to teach and preach in their cities.
Fifteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time (B)
Official Translation
Reading 1 – Amos 7.12-15
Amaziah also said to Amos,
“You seer, go, flee away into the land of Judah,
and there eat bread, and prophesy there:
but do not prophesy again anymore at Bethel;
for it is the king’s sanctuary, and it is a royal house!”
Then Amos answered Amaziah,
“I was no prophet, nor was I a prophet’s son;
but I was a herdsman, and a farmer of sycamore figs;
and the Lord took me from following the flock,
and the Lord said to me,
‘Go, prophesy to my people Israel.’
Responsorial – Psalm 85.9-10, 11-12, 13-14 Resp. 8
R. Show us your loving kindness, Lord, and grant us your salvation.
I will hear what the Lord God has to say,
for he will speak peace unto his people,
Surely his salvation is near those who fear him,
that glory may dwell in our land.
R. Show us your loving kindness, Lord, and grant us your salvation.
Mercy and truth are met together.
Righteousness and peace have kissed each other.
Truth springs out of the earth,
and righteousness has looked down from heaven.
R. Show us your loving kindness, Lord, and grant us your salvation.
The Lord will give what is good,
and our land shall yield its increase.
Righteousness shall go before him,
and shall prepare a way for his footsteps to walk.
R. Show us your loving kindness, Lord, and grant us your salvation.
Reading 2 – Ephesians 1.3-14
Blessed be the God and Father
of our Lord Jesus Christ,
who has blessed us in Christ
with every spiritual blessing
in the heavens,
even as he chose us in him
before the foundation of the world,
that we would be holy
and without defect before him.
In love, having predestined us
for adoption as children
through Jesus Christ to himself,
according to the good pleasure of his desire,
to the praise of the glory of his grace,
by which he freely gave us
favor in the Beloved,
in whom we have our redemption
through his blood,
the forgiveness of our trespasses,
according to the riches of his grace,
which he made to abound toward us
in all wisdom and prudence,
making known to us the mystery of his will,
according to his good pleasure
which he purposed in him
to an administration
of the fullness of the times,
to sum up in Christ
all things in the heavens and on the earth.
In him we were assigned an inheritance,
having been foreordained
according to the purpose of him
who does all things
after the counsel of his will;
to the end that we should be
to the praise of his glory,
we who had before hoped in Christ,
in whom you also,
having heard the word of the truth,
the gospel of your salvation,
having also believed in him,
you were sealed with the promised Holy Spirit,
who is a pledge of our inheritance,
to the redemption of God’s own possession,
to the praise of his glory.
Gospel – Mark 6.7-13
Jesus called to himself the Twelve,
and began to send them out
two by two;
and he gave them authority
over the unclean spirits.
He commanded them that
they should take nothing for their journey,
except a staff alone:
no bread, no sack, no money in their purse,
but to wear sandals,
and not put on two tunics.
He said to them,
“Wherever you enter into a house,
stay there until you depart from there.
Whoever will not receive you
nor hear you,
as you depart from there,
shake off the dust that is under your feet
for a testimony against them.
They went out and preached a changing of mind.
They cast out many demons,
and anointed many with oil who were sick,
and healed them.
Reading 1 – Amos 7.12-15
Amaziah also said to Amos,
“You seer, go, flee away into the land of Judah,
and there eat bread, and prophesy there:
but do not prophesy again anymore at Bethel;
for it is the king’s sanctuary, and it is a royal house!”
Then Amos answered Amaziah,
“I was no prophet, nor was I a prophet’s son;
but I was a herdsman, and a farmer of sycamore figs;
and the Lord took me from following the flock,
and the Lord said to me,
‘Go, prophesy to my people Israel.’
Responsorial – Psalm 85.9-10, 11-12, 13-14 Resp. 8
R. Show us your loving kindness, Lord, and grant us your salvation.
I will hear what the Lord God has to say,
for he will speak peace unto his people,
Surely his salvation is near those who fear him,
that glory may dwell in our land.
R. Show us your loving kindness, Lord, and grant us your salvation.
Mercy and truth are met together.
Righteousness and peace have kissed each other.
Truth springs out of the earth,
and righteousness has looked down from heaven.
R. Show us your loving kindness, Lord, and grant us your salvation.
The Lord will give what is good,
and our land shall yield its increase.
Righteousness shall go before him,
and shall prepare a way for his footsteps to walk.
R. Show us your loving kindness, Lord, and grant us your salvation.
Reading 2 – Ephesians 1.3-14
Blessed be the God and Father
of our Lord Jesus Christ,
who has blessed us in Christ
with every spiritual blessing
in the heavens,
even as he chose us in him
before the foundation of the world,
that we would be holy
and without defect before him.
In love, having predestined us
for adoption as children
through Jesus Christ to himself,
according to the good pleasure of his desire,
to the praise of the glory of his grace,
by which he freely gave us
favor in the Beloved,
in whom we have our redemption
through his blood,
the forgiveness of our trespasses,
according to the riches of his grace,
which he made to abound toward us
in all wisdom and prudence,
making known to us the mystery of his will,
according to his good pleasure
which he purposed in him
to an administration
of the fullness of the times,
to sum up in Christ
all things in the heavens and on the earth.
In him we were assigned an inheritance,
having been foreordained
according to the purpose of him
who does all things
after the counsel of his will;
to the end that we should be
to the praise of his glory,
we who had before hoped in Christ,
in whom you also,
having heard the word of the truth,
the gospel of your salvation,
having also believed in him,
you were sealed with the promised Holy Spirit,
who is a pledge of our inheritance,
to the redemption of God’s own possession,
to the praise of his glory.
Gospel – Mark 6.7-13
Jesus called to himself the Twelve,
and began to send them out
two by two;
and he gave them authority
over the unclean spirits.
He commanded them that
they should take nothing for their journey,
except a staff alone:
no bread, no sack, no money in their purse,
but to wear sandals,
and not put on two tunics.
He said to them,
“Wherever you enter into a house,
stay there until you depart from there.
Whoever will not receive you
nor hear you,
as you depart from there,
shake off the dust that is under your feet
for a testimony against them.
They went out and preached a changing of mind.
They cast out many demons,
and anointed many with oil who were sick,
and healed them.
Saturday of the Fourteenth Week in Ordinary Time (II)
Official Translation
Reading 1 – Isaiah 6.1-8
In the year that King Uzziah died,
I saw the Lord sitting on a throne,
high and lifted up;
and the train of his garment filled the temple.
Above him stood the seraphim.
Each one had six wings.
With two they covered their face.
With two they covered their feet.
With two they flew.
Each one called to another, and said,
“Holy, holy, holy, is the Lord of Hosts!
The whole earth is full of his glory!”
The foundations of the thresholds
shook at the voice of the call,
and the house was filled with smoke.
So I said, “Woe is me!
For I am undone,
because I am a man of unclean lips,
and I dwell among a people of unclean lips:
for my eyes have seen the King, the Lord of Hosts!”
Then one of the seraphim flew to me,
having a live coal in their hand,
which they had taken with the tongs from off the altar.
They touched my mouth with it, and said,
“Behold, this has touched your lips;
and your iniquity is taken away,
and your sin forgiven.”
I heard the Lord’s voice, saying,
“Whom shall I send, and who will go for us?”
Then I said, “Here I am. Send me!”
Responsorial – Psalm 93.1ab, 1cd-2, 5 Resp. 1a
R. The Lord reigns! He is clothed with majesty!
The Lord reigns! He is clothed with majesty!
The Lord is robed and armed with strength.
R. The Lord reigns! He is clothed with majesty!
The world he has established.
It cannot be moved.
Your throne is established from long ago.
You are from everlasting, O Lord.
R. The Lord reigns! He is clothed with majesty!
Your statutes are very trustworthy.
Holiness adorns your house,
O Lord, forever more.
R. The Lord reigns! He is clothed with majesty!
Gospel – Matthew 10.24-33
Jesus said to his Apostles:
“A disciple is not above his teacher,
nor a servant above his lord.
It is enough for the disciple that
he be like his teacher,
and the servant like his lord.
If they have called
the master of the house Beelzebul,
how much more those of his household!
Therefore do not be afraid of them,
for there is nothing concealed
that will not be revealed;
nor hidden that will not be known.
What I tell you in the darkness,
speak in the light,
and what you hear whispered in the ear,
proclaim on the housetops.
Do not be afraid of those who kill the body,
but are unable to kill the soul.
Rather, fear him who is able to destroy
both soul and body in Gehenna.
Are not two sparrows sold for a quarter?
Yet not one of them falls on the ground
without your Father,
and the very hairs of your head are all numbered.
Therefore do not be afraid.
You are of more value than many sparrows.
Everyone therefore
who acknowledges me before humans,
I will also acknowledge them
before my Father who is in heaven.
But whoever denies me before humans,
I will also deny them
before my Father who is in heaven.”
Reading 1 – Isaiah 6.1-8
In the year that King Uzziah died,
I saw the Lord sitting on a throne,
high and lifted up;
and the train of his garment filled the temple.
Above him stood the seraphim.
Each one had six wings.
With two they covered their face.
With two they covered their feet.
With two they flew.
Each one called to another, and said,
“Holy, holy, holy, is the Lord of Hosts!
The whole earth is full of his glory!”
The foundations of the thresholds
shook at the voice of the call,
and the house was filled with smoke.
So I said, “Woe is me!
For I am undone,
because I am a man of unclean lips,
and I dwell among a people of unclean lips:
for my eyes have seen the King, the Lord of Hosts!”
Then one of the seraphim flew to me,
having a live coal in their hand,
which they had taken with the tongs from off the altar.
