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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Tuesday of the Second Week in Lent
Official Translation
Reading 1 - Isaiah 1.10, 16-20
Hear the word of the Lord, rulers of Sodom!
Listen to the law of our God, people of Gomorrah!
Wash yourselves, make yourself clean.
Put away the evil of your doings from before my eyes.
Cease to do evil.
Learn to do good.
Seek justice.
Relieve the oppressed.
Judge the fatherless.
Plead for the widow.
“Come now, and let us reason together,” says the Lord,
“Though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow.
Though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.”
If you are willing and obedient,you shall eat the good things of the land;
but if you refuse and rebel, you shall be devoured with the sword;
for the mouth of the Lord has spoken it!
Responsorial – Psalm 50.8-9, 16bc-17, 21+23 Resp. 23b
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 male goats from your pens.
R. I will show God’s salvation to the just.
“What right do you have to declare my statutes,
and to have 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.
You have done these things, and I kept silent,
so you thought that I was just like you.
I will rebuke you, and accuse you before your own eyes.
Whoever offers the sacrifice of thanksgiving glorifies me,
and to him who rightly goes his way, I will show God’s salvation.”
R. I will show God’s salvation to the just.
Gospel – Matthew 23.1-12
Jesus spoke to the crowds and his disciples, saying:
“The scribes and the Pharisees have sat in the chair of Moses.
Therefore, observe and do all things whatsoever they say to you,
but do not act according to their works.
For they speak and do not act.
For they bind heavy and insupportable burdens
and lay them on the shoulders of humans:
but they do not wish to move them with their own finger.
They do all their works for the attention of humans.
For they make their phylacteries broad and enlarge their fringes.
And they love the first places at feasts and the first chairs in the synagogues,
and salutations in the marketplace, and to be called by humans, ‘Rabbi’.
But as for you, do not be called ‘Rabbi’.
For one is your teacher, and you are all brothers.
And do not call your father upon the earth,
For one is your Heavenly Father.
And do not be called masters: for your master is one: the Christ.
But the greatest of you, will be your servant.
Whoever exalts himself will be humbled,
and whoever humbles himself will be exalted.”
Reading 1 - Isaiah 1.10, 16-20
Hear the word of the Lord, rulers of Sodom!
Listen to the law of our God, people of Gomorrah!
Wash yourselves, make yourself clean.
Put away the evil of your doings from before my eyes.
Cease to do evil.
Learn to do good.
Seek justice.
Relieve the oppressed.
Judge the fatherless.
Plead for the widow.
“Come now, and let us reason together,” says the Lord,
“Though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow.
Though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.”
If you are willing and obedient,you shall eat the good things of the land;
but if you refuse and rebel, you shall be devoured with the sword;
for the mouth of the Lord has spoken it!
Responsorial – Psalm 50.8-9, 16bc-17, 21+23 Resp. 23b
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 male goats from your pens.
R. I will show God’s salvation to the just.
“What right do you have to declare my statutes,
and to have 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.
You have done these things, and I kept silent,
so you thought that I was just like you.
I will rebuke you, and accuse you before your own eyes.
Whoever offers the sacrifice of thanksgiving glorifies me,
and to him who rightly goes his way, I will show God’s salvation.”
R. I will show God’s salvation to the just.
Gospel – Matthew 23.1-12
Jesus spoke to the crowds and his disciples, saying:
“The scribes and the Pharisees have sat in the chair of Moses.
Therefore, observe and do all things whatsoever they say to you,
but do not act according to their works.
For they speak and do not act.
For they bind heavy and insupportable burdens
and lay them on the shoulders of humans:
but they do not wish to move them with their own finger.
They do all their works for the attention of humans.
For they make their phylacteries broad and enlarge their fringes.
And they love the first places at feasts and the first chairs in the synagogues,
and salutations in the marketplace, and to be called by humans, ‘Rabbi’.
But as for you, do not be called ‘Rabbi’.
For one is your teacher, and you are all brothers.
And do not call your father upon the earth,
For one is your Heavenly Father.
And do not be called masters: for your master is one: the Christ.
But the greatest of you, will be your servant.
Whoever exalts himself will be humbled,
and whoever humbles himself will be exalted.”
Monday of the Second Week in Ordinary Time (II)
Official Translation
Reading 1 – 1 Samuel 15.16-23
Then Samuel said to Saul,
“Stay, and I will tell you what the Lord
said to me last night.”
He said to him, “Go on.”
Samuel said, “Though little in your own sight,
were you not made the head of the tribes of Israel?
The Lord anointed you king over Israel;
and the Lord sent you on a journey, and said,
‘Go, and utterly destroy the sinning Amalekites,
and fight against them until they are destroyed.’
Why then did you not obey the voice of the Lord,
but took the plunder,
and did what was evil in the sight of the Lord?”
Saul said to Samuel,
“But I have obeyed the voice of the Lord,
and have gone the way which the Lord sent me,
and have brought Agag the king of Amalek,
and have utterly destroyed the Amalekites.
