Official Translation
Reading 1 - Isaiah 8.23-9.3
They will turn their faces upward, and look to the earth,
and see distress, darkness, and the gloom of anguish.
They will be driven into thick darkness.
But there shall be no more gloom for her who was in anguish.
In the former time, the Lord brought into contempt the land of Zebulun
and the land of Naphtali;
but in the latter time he has made it glorious, by the way of the sea,
beyond the Jordan, Galilee of the nations.
The people who walked in darkness
have seen a great light.
On those who lived in the land of the shadow of death,
the light has shined.
You have multiplied the nation.
You have increased their joy.
They rejoice before you as with the harvest joy,
as humans rejoice when they divide plunder.
For the yoke of their burden,
and the staff on their shoulder,
the rod of their oppressor,
you have broken as in the day of Midian.
Responsorial – Psalm 27.1, 4, 13-14 Resp. 1a
R. The LORD is my light and my salvation.
The LORD is my light and my salvation;
whom shall I fear?
The LORD is the strength of my life;
of whom shall I be afraid?
R. The LORD is my light and my salvation.
One thing have I desired of the LORD,
this will I seek after:
that I may dwell in the house of the LORD
all the days of my life,
to behold the beauty of the LORD,
and to study in his temple.
R. The LORD is my light and my salvation.
I believe that I will see the goodness of the LORD
in the land of the living.
Wait for the LORD; be of good courage.
He will strengthen your heart. Wait for the LORD.
R. The LORD is my light and my salvation.
Reading 2 – 1 Corinthians 1.10-13, 17
Now I beg you, brothers and sisters, through the name of our Lord, Jesus Christ,
that you all speak the same thing
and that there be no divisions among you,
but that you be perfected together in the same mind and in the same judgment.
For it has been reported to me concerning you, my brothers and sisters,
by those who are from Chloe's household, that there are rivalries among you.
Now I mean this, that each one of you says,
"I follow Paul," "I follow Apollos," "I follow Cephas," or, "I follow Christ."
Is Christ divided?
Was Paul crucified for you?
Or were you baptized into the name of Paul?
Christ sent me not to baptize, but to preach the Gospel,
and not in the wisdom of logic,
lest the cross of Christ be emptied.
Gospel – Matthew 4.12-23
Now when Jesus heard that John had been arrested, he withdrew into Galilee.
Leaving Nazareth, he came and lived in Capernaum, which is by the sea,
in the region of Zebulun and Naphtali,
that it might be fulfilled which was spoken through Isaiah the prophet, saying:
“The land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali,
toward the sea, beyond the Jordan,
Galilee of the Gentiles,
the people who sat in darkness saw a great light,
to those who sat in the region and shadow of death,
to them light has dawned.”
From that time, Jesus began to preach, and to say,
“Repent! For the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand.”
As he was walking by the sea of Galilee,
he saw two brothers, Simon called Peter and Andrew his brother,
casting a net into the sea, for they were fishermen.
He said to them, “Follow me, and I will make you fishers of men.”
They immediately left their nets, and followed him.
Continuing on from there, he saw two more brothers,
James the son of Zebedee, and John his brother,
in a boat with Zebedee their father, mending their nets; and he called them.
They immediately left the boat and their father and followed him.
He went about in all Galilee, teaching in their synagogues,
preaching the Gospel of the Kingdom,
and healing every disease and every sickness among the people.
Mass Readings
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Second Sunday in Ordinary Time (A)
Official Translation
Reading 1 – Isaiah 49.3, 5-6
The Lord said to me,
“You are my servant; Israel,
in whom I will be glorified.”
Now the Lord,
he who formed me from the womb to be his servant,
says to bring Jacob again to him,
and that Israel be gathered to him.
I am honorable in the eyes of the Lord,
and my God has become my strength.
Indeed, he says,
“It is too light a thing that
you should be my servant to raise up the tribes of Jacob,
and to restore the preserved of Israel.
I will also make you a light to the nations,
that you may be my salvation to the end of the earth.”
Responsorial – Psalm 40.2+4, 7-8a, 8b-9, 10 R. 8a+9a
R. Behold, I have come; I delight to do your will, my God.
I waited patiently for the Lord.
He turned to me, and heard my cry.
And he put a new song into my mouth,
a hymn to our God.
R. Behold, I have come; I delight to do your will, my God.
Sacrifice and offering you did not desire.
You have opened my ears.
You have not required burnt offering and sin offering.
Then I said, “Behold, I have come.
R. Behold, I have come; I delight to do your will, my God.
It is written about me in the scroll:
“I delight to do your will, my God.
Yes, your law is within my heart.”
R. Behold, I have come; I delight to do your will, my God.
I have proclaimed glad news
of righteousness in the great assembly.
Behold, you know I will not seal my lips, O Lord.
R. Behold, I have come; I delight to do your will, my God.
Reading 2 – 1 Corinthians 1.1-3
Paul, called to be an apostle of Christ Jesus through the will of God,
and our brother Sosthenes,
to the Church of God at Corinth;
those who are sanctified in Christ Jesus, called to be saints,
with all who, in every place, call on the name of our Lord Jesus Christ,
their Lord and ours.
Grace to you and peace,
from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
Gospel – John 1.29-34
John the Baptist saw Jesus coming to him, and said,
“Behold, the Lamb of God,
who takes away the sin of the world!
This is he of whom I said,
‘After me comes a man
who is ranked before me, for he existed before me.’
I did not know him,
but for this reason I came baptizing in water:
that he would be revealed to Israel.”
John testified, saying,
“I have seen the Spirit
descending like a dove out of heaven,
and it remained on him.
I did not recognize him,
but he who sent me to baptize with water,
he said to me, ‘On whomever you will see
the Spirit descending, and remaining on him,
that one is he who baptizes with the Holy Spirit.’
I have seen and have testified
that this is the Son of God.”
Reading 1 – Isaiah 49.3, 5-6
The Lord said to me,
“You are my servant; Israel,
in whom I will be glorified.”
Now the Lord,
he who formed me from the womb to be his servant,
says to bring Jacob again to him,
and that Israel be gathered to him.
I am honorable in the eyes of the Lord,
and my God has become my strength.
Indeed, he says,
“It is too light a thing that
you should be my servant to raise up the tribes of Jacob,
and to restore the preserved of Israel.
I will also make you a light to the nations,
that you may be my salvation to the end of the earth.”
Responsorial – Psalm 40.2+4, 7-8a, 8b-9, 10 R. 8a+9a
R. Behold, I have come; I delight to do your will, my God.
I waited patiently for the Lord.
He turned to me, and heard my cry.
And he put a new song into my mouth,
a hymn to our God.
R. Behold, I have come; I delight to do your will, my God.
Sacrifice and offering you did not desire.
You have opened my ears.
You have not required burnt offering and sin offering.
Then I said, “Behold, I have come.
R. Behold, I have come; I delight to do your will, my God.
It is written about me in the scroll:
“I delight to do your will, my God.
Yes, your law is within my heart.”