They touched my mouth with it, and said,
“Behold, this has touched your lips;
and your iniquity is taken away,
and your sin forgiven.”
I heard the Lord’s voice, saying,
“Whom shall I send, and who will go for us?”
Then I said, “Here I am. Send me!”
Responsorial – Psalm 93.1ab, 1cd-2, 5 Resp. 1a
R. The Lord reigns! He is clothed with majesty!
The Lord reigns! He is clothed with majesty!
The Lord is robed and armed with strength.
R. The Lord reigns! He is clothed with majesty!
The world he has established.
It cannot be moved.
Your throne is established from long ago.
You are from everlasting, O Lord.
R. The Lord reigns! He is clothed with majesty!
Your statutes are very trustworthy.
Holiness adorns your house,
O Lord, forever more.
R. The Lord reigns! He is clothed with majesty!
Gospel – Matthew 10.24-33
Jesus said to his Apostles:
“A disciple is not above his teacher,
nor a servant above his lord.
It is enough for the disciple that
he be like his teacher,
and the servant like his lord.
If they have called
the master of the house Beelzebul,
how much more those of his household!
Therefore do not be afraid of them,
for there is nothing concealed
that will not be revealed;
nor hidden that will not be known.
What I tell you in the darkness,
speak in the light,
and what you hear whispered in the ear,
proclaim on the housetops.
Do not be afraid of those who kill the body,
but are unable to kill the soul.
Rather, fear him who is able to destroy
both soul and body in Gehenna.
Are not two sparrows sold for a quarter?
Yet not one of them falls on the ground
without your Father,
and the very hairs of your head are all numbered.
Therefore do not be afraid.
You are of more value than many sparrows.
Everyone therefore
who acknowledges me before humans,
I will also acknowledge them
before my Father who is in heaven.
But whoever denies me before humans,
I will also deny them
before my Father who is in heaven.”
Friday of the Fourteenth Week in Ordinary Time (II)
Official Translation
Reading 1 – Hosea 14.2-10
Thus says the LORD:
Israel, return to Lord your God;
for you have fallen because of your sin.
Take words with you,
and return to the Lord.
Tell him, “Forgive all our sins,
and accept that which is good:
so we might offer bulls from our stalls.
Assyria cannot save us.
We will not ride on horses;
nor will we say anymore
to the work of our hands, ‘Our gods!’
for in you the fatherless finds mercy.”
“I will heal their waywardness,” says the Lord,
“I will love them freely.
My anger is turned away from them.
I will be like the dew to Israel.
He will blossom like the lily,
and send down his roots like the Lebanon cedar.
His branches will spread,
and his beauty will be like the olive tree,
and his fragrance like the Lebanon cedar.
Men will dwell in his shade.
They will revive like the grain,
and blossom like the vine.
Their fragrance will be like the wine of Lebanon.
Ephraim, what has he to do anymore with idols?
I answer, and will take care of him.
‘I am like a green fir tree’?
from me your fruit is found.”
Who is wise, that he may understand these things?
Who is prudent, that he may know them?
For the ways of the Lord are straight,
and the righteous walk in them;
But the sinners stumble in them.
Responsorial – Psalm 51.3-4, 8-9, 12-13, 14+17 Resp. 17b
R. My mouth will proclaim your praise.
Have mercy on me, God, according to your loving kindness.
According to the multitude of your tender mercies, blot out my transgressions.
Wash me thoroughly from my iniquity.
Cleanse me from my sin.
R. My mouth will proclaim your praise.
Behold, you desire truth in the inward parts.
You teach me wisdom in the inmost place.
Purify me with hyssop, and I will be clean.
Wash me, and I will be whiter than snow.
R. My mouth will proclaim your praise.
Create in me a clean heart, O God.
Renew a right spirit within me.
Do not cast me out from your presence,
and do not take your Holy Spirit from me.
R. My mouth will proclaim your praise.
Restore to me the joy of your salvation.
Uphold me with a willing spirit.
O Lord, open my lips
My mouth will proclaim your praise.
R. My mouth will proclaim your praise.
Gospel – Matthew 10.16-23
Jesus said to his Apostles:
“Behold, I send you out
as sheep among wolves.
Therefore be wise as serpents,
and harmless as doves.
But beware of humans:
for they will deliver you up to councils,
and in their synagogues
they will scourge you.
Yes, and you will be brought
before governors and kings for my sake,
for a testimony to them and to the nations.
But when they deliver you up,
do not be anxious how or what you will say,
for it will be given you in that hour
what you will say.
For it is not you who speak,
but the Spirit of your Father who speaks in you.
Brother will deliver up brother to death,
and the father his child.
Children will rise up against parents,
and cause them to be put to death.
You will be hated by all for the sake of my name,
but the one who endures to the end will be saved.
But when they persecute you in this city,
flee into the next,
for, amen I say to you,
you will not have gone through
the cities of Israel,
until the Son of Human has come.
Reading 1 – Hosea 14.2-10
Thus says the LORD:
Israel, return to Lord your God;
for you have fallen because of your sin.
Take words with you,
and return to the Lord.
Tell him, “Forgive all our sins,
and accept that which is good:
so we might offer bulls from our stalls.
Assyria cannot save us.
We will not ride on horses;
nor will we say anymore
to the work of our hands, ‘Our gods!’
for in you the fatherless finds mercy.”
“I will heal their waywardness,” says the Lord,
“I will love them freely.
My anger is turned away from them.
I will be like the dew to Israel.
He will blossom like the lily,
and send down his roots like the Lebanon cedar.
His branches will spread,
and his beauty will be like the olive tree,
and his fragrance like the Lebanon cedar.
Men will dwell in his shade.
They will revive like the grain,
and blossom like the vine.
Their fragrance will be like the wine of Lebanon.
Ephraim, what has he to do anymore with idols?
I answer, and will take care of him.
‘I am like a green fir tree’?
from me your fruit is found.”
Who is wise, that he may understand these things?
Who is prudent, that he may know them?
For the ways of the Lord are straight,
and the righteous walk in them;
But the sinners stumble in them.
Responsorial – Psalm 51.3-4, 8-9, 12-13, 14+17 Resp. 17b
R. My mouth will proclaim your praise.
Have mercy on me, God, according to your loving kindness.
According to the multitude of your tender mercies, blot out my transgressions.
Wash me thoroughly from my iniquity.
Cleanse me from my sin.
R. My mouth will proclaim your praise.
Behold, you desire truth in the inward parts.
You teach me wisdom in the inmost place.
Purify me with hyssop, and I will be clean.
Wash me, and I will be whiter than snow.
R. My mouth will proclaim your praise.
Create in me a clean heart, O God.
Renew a right spirit within me.
Do not cast me out from your presence,
and do not take your Holy Spirit from me.
R. My mouth will proclaim your praise.
Restore to me the joy of your salvation.
Uphold me with a willing spirit.
O Lord, open my lips
My mouth will proclaim your praise.
R. My mouth will proclaim your praise.
Gospel – Matthew 10.16-23
Jesus said to his Apostles:
“Behold, I send you out
as sheep among wolves.
Therefore be wise as serpents,
and harmless as doves.
But beware of humans:
for they will deliver you up to councils,
and in their synagogues
they will scourge you.
Yes, and you will be brought
before governors and kings for my sake,
for a testimony to them and to the nations.
But when they deliver you up,
do not be anxious how or what you will say,
for it will be given you in that hour
what you will say.
For it is not you who speak,
but the Spirit of your Father who speaks in you.
Brother will deliver up brother to death,
and the father his child.
Children will rise up against parents,
and cause them to be put to death.
You will be hated by all for the sake of my name,
but the one who endures to the end will be saved.
But when they persecute you in this city,
flee into the next,
for, amen I say to you,
you will not have gone through
the cities of Israel,
until the Son of Human has come.
Thursday of the Fourteenth Week in Ordinary Time (II)
Official Translation
Reading 1 – Hosea 11.1-4, 8e-9
Thus says the LORD:
“When Israel was a child, I loved him;
out of Egypt I called my son.
I called them,
but they went away from me.
They sacrificed to the Baals,
and burned incense to idols.
Yet I taught Ephraim to walk.
I took them in my arms;
but they did not know that I healed them.
I drew them with human cords,
with ties of love;
and I was to them
like those who lift up the yoke on their necks;
and I bent down to them and I fed them.
My heart is turned within me,
my compassion is aroused.
I will not execute the fierceness of my anger.
I will not return to destroy Ephraim:
for I am God, and not man;
the Holy One among you;
and I will not come in wrath.
Responsorial – Psalm 80.2ac+3b, 15-16 Resp. 4b
R. Cause your face to shine on us, O Lord, and we shall be saved.
Give ear, O Shepherd of Israel,
You who dwell among the cherubim, shine forth.
Stir up your strength,
and come to save us.
R. Cause your face to shine on us, O Lord, and we shall be saved.
Return, we beseech you, O God of Hosts.
Look down from heaven and see,
Visit this vine and the vineyard
which your right hand has planted,
the son of man whom you made strong for yourself.
R. Cause your face to shine on us, O Lord, and we shall be saved.
Gospel – Matthew 10.7-15
Jesus said to his Apostles:
As you go, preach, saying,
‘The Kingdom of Heaven is at hand!’
Heal the sick, cleanse the lepers,
and cast out demons.
Freely you received,
so freely give.
Do not take any gold, silver, or copper
in your money belts.
Take no bag for your journey,
nor two coats, nor shoes, nor staff:
for the laborer is worthy of his food.
Into whatever city or village you enter,
find out who in it is worthy;
and stay there until you go on.
As you enter into the household, greet it.
If the household is worthy,
let your peace come on it,
but if it is not worthy,
let your peace return to you.