But the people took of the plunder,
sheep and cattle, the chief of the devoted things,
to sacrifice to the Lord your God in Gilgal.”
Samuel said, “Has the Lord as great delight
in burnt offerings and sacrifices,
as in obeying the voice of the Lord?
Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice,
and to listen than the fat of rams.
For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft,
and stubbornness is as idolatry.
Because you have rejected the Lord’s word,
he has also rejected you as king.”
Responsorial – Psalm 50.8-9, 16bc-17, 21+23 Resp. 23b
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 male goats from your pens.
R. I will show God’s salvation to the just.
“What right do you have to declare my statutes,
and to have 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.
You have done these things, and I kept silent,
so you thought that I was just like you.
I will rebuke you, and accuse you before your own eyes.
Whoever offers the sacrifice of thanksgiving glorifies me,
and to him who rightly goes his way, I will show God’s salvation .”
R. I will show God’s salvation to the just.
Gospel – Mark 2.18-22
John’s disciples and the Pharisees were fasting,
and they came and asked him,
“Why do John’s disciples
and the disciples of the Pharisees fast,
but your disciples do not fast?”
Jesus said to them,
“Can the groomsmen fast
while the bridegroom is with them?
As long as they have the bridegroom with them,
they cannot fast.
But the days will come when the bridegroom
will be taken away from them,
and then will they fast in that day.
No one sews a piece of unshrunken cloth
on an old garment, else the patch shrinks
and the new tears away from the old,
and a worse hole is made.
No one puts new wine into old wineskins,
or else the new wine will burst the skins,
and the wine and the skins will be destroyed;
so they put new wine into fresh wineskins.”
Reading 1 – 1 Samuel 15.16-23
Then Samuel said to Saul,
“Stay, and I will tell you what the Lord
said to me last night.”
He said to him, “Go on.”
Samuel said, “Though little in your own sight,
were you not made the head of the tribes of Israel?
The Lord anointed you king over Israel;
and the Lord sent you on a journey, and said,
‘Go, and utterly destroy the sinning Amalekites,
and fight against them until they are destroyed.’
Why then did you not obey the voice of the Lord,
but took the plunder,
and did what was evil in the sight of the Lord?”
Saul said to Samuel,
“But I have obeyed the voice of the Lord,
and have gone the way which the Lord sent me,
and have brought Agag the king of Amalek,
and have utterly destroyed the Amalekites.
But the people took of the plunder,
sheep and cattle, the chief of the devoted things,
to sacrifice to the Lord your God in Gilgal.”
Samuel said, “Has the Lord as great delight
in burnt offerings and sacrifices,
as in obeying the voice of the Lord?
Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice,
and to listen than the fat of rams.
For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft,
and stubbornness is as idolatry.
Because you have rejected the Lord’s word,
he has also rejected you as king.”
Responsorial – Psalm 50.8-9, 16bc-17, 21+23 Resp. 23b
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 male goats from your pens.
R. I will show God’s salvation to the just.
“What right do you have to declare my statutes,
and to have 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.
You have done these things, and I kept silent,
so you thought that I was just like you.
I will rebuke you, and accuse you before your own eyes.
Whoever offers the sacrifice of thanksgiving glorifies me,
and to him who rightly goes his way, I will show God’s salvation .”
R. I will show God’s salvation to the just.
Gospel – Mark 2.18-22
John’s disciples and the Pharisees were fasting,
and they came and asked him,
“Why do John’s disciples
and the disciples of the Pharisees fast,
but your disciples do not fast?”
Jesus said to them,
“Can the groomsmen fast
while the bridegroom is with them?
As long as they have the bridegroom with them,
they cannot fast.
But the days will come when the bridegroom
will be taken away from them,
and then will they fast in that day.
No one sews a piece of unshrunken cloth
on an old garment, else the patch shrinks
and the new tears away from the old,
and a worse hole is made.
No one puts new wine into old wineskins,
or else the new wine will burst the skins,
and the wine and the skins will be destroyed;
so they put new wine into fresh wineskins.”
Tuesday of the Second Week in Lent
Official Translation
Reading 1 - Isaiah 1.10, 16-20
Hear the word of the Lord,
rulers of Sodom!
Listen to the law of our God,
people of Gomorrah!
Wash yourselves,
make yourself clean.
Put away the evil of your doings
from before my eyes.
Cease to do evil.
Learn to do good.
Seek justice.
Relieve the oppressed.
Judge the fatherless.
Plead for the widow.
“Come now, and let us reason together,”
says the Lord,
“Though your sins be as scarlet,
they shall be as white as snow.
Though they be red like crimson,
they shall be as wool.”
If you are willing and obedient,
you shall eat the good things of the land;
but if you refuse and rebel,
you shall be devoured with the sword;
for the mouth of the Lord has spoken it!
Responsorial – Psalm 50.8-9, 16bc-17, 21+23 Resp. 23b
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 male goats from your pens.
R. I will show God’s salvation to the just.
“What right do you have to declare my statutes,
and to have 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.