R. Behold, I have come; I delight to do your will, my God.
I have proclaimed glad news
of righteousness in the great assembly.
Behold, you know I will not seal my lips, O Lord.
R. Behold, I have come; I delight to do your will, my God.
Reading 2 – 1 Corinthians 1.1-3
Paul, called to be an apostle of Christ Jesus through the will of God,
and our brother Sosthenes,
to the Church of God at Corinth;
those who are sanctified in Christ Jesus, called to be saints,
with all who, in every place, call on the name of our Lord Jesus Christ,
their Lord and ours.
Grace to you and peace,
from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
Gospel – John 1.29-34
John the Baptist saw Jesus coming to him, and said,
“Behold, the Lamb of God,
who takes away the sin of the world!
This is he of whom I said,
‘After me comes a man
who is ranked before me, for he existed before me.’
I did not know him,
but for this reason I came baptizing in water:
that he would be revealed to Israel.”
John testified, saying,
“I have seen the Spirit
descending like a dove out of heaven,
and it remained on him.
I did not recognize him,
but he who sent me to baptize with water,
he said to me, ‘On whomever you will see
the Spirit descending, and remaining on him,
that one is he who baptizes with the Holy Spirit.’
I have seen and have testified
that this is the Son of God.”
Masses in Thanksgiving to God
Official Translation
Reading 1 – 1 Kings 8.55-61
King Solomon stood and blessed all the assembly of Israel with a loud voice, saying,
“Blessed be the Lord, who has given rest to his people Israel, just as he promised.
Not a single word has failed of all his good promise which he promised by Moses his servant.
May the Lord our God be with us, as he was with our fathers.
Let him not leave us or forsake us, that he may incline our hearts to him,
to walk in all his ways, and to keep his commandments, and his statutes, and his ordinances,
which he commanded our fathers.
Let these my words, with which I have made supplication before the Lord,
be near to the Lord our God day and night,
that he may maintain the cause of his servant,
and the cause of his people Israel, as each day requires,
that all the people of the earth may know that the Lord is God, and there is no other.
Let your heart therefore be perfect with the Lord our God,
to walk in his statutes, and to keep his commandments, as on this day.”
or Sirach 50.22-24
Bless, now the God of all; across the earth is his wondrous power,
the God who has increased our days from our mother's womb, and has acted mercifully to us.
May he grant us joyfulness of heart, and peace in our days in Israel forever,
that Israel may have faith that the mercy of God is with us, to deliver us in his days.
or Isaiah 63.7-9
I will tell of the loving kindnesses of the Lord and the praiseworthy acts of the Lord,
according to all that the Lord has given to us, and his great goodness toward the house of Israel,
He has given to them according to his mercies, and according to the multitude of his loving kindnesses.
For he said, “Surely, they are my people, children who will not deal falsely”, so he became their savior.
In all their affliction he was afflicted, and the messenger of his presence saved them.
In his love and in his pity he redeemed them.
He bore them and carried them all the days of old.
or Zephaniah 3.14-15
Sing, daughter of Zion!
Shout, O Israel!
Be glad and rejoice with all your heart,
O daughter of Jerusalem.
The Lord has taken away your punishment.
He has thrown out your enemy.
The King of Israel, the Lord, is in your midst.
You will not be afraid of evil anymore.
Responsorial – 1 Chronicles 29.10bc, 11, 12 Resp. 13b
R. Our God, we praise your glorious name.
Blessed are you, LORD,
God of Israel our father,
forever and ever.
R. Our God, we praise your glorious name.
Yours, O LORD is the greatness, and the power,
and the glory, and the victory, and the majesty:
for all that is in the heavens and on earth is yours.
Yours is the kingdom, O LORD,
and you are exalted as head over all.
R. Our God, we praise your glorious name.
Both riches and honor come from you.
You reign over all.
In your hand is power and might,
and it is in your hand to make great and to give strength to all.
R. Our God, we praise your glorious name.
or Psalm 113.1-2, 3-4, 5-6, 7-8 Resp. 2
R. Blessed be the Lord’s name forevermore. or R. Alleluia!
Praise, you servants of the Lord,
praise the Lord’s name.
Blessed be the Lord’s name,
from this time forward and forevermore.
R. Blessed be the Lord’s name forevermore. or R. Alleluia!
From the rising of the sun to the going down of the same,
the Lord’s name is to be praised
the Lord is high above all nations,
his glory above the heavens.
R. Blessed be the Lord’s name forevermore. or R. Alleluia!
Who is like the Lord, our God,
who stoops down to see in heaven and on the earth?
R. Blessed be the Lord’s name forevermore. or R. Alleluia!
He raises up the poor out of the dust.
Lifts up the needy from the ash heap;
that he may set him with princes,
even with the princes of his people.
R. Blessed be the Lord’s name forevermore. or R. Alleluia!
or Psalm 138.1-2a, 2bc-3, 4-5 Resp. 2bc
R. I will give you thanks because of your loving kindness and your truth.
I will give you thanks with my whole heart.
for you have heard the words of my mouth
before the angels I will sing your praise.
I will bow down toward your holy temple,
R. I will give you thanks because of your loving kindness and your truth.
I will give thanks to your Name.
Because of your loving kindness and your truth,
In the day that I called, you answered me.
You encouraged me with strength in my soul.
R. I will give you thanks because of your loving kindness and your truth.
All the kings of the earth will give you thanks, O Lord,
for they have heard the words of your mouth.
Yes, they will sing of the ways of the Lord:
“Great is the glory of the Lord.”
R. I will give you thanks because of your loving kindness and your truth.
or Psalm 145.2-3, 4-5, 6-7, 8-9, 10-11 Resp. 1
R. Lord, I will bless your name forever.
Every day I will bless you,
and I will praise your name forever; yea, forever and ever.
Great is the Lord, and greatly to be praised,
and of his greatness there is no end.
R. Lord, I will bless your name forever.
Generation upon generation will praise your works
and declare your power.
They will speak of the magnificence of your glorious holiness:
and tell of your wondrous works.
R. Lord, I will bless your name forever.
Humans will speak of the might of your awesome acts.
I will declare your greatness.
They will utter the memory of your great goodness,
and will sing of your righteousness.
R. Lord, I will bless your name forever.
The Lord is gracious, merciful,
slow to anger, and of great loving kindness.
The Lord is good to all.
His tender mercies are upon all his works.
R. Lord, I will bless your name forever.
Let all your works, O Lord, praise you,
and let your holy ones bless you.
They will speak of the glory of your kingdom:
and tell of your power.
R. Lord, I will bless your name forever.
Reading 2 – 1 Corinthians 1.3-9
Brothers and sisters:
Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
I give thanks to my God always concerning you, for the grace of God given to you in Christ Jesus,
that in everything you are enriched in him, in all speech and all knowledge.
Just as the martyrdom of Christ was established in you.
Therefore you are not lacking in any gift, awaiting the revelation of our Lord Jesus Christ,
who will also establish you until the end, blameless on the day of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Faithful is the God through whom you were called into fellowship with his Son Jesus Christ, our Lord.
or Ephesians 1.3-14
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ,
who has blessed us in Christ with every spiritual blessing in the heavens,
even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world,
that we would be holy and without defect before him.
