Official Translation
Reading 1 – Numbers 11.25-29
The Lord came down in the cloud, and spoke to Moses,
and took of the Spirit that was on him,
and put it on the seventy elders,
and it happened that when the Spirit rested on them,
they prophesied, but they did not keep doing it.
Two men remained in the camp,
the name of the one was Eldad, and the name of the other Medad,
and the Spirit rested on them.
They were one the list, but had not gone out to the tent,
and they prophesied in the camp.
A young man ran and told Moses, and said,
“Eldad and Medad are prophesying in the camp.”
Joshua, the son of Nun, the assistant of Moses from his youth, answered,
“My lord Moses, forbid them.”
Moses said to him, “Are you jealous for my sake?
I wish that all the Lord's people were prophets,
that the Lord would put his Spirit on them all!”
Responsorial – Psalm 19.8, 10, 12-13, 14 Resp. 9a
R. The precepts of the Lord are right, rejoicing the heart.
The law of the Lord is perfect,
restoring the soul.
The covenant of the Lord is sure,
making the simple wise.
R. The precepts of the Lord are right, rejoicing the heart.
The fear of the Lord is pure,
enduring forever.
The ordinances of the Lord are true,
and righteous altogether.
R. The precepts of the Lord are right, rejoicing the heart.
Though your servant is warned,
keeping them with great reward,
who can discern his errors?
Forgive me from hidden faults.
R. The precepts of the Lord are right, rejoicing the heart.
Keep back your servant also from presumptuous sins.
Let it not have dominion over me.
Then I will be blameless and innocent
of great transgression.
R. The precepts of the Lord are right, rejoicing the heart.
Reading 2 - James 5.1-6
Come now, you rich, weep and howl for your miseries that are coming.
Your riches are corrupted and your garments are moth-eaten.
Your gold and your silver have corroded,
and their corrosion will be for a testimony against you,
and will eat your flesh like fire.
You have laid up your treasure for the last days.
Behold, the wages of the laborers who mowed your fields cry out,
which you have kept back by fraud,
and the cries of the reapers have reached the ears of the Lord of hosts.
You have lived luxuriously on the earth, and taken your pleasure.
You have nourished your hearts as in a day of slaughter.
You have condemned, you have murdered the righteous one.
He does not resist you.
Gospel – Mark 9.38-43, 45, 47-48
John said to Jesus, “Teacher, we saw someone casting out demons in your name,
and we forbade him, because he does not follow us.”
But Jesus said, “Do not forbid him,
for there is no one who will do a mighty work in my name,
and be able at the same time to speak evil of me.
For whoever is not against us is for us.
For whoever will give you a cup of water to drink, because you are Christ’s,
amen I tell you, they will certainly not lose their reward.
Whoever scandalizes one of these little ones who believe in me,
it would be better for him if he were thrown into the sea
with a millstone hung around his neck.
If your hand scandalizes you, cut it off.
It is better for you to enter into life maimed,
rather than having your two hands to go into Gehenna, into the unquenchable fire.
If your foot scandalizes you, cut it off.
It is better for you to enter into life lame,
rather than having your two feet to be cast into Gehenna.
If your eye scandalizes you, pluck it out.
It is better for you to enter into the Kingdom of God with one eye,
rather than with two eyes to be cast into Gehenna
‘where their worm does not die, and the fire is not quenched.’”
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