You have done these things, and I kept silent,
so you thought that I was just like you.
I will rebuke you, and accuse you before your own eyes.
Whoever offers the sacrifice of thanksgiving glorifies me,
and to him who rightly goes his way, I will show God’s salvation .”
R. I will show God’s salvation to the just.
Gospel – Matthew 23.1-12
Jesus spoke to the crowds and his disciples, saying:
“The scribes and the Pharisees
have sat in the chair of Moses.
Therefore, observe and do all things whatsoever they say to you,
but do not act according to their works.
For they speak and do not act.
For they bind heavy and insupportable burdens
and lay them on the shoulders of humans:
but they do not wish to move them with their own finger.
They do all their works for the attention of humans.
For they make their phylacteries broad and enlarge their fringes.
And they love the first places at feasts and the first chairs in the synagogues,
and salutations in the marketplace, and to be called by humans, ‘Rabbi’.
But as for you, do not be called ‘Rabbi’.
For one is your teacher, and you are all brothers.
And do not call your father upon the earth,
For one is your Heavenly Father.
And do not be called masters: for your master is one: the Christ.
But the greatest of you, will be your servant.
Whoever exalts himself will be humbled,
and whoever humbles himself will be exalted.”
Reading 1 - Isaiah 1.10, 16-20
Hear the word of the Lord,
rulers of Sodom!
Listen to the law of our God,
people of Gomorrah!
Wash yourselves,
make yourself clean.
Put away the evil of your doings
from before my eyes.
Cease to do evil.
Learn to do good.
Seek justice.
Relieve the oppressed.
Judge the fatherless.
Plead for the widow.
“Come now, and let us reason together,”
says the Lord,
“Though your sins be as scarlet,
they shall be as white as snow.
Though they be red like crimson,
they shall be as wool.”
If you are willing and obedient,
you shall eat the good things of the land;
but if you refuse and rebel,
you shall be devoured with the sword;
for the mouth of the Lord has spoken it!
Responsorial – Psalm 50.8-9, 16bc-17, 21+23 Resp. 23b
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 male goats from your pens.
R. I will show God’s salvation to the just.
“What right do you have to declare my statutes,
and to have 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.
You have done these things, and I kept silent,
so you thought that I was just like you.
I will rebuke you, and accuse you before your own eyes.
Whoever offers the sacrifice of thanksgiving glorifies me,
and to him who rightly goes his way, I will show God’s salvation .”
R. I will show God’s salvation to the just.
Gospel – Matthew 23.1-12
Jesus spoke to the crowds and his disciples, saying:
“The scribes and the Pharisees
have sat in the chair of Moses.
Therefore, observe and do all things whatsoever they say to you,
but do not act according to their works.
For they speak and do not act.
For they bind heavy and insupportable burdens
and lay them on the shoulders of humans:
but they do not wish to move them with their own finger.
They do all their works for the attention of humans.
For they make their phylacteries broad and enlarge their fringes.
And they love the first places at feasts and the first chairs in the synagogues,
and salutations in the marketplace, and to be called by humans, ‘Rabbi’.
But as for you, do not be called ‘Rabbi’.
For one is your teacher, and you are all brothers.
And do not call your father upon the earth,
For one is your Heavenly Father.
And do not be called masters: for your master is one: the Christ.
But the greatest of you, will be your servant.
Whoever exalts himself will be humbled,
and whoever humbles himself will be exalted.”
Monday of the Sixteenth Week in Ordinary Time (II)
Official Translation
Reading 1 – Micah 6.1-4, 6-8
Listen now to what the Lord says:
“Arise, plead your case before the mountains,
and let the hills hear what you have to say.
Hear, you mountains, the Lord’s controversy,
and you enduring foundations of the earth;
for the Lord has a controversy with his people,
and he will contend with Israel.
My people, what have I done to you?
How have I burdened you?
Answer me!
For I brought you up out of the land of Egypt,
and redeemed you out of the house of bondage.
I sent before you Moses, Aaron, and Miriam.
How shall I come before the Lord,
and bow myself before the exalted God?
Shall I come before him with burnt offerings,
with calves a year old?
Will the Lord be pleased with thousands of rams?
With tens of thousands of rivers of oil?
Shall I give my firstborn for my disobedience?
The fruit of my body for the sin of my soul?
He has shown you, O man, what is good.
What does the Lord require of you,
but to act justly, to love mercy,
and to walk humbly with your God?
Responsorial – Psalm 50.5-6, 8-9, 16bc-17, 21+23 Resp. 23b
R. I will show God’s salvation to the just.
“Gather my saints together with me,
those who made a covenant with me by sacrifice.”
The heavens shall declare his righteousness,
for God himself is judge.
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 male goats from your pens.
R. I will show God’s salvation to the just.
“What right do you have to declare my statutes,
and to have 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.
You have done these things, and I kept silent,
so you thought that I was just like you.
I will rebuke you, and accuse you before your own eyes.