In love, having predestined us for adoption as children through Jesus Christ to himself,
according to the good pleasure of his desire, to the praise of the glory of his grace,
by which he freely gave us favor in the Beloved,
in whom we have our redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses,
according to the riches of his grace, which he made to abound toward us in all wisdom and prudence,
making known to us the mystery of his will, according to his good pleasure
which he purposed in him to an administration of the fullness of the times,
to sum up in Christ all things in the heavens and on the earth.
In him we were foreordained according to the purpose
of him who does all things after the counsel of his will;
to the end that we should be to the praise of his glory,
we who had before hoped in Christ.
In whom you also, having heard the word of the truth, the gospel of your salvation,
having also believed in him,
were sealed with the promised Holy Spirit, who is a pledge of our inheritance,
to the redemption of God’s own possession, to the praise of his glory.
or Colossians 3.12-17
Brothers and sisters:
Put on, as God’s chosen ones, holy and beloved,
a heart of compassion, kindness, lowliness, humility, and perseverance;
bearing with one another, and forgiving each other, if anyone has a complaint against another.
even as the Lord forgave you, so must you also do.
Above all these things, put on love, which is the bond of perfection.
And let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts, to which you were called in one body.
And be thankful.
Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly;
teaching in all wisdom and admonishing one another with psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs,
singing with gratitude in your heart to the Lord.
Whatever you do, in word or deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus,
giving thanks to God the Father, through him.
Gospel – Matthew 7.7-11
Jesus said to his disciples:
“Ask, and it will be given to you.
Seek, and you will find.
Knock, and it will be opened for you.
For everyone who asks receives.
They who seek, find.
To the one who knocks, it will be opened.
Who is there among you, if his son asks him for bread, will give him a stone?
Or if he asks for a fish, will give him a snake?
If you then, being perverse, know how to give good gifts to your children,
how much more will your Father in heaven give good things to those who ask him!”
or Matthew 11.25-30
At that time, Jesus answered,
“I thank you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth,
that you hid these things from the wise and understanding, and revealed them to infants.
Yes, Father, for so it was well-pleasing in your sight.
All things have been delivered to me by my Father.
No one knows the Son, except the Father;
nor does anyone know the Father, except the Son and anyone to whom the Son desires to reveal him.
Come to me, all you who labor and are burdened, and I will give you rest.
Take my yoke upon you, and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble of heart,
and you will find rest for your souls, for my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.”
or Mark 5.18-20
As Jesus was entering into the boat,
he who had been possessed by demons begged him that he might be with him.
He did not allow him, but said to him, “Go to your house, to your own,
and tell them what great things the Lord has done for you, and how he had mercy on you.”
He went his way, and began to proclaim in Decapolis
that Jesus had done great things for him, and everyone marveled.
or Luke 1.39-55
Mary arose in those days
and went into the hill country with haste,
into a town of Judah,
and entered into the house of Zachariah
and greeted Elizabeth.
When Elizabeth heard Mary’s greeting,
the baby leaped in her womb,
and Elizabeth was filled with the Holy Spirit.
She called out with a loud voice, and said,
“Blessed are you among women,
and blessed is the fruit of your womb!
Why am I so favored,
that the mother of my Lord should come to me?
For behold, when the voice of your greeting
came to my ears,
the baby leaped in my womb for joy!
Blessed is she who believed,
that there will be a fulfillment of the things
which have been spoken to her from the Lord!”
Mary said:
“My soul magnifies the Lord.
My spirit rejoices in God my Savior,
for he has looked at the
humble state of his handmaid.
For behold, from now on,
all generations will call me blessed.
For the Almighty has done great things for me.
Holy is his name.
His mercy is for generations of generations
for those who fear him.
He has shown strength with his arm.
He has scattered the proud
in the imagination of their hearts.
He has put down princes from their thrones.
And has exalted the lowly.
He has filled the hungry with good things.
He has sent the rich away empty.
He has given help to Israel, his servant,
remembering his mercy,
as he spoke to our fathers,
to Abraham and his offspring forever.”
or Luke 10.17-24
The seventy returned with joy, saying,
“Lord, even the demons are subject to us in your name!”
He said to them, “I saw Satan falling like lightning from heaven.
Behold, I give you authority to tread on serpents and scorpions,
and over all the power of the enemy. Nothing will in any way hurt you.
Nevertheless, do not rejoice that the spirits are subject to you,
but rejoice that your names are written in heaven.”
Jesus rejoiced in the Holy Spirit and said,
"I confess you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth,
that you have hidden these things from the wise and understanding
and revealed them to little children.
Yes, Father, for so it became benevolent in your sight.
All things have been handed to me by my Father,
and no one knows who the Son is if not the Father,
or who the Father is if not the Son
and those to whom the Son chooses to reveal him."
Then turning to the disciples, he spoke just to them:
"Blessed are the eyes that see what you see!
For I tell you that many prophets and kings
desired to see what you see, and did not see it,
and to hear what you hear, and did not hear it."
or Luke 17.11-19
On his way to Jerusalem, Jesus was passing along the borders of Samaria and Galilee.
As he entered into a certain village, ten men who were lepers met him.
Standing at a distance, they lifted up their voices, saying, “Jesus, Master, have mercy on us!”
When he saw them, he said to them, “Go and show yourselves to the priests.”
As they went, they were cleansed.
One of them, when he saw that he was healed, turned back, glorifying God with a loud voice.
He fell on his face at Jesus’ feet, giving him thanks. He was a Samaritan.
Jesus answered, “Were not ten cleansed? But where are the nine?
Was no one found to return to give glory to God, except this foreigner?”
Then he said to him, “Get up, and go your way. Your faith has saved you.”
or John 15.9-17
Jesus said to his disciples:
“As the Father loved me, I also loved you.
Remain in my love.
If you keep my commandments, you will remain in my love;
even as I have kept my Father’s commandments, and remain in his love.
I have spoken these things to you, that my joy may remain in you, and that your joy may be complete.
This is my commandment: that you love one another, even as I have loved you.
Greater love has no one than this: that someone lay down their life for their friends.
You are my friends, if you do what I command you.
No longer do I call you slaves, for the slave does not know what their Lord does.
But I have called you friends, for everything that I heard from my Father, I have made known to you.
You did not choose me, but I chose you, and appointed you,
that you should go and bear fruit, and that your fruit should remain;
so that whatever you will ask of the Father in my name, he may give it to you.
I command these things to you, so that you will love one another.”
or John 16.20-22
Jesus said to his disciples:
“Amen, amen, I tell you, that you will weep and lament, but the world will rejoice.
You will be sorrowful, but your sorrow will be turned into joy.
A woman, while in labor, has sorrow, because her time has come.
But when she has delivered the baby, she no longer remembers the anguish anymore,
for the joy that a human is born into the world.
Therefore you now have sorrow, but I will see you again,
and your heart will rejoice, and no one will take your joy away from you.”
