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.”