Whoever offers the sacrifice of thanksgiving glorifies me,
and to him who rightly goes his way, I will show God’s salvation .”
R. I will show God’s salvation to the just.
Gospel – Matthew 12.38-42
Then some of the scribes and Pharisees answered,
“Teacher, we want to see a sign from you.”
But he answered them,
“An evil and adulterous kind seeks after a sign,
but no sign will be given it
but the sign of Jonah the prophet.
For as Jonah was
three days and three nights
in the belly of the whale,
so will the Son of Man be
three days and three nights
in the heart of the earth.
The men of Nineveh will stand up
in the judgment with this kind,
and will condemn it,
for they repented at the preaching of Jonah;
and behold, someone greater than Jonah is here.
The queen of the south will rise up
in the judgment with this kind,
and will condemn it,
for she came from the ends of the earth
to hear the wisdom of Solomon,
and behold, someone greater than Solomon is here.”
Reading 1 – Micah 6.1-4, 6-8
Listen now to what the Lord says:
“Arise, plead your case before the mountains,
and let the hills hear what you have to say.
Hear, you mountains, the Lord’s controversy,
and you enduring foundations of the earth;
for the Lord has a controversy with his people,
and he will contend with Israel.
My people, what have I done to you?
How have I burdened you?
Answer me!
For I brought you up out of the land of Egypt,
and redeemed you out of the house of bondage.
I sent before you Moses, Aaron, and Miriam.
How shall I come before the Lord,
and bow myself before the exalted God?
Shall I come before him with burnt offerings,
with calves a year old?
Will the Lord be pleased with thousands of rams?
With tens of thousands of rivers of oil?
Shall I give my firstborn for my disobedience?
The fruit of my body for the sin of my soul?
He has shown you, O man, what is good.
What does the Lord require of you,
but to act justly, to love mercy,
and to walk humbly with your God?
Responsorial – Psalm 50.5-6, 8-9, 16bc-17, 21+23 Resp. 23b
R. I will show God’s salvation to the just.
“Gather my saints together with me,
those who made a covenant with me by sacrifice.”
The heavens shall declare his righteousness,
for God himself is judge.
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 male goats from your pens.
R. I will show God’s salvation to the just.
“What right do you have to declare my statutes,
and to have 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.
You have done these things, and I kept silent,
so you thought that I was just like you.
I will rebuke you, and accuse you before your own eyes.
Whoever offers the sacrifice of thanksgiving glorifies me,
and to him who rightly goes his way, I will show God’s salvation .”
R. I will show God’s salvation to the just.
Gospel – Matthew 12.38-42
Then some of the scribes and Pharisees answered,
“Teacher, we want to see a sign from you.”
But he answered them,
“An evil and adulterous kind seeks after a sign,
but no sign will be given it
but the sign of Jonah the prophet.
For as Jonah was
three days and three nights
in the belly of the whale,
so will the Son of Man be
three days and three nights
in the heart of the earth.
The men of Nineveh will stand up
in the judgment with this kind,
and will condemn it,
for they repented at the preaching of Jonah;
and behold, someone greater than Jonah is here.
The queen of the south will rise up
in the judgment with this kind,
and will condemn it,
for she came from the ends of the earth
to hear the wisdom of Solomon,
and behold, someone greater than Solomon is here.”
Monday of the Fifteenth Week in Ordinary Time (II)
Official Translation
Reading 1 – Isaiah 1.10-17
Hear the word of the Lord,
rulers of Sodom!
Listen to the law of our God,
people of Gomorrah!
“What are the multitude
of your sacrifices to me?”, says the Lord.
“I have had enough of the burnt offerings of rams,
and the fat of fed animals.
I do not delight in the blood
of bulls or lambs or male goats.
When you come to appear before me,
who has required this at your hand,
to trample my courts?
Bring no more vain offerings.
Incense is an abomination to me;
new moons, Sabbaths, and convocations:
I cannot bear with octaves of wickedness.
My soul hates your new moons
and your appointed feasts.
They are a burden to me.
I am weary of bearing them.
When you spread out your hands,
I will hide my eyes from you.
Yes, when you make many prayers,
I will not hear.
Your hands are full of blood.
Wash yourselves,
make yourself clean.
Put away the evil of your doings
from before my eyes.
Cease to do evil.
Learn to do good.
Seek justice.
Relieve the oppressed.
Judge the fatherless.
Plead for the widow.
Responsorial – Psalm 50.8-9, 16bc-17, 21+23 Resp. 23b
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 male goats from your pens.
R. I will show God’s salvation to the just.
“What right do you have to declare my statutes,
and to have 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.
You have done these things, and I kept silent,
so you thought that I was just like you.
I will rebuke you, and accuse you before your own eyes.
Whoever offers the sacrifice of thanksgiving glorifies me,
and to him who rightly goes his way, I will show God’s salvation .”
R. I will show God’s salvation to the just.
Gospel – Matthew 10.34-11.1
Jesus said to his Apostles:
“Do not think that I came to
bring peace on earth.
I did not come to bring peace
but a sword.
