Monday of the Second Week in Lent

Official Translation

Reading 1 – Daniel 9.4b-10

O Lord, great and awesome God,
who keep your covenant and loving kindness
toward those who love you and keep your commandments:
We have sinned,and have dealt perversely,
and have done wickedly, and have rebelled,
even turning aside from your precepts and from your ordinances;
we have not listened to your servants the prophets,
who spoke in your name to our kings, our princes, and our fathers,
and to all the people of the land.

Lord, righteousness belongs to you,
but to us confusion of face, as on this day;
we men of Judah, and inhabitants of Jerusalem,
and all Israel, who are near, and who are far off,
through all the countries where you have driven them,
because of their trespass that they have trespassed against you.

Lord, to us belongs confusion of face,
to our kings, to our princes, and to our fathers,
because we have sinned against you.
To the Lord our God belong mercies and forgiveness;
for we have rebelled against him,
and have not obeyed the voice of the Lord our God,
to walk in your laws,
which you set before us by you servants the prophets.

Responsorial – Psalm 79.8, 9, 11+13 R. 103:10a

R. Lord, do not deal with us according to our sins.

Do not hold the iniquities of our forefathers against us.
Let your tender mercies speedily meet us,
for we are in desperate need.

R. Lord, do not deal with us according to our sins.

Help us, God of our salvation,
for the glory of your name.
Deliver us, and forgive our sins,
for your name’s sake.

R. Lord, do not deal with us according to our sins.

Let the sighing of the prisoner come before you.
According to the greatness of your power, preserve those who are sentenced to death.
So we, your people and sheep of your pasture,
will give you thanks forever.
We will praise you forever, to all generations.

R. Lord, do not deal with us according to our sins.


Gospel – Luke 6.36-38

Jesus said to his disciples:
“Be merciful, even as your Father is also merciful.
Do not judge, and you will not be judged.
Do not condemn, and you will not be condemned.
Release, and you will be released.
Give, and it will be given to you:
good measure, pressed down, shaken together, and running over,
will be given to you.
For with the same measure you measure, will it be measured back to you.”

Monday of the Second Week in Lent

Official Translation

Reading 1 – Daniel 9.4b-10

O Lord, great and awesome God,
who keep your covenant and loving kindness
toward those who love you
and keep your commandments:
We have sinned,
and have dealt perversely,
and have done wickedly,
and have rebelled,
even turning aside
from your precepts and from your ordinances;
we have not listened
to your servants the prophets,
who spoke in your name
to our kings, our princes, and our fathers,
and to all the people of the land.

Lord, righteousness belongs to you,
but to us confusion of face, as on this day;
we men of Judah,
and inhabitants of Jerusalem,
and all Israel, who are near,
and who are far off,
through all the countries
where you have driven them,
because of their trespass
that they have trespassed against you.

Lord, to us belongs confusion of face,
to our kings, to our princes, and to our fathers,
because we have sinned against you.
To the Lord our God belong
mercies and forgiveness;
for we have rebelled against him,
and have not obeyed the voice
of the Lord our God,
to walk in your laws,
which you set before us
by you servants the prophets.

Responsorial – Psalm 79.8, 9, 11+13 R. 103:10a

R. Lord, do not deal with us according to our sins.

Do not hold the iniquities of our forefathers against us.
Let your tender mercies speedily meet us,
for we are in desperate need.

R. Lord, do not deal with us according to our sins.

Help us, God of our salvation,
for the glory of your name.
Deliver us, and forgive our sins,
for your name’s sake.

R. Lord, do not deal with us according to our sins.

Let the sighing of the prisoner come before you.
According to the greatness of your power, preserve those who are sentenced to death.
So we, your people and sheep of your pasture,
will give you thanks forever.
We will praise you forever, to all generations.

R. Lord, do not deal with us according to our sins.


Gospel – Luke 6.36-38

Jesus said to his disciples:
“Be merciful,
even as your Father is also merciful.
Do not judge,
and you will not be judged.
Do not condemn,
and you will not be condemned.
Release, and you will be released.
Give, and it will be given to you:
good measure, pressed down,
shaken together, and running over,
will be given to you.
For with the same measure you measure,
will it be measured back to you.”