Whoever does not receive you,
nor hears your words,
go out of that house or that city,
and shake off the dust from your feet.
Amen I say to you,
it will be more tolerable for
the land of Sodom and Gomorrah
in the day of judgment than for that city.
Reading 1 – Hosea 11.1-4, 8e-9
Thus says the LORD:
“When Israel was a child, I loved him;
out of Egypt I called my son.
I called them,
but they went away from me.
They sacrificed to the Baals,
and burned incense to idols.
Yet I taught Ephraim to walk.
I took them in my arms;
but they did not know that I healed them.
I drew them with human cords,
with ties of love;
and I was to them
like those who lift up the yoke on their necks;
and I bent down to them and I fed them.
My heart is turned within me,
my compassion is aroused.
I will not execute the fierceness of my anger.
I will not return to destroy Ephraim:
for I am God, and not man;
the Holy One among you;
and I will not come in wrath.
Responsorial – Psalm 80.2ac+3b, 15-16 Resp. 4b
R. Cause your face to shine on us, O Lord, and we shall be saved.
Give ear, O Shepherd of Israel,
You who dwell among the cherubim, shine forth.
Stir up your strength,
and come to save us.
R. Cause your face to shine on us, O Lord, and we shall be saved.
Return, we beseech you, O God of Hosts.
Look down from heaven and see,
Visit this vine and the vineyard
which your right hand has planted,
the son of man whom you made strong for yourself.
R. Cause your face to shine on us, O Lord, and we shall be saved.
Gospel – Matthew 10.7-15
Jesus said to his Apostles:
As you go, preach, saying,
‘The Kingdom of Heaven is at hand!’
Heal the sick, cleanse the lepers,
and cast out demons.
Freely you received,
so freely give.
Do not take any gold, silver, or copper
in your money belts.
Take no bag for your journey,
nor two coats, nor shoes, nor staff:
for the laborer is worthy of his food.
Into whatever city or village you enter,
find out who in it is worthy;
and stay there until you go on.
As you enter into the household, greet it.
If the household is worthy,
let your peace come on it,
but if it is not worthy,
let your peace return to you.
Whoever does not receive you,
nor hears your words,
go out of that house or that city,
and shake off the dust from your feet.
Amen I say to you,
it will be more tolerable for
the land of Sodom and Gomorrah
in the day of judgment than for that city.
Wednesday of the Fourteenth Week in Ordinary Time (II)
Official Translation
Reading 1 – Hosea 10.1-3, 7-8, 12
Israel is a luxuriant vine
that produces his fruit.
According to the abundance of his fruit
he has multiplied his altars.
As their land has prospered,
they have adorned their sacred pillars.
Their heart is divided.
Now they will be found guilty.
God will demolish their altars.
He will destroy their sacred pillars.
Surely now they will say,
“We have no king.”
For they do not fear the Lord;
and the king, what can he do for them?
Samaria and her king float away,
like a twig on the water.
The high places also of Aven, the sin of Israel,
will be destroyed.
The thorn and the thistle
will come up on their altars.
Then they will tell the mountains,
“Cover us!” and the hills, “Fall on us!”
Sow for yourselves in righteousness,
reap according to kindness.
Break up your new field;
for it is time to seek the Lord,
until he comes and rains righteousness on you.
Responsorial – Psalm 105.2-3, 4-5, 6-7 Resp. 4b
R. Seek the face of the Lord forever more. or R. Alleluia!
Sing to him, sing praises to him!
Tell of all his marvelous works.
Glory in his holy name.
Let the heart of those who seek the Lord rejoice.
R. Seek the face of the Lord forever more. or R. Alleluia!
Seek the Lord and his strength.
Seek his face forever more.
Remember his marvelous works that he has done;
his wonders, and the judgments of his mouth,
R. Seek the face of the Lord forever more. or R. Alleluia!
You offspring of Abraham, his servant,
you children of Jacob, his chosen ones.
He is the Lord, our God.
His judgments prevail in all the earth.
R. Seek the face of the Lord forever more. or R. Alleluia!
Gospel – Matthew 10.1-7
Jesus called to himself
his Twelve disciples,
and gave them authority
over unclean spirits, to cast them out,
and to heal every disease and every sickness.
Now the names of the Twelve Apostles are these.
The first, Simon, who is called Peter;
Andrew, his brother;
James the son of Zebedee; John, his brother;
Philip; Bartholomew; Thomas; Matthew the tax collector;
James the son of Alphaeus; Thaddaeus;
Simon the Canaanite; and Judas Iscariot,
who betrayed him.
Jesus sent these Twelve out,
and commanded them, saying,
“Do not go among the Gentiles,
and do not enter into any city of the Samaritans.
Rather, go to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.
As you go, preach, saying, ‘The Kingdom of Heaven is at hand!’
Reading 1 – Hosea 10.1-3, 7-8, 12
Israel is a luxuriant vine
that produces his fruit.
According to the abundance of his fruit
he has multiplied his altars.
As their land has prospered,
they have adorned their sacred pillars.
Their heart is divided.
Now they will be found guilty.
God will demolish their altars.
He will destroy their sacred pillars.
Surely now they will say,
“We have no king.”
For they do not fear the Lord;
and the king, what can he do for them?
Samaria and her king float away,
like a twig on the water.
The high places also of Aven, the sin of Israel,
will be destroyed.
The thorn and the thistle
will come up on their altars.
Then they will tell the mountains,
“Cover us!” and the hills, “Fall on us!”
Sow for yourselves in righteousness,
reap according to kindness.
Break up your new field;
for it is time to seek the Lord,
until he comes and rains righteousness on you.
Responsorial – Psalm 105.2-3, 4-5, 6-7 Resp. 4b
R. Seek the face of the Lord forever more. or R. Alleluia!
Sing to him, sing praises to him!
Tell of all his marvelous works.
Glory in his holy name.
Let the heart of those who seek the Lord rejoice.
R. Seek the face of the Lord forever more. or R. Alleluia!
Seek the Lord and his strength.
Seek his face forever more.
Remember his marvelous works that he has done;
his wonders, and the judgments of his mouth,
R. Seek the face of the Lord forever more. or R. Alleluia!
You offspring of Abraham, his servant,
you children of Jacob, his chosen ones.
He is the Lord, our God.
His judgments prevail in all the earth.
R. Seek the face of the Lord forever more. or R. Alleluia!
Gospel – Matthew 10.1-7
Jesus called to himself
his Twelve disciples,
and gave them authority
over unclean spirits, to cast them out,
and to heal every disease and every sickness.
Now the names of the Twelve Apostles are these.
The first, Simon, who is called Peter;
Andrew, his brother;
James the son of Zebedee; John, his brother;
Philip; Bartholomew; Thomas; Matthew the tax collector;
James the son of Alphaeus; Thaddaeus;
Simon the Canaanite; and Judas Iscariot,
who betrayed him.
Jesus sent these Twelve out,
and commanded them, saying,
“Do not go among the Gentiles,
and do not enter into any city of the Samaritans.
Rather, go to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.
As you go, preach, saying, ‘The Kingdom of Heaven is at hand!’
Tuesday of the Fourteenth Week in Ordinary Time (II)
Official Translation
Reading 1 – Hosea 8.4-7, 11-13
Thus says the LORD:
They have set up kings,
but not by me.
They have made princes,
and I did not approve.
Of their silver and their gold
they have made themselves idols,
that they may be cut off.
Let Samaria throw out his calf idol!
My anger burns against them!
How long will it be
until they are capable of purity in Israel?
The workman made it, and it is not god;
indeed, the calf of Samaria
shall be broken in pieces.
For they sow the wind,
and they will reap the whirlwind.
The standing grain has no heads,
it will not yield flour,
and if it were to yield,
strangers would swallow it up.
Ephraim has multiplied altars
for the expiation of sin,
but they became for him altars for sinning.
I wrote for him the many things of my law;
but they were regarded as a strange thing.
As for the sacrifices of my offerings,
they sacrifice flesh and eat it;
But the Lord does not accept them.
Now he will remember their iniquity,
and punish their sins.
They will return to Egypt.
Responsorial – Psalm 115.3-4, 5-6, 7ab-8, 9-10 Resp. 9a
R. Israel, trust in the Lord! or R. Alleluia!
Our God is in the heavens.
He does whatever he pleases.
Their idols are silver and gold,
the work of human hands.
R. Israel, trust in the Lord! or R. Alleluia!
They have mouths, but they do not speak.
They have eyes, but they do not see.
They have ears, but they do not hear.
They have noses, but they do not smell.
R. Israel, trust in the Lord! or R. Alleluia!
They have hands, but they do not feel.
They have feet, but they do not walk,
Their makers will be like them;
yes, everyone who trusts in them.
R. Israel, trust in the Lord! or R. Alleluia!
Gospel – Matthew 9.32-38
A mute possessed person
was brought to Jesus.
When the demon was cast out,
the mute man spoke.
The multitudes marveled, saying,
“Nothing like this has ever been seen in Israel!”
But the Pharisees said,
“By the prince of the demons,
he casts out demons.”
Jesus went about all the cities and the villages,
teaching in their synagogues,
and preaching the Good News of the Kingdom,
and healing every disease and every sickness.
But when he saw the crowds,
he was moved with compassion for them,
because they were harassed and scattered,
like sheep without a shepherd.
Then he said to his disciples,
“The harvest indeed is plentiful,
but the laborers are few.
Pray therefore that the master of the harvest
will send out laborers into his harvest.”
Reading 1 – Hosea 8.4-7, 11-13
Thus says the LORD:
They have set up kings,
but not by me.
They have made princes,
and I did not approve.
Of their silver and their gold
they have made themselves idols,
that they may be cut off.
Let Samaria throw out his calf idol!
My anger burns against them!