For I came to set
a human against their father,
and a daughter against her mother,
and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law.
The foes of a human
will be those of their own household.
The one who loves father or mother
more than me is not worthy of me;
and the one who loves son or daughter
more than me is not worthy of me.
The one who does not
take their cross and follow after me,
is not worthy of me.
He who seeks his life will lose it,
and he who loses his life for my sake, will find it.
Whoever receives you receives me,
Whoever receives me receives
him who sent me.
Whoever receives a prophet
because of the name of prophet
will receive a prophet’s reward.
Whoever receives a righteous man
because of the name of righteous man
will receive a righteous man’s reward.
Whoever gives one of these little ones
just a cup of cold water to drink
because of the name of disciple,
Amen I say to you,
they will in no way lose their reward.”
When Jesus had finished directing his Twelve disciples,
he departed from there to teach and preach in their cities.
Reading 1 – Isaiah 1.10-17
Hear the word of the Lord,
rulers of Sodom!
Listen to the law of our God,
people of Gomorrah!
“What are the multitude
of your sacrifices to me?”, says the Lord.
“I have had enough of the burnt offerings of rams,
and the fat of fed animals.
I do not delight in the blood
of bulls or lambs or male goats.
When you come to appear before me,
who has required this at your hand,
to trample my courts?
Bring no more vain offerings.
Incense is an abomination to me;
new moons, Sabbaths, and convocations:
I cannot bear with octaves of wickedness.
My soul hates your new moons
and your appointed feasts.
They are a burden to me.
I am weary of bearing them.
When you spread out your hands,
I will hide my eyes from you.
Yes, when you make many prayers,
I will not hear.
Your hands are full of blood.
Wash yourselves,
make yourself clean.
Put away the evil of your doings
from before my eyes.
Cease to do evil.
Learn to do good.
Seek justice.
Relieve the oppressed.
Judge the fatherless.
Plead for the widow.
Responsorial – Psalm 50.8-9, 16bc-17, 21+23 Resp. 23b
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 male goats from your pens.
R. I will show God’s salvation to the just.
“What right do you have to declare my statutes,
and to have 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.
You have done these things, and I kept silent,
so you thought that I was just like you.
I will rebuke you, and accuse you before your own eyes.
Whoever offers the sacrifice of thanksgiving glorifies me,
and to him who rightly goes his way, I will show God’s salvation .”
R. I will show God’s salvation to the just.
Gospel – Matthew 10.34-11.1
Jesus said to his Apostles:
“Do not think that I came to
bring peace on earth.
I did not come to bring peace
but a sword.
For I came to set
a human against their father,
and a daughter against her mother,
and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law.
The foes of a human
will be those of their own household.
The one who loves father or mother
more than me is not worthy of me;
and the one who loves son or daughter
more than me is not worthy of me.
The one who does not
take their cross and follow after me,
is not worthy of me.
He who seeks his life will lose it,
and he who loses his life for my sake, will find it.
Whoever receives you receives me,
Whoever receives me receives
him who sent me.
Whoever receives a prophet
because of the name of prophet
will receive a prophet’s reward.
Whoever receives a righteous man
because of the name of righteous man
will receive a righteous man’s reward.
Whoever gives one of these little ones
just a cup of cold water to drink
because of the name of disciple,
Amen I say to you,
they will in no way lose their reward.”
When Jesus had finished directing his Twelve disciples,
he departed from there to teach and preach in their cities.
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.
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.
Monday of the Thirteenth Week in Ordinary Time (II)
Official Translation
Reading 1 – Amos 2.6-10, 13-16
Thus says the Lord:
“For three transgressions of Israel, and for four,
I will not turn away its punishment;
because they have sold the righteous for silver,
and the needy for a pair of shoes;
They trample on the dust of the earth
on the head of the poor,
and deny justice to the oppressed;
and a man and his father
use the same prostitute,
profaning my holy name;
and they lay themselves down
beside every altar on clothes taken in pledge;
and in the house of their god
they drink the wine of those who have been fined.
Yet I destroyed the Amorites before them,
whose height was like the height of the cedars,
and as strong as the oaks;
yet I destroyed his fruit from above,
and his roots from beneath.
Also I brought you up out of the land of Egypt,
and led you forty years in the desert,
to possess the land of the Amorites.
Behold, I will crush you in your place,
as a cart full of grain crushes.
Flight will perish from the swift;
and the strong will not strengthen his force;
nor shall the mighty deliver himself;
nor shall he stand who handles the bow;
and he who is swift of foot will not escape;
nor shall he who rides the horse deliver himself;
and he who is courageous among the mighty
will flee away naked on that day,”
says the Lord.
Responsorial – Psalm 50.16bc-17, 18-19, 20-21, 22-23 Resp. 22a
R. Consider this, you who forget God.
“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. Consider this, you who forget God.
When you saw a thief, you consented with him,
and have participated with adulterers.
You give your mouth to evil.
Your tongue frames deceit.
R. Consider this, you who forget God.
You sit and speak against your brother.