Thursday of the Twenty-third Week in Ordinary Time (II)

Official Translation

Reading 1 – 1 Corinthians 8.1b-7, 11-13

Brothers and sisters:
Knowledge puffs up, but love builds up.
But if anyone thinks that they knows anything,
they do not yet know as they ought to know.
But if anyone loves God, he is known by them.

Therefore concerning the eating of things sacrificed to idols:
we know that no idol is anything in the world,
and that there is no other God but one.
For though there are things that are called “gods”,
whether in the heavens or on earth
(there are many “gods” and many “lords”),
yet to us there is one God: the Father,
of whom all things are, and for whom we are;
and one Lord, Jesus Christ,
through whom are all things, and through whom we are.

However, this knowledge is not in all,
but some, through association with the idol until now,
eat as of a thing sacrificed to an idol,
and their conscience, being weak, is defiled.

Thus, through your knowledge, someone who is weak perishes,
a brother for whose sake Christ died.
Thus, sinning against the brothers,
and wounding their conscience when it is weak,
you sin against Christ.
Therefore if food causes my brother to stumble,
I will not eat meat in this age,
lest I cause my brother to stumble.

Responsorial – Psalm 139.1b-3, 13-14ab, 23-24 Resp. 24b

R. Lead me, Lord, in the eternal way.

O Lord, you have searched me and known me;
you know my sitting down and my rising up.
You understood my thoughts from afar;
my resting and my rising you have searched out.
And you have understood all my ways.

R. Lead me, Lord, in the eternal way.

For you formed my inmost being.
You knit me together in my mother’s womb.
I will give thanks to you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made.
Your works are wonderful.

R. Lead me, Lord, in the eternal way.

Search me, God, and know my heart.
Try me, and know my thoughts.
See if there is any wicked way in me,
and lead me in the eternal way.

R. Lead me, Lord, in the eternal way.

Gospel – Luke 6.27-38

Jesus said to his disciples:
“I tell you who hear: love your enemies, do good to those who hate you,
bless those who curse you, and pray for those who mistreat you.
To the one who strikes you on the cheek, offer also the other;
and from the one who takes away your cloak, do not withhold your coat as well.
Give to everyone who asks of you,
and from the one who takes your stuff, do not demand it back.

As you would like humans to do to you, do exactly the same to them.
If you love those who love you, what credit is that to you?
For even sinners love those who love them.
If you do good to those who do good to you, what credit is that to you?
For even sinners do the same.
If you lend to those from whom you hope to receive, what credit is that to you?
Even sinners lend to sinners, to receive back as much.
But love your enemies, and do good,
and lend, expecting nothing back,
and your reward will be great, and you will be children of the Most High;
for he is kind toward the ungrateful and evil.
Be merciful, even as your Father is merciful.

Judge not and you will not be judged.
Condemn not, and you will not be condemned.
Release, and you will be released.
Give, and it will be given to you:
good measure, pressed down, shaken together, and running over,
will be given to you.
For with the same measure you measure, will it be measured back to you.”

Wednesday of the Twenty-third Week in Ordinary Time (II)

Official Translation

Reading 1 – 1 Corinthians 7.25-31

Brothers and sisters:
Concerning virgins, I have no commandment from the Lord,
but I give my judgment as one who is, by the Lord’s mercy, trustworthy.
I think that it is good therefore, because of the distress that is on us,
that it is good for a human to be as they are.
Are you bound to a wife? Do not seek to be freed.
Are you free from a wife? Do not seek a wife.
But if you marry, you have not sinned.
If a virgin marries, she has not sinned.
Yet such will have oppression in the flesh, and I want to spare you.

I say this, brothers and sisters: the time is short.
From now on, those who have wives should be as though they had none;
and those who weep, as though they do not weep;
and those who rejoice, as though they do not rejoice;
and those who buy, as though they do not possess;
and those who use the world, as not using it to the fullest.
For the form of this world passes away.

Responsorial – Psalm 45.11-12, 14-15, 16-17 Resp. 11

R. Listen, daughter; consider and turn your ear.

Listen, daughter; consider and turn your ear.
Forget your own people and your father’s house.
So will the king desire your beauty,
honor him, for he is your lord.

