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.