You slander your own mother’s son.
You have done these things. Shall I keep silent?
Do you think that I am like you?
I will rebuke you, and accuse you in front of your eyes.
R. Consider this, you who forget God.
Now consider this, you who forget God,
lest I tear you into pieces, and there be no one to deliver.
Whoever offers the sacrifice of thanksgiving glorifies me,
and prepares his way so that I will show God’s salvation to him.
R. Consider this, you who forget God.
Gospel - Matthew 8.18-22
When Jesus saw a great crowd around him,
he gave the order to depart to the other side.
A scribe came, and said to him,
“Teacher, I will follow you wherever you go.”
Jesus said to him,
“The foxes have holes
and the birds of the sky have nests
but the Son of Man has nowhere to lay his head.”
Another of his disciples said to him,
“Lord, allow me first to go and bury my father.”
But Jesus said to him, “Follow me,
and leave the dead to bury their dead.”
Reading 1 – Amos 2.6-10, 13-16
Thus says the Lord:
“For three transgressions of Israel, and for four,
I will not turn away its punishment;
because they have sold the righteous for silver,
and the needy for a pair of shoes;
They trample on the dust of the earth
on the head of the poor,
and deny justice to the oppressed;
and a man and his father
use the same prostitute,
profaning my holy name;
and they lay themselves down
beside every altar on clothes taken in pledge;
and in the house of their god
they drink the wine of those who have been fined.
Yet I destroyed the Amorites before them,
whose height was like the height of the cedars,
and as strong as the oaks;
yet I destroyed his fruit from above,
and his roots from beneath.
Also I brought you up out of the land of Egypt,
and led you forty years in the desert,
to possess the land of the Amorites.
Behold, I will crush you in your place,
as a cart full of grain crushes.
Flight will perish from the swift;
and the strong will not strengthen his force;
nor shall the mighty deliver himself;
nor shall he stand who handles the bow;
and he who is swift of foot will not escape;
nor shall he who rides the horse deliver himself;
and he who is courageous among the mighty
will flee away naked on that day,”
says the Lord.
Responsorial – Psalm 50.16bc-17, 18-19, 20-21, 22-23 Resp. 22a
R. Consider this, you who forget God.
“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. Consider this, you who forget God.
When you saw a thief, you consented with him,
and have participated with adulterers.
You give your mouth to evil.
Your tongue frames deceit.
R. Consider this, you who forget God.
You sit and speak against your brother.
You slander your own mother’s son.
You have done these things. Shall I keep silent?
Do you think that I am like you?
I will rebuke you, and accuse you in front of your eyes.
R. Consider this, you who forget God.
Now consider this, you who forget God,
lest I tear you into pieces, and there be no one to deliver.
Whoever offers the sacrifice of thanksgiving glorifies me,
and prepares his way so that I will show God’s salvation to him.
R. Consider this, you who forget God.
Gospel - Matthew 8.18-22
When Jesus saw a great crowd around him,
he gave the order to depart to the other side.
A scribe came, and said to him,
“Teacher, I will follow you wherever you go.”
Jesus said to him,
“The foxes have holes
and the birds of the sky have nests
but the Son of Man has nowhere to lay his head.”
Another of his disciples said to him,
“Lord, allow me first to go and bury my father.”
But Jesus said to him, “Follow me,
and leave the dead to bury their dead.”
Tuesday of the Second Week in Lent
Official Translation
Reading 1 - Isaiah 1.10, 16-20
Hear the word of the Lord,
rulers of Sodom!
Listen to the law of our God,
people of Gomorrah!
Wash yourselves,
make yourself clean.
Put away the evil of your doings
from before my eyes.
Cease to do evil.
Learn to do good.
Seek justice.
Relieve the oppressed.
Judge the fatherless.
Plead for the widow.
“Come now, and let us reason together,”
says the Lord,
“Though your sins be as scarlet,
they shall be as white as snow.
Though they be red like crimson,
they shall be as wool.”
If you are willing and obedient,
you shall eat the good things of the land;
but if you refuse and rebel,
you shall be devoured with the sword;
for the mouth of the Lord has spoken it!
Responsorial – Psalm 50.8-9, 16bc-17, 21+23 Resp. 23b
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 male goats from your pens.
R. I will show God’s salvation to the just.
“What right do you have to declare my statutes,
and to have 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.
You have done these things, and I kept silent,
so you thought that I was just like you.
I will rebuke you, and accuse you before your own eyes.
Whoever offers the sacrifice of thanksgiving glorifies me,
and to him who rightly goes his way, I will show God’s salvation .”
R. I will show God’s salvation to the just.
Gospel – Matthew 23.1-12
Jesus spoke to the crowds and his disciples, saying:
“The scribes and the Pharisees
have sat in the chair of Moses.
Therefore, observe and do all things whatsoever they say to you,
but do not act according to their works.
For they speak and do not act.
For they bind heavy and insupportable burdens
and lay them on the shoulders of humans:
but they do not wish to move them with their own finger.
They do all their works for the attention of humans.