How long will it be
until they are capable of purity in Israel?
The workman made it, and it is not god;
indeed, the calf of Samaria
shall be broken in pieces.
For they sow the wind,
and they will reap the whirlwind.
The standing grain has no heads,
it will not yield flour,
and if it were to yield,
strangers would swallow it up.
Ephraim has multiplied altars
for the expiation of sin,
but they became for him altars for sinning.
I wrote for him the many things of my law;
but they were regarded as a strange thing.
As for the sacrifices of my offerings,
they sacrifice flesh and eat it;
But the Lord does not accept them.
Now he will remember their iniquity,
and punish their sins.
They will return to Egypt.
Responsorial – Psalm 115.3-4, 5-6, 7ab-8, 9-10 Resp. 9a
R. Israel, trust in the Lord! or R. Alleluia!
Our God is in the heavens.
He does whatever he pleases.
Their idols are silver and gold,
the work of human hands.
R. Israel, trust in the Lord! or R. Alleluia!
They have mouths, but they do not speak.
They have eyes, but they do not see.
They have ears, but they do not hear.
They have noses, but they do not smell.
R. Israel, trust in the Lord! or R. Alleluia!
They have hands, but they do not feel.
They have feet, but they do not walk,
Their makers will be like them;
yes, everyone who trusts in them.
R. Israel, trust in the Lord! or R. Alleluia!
Gospel – Matthew 9.32-38
A mute possessed person
was brought to Jesus.
When the demon was cast out,
the mute man spoke.
The multitudes marveled, saying,
“Nothing like this has ever been seen in Israel!”
But the Pharisees said,
“By the prince of the demons,
he casts out demons.”
Jesus went about all the cities and the villages,
teaching in their synagogues,
and preaching the Good News of the Kingdom,
and healing every disease and every sickness.
But when he saw the crowds,
he was moved with compassion for them,
because they were harassed and scattered,
like sheep without a shepherd.
Then he said to his disciples,
“The harvest indeed is plentiful,
but the laborers are few.
Pray therefore that the master of the harvest
will send out laborers into his harvest.”
Monday of the Fourteenth Week in Ordinary Time (II)
Official Translation
Reading 1 – Hosea 2.16, 17c-18, 21-22
Thus says the LORD:
I will allure her,
and bring her into the desert,
and speak tenderly to her.
and she will respond there,
as in the days of her youth,
and as in the day when she
came up out of the land of Egypt.
On that day,” says the Lord,
“you will call me ‘my husband,’
and no longer call me ‘my baal.’
I will betroth you to me forever.
Yes, I will betroth you to me
in righteousness, in justice,
in loving kindness, and in compassion.
I will even betroth you to me in faithfulness;
and you shall know the Lord.
Responsorial – Psalm 145:2-3, 4-5, 6-7, 8-9 Resp. 8a
R. The Lord is gracious and merciful.
Every day I will bless you,
and I will praise your name forever; yea, forever and ever.
Great is the Lord, and greatly to be praised,
and of his greatness there is no end.
R. The Lord is gracious and merciful.
Generation upon generation will praise your works
and declare your power.
They will speak of the magnificence of your glorious holiness:
and tell of your wondrous works.
R. The Lord is gracious and merciful.
Men will speak of the might of your awesome acts.
I will declare your greatness.
They will utter the memory of your great goodness,
and will sing of your righteousness.
R. The Lord is gracious and merciful.
The Lord is gracious, merciful,
slow to anger, and of great loving kindness.
The Lord is good to all.
His tender mercies are upon all his works.
R. The Lord is gracious and merciful.
Gospel – Matthew 9.18-26
While Jesus told these things to them,
behold, a ruler came
and knelt down before him, saying,
“My daughter has just died,
but come and lay your hand on her,
and she will live.”
Jesus got up and followed him,
as did his disciples.
Behold, a woman who had
an issue of blood for twelve years
came behind him, and touched
the fringe of his garment;
for she said within herself,
“If I just touch his garment,
I will be made well.”
But Jesus, turning around and seeing her, said,
“Daughter, take courage!
Your faith has made you well.”
And the woman was made well from that hour.
When Jesus came into the ruler’s house,
and saw the flute players,
and the crowd in noisy disorder,
he said to them,
“Leave, for the girl is not dead, but sleeping.”
They were ridiculing him.
But when the crowd had been put out,
he entered in, took her by the hand,
and the girl arose.
The report of this went out into all that land.
Reading 1 – Hosea 2.16, 17c-18, 21-22
Thus says the LORD:
I will allure her,
and bring her into the desert,
and speak tenderly to her.
and she will respond there,
as in the days of her youth,
and as in the day when she
came up out of the land of Egypt.
On that day,” says the Lord,
“you will call me ‘my husband,’
and no longer call me ‘my baal.’
I will betroth you to me forever.
Yes, I will betroth you to me
in righteousness, in justice,
in loving kindness, and in compassion.
I will even betroth you to me in faithfulness;
and you shall know the Lord.
Responsorial – Psalm 145:2-3, 4-5, 6-7, 8-9 Resp. 8a
R. The Lord is gracious and merciful.
Every day I will bless you,
and I will praise your name forever; yea, forever and ever.
Great is the Lord, and greatly to be praised,
and of his greatness there is no end.
R. The Lord is gracious and merciful.
Generation upon generation will praise your works
and declare your power.
They will speak of the magnificence of your glorious holiness:
and tell of your wondrous works.
R. The Lord is gracious and merciful.
Men will speak of the might of your awesome acts.
I will declare your greatness.
They will utter the memory of your great goodness,
and will sing of your righteousness.
R. The Lord is gracious and merciful.
The Lord is gracious, merciful,
slow to anger, and of great loving kindness.
The Lord is good to all.
His tender mercies are upon all his works.
R. The Lord is gracious and merciful.
Gospel – Matthew 9.18-26
While Jesus told these things to them,
behold, a ruler came
and knelt down before him, saying,
“My daughter has just died,
but come and lay your hand on her,
and she will live.”
Jesus got up and followed him,
as did his disciples.
Behold, a woman who had
an issue of blood for twelve years
came behind him, and touched
the fringe of his garment;
for she said within herself,
“If I just touch his garment,
I will be made well.”
But Jesus, turning around and seeing her, said,
“Daughter, take courage!
Your faith has made you well.”
And the woman was made well from that hour.
When Jesus came into the ruler’s house,
and saw the flute players,
and the crowd in noisy disorder,
he said to them,
“Leave, for the girl is not dead, but sleeping.”
They were ridiculing him.
But when the crowd had been put out,
he entered in, took her by the hand,
and the girl arose.
The report of this went out into all that land.
Fourteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time (B)
Official Translation
Reading 1 – Ezekiel 2.2-5
As the Lord spoke to me,
the Spirit entered into me
and set me on my feet,
and I heard him who spoke to me.
He said to me, “Son of man,
I send you to the children of Israel,
to a nation of rebels
who have rebelled against me.
They and their fathers
have transgressed against me
even to this very day.
The children are impudent and stiff-hearted:
I am sending you to them;
and you shall tell them,
‘Thus says the Lord God.
They, whether they will hear,
or whether they will resist,
(for they are a rebellious house),
yet they shall know
that there has been a prophet among them.
Responsorial – Psalm 123.1-2, 2, 3-4 Resp. 2cd
R. Our eyes look to the Lord, our God, until he has mercy on us.
To you I do lift up my eyes,
you who sit in the heavens.
Behold, as the eyes of servants
look to the hand of their master,
R. Our eyes look to the Lord, our God, until he has mercy on us.
As the eyes of a maid
to the hand of her mistress;
so our eyes look to the Lord, our God,
until he has mercy on us.
R. Our eyes look to the Lord, our God, until he has mercy on us.
Have mercy on us, the Lord, have mercy on us,
for we are filled with contempt.
Our soul is exceedingly filled
with the scoffing of those who are at ease,
with the contempt of the proud.
R. Our eyes look to the Lord, our God, until he has mercy on us.
Reading 2 – 2 Corinthians 12.7-10
Brothers and sisters:
By reason of the exceeding greatness of the revelations,
that I, Paul, should not be exalted excessively,
there was given to me a thorn in the flesh,
a messenger of Satan to torment me,
that I should not be exalted excessively.
Concerning this thing,
I begged the Lord three times
that it might depart from me.
He has said to me,
“My grace is sufficient for you,
for my power is made perfect in weakness.”
Most gladly therefore
will I rather glory in my weaknesses,
that the power of Christ may rest on me.
Therefore I take pleasure in weaknesses,
in injuries, in necessities,
in persecutions, in distresses,
for Christ’s sake.
For when I am weak, then am I strong.
Gospel – Mark 6.1-6
Jesus went out from there.
He came into his own country,
and his disciples followed him.
When the Sabbath had come,
he began to teach in the synagogue,
and many hearing him were astonished, saying,
“Where did this man get these things?” and,
“What is the wisdom that is given to this man,
that such mighty works come about by his hands?
Is he not the carpenter, the son of Mary,
and brother of James, Joseph, Judah, and Simon?
Are not his sisters here with us?”
They were offended at him.
Jesus said to them,
“A prophet is not without honor,
except in his own country, and among his own relatives,
and in his own house.”
He could do no mighty work there,
except that he laid his hands on a few sick people,
and healed them.
He marveled at their unbelief.
Reading 1 – Ezekiel 2.2-5
As the Lord spoke to me,
the Spirit entered into me
and set me on my feet,
and I heard him who spoke to me.
He said to me, “Son of man,
I send you to the children of Israel,
to a nation of rebels
who have rebelled against me.
They and their fathers
have transgressed against me
even to this very day.