Reading 1 – 1 Kings 8.55-61
King Solomon stood and blessed all the assembly of Israel with a loud voice, saying,
“Blessed be the Lord, who has given rest to his people Israel, just as he promised.
Not a single word has failed of all his good promise which he promised by Moses his servant.
May the Lord our God be with us, as he was with our fathers.
Let him not leave us or forsake us, that he may incline our hearts to him,
to walk in all his ways, and to keep his commandments, and his statutes, and his ordinances,
which he commanded our fathers.
Let these my words, with which I have made supplication before the Lord,
be near to the Lord our God day and night,
that he may maintain the cause of his servant,
and the cause of his people Israel, as each day requires,
that all the people of the earth may know that the Lord is God, and there is no other.
Let your heart therefore be perfect with the Lord our God,
to walk in his statutes, and to keep his commandments, as on this day.”
or Sirach 50.22-24
Bless, now the God of all; across the earth is his wondrous power,
the God who has increased our days from our mother's womb, and has acted mercifully to us.
May he grant us joyfulness of heart, and peace in our days in Israel forever,
that Israel may have faith that the mercy of God is with us, to deliver us in his days.
or Isaiah 63.7-9
I will tell of the loving kindnesses of the Lord and the praiseworthy acts of the Lord,
according to all that the Lord has given to us, and his great goodness toward the house of Israel,
He has given to them according to his mercies, and according to the multitude of his loving kindnesses.
For he said, “Surely, they are my people, children who will not deal falsely”, so he became their savior.
In all their affliction he was afflicted, and the messenger of his presence saved them.
In his love and in his pity he redeemed them.
He bore them and carried them all the days of old.
or Zephaniah 3.14-15
Sing, daughter of Zion!
Shout, O Israel!
Be glad and rejoice with all your heart,
O daughter of Jerusalem.
The Lord has taken away your punishment.
He has thrown out your enemy.
The King of Israel, the Lord, is in your midst.
You will not be afraid of evil anymore.
Responsorial – 1 Chronicles 29.10bc, 11, 12 Resp. 13b
R. Our God, we praise your glorious name.
Blessed are you, LORD,
God of Israel our father,
forever and ever.
R. Our God, we praise your glorious name.
Yours, O LORD is the greatness, and the power,
and the glory, and the victory, and the majesty:
for all that is in the heavens and on earth is yours.
Yours is the kingdom, O LORD,
and you are exalted as head over all.
R. Our God, we praise your glorious name.
Both riches and honor come from you.
You reign over all.
In your hand is power and might,
and it is in your hand to make great and to give strength to all.
R. Our God, we praise your glorious name.
or Psalm 113.1-2, 3-4, 5-6, 7-8 Resp. 2
R. Blessed be the Lord’s name forevermore. or R. Alleluia!
Praise, you servants of the Lord,
praise the Lord’s name.
Blessed be the Lord’s name,
from this time forward and forevermore.
R. Blessed be the Lord’s name forevermore. or R. Alleluia!
From the rising of the sun to the going down of the same,
the Lord’s name is to be praised
the Lord is high above all nations,
his glory above the heavens.
R. Blessed be the Lord’s name forevermore. or R. Alleluia!
Who is like the Lord, our God,
who stoops down to see in heaven and on the earth?
R. Blessed be the Lord’s name forevermore. or R. Alleluia!
He raises up the poor out of the dust.
Lifts up the needy from the ash heap;
that he may set him with princes,
even with the princes of his people.
R. Blessed be the Lord’s name forevermore. or R. Alleluia!
or Psalm 138.1-2a, 2bc-3, 4-5 Resp. 2bc
R. I will give you thanks because of your loving kindness and your truth.
I will give you thanks with my whole heart.
for you have heard the words of my mouth
before the angels I will sing your praise.
I will bow down toward your holy temple,
R. I will give you thanks because of your loving kindness and your truth.
I will give thanks to your Name.
Because of your loving kindness and your truth,
In the day that I called, you answered me.
You encouraged me with strength in my soul.
R. I will give you thanks because of your loving kindness and your truth.
All the kings of the earth will give you thanks, O Lord,
for they have heard the words of your mouth.
Yes, they will sing of the ways of the Lord:
“Great is the glory of the Lord.”
R. I will give you thanks because of your loving kindness and your truth.
or Psalm 145.2-3, 4-5, 6-7, 8-9, 10-11 Resp. 1
R. Lord, I will bless your name forever.
Every day I will bless you,
and I will praise your name forever; yea, forever and ever.
Great is the Lord, and greatly to be praised,
and of his greatness there is no end.
R. Lord, I will bless your name forever.
Generation upon generation will praise your works
and declare your power.
They will speak of the magnificence of your glorious holiness:
and tell of your wondrous works.
R. Lord, I will bless your name forever.
Humans will speak of the might of your awesome acts.
I will declare your greatness.
They will utter the memory of your great goodness,
and will sing of your righteousness.
R. Lord, I will bless your name forever.
The Lord is gracious, merciful,
slow to anger, and of great loving kindness.
The Lord is good to all.
His tender mercies are upon all his works.
R. Lord, I will bless your name forever.
Let all your works, O Lord, praise you,
and let your holy ones bless you.
They will speak of the glory of your kingdom:
and tell of your power.
R. Lord, I will bless your name forever.
Reading 2 – 1 Corinthians 1.3-9
Brothers and sisters:
Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
I give thanks to my God always concerning you, for the grace of God given to you in Christ Jesus,
that in everything you are enriched in him, in all speech and all knowledge.
Just as the martyrdom of Christ was established in you.
Therefore you are not lacking in any gift, awaiting the revelation of our Lord Jesus Christ,
who will also establish you until the end, blameless on the day of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Faithful is the God through whom you were called into fellowship with his Son Jesus Christ, our Lord.
or Ephesians 1.3-14
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ,
who has blessed us in Christ with every spiritual blessing in the heavens,
even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world,
that we would be holy and without defect before him.
In love, having predestined us for adoption as children through Jesus Christ to himself,
according to the good pleasure of his desire, to the praise of the glory of his grace,
by which he freely gave us favor in the Beloved,
in whom we have our redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses,
according to the riches of his grace, which he made to abound toward us in all wisdom and prudence,
making known to us the mystery of his will, according to his good pleasure
which he purposed in him to an administration of the fullness of the times,
to sum up in Christ all things in the heavens and on the earth.
In him we were foreordained according to the purpose
of him who does all things after the counsel of his will;
to the end that we should be to the praise of his glory,
we who had before hoped in Christ.
In whom you also, having heard the word of the truth, the gospel of your salvation,
having also believed in him,
were sealed with the promised Holy Spirit, who is a pledge of our inheritance,
to the redemption of God’s own possession, to the praise of his glory.
or Colossians 3.12-17
Brothers and sisters:
Put on, as God’s chosen ones, holy and beloved,
a heart of compassion, kindness, lowliness, humility, and perseverance;
bearing with one another, and forgiving each other, if anyone has a complaint against another.
even as the Lord forgave you, so must you also do.
Above all these things, put on love, which is the bond of perfection.