For they make their phylacteries broad and enlarge their fringes.
And they love the first places at feasts and the first chairs in the synagogues,
and salutations in the marketplace, and to be called by humans, ‘Rabbi’.
But as for you, do not be called ‘Rabbi’.
For one is your teacher, and you are all brothers.
And do not call your father upon the earth,
For one is your Heavenly Father.
And do not be called masters: for your master is one: the Christ.
But the greatest of you, will be your servant.
Whoever exalts himself will be humbled,
and whoever humbles himself will be exalted.”
Reading 1 - Isaiah 1.10, 16-20
Hear the word of the Lord,
rulers of Sodom!
Listen to the law of our God,
people of Gomorrah!
Wash yourselves,
make yourself clean.
Put away the evil of your doings
from before my eyes.
Cease to do evil.
Learn to do good.
Seek justice.
Relieve the oppressed.
Judge the fatherless.
Plead for the widow.
“Come now, and let us reason together,”
says the Lord,
“Though your sins be as scarlet,
they shall be as white as snow.
Though they be red like crimson,
they shall be as wool.”
If you are willing and obedient,
you shall eat the good things of the land;
but if you refuse and rebel,
you shall be devoured with the sword;
for the mouth of the Lord has spoken it!
Responsorial – Psalm 50.8-9, 16bc-17, 21+23 Resp. 23b
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 male goats from your pens.
R. I will show God’s salvation to the just.
“What right do you have to declare my statutes,
and to have 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.
You have done these things, and I kept silent,
so you thought that I was just like you.
I will rebuke you, and accuse you before your own eyes.
Whoever offers the sacrifice of thanksgiving glorifies me,
and to him who rightly goes his way, I will show God’s salvation .”
R. I will show God’s salvation to the just.
Gospel – Matthew 23.1-12
Jesus spoke to the crowds and his disciples, saying:
“The scribes and the Pharisees
have sat in the chair of Moses.
Therefore, observe and do all things whatsoever they say to you,
but do not act according to their works.
For they speak and do not act.
For they bind heavy and insupportable burdens
and lay them on the shoulders of humans:
but they do not wish to move them with their own finger.
They do all their works for the attention of humans.
For they make their phylacteries broad and enlarge their fringes.
And they love the first places at feasts and the first chairs in the synagogues,
and salutations in the marketplace, and to be called by humans, ‘Rabbi’.
But as for you, do not be called ‘Rabbi’.
For one is your teacher, and you are all brothers.
And do not call your father upon the earth,
For one is your Heavenly Father.
And do not be called masters: for your master is one: the Christ.
But the greatest of you, will be your servant.
Whoever exalts himself will be humbled,
and whoever humbles himself will be exalted.”
Monday of the Second Week in Ordinary Time (II)
Official Translation
Reading 1 – 1 Samuel 15.16-23
Then Samuel said to Saul,
“Stay, and I will tell you what the Lord
said to me last night.”
He said to him, “Go on.”
Samuel said, “Though little in your own sight,
were you not made the head of the tribes of Israel?
The Lord anointed you king over Israel;
and the Lord sent you on a journey, and said,
‘Go, and utterly destroy the sinning Amalekites,
and fight against them until they are destroyed.’
Why then did you not obey the voice of the Lord,
but took the plunder,
and did what was evil in the sight of the Lord?”
Saul said to Samuel,
“But I have obeyed the voice of the Lord,
and have gone the way which the Lord sent me,
and have brought Agag the king of Amalek,
and have utterly destroyed the Amalekites.
But the people took of the plunder,
sheep and cattle, the chief of the devoted things,
to sacrifice to the Lord your God in Gilgal.”
Samuel said, “Has the Lord as great delight
in burnt offerings and sacrifices,
as in obeying the voice of the Lord?
Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice,
and to listen than the fat of rams.
For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft,
and stubbornness is as idolatry.
Because you have rejected the Lord’s word,
he has also rejected you as king.”
Responsorial – Psalm 50.8-9, 16bc-17, 21+23 Resp. 23b
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 male goats from your pens.
R. I will show God’s salvation to the just.
“What right do you have to declare my statutes,
and to have 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.
You have done these things, and I kept silent,
so you thought that I was just like you.
I will rebuke you, and accuse you before your own eyes.
Whoever offers the sacrifice of thanksgiving glorifies me,
and to him who rightly goes his way, I will show God’s salvation .”
R. I will show God’s salvation to the just.
Gospel – Mark 2.18-22
John’s disciples and the Pharisees were fasting,
and they came and asked him,
“Why do John’s disciples
and the disciples of the Pharisees fast,
but your disciples do not fast?”
Jesus said to them,
“Can the groomsmen fast
while the bridegroom is with them?
As long as they have the bridegroom with them,
they cannot fast.
But the days will come when the bridegroom
will be taken away from them,
and then will they fast in that day.
No one sews a piece of unshrunken cloth
on an old garment, else the patch shrinks
and the new tears away from the old,
and a worse hole is made.