The children are impudent and stiff-hearted:
I am sending you to them;
and you shall tell them,
‘Thus says the Lord God.
They, whether they will hear,
or whether they will resist,
(for they are a rebellious house),
yet they shall know
that there has been a prophet among them.
Responsorial – Psalm 123.1-2, 2, 3-4 Resp. 2cd
R. Our eyes look to the Lord, our God, until he has mercy on us.
To you I do lift up my eyes,
you who sit in the heavens.
Behold, as the eyes of servants
look to the hand of their master,
R. Our eyes look to the Lord, our God, until he has mercy on us.
As the eyes of a maid
to the hand of her mistress;
so our eyes look to the Lord, our God,
until he has mercy on us.
R. Our eyes look to the Lord, our God, until he has mercy on us.
Have mercy on us, the Lord, have mercy on us,
for we are filled with contempt.
Our soul is exceedingly filled
with the scoffing of those who are at ease,
with the contempt of the proud.
R. Our eyes look to the Lord, our God, until he has mercy on us.
Reading 2 – 2 Corinthians 12.7-10
Brothers and sisters:
By reason of the exceeding greatness of the revelations,
that I, Paul, should not be exalted excessively,
there was given to me a thorn in the flesh,
a messenger of Satan to torment me,
that I should not be exalted excessively.
Concerning this thing,
I begged the Lord three times
that it might depart from me.
He has said to me,
“My grace is sufficient for you,
for my power is made perfect in weakness.”
Most gladly therefore
will I rather glory in my weaknesses,
that the power of Christ may rest on me.
Therefore I take pleasure in weaknesses,
in injuries, in necessities,
in persecutions, in distresses,
for Christ’s sake.
For when I am weak, then am I strong.
Gospel – Mark 6.1-6
Jesus went out from there.
He came into his own country,
and his disciples followed him.
When the Sabbath had come,
he began to teach in the synagogue,
and many hearing him were astonished, saying,
“Where did this man get these things?” and,
“What is the wisdom that is given to this man,
that such mighty works come about by his hands?
Is he not the carpenter, the son of Mary,
and brother of James, Joseph, Judah, and Simon?
Are not his sisters here with us?”
They were offended at him.
Jesus said to them,
“A prophet is not without honor,
except in his own country, and among his own relatives,
and in his own house.”
He could do no mighty work there,
except that he laid his hands on a few sick people,
and healed them.
He marveled at their unbelief.
Saturday of the Thirteenth Week in Ordinary Time (II)
Official Translation
Reading 1 – Amos 9.11-15
Thus says the LORD:
On that day I will raise up
the fallen tent of David,
and close up its breaches,
and I will raise up its ruins,
and I will build it as in the days of old;
that they may possess
the remnant of Edom,
and all the nations
who are called by my name,”
says the Lord who does this.
“Behold, the days come,” says the Lord,
“that the plowman shall overtake the reaper,
and the one treading grapes him who sows seed;
and sweet wine will drip from the mountains,
and flow from the hills.
I will bring my people Israel back from captivity,
and they will rebuild the ruined cities
and inhabit them;
and they will plant vineyards
and drink wine from them.
They shall also make gardens,
and eat their fruit.
I will plant them on their land,
and they will no more be plucked up
out of their land which I have given them,”
says the Lord your God.
Responsorial – Psalm 85.9ab+10, 11-12, 13-14 Resp. 9b
R. The Lord will speak peace unto his people
I will hear what the Lord God has to say,
for he will speak peace unto his people,
Surely his salvation is near those who fear him,
that glory may dwell in our land.
R. The Lord will speak peace unto his people
Mercy and truth are met together.
Righteousness and peace have kissed each other.
Truth springs out of the earth,
and righteousness has looked down from heaven.
R. The Lord will speak peace unto his people
The Lord will give what is good,
and our land shall yield its increase.
Righteousness shall go before him,
and shall prepare a way for his footsteps to walk.
R. The Lord will speak peace unto his people
Gospel – Matthew 9.14-17
Then John’s disciples came to Jesus, saying,
“Why do we and the Pharisees fast often,
but your disciples do not fast?”
Jesus said to them,
“Can the friends of the bridegroom mourn,
as long as the bridegroom is with them?
But the days will come
when the bridegroom will be taken away from them,
and then they will fast.
No one puts a piece of unshrunken cloth
on an old garment;
for the patch would tear away
from the garment,
and a worse hole is made.
Nor do people put new wine
into old wine skins,
or else the skins would burst,
and the wine be spilled,
and the skins ruined.
No, they put new wine
into fresh wine skins,
and both are preserved.”
Reading 1 – Amos 9.11-15
Thus says the LORD:
On that day I will raise up
the fallen tent of David,
and close up its breaches,
and I will raise up its ruins,
and I will build it as in the days of old;
that they may possess
the remnant of Edom,
and all the nations
who are called by my name,”
says the Lord who does this.
“Behold, the days come,” says the Lord,
“that the plowman shall overtake the reaper,
and the one treading grapes him who sows seed;
and sweet wine will drip from the mountains,
and flow from the hills.
I will bring my people Israel back from captivity,
and they will rebuild the ruined cities
and inhabit them;
and they will plant vineyards
and drink wine from them.
They shall also make gardens,
and eat their fruit.
I will plant them on their land,
and they will no more be plucked up
out of their land which I have given them,”
says the Lord your God.
Responsorial – Psalm 85.9ab+10, 11-12, 13-14 Resp. 9b
R. The Lord will speak peace unto his people
I will hear what the Lord God has to say,
for he will speak peace unto his people,
Surely his salvation is near those who fear him,
that glory may dwell in our land.
R. The Lord will speak peace unto his people
Mercy and truth are met together.
Righteousness and peace have kissed each other.
Truth springs out of the earth,
and righteousness has looked down from heaven.
R. The Lord will speak peace unto his people
The Lord will give what is good,
and our land shall yield its increase.
Righteousness shall go before him,
and shall prepare a way for his footsteps to walk.
R. The Lord will speak peace unto his people
Gospel – Matthew 9.14-17
Then John’s disciples came to Jesus, saying,
“Why do we and the Pharisees fast often,
but your disciples do not fast?”
Jesus said to them,
“Can the friends of the bridegroom mourn,
as long as the bridegroom is with them?
But the days will come
when the bridegroom will be taken away from them,
and then they will fast.
No one puts a piece of unshrunken cloth
on an old garment;
for the patch would tear away
from the garment,
and a worse hole is made.
Nor do people put new wine
into old wine skins,
or else the skins would burst,
and the wine be spilled,
and the skins ruined.
No, they put new wine
into fresh wine skins,
and both are preserved.”
Friday of the Thirteenth Week in Ordinary Time (II)
Official Translation
Reading 1 – Amos 8.4-6, 9-12
Hear this, you who desire
to swallow up the needy,
and cause the poor of the land to fail,
Saying, ‘When will the new moon be gone,
that we may sell grain?
And the Sabbath,
that we may market wheat,
making the ephah small,
and the shekel large,
and dealing falsely with balances of deceit;
that we may buy the poor for silver,
and the needy for a pair of shoes,
and sell the sweepings with the wheat?’”
It will happen on that day,” says the Lord God,
“that I will cause the sun to go down at noon,
and I will darken the earth on the clear day.
I will turn your feasts into mourning,
and all your songs into lamentation;
and I will make you wear sackcloth on all your bodies,
and baldness on every head.
I will make it like the mourning for an only son,
and its end like a bitter day.
Behold, the days come,” says the Lord God,
“that I will send a famine in the land,
not a famine of bread,
nor a thirst for water,
but of hearing the word of the Lord.
They will wander from sea to sea,
and from the north even to the east;
they will run back and forth to seek the Lord’s word,
and will not find it.
Responsorial – Psalm 119.2, 10, 20, 30, 40, 131 Resp. Matthew 4.4
R. Not by bread alone does the human live, but by all the words that proceed out of the mouth of God.
Blessed are those who keep his statutes,
who seek him with their whole heart.
R. Not by bread alone does the human live, but by all the words that proceed out of the mouth of God.
With my whole heart, I have sought you.
Do not let me wander from your commandments.
R. Not by bread alone does the human live, but by all the words that proceed out of the mouth of God.
My soul is consumed with longing
for your ordinances at all times.
R. Not by bread alone does the human live, but by all the words that proceed out of the mouth of God.
I have chosen the way of truth.
I have set your ordinances before me.
R. Not by bread alone does the human live, but by all the words that proceed out of the mouth of God.
Behold, I long for your precepts!
Revive me in your righteousness.
R. Not by bread alone does the human live, but by all the words that proceed out of the mouth of God.
I opened my mouth wide and panted,
for I longed for your commandments.
R. Not by bread alone does the human live, but by all the words that proceed out of the mouth of God.
Gospel – Matthew 9.9-13
As Jesus passed by,
he saw a human called Matthew
sitting at the tax collection office.
He said to him, “Follow me.”
He got up and followed him.
As he sat in the house, behold,
many tax collectors and sinners came
and sat down with Jesus and his disciples.
When the Pharisees saw it,
they said to his disciples,
“Why does your teacher eat with
tax collectors and sinners?”
When Jesus heard it, he said to them,
“Those who are healthy
have no need for a physician,
but those who are sick do.
But you go and learn what this means:
‘I desire mercy, and not sacrifice,’
for I came not to call the righteous,
but sinners to repentance.”
Reading 1 – Amos 8.4-6, 9-12
Hear this, you who desire
to swallow up the needy,
and cause the poor of the land to fail,
Saying, ‘When will the new moon be gone,
that we may sell grain?
And the Sabbath,
that we may market wheat,
making the ephah small,
and the shekel large,
and dealing falsely with balances of deceit;
that we may buy the poor for silver,
and the needy for a pair of shoes,
and sell the sweepings with the wheat?’”
