Official Translation
Reading 1 – James 3.13-18
Beloved:
Who among you is wise and intelligent?
Let them show by their good conduct
that their deeds are done
in the humility of wisdom.
But if you have bitter jealousy
and selfish ambition in your heart,
do not boast and lie against the truth.
That wisdom is not what comes down from above,
but is earthly, soulful, and demonic.
For where jealousy and selfish ambition are,
there is confusion and every evil deed.
But the wisdom that is from above
is first pure, then peaceful, gentle, listening,
full of mercy and good fruits,
without partiality and without hypocrisy.
The fruit of righteousness is planted in peace,
for those who make peace.
Responsorial – Psalm 19.8, 9, 10, 15 R. 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 precepts of the Lord are right,
rejoicing the heart.
The command of the Lord is pure,
enlightening the eyes.
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.
Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart
be acceptable in your sight,
O Lord, my rock, and my redeemer.
R. The precepts of the Lord are right, rejoicing the heart.
Gospel – Mark 9.14-29
As Jesus came down the mountain
with Peter, James, and John,
coming to the other disciples,
he saw a great crowd around them,
and scribes questioning them.
Immediately all the crowd,
when they saw him, were greatly amazed,
and running to him greeted him.
He asked the scribes, “What are you asking them?”
One of the crowd answered,
“Teacher, I brought to you my son, who has a mute spirit;
and wherever it seizes him,
it throws him down, and he foams at the mouth,
and grinds his teeth, and wastes away.
I asked your disciples to cast it out, but they were not able.”
He answered him,
“Unbelieving kind, how long shall I be with you?
How long shall I bear with you? Bring him to me.”
They brought him to him, and when he saw him,
immediately the spirit convulsed him, and he fell on the ground,
wallowing and foaming at the mouth.
He asked his father,
“How long has it been since this has come to him?”
He said, “From childhood.
Often it has cast him both into the fire and into the water,
to destroy him.
But if you are able to do anything, have compassion on us, and help us.”
Jesus said to him, “‘If you are able?!’Everything is possible by faith.”
Immediately the father of the child, crying, said,
“I do believe. Help my unbelief!”
When Jesus saw that a crowd was gathering,
he rebuked the unclean spirit, saying to him,
“You mute and deaf spirit, I command you,
come out of him, and never enter him again!”
Crying, and heaving greatly, it came out.
The boy became like one dead;
so much that most of them said that he had died.
But Jesus took his hand and raised him up, and he got up.
When he had come into the house, his disciples asked him by himself,
“Why were we not able to cast it out?”
He said to them,
“That kind cannot come out at all except by prayer and fasting.”
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