And let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts, to which you were called in one body.
And be thankful.
Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly;
teaching in all wisdom and admonishing one another with psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs,
singing with gratitude in your heart to the Lord.
Whatever you do, in word or deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus,
giving thanks to God the Father, through him.
Gospel – Matthew 7.7-11
Jesus said to his disciples:
“Ask, and it will be given to you.
Seek, and you will find.
Knock, and it will be opened for you.
For everyone who asks receives.
They who seek, find.
To the one who knocks, it will be opened.
Who is there among you, if his son asks him for bread, will give him a stone?
Or if he asks for a fish, will give him a snake?
If you then, being perverse, know how to give good gifts to your children,
how much more will your Father in heaven give good things to those who ask him!”
or Matthew 11.25-30
At that time, Jesus answered,
“I thank you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth,
that you hid these things from the wise and understanding, and revealed them to infants.
Yes, Father, for so it was well-pleasing in your sight.
All things have been delivered to me by my Father.
No one knows the Son, except the Father;
nor does anyone know the Father, except the Son and anyone to whom the Son desires to reveal him.
Come to me, all you who labor and are burdened, and I will give you rest.
Take my yoke upon you, and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble of heart,
and you will find rest for your souls, for my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.”
or Mark 5.18-20
As Jesus was entering into the boat,
he who had been possessed by demons begged him that he might be with him.
He did not allow him, but said to him, “Go to your house, to your own,
and tell them what great things the Lord has done for you, and how he had mercy on you.”
He went his way, and began to proclaim in Decapolis
that Jesus had done great things for him, and everyone marveled.
or Luke 1.39-55
Mary arose in those days
and went into the hill country with haste,
into a town of Judah,
and entered into the house of Zachariah
and greeted Elizabeth.
When Elizabeth heard Mary’s greeting,
the baby leaped in her womb,
and Elizabeth was filled with the Holy Spirit.
She called out with a loud voice, and said,
“Blessed are you among women,
and blessed is the fruit of your womb!
Why am I so favored,
that the mother of my Lord should come to me?
For behold, when the voice of your greeting
came to my ears,
the baby leaped in my womb for joy!
Blessed is she who believed,
that there will be a fulfillment of the things
which have been spoken to her from the Lord!”
Mary said:
“My soul magnifies the Lord.
My spirit rejoices in God my Savior,
for he has looked at the
humble state of his handmaid.
For behold, from now on,
all generations will call me blessed.
For the Almighty has done great things for me.
Holy is his name.
His mercy is for generations of generations
for those who fear him.
He has shown strength with his arm.
He has scattered the proud
in the imagination of their hearts.
He has put down princes from their thrones.
And has exalted the lowly.
He has filled the hungry with good things.
He has sent the rich away empty.
He has given help to Israel, his servant,
remembering his mercy,
as he spoke to our fathers,
to Abraham and his offspring forever.”
or Luke 10.17-24
The seventy returned with joy, saying,
“Lord, even the demons are subject to us in your name!”
He said to them, “I saw Satan falling like lightning from heaven.
Behold, I give you authority to tread on serpents and scorpions,
and over all the power of the enemy. Nothing will in any way hurt you.
Nevertheless, do not rejoice that the spirits are subject to you,
but rejoice that your names are written in heaven.”
Jesus rejoiced in the Holy Spirit and said,
"I confess you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth,
that you have hidden these things from the wise and understanding
and revealed them to little children.
Yes, Father, for so it became benevolent in your sight.
All things have been handed to me by my Father,
and no one knows who the Son is if not the Father,
or who the Father is if not the Son
and those to whom the Son chooses to reveal him."
Then turning to the disciples, he spoke just to them:
"Blessed are the eyes that see what you see!
For I tell you that many prophets and kings
desired to see what you see, and did not see it,
and to hear what you hear, and did not hear it."
or Luke 17.11-19
On his way to Jerusalem, Jesus was passing along the borders of Samaria and Galilee.
As he entered into a certain village, ten men who were lepers met him.
Standing at a distance, they lifted up their voices, saying, “Jesus, Master, have mercy on us!”
When he saw them, he said to them, “Go and show yourselves to the priests.”
As they went, they were cleansed.
One of them, when he saw that he was healed, turned back, glorifying God with a loud voice.
He fell on his face at Jesus’ feet, giving him thanks. He was a Samaritan.
Jesus answered, “Were not ten cleansed? But where are the nine?
Was no one found to return to give glory to God, except this foreigner?”
Then he said to him, “Get up, and go your way. Your faith has saved you.”
or John 15.9-17
Jesus said to his disciples:
“As the Father loved me, I also loved you.
Remain in my love.
If you keep my commandments, you will remain in my love;
even as I have kept my Father’s commandments, and remain in his love.
I have spoken these things to you, that my joy may remain in you, and that your joy may be complete.
This is my commandment: that you love one another, even as I have loved you.
Greater love has no one than this: that someone lay down their life for their friends.
You are my friends, if you do what I command you.
No longer do I call you slaves, for the slave does not know what their Lord does.
But I have called you friends, for everything that I heard from my Father, I have made known to you.
You did not choose me, but I chose you, and appointed you,
that you should go and bear fruit, and that your fruit should remain;
so that whatever you will ask of the Father in my name, he may give it to you.
I command these things to you, so that you will love one another.”
or John 16.20-22
Jesus said to his disciples:
“Amen, amen, I tell you, that you will weep and lament, but the world will rejoice.
You will be sorrowful, but your sorrow will be turned into joy.
A woman, while in labor, has sorrow, because her time has come.
But when she has delivered the baby, she no longer remembers the anguish anymore,
for the joy that a human is born into the world.
Therefore you now have sorrow, but I will see you again,
and your heart will rejoice, and no one will take your joy away from you.”
Saturday of the Twenty-first Week in Ordinary Time (II)
Official Translation
Reading 1 – 1 Corinthians 1.26-31
Look at your calling, brothers and sisters,
how not many are wise according to the flesh,
not many mighty, and not many noble,
but God chose the foolish of the world to shame the wise,
and God chose the weak of the world to shame the strong,
and God chose the lowly of the world, and the despised, the nothings,
that he might bring to nothing the things that are,
that no flesh should boast before God.
From him you are in Christ Jesus,
who was made wisdom for us wisdom from God,
and righteousness, sanctification, and redemption,
so that, as it is written, “Let the one who boasts, boast in the Lord.”
Responsorial – Psalm 33.12-13, 18-19, 20-21 Resp. 12
R. Blessed is the people whom the Lord has chosen for his own.
Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord,
the people whom he has chosen for his own inheritance.
The Lord looks from heaven.
He sees all the sons of men.
R. Blessed is the people whom the Lord has chosen for his own.
Behold, the eye of the Lord is on those who fear him,
on those who hope in his loving kindness;
to deliver their soul from death,
to keep them alive in famine.
R. Blessed is the people whom the Lord has chosen for his own.
Our soul has waited for the Lord.
He is our help and our shield.
For our heart rejoices in him,
because we have trusted in his holy name.