It will happen on that day,” says the Lord God,
“that I will cause the sun to go down at noon,
and I will darken the earth on the clear day.
I will turn your feasts into mourning,
and all your songs into lamentation;
and I will make you wear sackcloth on all your bodies,
and baldness on every head.
I will make it like the mourning for an only son,
and its end like a bitter day.
Behold, the days come,” says the Lord God,
“that I will send a famine in the land,
not a famine of bread,
nor a thirst for water,
but of hearing the word of the Lord.
They will wander from sea to sea,
and from the north even to the east;
they will run back and forth to seek the Lord’s word,
and will not find it.
Responsorial – Psalm 119.2, 10, 20, 30, 40, 131 Resp. Matthew 4.4
R. Not by bread alone does the human live, but by all the words that proceed out of the mouth of God.
Blessed are those who keep his statutes,
who seek him with their whole heart.
R. Not by bread alone does the human live, but by all the words that proceed out of the mouth of God.
With my whole heart, I have sought you.
Do not let me wander from your commandments.
R. Not by bread alone does the human live, but by all the words that proceed out of the mouth of God.
My soul is consumed with longing
for your ordinances at all times.
R. Not by bread alone does the human live, but by all the words that proceed out of the mouth of God.
I have chosen the way of truth.
I have set your ordinances before me.
R. Not by bread alone does the human live, but by all the words that proceed out of the mouth of God.
Behold, I long for your precepts!
Revive me in your righteousness.
R. Not by bread alone does the human live, but by all the words that proceed out of the mouth of God.
I opened my mouth wide and panted,
for I longed for your commandments.
R. Not by bread alone does the human live, but by all the words that proceed out of the mouth of God.
Gospel – Matthew 9.9-13
As Jesus passed by,
he saw a human called Matthew
sitting at the tax collection office.
He said to him, “Follow me.”
He got up and followed him.
As he sat in the house, behold,
many tax collectors and sinners came
and sat down with Jesus and his disciples.
When the Pharisees saw it,
they said to his disciples,
“Why does your teacher eat with
tax collectors and sinners?”
When Jesus heard it, he said to them,
“Those who are healthy
have no need for a physician,
but those who are sick do.
But you go and learn what this means:
‘I desire mercy, and not sacrifice,’
for I came not to call the righteous,
but sinners to repentance.”
Thursday of the Thirteenth Week in Ordinary Time (II)
Official Translation
Reading 1 – Amos 7.10-17
Amaziah the priest of Bethel
sent to Jeroboam king of Israel, saying,
“Amos has conspired against you
in the midst of the house of Israel.
The land is not able to bear all his words.
For Amos says, ‘Jeroboam will die by the sword,
and Israel shall surely be
led away captive out of his land.’”
Amaziah also said to Amos,
“You seer, go, flee away into the land of Judah,
and there eat bread, and prophesy there:
but do not prophesy again anymore at Bethel;
for it is the king’s sanctuary, and it is a royal house!”
Then Amos answered Amaziah,
“I was no prophet, nor was I a prophet’s son;
but I was a herdsman, and a farmer of sycamore figs;
and the Lord took me from following the flock,
and the Lord said to me,
‘Go, prophesy to my people Israel.’
Now therefore listen to the Lord’s word:
‘You say, “Do not prophesy against Israel,
and do not preach against the house of Isaac.”’
Therefore the Lord says:
‘Your wife shall be a prostitute in the city,
and your sons and your daughters
shall fall by the sword,
and your land shall be divided by line;
and you yourself shall die in a land that is unclean,
and Israel shall surely be
led away captive out of their land.’”
Responsorial – Psalm 19.8, 9, 10, 11 Resp. 10cd
R. The ordinances of the Lord are true, and righteous altogether.
The law of the Lord is perfect,
restoring the soul.
The covenant of the Lord is sure,
making the simple wise.
R. The ordinances of the Lord are true, and righteous altogether.
The precepts of the Lord are right,
rejoicing the heart.
The command of the Lord is pure,
enlightening the eyes.
R. The ordinances of the Lord are true, and righteous altogether.
The fear of the Lord is pure,
enduring forever.
The ordinances of the Lord are true,
and righteous altogether.
R. The ordinances of the Lord are true, and righteous altogether.
More to be desired are they than gold,
yes, than a pile of fine gold;
sweeter also than honey,
the extract of the honeycomb.
R. The ordinances of the Lord are true, and righteous altogether.
Gospel – Matthew 9.1-8
Jesus entered into a boat, and crossed over,
and came into his own city.
Behold, they brought to him
someone who was paralyzed, lying on a bed.
Jesus, seeing their faith, said to the paralytic,
“Child, take courage! Your sins are forgiven you.”
Behold, some of the scribes said to themselves,
“He blasphemes.”
Jesus, knowing their thoughts, said,
“Why do you think evil in your hearts?
For which is easier:
to say ‘Your sins are forgiven’
or to say ‘Get up, and walk?’
But that you may know that
the Son of Human has
authority on earth to forgive sin”
he said to the paralytic,
“Get up, and take up your mat,
and go up to your house.”
He arose and departed to his house.
But when the crowds saw it,
they marveled and glorified God,
who had given such authority to humans.
Reading 1 – Amos 7.10-17
Amaziah the priest of Bethel
sent to Jeroboam king of Israel, saying,
“Amos has conspired against you
in the midst of the house of Israel.
The land is not able to bear all his words.
For Amos says, ‘Jeroboam will die by the sword,
and Israel shall surely be
led away captive out of his land.’”
Amaziah also said to Amos,
“You seer, go, flee away into the land of Judah,
and there eat bread, and prophesy there:
but do not prophesy again anymore at Bethel;
for it is the king’s sanctuary, and it is a royal house!”
Then Amos answered Amaziah,
“I was no prophet, nor was I a prophet’s son;
but I was a herdsman, and a farmer of sycamore figs;
and the Lord took me from following the flock,
and the Lord said to me,
‘Go, prophesy to my people Israel.’
Now therefore listen to the Lord’s word:
‘You say, “Do not prophesy against Israel,
and do not preach against the house of Isaac.”’
Therefore the Lord says:
‘Your wife shall be a prostitute in the city,
and your sons and your daughters
shall fall by the sword,
and your land shall be divided by line;
and you yourself shall die in a land that is unclean,
and Israel shall surely be
led away captive out of their land.’”
Responsorial – Psalm 19.8, 9, 10, 11 Resp. 10cd
R. The ordinances of the Lord are true, and righteous altogether.
The law of the Lord is perfect,
restoring the soul.
The covenant of the Lord is sure,
making the simple wise.
R. The ordinances of the Lord are true, and righteous altogether.
The precepts of the Lord are right,
rejoicing the heart.
The command of the Lord is pure,
enlightening the eyes.
R. The ordinances of the Lord are true, and righteous altogether.
The fear of the Lord is pure,
enduring forever.
The ordinances of the Lord are true,
and righteous altogether.
R. The ordinances of the Lord are true, and righteous altogether.
More to be desired are they than gold,
yes, than a pile of fine gold;
sweeter also than honey,
the extract of the honeycomb.
R. The ordinances of the Lord are true, and righteous altogether.
Gospel – Matthew 9.1-8
Jesus entered into a boat, and crossed over,
and came into his own city.
Behold, they brought to him
someone who was paralyzed, lying on a bed.
Jesus, seeing their faith, said to the paralytic,
“Child, take courage! Your sins are forgiven you.”
Behold, some of the scribes said to themselves,
“He blasphemes.”
Jesus, knowing their thoughts, said,
“Why do you think evil in your hearts?
For which is easier:
to say ‘Your sins are forgiven’
or to say ‘Get up, and walk?’
But that you may know that
the Son of Human has
authority on earth to forgive sin”
he said to the paralytic,
“Get up, and take up your mat,
and go up to your house.”
He arose and departed to his house.
But when the crowds saw it,
they marveled and glorified God,
who had given such authority to humans.
Wednesday of the Thirteenth Week in Ordinary Time (II)
Official Translation
Reading 1 – Amos 5.14-15, 21-24
Seek good, and not evil,
that you may live;
and so the Lord, the God of Hosts,
will be with you as you say.
Hate evil, love good,
and establish justice in the courts.
It may be that the Lord, the God of Hosts,
will be gracious to the remnant of Joseph.”
I hate, I despise your feasts,
and I cannot stand your solemn assemblies.
Yes, though you offer me
your burnt offerings and meal offerings,
I will not accept them;
nor will I regard the peace offerings
of your fat animals.
Take away from me the noise of your songs!
I will not listen to the music of your harps.
But let justice roll on like rivers,
and righteousness like a mighty stream.
Responsorial – Psalm 50.7, 8-9, 10-11, 12-13, 16bc-17 Resp. 23b
R. I will show God’s salvation to the just.
“Hear, my people, and I will speak;
Israel, I will testify against you.
I am God, your God.
R. I will show God’s salvation to the just.
I do not rebuke you for your sacrifices.
Your burnt offerings are continually before me.
I have no need for a bull from your stall,
nor goats from your pens.
R. I will show God’s salvation to the just.
For every animal of the forest is mine,
and the livestock on a thousand hills.
I know all the birds of the mountains.
The wild animals of the field are mine.
R. I will show God’s salvation to the just.
If I were hungry, I would not tell you,
for the world is mine, and all that is in it.
Will I eat the flesh of bulls,
or drink the blood of goats?
R. I will show God’s salvation to the just.
“What right do you have to declare my statutes,
and take my covenant on your lips,
since you hate instruction,
and throw my words behind you?