R. Listen, daughter; consider and turn your ear.

The princess enters entirely glorious.
Her clothing is interwoven with gold.
She shall be led to the king in embroidered work.
The virgins, her companions who follow her, shall be brought to you.

R. Listen, daughter; consider and turn your ear.

With gladness and rejoicing they shall be led.
They shall enter into the king’s palace.
Your sons will take the place of your fathers.
You shall make them princes over all the earth.

R. Listen, daughter; consider and turn your ear.

Gospel – Luke 6.20-26

Jesus lifted up his eyes to his disciples, and said,
“Blessed are you who are poor; the Kingdom of God is yours.
Blessed are you who hunger now, for you will be filled.
Blessed are you who weep now, for you will laugh.
Blessed are you when men hate you,
and when they exclude and mock you,
and throw out your name as evil,
for the sake of the Son of Human.
Rejoice on that day, and leap for joy,
for behold, your reward is great in heaven,
for their fathers did the same thing to the prophets.

But woe to you who are rich, for you have received your consolation.
Woe to you, you who are full now, for you will be hungry.
Woe to you who laugh now, for you will mourn and weep.
Woe to you, when humans speak well of you,
for their fathers did the same thing to the false prophets.

Tuesday of the Twenty-third Week in Ordinary Time (II)

Official Translation

Reading 1 – 1 Corinthians 6:1-11

Brothers and Sisters:
How do any of you, having a case against their neighbor,
dare to go to law before the unrighteous, and not before the saints?
Do you not know that the saints will judge the world?
If the world is judged by you,
are you unworthy to judge the smallest matters?
Do you not know that we will judge angels?
How much more, things that pertain to this life?
If then, you have to judge things pertaining to this life,
do you seat judges who are of no account in the Church?
I say this to shame you.
Is there not even someone wise among you
who would be able to decide between their brothers?
Instead brother goes to law with brother, and that before unbelievers!
Therefore it is already altogether a defect in you,
that you have lawsuits one with another.
Why not rather be wronged? Why not rather be defrauded?
No, but you yourselves do wrong, and defraud,
and that against your brothers.
Do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the Kingdom of God?
Do not be deceived. Neither the perverse, nor idolaters, nor adulterers,
nor male prostitutes, nor homosexuals, nor thieves, nor the greedy,
nor drunkards, nor slanderers, nor swindlers,
will inherit the Kingdom of God.
Such were some of you,
but you were washed; you were sanctified; you were justified
in the name of the Lord Jesus, and in the Spirit of our God.

Responsorial – Psalm 149.1b-2,3-4,5-6a+9b Resp. 4

R. For the Lord takes pleasure in his people.

Sing to the Lord a new song,
his praise in the assembly of the saints.
Let Israel rejoice in him who made them.
Let the children of Zion be joyful in their King.

R. For the Lord takes pleasure in his people.

Let them praise his name in the dance!
Let them sing praises to him with tambourine and harp!
For the Lord takes pleasure in his people.
He crowns the humble with salvation.

R. For the Lord takes pleasure in his people.

Let the saints rejoice in honor.
Let them sing for joy on their beds.
May the high praises of God be in their mouths.
All his saints have this honor. Alleluia.

R. For the Lord takes pleasure in his people.

Gospel – Luke 6.12-19

Jesus went up the mountain to pray,
and he continued all night in prayer to God.
When it was day, he called his disciples,
and from them he chose twelve, whom he also named apostles:
Simon, whom he also named Peter; Andrew, his brother;
James; John; Philip; Bartholomew; Matthew;
Thomas; James, the son of Alphaeus;
Simon, who was called the Zealot; Judas the son of James;
and Judas Iscariot, who became a traitor.

He came down with them, and stood on a level place,
with a crowd of his disciples, and a great number of the people
from all Judea and Jerusalem, and the sea coast of Tyre and Sidon,
who came to hear him and to be healed of their diseases;
and those who were troubled by unclean spirits were being healed.
All the crowd sought to touch him,
for power came out of him and healed them all.

Monday of the Twenty-third Week in Ordinary Time (II)

Official Translation

Reading 1 – 1 Corinthians 5.1-8

Brothers and sisters:
It is actually reported that there is perversion among you,
and such perversion as is not even tolerated among the Gentiles:
someone has taken his father’s wife.
You are puffed up. Should you not rather mourn?
He who had done this deed shall be removed from among you.