R. Blessed is the people whom the Lord has chosen for his own.
Gospel – Matthew 25.14-30
Jesus said to his disciples:
The kingdom of heaven is like a human going away,
who called his servants and entrusted to them his property.
To one he gave five talents, to another, two, and to another, one,
to each according to his abilities.
Then he went away.
Immediately, he who had received the five talents
went and traded with them and earned another five.
and likewise, he who had received two earned another two,
but he who had received one
went away and dug in the ground, and hid his master's money.
After a long time,
the master of those servants came back
and settled accounts with them.
So he who had received five talents came forward
and brought the other five talents,
saying, ‘Master, you entrusted me with five talents.
Behold, I have earned another five talents.’
His master said to him,
‘Well done, good and faithful servant.
you have been faithful over a few things,
I will make you ruler over many things.
Enter into your master’s joy!’
And he who had received two talents came forward
saying, ‘Master, you entrusted me with two talents.
Behold, I have earned another two talents.’
His master said to him,
‘Well done, good and faithful servant.
you have been faithful over a few things,
I will make you ruler over many things.
Enter into your master’s joy!’
And he who had received one talent came forward,
saying, ‘Master, I knew you, that you are a hard human,
reaping where you had not planted,
and gathering from where you had not scattered,
and I was afraid, so I went away
and hid your talent in the ground.
Behold, you have what is yours.’
Answering, his master said to him,
‘You useless and cowardly servant.
So you knew that I reap where I had not planted
and gather where I had not scattered, did you?
The you should have put my money in the bank,
and then, when I came back,
I would have received mine plus interest.
Therefore, take the talent from him,
and give it to the one who has ten talents.
For all who have will be rewarded,
and have an abundance,
but the one who does not have,
that which they have will be taken from them.
And expel the unprofitable servant
into the darkness outside,
where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
Reading 1 – 1 Corinthians 1.26-31
Look at your calling, brothers and sisters,
how not many are wise according to the flesh,
not many mighty, and not many noble,
but God chose the foolish of the world to shame the wise,
and God chose the weak of the world to shame the strong,
and God chose the lowly of the world, and the despised, the nothings,
that he might bring to nothing the things that are,
that no flesh should boast before God.
From him you are in Christ Jesus,
who was made wisdom for us wisdom from God,
and righteousness, sanctification, and redemption,
so that, as it is written, “Let the one who boasts, boast in the Lord.”
Responsorial – Psalm 33.12-13, 18-19, 20-21 Resp. 12
R. Blessed is the people whom the Lord has chosen for his own.
Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord,
the people whom he has chosen for his own inheritance.
The Lord looks from heaven.
He sees all the sons of men.
R. Blessed is the people whom the Lord has chosen for his own.
Behold, the eye of the Lord is on those who fear him,
on those who hope in his loving kindness;
to deliver their soul from death,
to keep them alive in famine.
R. Blessed is the people whom the Lord has chosen for his own.
Our soul has waited for the Lord.
He is our help and our shield.
For our heart rejoices in him,
because we have trusted in his holy name.
R. Blessed is the people whom the Lord has chosen for his own.
Gospel – Matthew 25.14-30
Jesus said to his disciples:
The kingdom of heaven is like a human going away,
who called his servants and entrusted to them his property.
To one he gave five talents, to another, two, and to another, one,
to each according to his abilities.
Then he went away.
Immediately, he who had received the five talents
went and traded with them and earned another five.
and likewise, he who had received two earned another two,
but he who had received one
went away and dug in the ground, and hid his master's money.
After a long time,
the master of those servants came back
and settled accounts with them.
So he who had received five talents came forward
and brought the other five talents,
saying, ‘Master, you entrusted me with five talents.
Behold, I have earned another five talents.’
His master said to him,
‘Well done, good and faithful servant.
you have been faithful over a few things,
I will make you ruler over many things.
Enter into your master’s joy!’
And he who had received two talents came forward
saying, ‘Master, you entrusted me with two talents.
Behold, I have earned another two talents.’
His master said to him,
‘Well done, good and faithful servant.
you have been faithful over a few things,
I will make you ruler over many things.
Enter into your master’s joy!’
And he who had received one talent came forward,
saying, ‘Master, I knew you, that you are a hard human,
reaping where you had not planted,
and gathering from where you had not scattered,
and I was afraid, so I went away
and hid your talent in the ground.
Behold, you have what is yours.’
Answering, his master said to him,
‘You useless and cowardly servant.
So you knew that I reap where I had not planted
and gather where I had not scattered, did you?
The you should have put my money in the bank,
and then, when I came back,
I would have received mine plus interest.
Therefore, take the talent from him,
and give it to the one who has ten talents.
For all who have will be rewarded,
and have an abundance,
but the one who does not have,
that which they have will be taken from them.
And expel the unprofitable servant
into the darkness outside,
where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
Friday of the Twenty-first Week in Ordinary Time (II)
Official Translation
Reading 1 – 1 Corinthians 1.17-25
Brothers and sisters:
Christ sent me not to baptize, but to preach the Gospel,
and not in the wisdom of logic, lest the cross of Christ be emptied.
For the logic of the cross is foolishness to those who are dying,
but to us who are being saved it is the power of God.
For it is written, “I will destroy the wisdom of the wise,
I will bring the discernment of the discerning to nothing.”
Where are the wise? Where is the scribe? Where is the disputer of this age?
Has not God made foolish the wisdom of the world?
For since, in the wisdom of God,
the world through its wisdom did not know God,
it was God’s good pleasure to, through the folly of our preaching, save those who believe.
For Jews demand signs, and Greeks seek wisdom, but we preach Christ crucified:
a stumbling block to Jews, and folly to Gentiles,
but to those who are called, both Jews and Greeks,
Christ is the power of God and the wisdom of God.
Because the foolishness of God is wiser than that of humans,
and the weakness of God is stronger than that of humans.
Responsorial – Psalm 33.1-2, 4-5, 10-11 Resp. 5
R. The earth is full of the loving kindness of the Lord.
Rejoice in the Lord, you righteous!
Praise is fitting for the upright.
Give thanks to the Lord with the lyre.
Sing praises to him with the harp of ten strings.
R. The earth is full of the loving kindness of the Lord.
The word of the Lord is right.
All his work is done in faithfulness.
He loves righteousness and justice.
The earth is full of the loving kindness of the Lord.
R. The earth is full of the loving kindness of the Lord.
The Lord brings the counsel of the nations to nothing.
He makes the thoughts of the peoples to be of no effect.
The counsel of the Lord stands fast forever,
the thoughts of his heart to all generations.
R. The earth is full of the loving kindness of the Lord.
Gospel – Matthew 25.1-13
Jesus said to his disciples:
Then the Kingdom of Heaven will be like ten virgins,
who, taking their own lamps, went out to meet the bridegroom.
Now, five of them were foolish and five wise.
For the foolish ones, having taken their lamps,
did not take oil with them,
but the wise took oil in their bottles with their own lamps.
But the bridegroom being delayed, they all were drowsy and fell asleep.