R. I will show God’s salvation to the just.
Gospel – Matthew 8.28-34
When Jesus came
into the country of the Gadarenes,
two people possessed by demons
met him there, coming out of the tombs.
They were exceedingly fierce,
so that nobody could pass that way.
Behold, they cried out, saying,
“What have you to do with us,
Jesus, Son of God?
Have you come here to torment us
before the time?”
Now there was a herd of many pigs
feeding far away from them.
The demons begged him, saying,
“If you cast us out,
permit us to go away into the herd of pigs.”
He said to them, “Go!”
They came out, and went into the herd of pigs:
and behold, the whole herd of pigs
rushed down the cliff into the sea
and died in the water.
Those who fed them fled,
and went away into the city,
and told everything,
including what happened to those
who were possessed with demons.
Behold, all the city came out to meet Jesus.
When they saw him,
they begged that he would
depart from their borders.
Reading 1 – Amos 5.14-15, 21-24
Seek good, and not evil,
that you may live;
and so the Lord, the God of Hosts,
will be with you as you say.
Hate evil, love good,
and establish justice in the courts.
It may be that the Lord, the God of Hosts,
will be gracious to the remnant of Joseph.”
I hate, I despise your feasts,
and I cannot stand your solemn assemblies.
Yes, though you offer me
your burnt offerings and meal offerings,
I will not accept them;
nor will I regard the peace offerings
of your fat animals.
Take away from me the noise of your songs!
I will not listen to the music of your harps.
But let justice roll on like rivers,
and righteousness like a mighty stream.
Responsorial – Psalm 50.7, 8-9, 10-11, 12-13, 16bc-17 Resp. 23b
R. I will show God’s salvation to the just.
“Hear, my people, and I will speak;
Israel, I will testify against you.
I am God, your God.
R. I will show God’s salvation to the just.
I do not rebuke you for your sacrifices.
Your burnt offerings are continually before me.
I have no need for a bull from your stall,
nor goats from your pens.
R. I will show God’s salvation to the just.
For every animal of the forest is mine,
and the livestock on a thousand hills.
I know all the birds of the mountains.
The wild animals of the field are mine.
R. I will show God’s salvation to the just.
If I were hungry, I would not tell you,
for the world is mine, and all that is in it.
Will I eat the flesh of bulls,
or drink the blood of goats?
R. I will show God’s salvation to the just.
“What right do you have to declare my statutes,
and take my covenant on your lips,
since you hate instruction,
and throw my words behind you?
R. I will show God’s salvation to the just.
Gospel – Matthew 8.28-34
When Jesus came
into the country of the Gadarenes,
two people possessed by demons
met him there, coming out of the tombs.
They were exceedingly fierce,
so that nobody could pass that way.
Behold, they cried out, saying,
“What have you to do with us,
Jesus, Son of God?
Have you come here to torment us
before the time?”
Now there was a herd of many pigs
feeding far away from them.
The demons begged him, saying,
“If you cast us out,
permit us to go away into the herd of pigs.”
He said to them, “Go!”
They came out, and went into the herd of pigs:
and behold, the whole herd of pigs
rushed down the cliff into the sea
and died in the water.
Those who fed them fled,
and went away into the city,
and told everything,
including what happened to those
who were possessed with demons.
Behold, all the city came out to meet Jesus.
When they saw him,
they begged that he would
depart from their borders.
Feast of Saint Thomas, Apostle
Official Translation
Reading 1 – Ephesians 2.19-22
Brothers and sisters:
You are no longer strangers and foreigners,
but you are fellow citizens with the saints,
and members of the household of God,
being built on the foundation
of the Apostles and prophets,
Christ Jesus himself being the capstone;
in whom the whole building, fitted together,
grows into a holy temple in the Lord;
in him you also are built together
for a habitation of God in the Spirit.
Responsorial – Psalm 117.1bc, 2 Resp. Mark 16.15
R. Go to all the world and preach the Gospel.
Praise the Lord, all you nations!
Extol him, all you peoples!
R. Go to all the world and preach the Gospel.
For his loving kindness is great toward us.
The Lord’s faithfulness endures forever.
R. Go to all the world and preach the Gospel.
Gospel – John 20.24-29
But Thomas, one of the Twelve,
called Didymus,
was not with them when Jesus came.
So the other disciples said to him,
“We have seen the Lord!”
But he said to them,
“Unless I see in his hands
the mark of the nails,
and put my finger into
the mark of the nails
and put my hand into his side,
I will not believe.”
After eight days his disciples were again inside,
and Thomas was with them.
Jesus came, though the doors were locked,
and stood in the middle, and said,
“Peace be with you.”
Then he said to Thomas,
“Bring here your finger,
and see my hands.
Bring here your hand,
and put it into my side.
Do not be unbelieving, but believe.”
Thomas answered him, “My Lord and my God!”
Jesus said to him,
“Because you have seen me, you have believed.
Blessed are those who have not seen, and have believed.”
Reading 1 – Ephesians 2.19-22
Brothers and sisters:
You are no longer strangers and foreigners,
but you are fellow citizens with the saints,
and members of the household of God,
being built on the foundation
of the Apostles and prophets,
Christ Jesus himself being the capstone;
in whom the whole building, fitted together,
grows into a holy temple in the Lord;
in him you also are built together
for a habitation of God in the Spirit.
Responsorial – Psalm 117.1bc, 2 Resp. Mark 16.15
R. Go to all the world and preach the Gospel.
Praise the Lord, all you nations!
Extol him, all you peoples!
R. Go to all the world and preach the Gospel.
For his loving kindness is great toward us.
The Lord’s faithfulness endures forever.
R. Go to all the world and preach the Gospel.
Gospel – John 20.24-29
But Thomas, one of the Twelve,
called Didymus,
was not with them when Jesus came.
So the other disciples said to him,
“We have seen the Lord!”
But he said to them,
“Unless I see in his hands
the mark of the nails,
and put my finger into
the mark of the nails
and put my hand into his side,
I will not believe.”
After eight days his disciples were again inside,
and Thomas was with them.
Jesus came, though the doors were locked,
and stood in the middle, and said,
“Peace be with you.”
Then he said to Thomas,
“Bring here your finger,
and see my hands.
Bring here your hand,
and put it into my side.
Do not be unbelieving, but believe.”
Thomas answered him, “My Lord and my God!”
Jesus said to him,
“Because you have seen me, you have believed.
Blessed are those who have not seen, and have believed.”
Monday of the Thirteenth Week in Ordinary Time (II)
Official Translation
Reading 1 – Amos 2.6-10, 13-16
Thus says the Lord:
“For three transgressions of Israel, and for four,
I will not turn away its punishment;
because they have sold the righteous for silver,
and the needy for a pair of shoes;
They trample on the dust of the earth
on the head of the poor,
and deny justice to the oppressed;
and a man and his father
use the same prostitute,
profaning my holy name;
and they lay themselves down
beside every altar on clothes taken in pledge;
and in the house of their god
they drink the wine of those who have been fined.
Yet I destroyed the Amorites before them,
whose height was like the height of the cedars,
and as strong as the oaks;
yet I destroyed his fruit from above,
and his roots from beneath.
Also I brought you up out of the land of Egypt,
and led you forty years in the desert,
to possess the land of the Amorites.
Behold, I will crush you in your place,
as a cart full of grain crushes.
Flight will perish from the swift;
and the strong will not strengthen his force;
nor shall the mighty deliver himself;
nor shall he stand who handles the bow;
and he who is swift of foot will not escape;
nor shall he who rides the horse deliver himself;
and he who is courageous among the mighty
will flee away naked on that day,”
says the Lord.
Responsorial – Psalm 50.16bc-17, 18-19, 20-21, 22-23 Resp. 22a
R. Consider this, you who forget God.
“What right do you have to declare my statutes,
and take my covenant on your lips,
since you hate instruction,
and throw my words behind you?
R. Consider this, you who forget God.
When you saw a thief, you consented with him,
and have participated with adulterers.
You give your mouth to evil.
Your tongue frames deceit.
R. Consider this, you who forget God.
You sit and speak against your brother.
You slander your own mother’s son.
You have done these things. Shall I keep silent?
Do you think that I am like you?
I will rebuke you, and accuse you in front of your eyes.
R. Consider this, you who forget God.
Now consider this, you who forget God,
lest I tear you into pieces, and there be no one to deliver.
Whoever offers the sacrifice of thanksgiving glorifies me,
and prepares his way so that I will show God’s salvation to him.
R. Consider this, you who forget God.
Gospel - Matthew 8.18-22
When Jesus saw a great crowd around him,
he gave the order to depart to the other side.
A scribe came, and said to him,
“Teacher, I will follow you wherever you go.”
Jesus said to him,
“The foxes have holes
and the birds of the sky have nests
but the Son of Man has nowhere to lay his head.”
Another of his disciples said to him,
“Lord, allow me first to go and bury my father.”
But Jesus said to him, “Follow me,
and leave the dead to bury their dead.”
Reading 1 – Amos 2.6-10, 13-16
Thus says the Lord:
“For three transgressions of Israel, and for four,
I will not turn away its punishment;
because they have sold the righteous for silver,
and the needy for a pair of shoes;
They trample on the dust of the earth
on the head of the poor,
and deny justice to the oppressed;
and a man and his father
use the same prostitute,
profaning my holy name;
and they lay themselves down
beside every altar on clothes taken in pledge;
and in the house of their god
they drink the wine of those who have been fined.
Yet I destroyed the Amorites before them,
whose height was like the height of the cedars,
and as strong as the oaks;
yet I destroyed his fruit from above,
and his roots from beneath.
Also I brought you up out of the land of Egypt,
and led you forty years in the desert,
to possess the land of the Amorites.
Behold, I will crush you in your place,
as a cart full of grain crushes.