For I most certainly, as being absent in body but present in spirit,
have already, as though I were present, judged him who has done this thing.
In the name of our Lord Jesus Christ,
you being gathered together, and my spirit,
with the power of our Lord Jesus Christ,
are to deliver such a one to Satan for the destruction of the flesh,
that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus.
Your boasting is not good.
Do you not know that a little yeast leavens the whole loaf?
Purge out the old yeast, that you may be a new loaf,
since you are unleavened.

For indeed Christ, our Passover, has been sacrificed.
Therefore let us keep the feast,
not with old yeast, the yeast of malice and wickedness,
but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.

Responsorial – Psalm 5.5-6, 7, 12 Resp. 9

R. Lead me, Lord, in your righteousness.

For you are not a God who has pleasure in wickedness.
Evil cannot coexist with you.
The arrogant shall not stand in your sight.
You hate all workers of iniquity.

R. Lead me, Lord, in your righteousness.

You will destroy those who speak lies.
The bloodthirsty and deceitful man
is abhorred by the Lord.

R. Lead me, Lord, in your righteousness.

But let all those who take refuge in you
rejoice, let them always shout for joy,
because you defend them.
Let those who love your name be joyful in you.

R. Lead me, Lord, in your righteousness.

Gospel – Luke 6.6-11

On another Sabbath, Jesus entered into the synagogue and taught.
There was a man there, and his right hand was withered.
The scribes and the Pharisees watched him,
to see whether he would heal on the Sabbath,
that they might find an accusation against him.
But he knew their thoughts,
and he said to the man who had the withered hand,
“Rise up, and stand in the center.” He arose and stood.

Then Jesus said to them, “I ask you something:
Is it lawful on the Sabbath to do good, or to do harm?
To save a life, or to kill?”
He looked around at them all,
and said to the man, “Stretch out your hand.”
He did, and his hand was restored as sound as the other.
But they were filled with rage
and spoke with one another about what they might do to Jesus.

Monday in the Second Week in Lent

Official Translation

Reading 1 – Daniel 9.4b-10

O Lord, great and awesome God,
who keep your covenant and loving kindness
toward those who love you
and keep your commandments:
We have sinned,
and have dealt perversely,
and have done wickedly,
and have rebelled,
even turning aside
from your precepts and from your ordinances;
we have not listened
to your servants the prophets,
who spoke in your name
to our kings, our princes, and our fathers,
and to all the people of the land.

Lord, righteousness belongs to you,
but to us confusion of face, as on this day;
we men of Judah,
and inhabitants of Jerusalem,
and all Israel, who are near,
and who are far off,
through all the countries
where you have driven them,
because of their trespass
that they have trespassed against you.

Lord, to us belongs confusion of face,
to our kings, to our princes, and to our fathers,
because we have sinned against you.
To the Lord our God belong
mercies and forgiveness;
for we have rebelled against him,
and have not obeyed the voice
of the Lord our God,
to walk in your laws,
which you set before us
by you servants the prophets.

Responsorial – Psalm 79.8, 9, 11+13 R. 103:10a

R. Lord, do not deal with us according to our sins.

Do not hold the iniquities of our forefathers against us.
Let your tender mercies speedily meet us,
for we are in desperate need.

R. Lord, do not deal with us according to our sins.

Help us, God of our salvation,
for the glory of your name.
Deliver us, and forgive our sins,
for your name’s sake.

R. Lord, do not deal with us according to our sins.

Let the sighing of the prisoner come before you.
According to the greatness of your power, preserve those who are sentenced to death.
So we, your people and sheep of your pasture,
will give you thanks forever.
We will praise you forever, to all generations.

R. Lord, do not deal with us according to our sins.


Gospel – Luke 6.36-38

Jesus said to his disciples:
“Be merciful,
even as your Father is also merciful.
Do not judge,
and you will not be judged.
Do not condemn,
and you will not be condemned.
Release, and you will be released.
Give, and it will be given to you:
good measure, pressed down,
shaken together, and running over,
will be given to you.
For with the same measure you measure,
will it be measured back to you.”