In the middle of the night, there was a shout:
“Behold the bridegroom! Go forth to meet him!”
Then all those virgins arose and prepared their lamps.
The foolish said to the wise,
“Give us some of your oil, for our lamps have run out.”
However, the wise said, “Definitely not!
There is not enough for us and for you.
Instead, go to the sellers and purchase some.”
But while they were gone shopping, the bridegroom came,
and those who were ready
went in with him to the wedding feast,
and the door was shut.
Finally, the other virgins came, saying,
“Lord, Lord, open up for us”,
but he answered saying,
“Amen I say to you, I do not know you.”
Stay awake, therefore,
because you do not know the day nor the hour.
Reading 1 – 1 Corinthians 1.17-25
Brothers and sisters:
Christ sent me not to baptize, but to preach the Gospel,
and not in the wisdom of logic, lest the cross of Christ be emptied.
For the logic of the cross is foolishness to those who are dying,
but to us who are being saved it is the power of God.
For it is written, “I will destroy the wisdom of the wise,
I will bring the discernment of the discerning to nothing.”
Where are the wise? Where is the scribe? Where is the disputer of this age?
Has not God made foolish the wisdom of the world?
For since, in the wisdom of God,
the world through its wisdom did not know God,
it was God’s good pleasure to, through the folly of our preaching, save those who believe.
For Jews demand signs, and Greeks seek wisdom, but we preach Christ crucified:
a stumbling block to Jews, and folly to Gentiles,
but to those who are called, both Jews and Greeks,
Christ is the power of God and the wisdom of God.
Because the foolishness of God is wiser than that of humans,
and the weakness of God is stronger than that of humans.
Responsorial – Psalm 33.1-2, 4-5, 10-11 Resp. 5
R. The earth is full of the loving kindness of the Lord.
Rejoice in the Lord, you righteous!
Praise is fitting for the upright.
Give thanks to the Lord with the lyre.
Sing praises to him with the harp of ten strings.
R. The earth is full of the loving kindness of the Lord.
The word of the Lord is right.
All his work is done in faithfulness.
He loves righteousness and justice.
The earth is full of the loving kindness of the Lord.
R. The earth is full of the loving kindness of the Lord.
The Lord brings the counsel of the nations to nothing.
He makes the thoughts of the peoples to be of no effect.
The counsel of the Lord stands fast forever,
the thoughts of his heart to all generations.
R. The earth is full of the loving kindness of the Lord.
Gospel – Matthew 25.1-13
Jesus said to his disciples:
Then the Kingdom of Heaven will be like ten virgins,
who, taking their own lamps, went out to meet the bridegroom.
Now, five of them were foolish and five wise.
For the foolish ones, having taken their lamps,
did not take oil with them,
but the wise took oil in their bottles with their own lamps.
But the bridegroom being delayed, they all were drowsy and fell asleep.
In the middle of the night, there was a shout:
“Behold the bridegroom! Go forth to meet him!”
Then all those virgins arose and prepared their lamps.
The foolish said to the wise,
“Give us some of your oil, for our lamps have run out.”
However, the wise said, “Definitely not!
There is not enough for us and for you.
Instead, go to the sellers and purchase some.”
But while they were gone shopping, the bridegroom came,
and those who were ready
went in with him to the wedding feast,
and the door was shut.
Finally, the other virgins came, saying,
“Lord, Lord, open up for us”,
but he answered saying,
“Amen I say to you, I do not know you.”
Stay awake, therefore,
because you do not know the day nor the hour.
Thursday of the Twenty-first Week in Ordinary Time (II)
Official Translation
Reading 1 – 1 Corinthians 1.1-9
Paul, called to be an apostle of Christ Jesus through the will of God,
and our brother Sosthenes,
to the Church of God at Corinth;
those who are sanctified in Christ Jesus, called to be saints,
with all who, in every place, call on the name of our Lord Jesus Christ,
their Lord and ours.
Grace to you and peace,
from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
I give thanks to my God always concerning you,
for the grace of God given to you in Christ Jesus,
that in everything you are enriched in him,
in all speech and all knowledge.
Just as the martyrdom of Christ was established in you.
Therefore you are not lacking in any gift,
awaiting the revelation of our Lord Jesus Christ,
who will also establish you until the end,
blameless on the day of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Faithful is the God through whom you were called into
fellowship with his Son Jesus Christ, our Lord.
Responsorial – Psalm 145.2-3, 4-5, 6-7 Resp. 1
R. Lord, I will bless your name forever.
Every day I will bless you,
and I will praise your name forever; yea, forever and ever.
Great is the Lord, and greatly to be praised,
and of his greatness there is no end.
R. Lord, I will bless your name forever.
Generation upon generation will praise your works
and declare your power.
They will speak of the magnificence of your glorious holiness:
and tell of your wondrous works.
R. Lord, I will bless your name forever.
Humans will speak of the might of your awesome acts.
I will declare your greatness.
They will utter the memory of your great goodness,
and will sing of your righteousness.
R. Lord, I will bless your name forever.
Gospel – Matthew 24.42-51
Jesus said to his disciples:
Stay awake! For you do not know what day your Lord is coming.
But know this: if the master of the house had known
in what watch of the night the thief was coming,
he would have stayed awake,
and would not have allowed his house to be broken into.
Therefore you also be ready, for in an hour that you do not expect,
the Son of Human will come.
Who then is the faithful and wise servant,
whom his master has set over his household,
to give them their food in due season?
Blessed is that servant whom his master finds doing so when he comes.
Amen I tell you that he will set him over all that he has.
But if that evil servant should say in his heart, ‘My master is delayed in coming,’
and begins to beat his fellow servants, and eat and drink with the drunkards,
the master of that servant will come on a day he does not expect,
and at an hour he does not know,
and will cut him in pieces and put him with the hypocrites,
where the weeping and grinding of teeth will be.
Reading 1 – 1 Corinthians 1.1-9
Paul, called to be an apostle of Christ Jesus through the will of God,
and our brother Sosthenes,
to the Church of God at Corinth;
those who are sanctified in Christ Jesus, called to be saints,
with all who, in every place, call on the name of our Lord Jesus Christ,
their Lord and ours.
Grace to you and peace,
from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
I give thanks to my God always concerning you,
for the grace of God given to you in Christ Jesus,
that in everything you are enriched in him,
in all speech and all knowledge.
Just as the martyrdom of Christ was established in you.
Therefore you are not lacking in any gift,
awaiting the revelation of our Lord Jesus Christ,
who will also establish you until the end,
blameless on the day of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Faithful is the God through whom you were called into
fellowship with his Son Jesus Christ, our Lord.
Responsorial – Psalm 145.2-3, 4-5, 6-7 Resp. 1
R. Lord, I will bless your name forever.
Every day I will bless you,
and I will praise your name forever; yea, forever and ever.
Great is the Lord, and greatly to be praised,
and of his greatness there is no end.
R. Lord, I will bless your name forever.
Generation upon generation will praise your works
and declare your power.
They will speak of the magnificence of your glorious holiness:
and tell of your wondrous works.