Flight will perish from the swift;
and the strong will not strengthen his force;
nor shall the mighty deliver himself;
nor shall he stand who handles the bow;
and he who is swift of foot will not escape;
nor shall he who rides the horse deliver himself;
and he who is courageous among the mighty
will flee away naked on that day,”
says the Lord.
Responsorial – Psalm 50.16bc-17, 18-19, 20-21, 22-23 Resp. 22a
R. Consider this, you who forget God.
“What right do you have to declare my statutes,
and take my covenant on your lips,
since you hate instruction,
and throw my words behind you?
R. Consider this, you who forget God.
When you saw a thief, you consented with him,
and have participated with adulterers.
You give your mouth to evil.
Your tongue frames deceit.
R. Consider this, you who forget God.
You sit and speak against your brother.
You slander your own mother’s son.
You have done these things. Shall I keep silent?
Do you think that I am like you?
I will rebuke you, and accuse you in front of your eyes.
R. Consider this, you who forget God.
Now consider this, you who forget God,
lest I tear you into pieces, and there be no one to deliver.
Whoever offers the sacrifice of thanksgiving glorifies me,
and prepares his way so that I will show God’s salvation to him.
R. Consider this, you who forget God.
Gospel - Matthew 8.18-22
When Jesus saw a great crowd around him,
he gave the order to depart to the other side.
A scribe came, and said to him,
“Teacher, I will follow you wherever you go.”
Jesus said to him,
“The foxes have holes
and the birds of the sky have nests
but the Son of Man has nowhere to lay his head.”
Another of his disciples said to him,
“Lord, allow me first to go and bury my father.”
But Jesus said to him, “Follow me,
and leave the dead to bury their dead.”
Thirteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time (B)
Official Translation
Reading 1 – Wisdom 1.13-15; 2.23-24
Because God did not make death;
Nor does he delight when the living perish:
For he created all things that they might have being:
And saving are the creations of the world
and there is not in them a poison of destruction,
nor has the underworld dominion upon earth,
for justice is undying.
For God created the human as an immortal,
and in the image of his own likeness he made him.
However, by the envy of the devil, death came into the world,
and the ones who taste it are those being part of that one.
Responsorial – Psalm 30.2, 4, 5-6, 11-12, 13 Resp. 2a
R. I will extol you, the Lord, for you have raised me up.
I will extol you, the Lord, for you have raised me up,
and have not made my foes to rejoice over me.
Lord, you have brought up my soul from Sheol.
You have kept me alive, that I should not go down to the pit.
R. I will extol you, the Lord, for you have raised me up.
Sing praise to the Lord, you saints of his.
Give thanks to his holy name.
For his anger is but for a moment.
His favor is for a lifetime.
Weeping may last all night,
but joy comes in the morning.
R. I will extol you, the Lord, for you have raised me up.
Hear, Lord, and have mercy on me.
Lord, be my helper.
You have turned my mourning into dancing.
Lord my God, I will give thanks to you forever!
R. I will extol you, the Lord, for you have raised me up.
Reading 2 – 2 Corinthians 8.7, 9, 13-15
Brothers and sisters:
As you abound in everything,
in faith, utterance, knowledge,
all earnestness, and in your love to us,
see that you also abound in this grace.
For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ,
that, though he was rich,
yet for your sakes he became poor,
that you through his poverty might become rich.
For this is not that others may be eased
and you distressed, but for equality.
Your abundance at this present time
supplies their lack,
that their abundance also
may become a supply for your lack;
that there may be equality.
As it is written,
“Who had much did not have too much,
and who had little did not lack.”
Gospel – Mark 5.21-43
When Jesus had crossed back over in the boat to the other side,
a great multitude was gathered to him; and he was by the sea.
Behold, one of the rulers of the synagogue, Jairus by name, came.
Seeing him, he fell at his feet, and begged him much, saying,
“My little daughter is at the point of death.
Please come and lay your hands on her,
that she may be made healthy, and live.”
He went with him, and a great multitude followed him.
A certain woman, who had an issue of blood for twelve years,
and had suffered many things by many physicians,
and had spent all that she had, and was no better,
but rather grew worse,
having heard the things concerning Jesus,
came up behind him in the crowd, and touched his clothes.
For she said, “If I just touch his clothes, I will be made well.”
Immediately the flow of her blood was dried up,
and she felt in her body that she was healed of her affliction.
Immediately, Jesus, perceiving in himself
that the power had gone out from him,
turned around in the crowd, and asked,
“Who touched my clothes?”
His disciples said to him,
“You see the multitude pressing against you,
and you say, ‘Who touched me?’”
He looked around to see her who had done this thing.
But the woman, fearing and trembling,
knowing what had been done to her,
came and fell down before him,
and told him all the truth.
He said to her,
“Daughter, your faith has made you well.
Go in peace, and be cured of your disease.”
While he was still speaking,
people came from the synagogue ruler’s house saying,
“Your daughter is dead. Why bother the Teacher anymore?”
But Jesus, when he heard the message spoken,
immediately said to the ruler of the synagogue,
“Do not be afraid, only believe.”
He allowed no one to follow him,
except Peter, James, and John the brother of James.
He came to the synagogue ruler’s house,
and he saw an uproar, weeping, and great wailing.
When he had entered in, he said to them,
“Why do you make an uproar and weep?
The child is not dead, but is asleep.”
They ridiculed him.
But he, having put them all out,
took the father of the child,
her mother, and those who were with him,
and went in where the child was lying.
Taking the child by the hand, he said to her,
“Talitha koum!”
which translated means “Girl, I tell you, get up!”
Immediately the girl rose up and walked;
she was twelve years old.
They were amazed with great amazement.
He strictly ordered them that no one should know this,
and commanded that something should be given to her to eat.
Reading 1 – Wisdom 1.13-15; 2.23-24
Because God did not make death;
Nor does he delight when the living perish:
For he created all things that they might have being:
And saving are the creations of the world
and there is not in them a poison of destruction,
nor has the underworld dominion upon earth,
for justice is undying.
For God created the human as an immortal,
and in the image of his own likeness he made him.
However, by the envy of the devil, death came into the world,
and the ones who taste it are those being part of that one.
Responsorial – Psalm 30.2, 4, 5-6, 11-12, 13 Resp. 2a
R. I will extol you, the Lord, for you have raised me up.
I will extol you, the Lord, for you have raised me up,
and have not made my foes to rejoice over me.
Lord, you have brought up my soul from Sheol.
You have kept me alive, that I should not go down to the pit.
R. I will extol you, the Lord, for you have raised me up.
Sing praise to the Lord, you saints of his.
Give thanks to his holy name.
For his anger is but for a moment.
His favor is for a lifetime.
Weeping may last all night,
but joy comes in the morning.
R. I will extol you, the Lord, for you have raised me up.
Hear, Lord, and have mercy on me.
Lord, be my helper.
You have turned my mourning into dancing.
Lord my God, I will give thanks to you forever!
R. I will extol you, the Lord, for you have raised me up.
Reading 2 – 2 Corinthians 8.7, 9, 13-15
Brothers and sisters:
As you abound in everything,
in faith, utterance, knowledge,
all earnestness, and in your love to us,
see that you also abound in this grace.
For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ,
that, though he was rich,
yet for your sakes he became poor,
that you through his poverty might become rich.
For this is not that others may be eased
and you distressed, but for equality.
Your abundance at this present time
supplies their lack,
that their abundance also
may become a supply for your lack;
that there may be equality.
As it is written,
“Who had much did not have too much,
and who had little did not lack.”
Gospel – Mark 5.21-43
When Jesus had crossed back over in the boat to the other side,
a great multitude was gathered to him; and he was by the sea.
Behold, one of the rulers of the synagogue, Jairus by name, came.
Seeing him, he fell at his feet, and begged him much, saying,
“My little daughter is at the point of death.
Please come and lay your hands on her,
that she may be made healthy, and live.”
He went with him, and a great multitude followed him.
A certain woman, who had an issue of blood for twelve years,
and had suffered many things by many physicians,
and had spent all that she had, and was no better,
but rather grew worse,
having heard the things concerning Jesus,
came up behind him in the crowd, and touched his clothes.
For she said, “If I just touch his clothes, I will be made well.”
Immediately the flow of her blood was dried up,
and she felt in her body that she was healed of her affliction.
Immediately, Jesus, perceiving in himself
that the power had gone out from him,
turned around in the crowd, and asked,
“Who touched my clothes?”
His disciples said to him,
“You see the multitude pressing against you,
and you say, ‘Who touched me?’”
He looked around to see her who had done this thing.
But the woman, fearing and trembling,
knowing what had been done to her,
came and fell down before him,
and told him all the truth.
He said to her,
“Daughter, your faith has made you well.
Go in peace, and be cured of your disease.”
While he was still speaking,
people came from the synagogue ruler’s house saying,
“Your daughter is dead. Why bother the Teacher anymore?”
But Jesus, when he heard the message spoken,
immediately said to the ruler of the synagogue,
“Do not be afraid, only believe.”
He allowed no one to follow him,
except Peter, James, and John the brother of James.
He came to the synagogue ruler’s house,
and he saw an uproar, weeping, and great wailing.
When he had entered in, he said to them,
“Why do you make an uproar and weep?
The child is not dead, but is asleep.”
They ridiculed him.
But he, having put them all out,
took the father of the child,
her mother, and those who were with him,
and went in where the child was lying.
Taking the child by the hand, he said to her,
“Talitha koum!”
which translated means “Girl, I tell you, get up!”
Immediately the girl rose up and walked;
she was twelve years old.
They were amazed with great amazement.
He strictly ordered them that no one should know this,
and commanded that something should be given to her to eat.
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