Wednesday of the Thirteenth Week in Ordinary Time (II)

Official Translation

Reading 1 – Amos 5.14-15, 21-24

Seek good, and not evil, that you may live;
and so the Lord, the God of Hosts,
will be with you as you say.
Hate evil, love good,and establish justice in the courts.
It may be that the Lord, the God of Hosts,
will be gracious to the remnant of Joseph.”

I hate, I despise your feasts,
and I cannot stand your solemn assemblies.
Yes, though you offer me your burnt offerings and meal offerings,
I will not accept them;
nor will I regard the peace offerings of your fat animals.
Take away from me the noise of your songs!
I will not listen to the music of your harps.
But let justice roll on like rivers,
and righteousness like a mighty stream.

Responsorial – Psalm 50.7, 8-9, 10-11, 12-13, 16bc-17 Resp. 23b

R. I will show God’s salvation to the just.

“Hear, my people, and I will speak;
Israel, I will testify against you.
I am God, your God.

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 goats from your pens.

R. I will show God’s salvation to the just.

For every animal of the forest is mine,
and the livestock on a thousand hills.
I know all the birds of the mountains.
The wild animals of the field are mine.

R. I will show God’s salvation to the just.

If I were hungry, I would not tell you,
for the world is mine, and all that is in it.
Will I eat the flesh of bulls,
or drink the blood of goats?

R. I will show God’s salvation to the just.

“What right do you have to declare my statutes,
and take 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.

Gospel – Matthew 8.28-34

When Jesus came into the country of the Gadarenes,
two people possessed by demons met him there,
coming out of the tombs.
They were exceedingly fierce, so that nobody could pass that way.

Behold, they cried out, saying,
“What have you to do with us, Jesus, Son of God?
Have you come here to torment us before the time?”
Now there was a herd of many pigs feeding far away from them.
The demons begged him, saying,
“If you cast us out, permit us to go away into the herd of pigs.”
He said to them, “Go!”

They came out, and went into the herd of pigs:
and behold, the whole herd of pigs rushed down the cliff
into the sea and died in the water.
Those who fed them fled, and went away into the city, and told everything,
including what happened to those who were possessed with demons.
Behold, all the city came out to meet Jesus.
When they saw him, they begged that he would depart from their borders.

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