Official Translation
Reading 1 - Ezekiel 36:23-28
Thus says the LORD:
I will sanctify my great name,
which has been profaned among the nations,
which you have profaned among them;
and the nations shall know that I am the Lord,
says the Lord God.
I shall be sanctified in you before their eyes.
For I will take you from among the nations,
and gather you out of all the foreign lands,
and will bring you into your own land.
I will sprinkle clean water on you,
and you shall be clean:
from all your filthiness, and from all your idols,
will I cleanse you.
I will also give you a new heart,
and I will put a new spirit within you;
and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh,
and I will give you a heart of flesh.
I will put my Spirit within you,
and cause you to walk in my statutes,
and you shall keep my ordinances and do them.
You shall dwell in the land
that I gave to your fathers,
and you shall be my people,
and I will be your God.
Responsorial – Psalm 51.12-13, 14-15, 18-19 Resp. Ezekiel 36:25
R. I will sprinkle clean water on you, and you shall be clean from all your filthiness.
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. I will sprinkle clean water on you, and you shall be clean from all your filthiness.
Restore to me the joy of your salvation.
Uphold me with a willing spirit.
Then I will teach transgressors your ways.
Sinners shall be converted to you.
R. I will sprinkle clean water on you, and you shall be clean from all your filthiness.
For you do not delight in sacrifice.
I would give a burnt offering, but you have no pleasure in it.
My sacrifice, O God, is a broken spirit.
A broken and contrite heart, O God, you will not despise.
R. I will sprinkle clean water on you, and you shall be clean from all your filthiness.
Gospel – Matthew 22.1-14
Jesus answered and spoke again in parables to them, saying,
“The Kingdom of Heaven is like some king,
who put on a marriage feast for his son
and sent out his servants to call those who were invited to the marriage feast,
but they would not come.
Again he sent out other servants, saying, ‘Tell those who are invited,
“Behold, I have prepared my dinner. My cattle and my fatlings are killed,
and all things are ready. Come to the marriage feast!”’
But they made light of it, and went their ways,
one to his own farm, another to his merchandise, and the rest grabbed his servants,
and treated them shamefully, and killed them.
When the king heard that, he was angry, and sent his armies,
destroyed those murderers, and burned their city.
Then he said to his servants, ‘The wedding is ready,
but those who were invited were not worthy.
Go therefore along the routes of the roads,
and as many as you may find, invite to the marriage feast.’
Those servants went out on the roads
and gathered together as many as they found, both bad and good.
The wedding was filled with guests, but when the king came in to see the guests,
he saw there a man who did not have on wedding clothes,
and he said to him, ‘Friend, how did you come in here
without having wedding clothing?’
He was speechless.
Then the king said to the servants, ‘Bind him hand and foot, take him away,
and throw him into the outer darkness where the weeping and grinding of teeth will be.’
For many are called, but few chosen.”
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