R. Lord, I will bless your name forever.
Humans will speak of the might of your awesome acts.
I will declare your greatness.
They will utter the memory of your great goodness,
and will sing of your righteousness.
R. Lord, I will bless your name forever.
Gospel – Matthew 24.42-51
Jesus said to his disciples:
Stay awake! For you do not know what day your Lord is coming.
But know this: if the master of the house had known
in what watch of the night the thief was coming,
he would have stayed awake,
and would not have allowed his house to be broken into.
Therefore you also be ready, for in an hour that you do not expect,
the Son of Human will come.
Who then is the faithful and wise servant,
whom his master has set over his household,
to give them their food in due season?
Blessed is that servant whom his master finds doing so when he comes.
Amen I tell you that he will set him over all that he has.
But if that evil servant should say in his heart, ‘My master is delayed in coming,’
and begins to beat his fellow servants, and eat and drink with the drunkards,
the master of that servant will come on a day he does not expect,
and at an hour he does not know,
and will cut him in pieces and put him with the hypocrites,
where the weeping and grinding of teeth will be.
First Sunday of Advent (B)
Official Translation
Reading 1 - Isaiah 63.16b-17, 19b; 64.2-7
You, O LORD, are our father,
your name, “Our Redeemer”, is from eternity.
O LORD, why did you let us
go astray from your ways
and harden our hearts against fear of you?
Return, for your servants' sake,
to the tribes of your inheritance.
O that you would rend the heavens!
O that you would come down!
O that the mountains might erupt at your presence!
As when you did amazing things
which we did not expect,
As when you came down,
and the mountains erupted at your presence.
As from the beginning of time humans had not heard.
Ear has not heard nor has the eye seen
a god other than you,
who has prepared such things
for those who wait for him.
You meet the one who rejoices in righteous deeds,
who remembers you and your ways,
in which are our preservation and salvation.
Behold, you are angry for we have sinned
We are all like something unclean,
and all our good deeds are as filthy rags.
We all fade like leaves,
and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away.
There is no one who calls upon your name,
who stirs themself up to take hold of you.
You conceal your face from us,
and you are melting us in the hand of our iniquities.
But you, O LORD, are our Father.
We are the clay and you are our potter.
We are all the work of your hand.
Responsorial – Psalm 80.2-3, 15-16, 18-19 Resp. 4
R. Turn us back, O God, and cause your face to shine on us, and we shall be saved.
Give ear, O Shepherd of Israel,
You who dwell among the cherubim, shine forth.
Stir up your strength,
and come to save us.
R. Turn us back, O God, and cause your face to shine on us, and we shall be saved.
Return, we beseech you, O God of Hosts.
Look down from heaven and see,
Visit this vine and the vineyard
which your right hand has planted,
the son whom you made strong for yourself.
R. Turn us back, O God, and cause your face to shine on us, and we shall be saved.
Let your hand be upon the human of your right hand,
upon the son of human whom you made strong for yourself.
So we will not withdraw from you;
Enliven us and we will call upon your name.
R. Turn us back, O God, and cause your face to shine on us, and we shall be saved.
Reading 2 – 1 Corinthians 1.3-9
Brothers and sisters:
Grace to you and peace,
from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
I give thanks to my God always concerning you,
for the grace of God given to you in Christ Jesus,
that in everything you are enriched in him,
in all speech and all knowledge.
Just as the martyrdom of Christ was established in you.
Therefore you are not lacking in any gift,
awaiting the revelation of our Lord Jesus Christ,
who will also establish you until the end,
blameless on the day of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Faithful is the God through whom you were called into
fellowship with his Son Jesus Christ our Lord.
Gospel – Mark 13.33-37
Jesus said to his disciples:
“Look out! Stay awake!
For you do not know
when it is the time.
It is like a human going on a journey,
leaving their house
and giving authority to their servants,
to each their own work
and a command to the doorman
that they would stay awake.
Therefore, stay awake.
For you do not know
when the master of the house will come
Whether late or at midnight
or when the rooster crows
or in the morning.
Lest he come suddenly
and find you sleeping.
What I say to you, I say to all:
‘Stay awake!’”
Reading 1 - Isaiah 63.16b-17, 19b; 64.2-7
You, O LORD, are our father,
your name, “Our Redeemer”, is from eternity.
O LORD, why did you let us
go astray from your ways
and harden our hearts against fear of you?
Return, for your servants' sake,
to the tribes of your inheritance.
O that you would rend the heavens!
O that you would come down!
O that the mountains might erupt at your presence!
As when you did amazing things
which we did not expect,
As when you came down,
and the mountains erupted at your presence.
As from the beginning of time humans had not heard.
Ear has not heard nor has the eye seen
a god other than you,
who has prepared such things
for those who wait for him.
You meet the one who rejoices in righteous deeds,
who remembers you and your ways,
in which are our preservation and salvation.
Behold, you are angry for we have sinned
We are all like something unclean,
and all our good deeds are as filthy rags.
We all fade like leaves,
and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away.
There is no one who calls upon your name,
who stirs themself up to take hold of you.
You conceal your face from us,
and you are melting us in the hand of our iniquities.
But you, O LORD, are our Father.
We are the clay and you are our potter.
We are all the work of your hand.
Responsorial – Psalm 80.2-3, 15-16, 18-19 Resp. 4
R. Turn us back, O God, and cause your face to shine on us, and we shall be saved.
Give ear, O Shepherd of Israel,
You who dwell among the cherubim, shine forth.
Stir up your strength,
and come to save us.
R. Turn us back, O God, and cause your face to shine on us, and we shall be saved.
Return, we beseech you, O God of Hosts.
Look down from heaven and see,
Visit this vine and the vineyard
which your right hand has planted,
the son whom you made strong for yourself.
R. Turn us back, O God, and cause your face to shine on us, and we shall be saved.
Let your hand be upon the human of your right hand,
upon the son of human whom you made strong for yourself.
So we will not withdraw from you;
Enliven us and we will call upon your name.
R. Turn us back, O God, and cause your face to shine on us, and we shall be saved.
Reading 2 – 1 Corinthians 1.3-9
Brothers and sisters:
Grace to you and peace,
from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
I give thanks to my God always concerning you,
for the grace of God given to you in Christ Jesus,
that in everything you are enriched in him,
in all speech and all knowledge.
Just as the martyrdom of Christ was established in you.
Therefore you are not lacking in any gift,
awaiting the revelation of our Lord Jesus Christ,
who will also establish you until the end,
blameless on the day of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Faithful is the God through whom you were called into
fellowship with his Son Jesus Christ our Lord.
Gospel – Mark 13.33-37
Jesus said to his disciples:
“Look out! Stay awake!
For you do not know
when it is the time.
It is like a human going on a journey,
leaving their house
and giving authority to their servants,
to each their own work
and a command to the doorman
that they would stay awake.
Therefore, stay awake.
For you do not know
when the master of the house will come
Whether late or at midnight
or when the rooster crows
or in the morning.
Lest he come suddenly
and find you sleeping.
What I say to you, I say to all:
‘Stay awake!’”
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