Official Translation
Reading 1 – James 4.13-17
Beloved:
Come now, you who say,
“Today or tomorrow let us go into such and such a city,
and spend a year there, trade, and make a profit.”
You do not know what your life will be like tomorrow!
What is your life?
For you are a vapor that appears for a little time, and then vanishes away.
You ought to say, "If the Lord wills, we will live and do this or that.”
But now you boast in your arrogance.
All such boasting is evil.
To whoever therefore who knows the good action, and does not do it,
it is a sin for them.
Responsorial – Psalm 49.2-3, 6-7, 8-10, 11 Resp. Matthew 5:3
R. Blessed are the poor in spirit; the Kingdom of heaven is theirs!
Hear this, all you peoples.
Listen, all you inhabitants of the world,
both low and high,
rich and poor together.
R. Blessed are the poor in spirit; the Kingdom of heaven is theirs!
Why should I fear in the days of evil,
when iniquity at my heels surrounds me?
Those who trust in their wealth,
and boast in the multitude of their riches.
R. Blessed are the poor in spirit; the Kingdom of heaven is theirs!
None of them can by any means redeem his brother,
nor give God a ransom for him.
For the redemption of their life is costly, no payment is ever enough,
That he should live on forever, that he should not see corruption.
R. Blessed are the poor in spirit; the Kingdom of heaven is theirs!
For he sees that wise men die
just as the fool and the senseless perish,
and leave their wealth to others.
R. Blessed are the poor in spirit; the Kingdom of heaven is theirs!
Gospel – Mark 9.38-40
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.”
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