No one puts new wine into old wineskins,
or else the new wine will burst the skins,
and the wine and the skins will be destroyed;
so they put new wine into fresh wineskins.”
Reading 1 – 1 Samuel 15.16-23
Then Samuel said to Saul,
“Stay, and I will tell you what the Lord
said to me last night.”
He said to him, “Go on.”
Samuel said, “Though little in your own sight,
were you not made the head of the tribes of Israel?
The Lord anointed you king over Israel;
and the Lord sent you on a journey, and said,
‘Go, and utterly destroy the sinning Amalekites,
and fight against them until they are destroyed.’
Why then did you not obey the voice of the Lord,
but took the plunder,
and did what was evil in the sight of the Lord?”
Saul said to Samuel,
“But I have obeyed the voice of the Lord,
and have gone the way which the Lord sent me,
and have brought Agag the king of Amalek,
and have utterly destroyed the Amalekites.
But the people took of the plunder,
sheep and cattle, the chief of the devoted things,
to sacrifice to the Lord your God in Gilgal.”
Samuel said, “Has the Lord as great delight
in burnt offerings and sacrifices,
as in obeying the voice of the Lord?
Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice,
and to listen than the fat of rams.
For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft,
and stubbornness is as idolatry.
Because you have rejected the Lord’s word,
he has also rejected you as king.”
Responsorial – Psalm 50.8-9, 16bc-17, 21+23 Resp. 23b
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 male goats from your pens.
R. I will show God’s salvation to the just.
“What right do you have to declare my statutes,
and to have 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.
You have done these things, and I kept silent,
so you thought that I was just like you.
I will rebuke you, and accuse you before your own eyes.
Whoever offers the sacrifice of thanksgiving glorifies me,
and to him who rightly goes his way, I will show God’s salvation .”
R. I will show God’s salvation to the just.
Gospel – Mark 2.18-22
John’s disciples and the Pharisees were fasting,
and they came and asked him,
“Why do John’s disciples
and the disciples of the Pharisees fast,
but your disciples do not fast?”
Jesus said to them,
“Can the groomsmen fast
while the bridegroom is with them?
As long as they have the bridegroom with them,
they cannot fast.
But the days will come when the bridegroom
will be taken away from them,
and then will they fast in that day.
No one sews a piece of unshrunken cloth
on an old garment, else the patch shrinks
and the new tears away from the old,
and a worse hole is made.
No one puts new wine into old wineskins,
or else the new wine will burst the skins,
and the wine and the skins will be destroyed;
so they put new wine into fresh wineskins.”
Thursday of the Thirty-Third Week in Ordinary Time (I)
Official Translation
Reading 1 – 1 Maccabees 2.15-29
He who was sent by King Antiochus came to the city of Modin,
to compel those who had fled there
to sacrifice and burn incense and depart from the law of God.
Many of the people of Israel consented and joined them,
but Mattathias and his sons stood firm.
He who was sent by Antiochus, answering, said to Mattathias,
“You are a ruler, an honorable and great man in this city,
and adorned with sons and kin.”
Therefore be the first to obey the king's commandment,
as all nations have done,
and even the men of Judah and those who remain in Jerusalem,
and you and your sons shall be numbered among the king's Friends,
and enriched with gold, silver, and many presents.
Then Mattathias answered and said with a loud voice:
“Though all the nations obey King Antiochus and every man
depart from the service of the law of his fathers
and consent to these commandments,
I, my sons, and my kin will obey the law of our fathers.
Will it benefit us to forsake the law and right-living?
We will not hearken to the words of King Antiochus,
to sidestep our worship to the right or to the left.”
Now as he finished speaking these words,
a certain Jew came forward in the sight of all
to sacrifice to the idols upon the altar in the city of Modin,
according to the king's commandment.
Mattathias saw this and was grieved.
His restraint trembled, and his wrath was kindled,
according to the judgment of the law.
Running to him, he slayed him at the altar.
At the same time he slayed he who was sent by King Antiochus,
who had compelled them to sacrifice,
and he pulled down the altar.
He showed zeal for the law,
as Phinehas did concerning Zamri the son of Salu.
Then Mattathias cried out in the city with a loud voice, saying:
“Everyone who has zeal for the law and maintains the covenant,
let them follow me.”
So he and his sons fled into the mountains,
leaving all that they had in the city.
Then many who sought judgment and justice went into the wilderness.
Responsorial – Psalm 50.1b-2, 5-6, 14-15 Resp. Psalm 50.23b
R. To the one who orders their life aright, I will show the salvation of God.
The mighty God, the LORD, has spoken and summoned the earth
from the rising of the sun to the going down thereof.
Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty,
God has shined.
R. To the one who orders their life aright, I will show the salvation of God.
“Gather my saints together with me,
those who made a covenant with me by sacrifice.”
The heavens shall declare his righteousness,
for God himself is judge.
R. To the one who orders their life aright, I will show the salvation of God.
Offer to God the eucharistic sacrifice [the sacrifice of thanksgiving]
and pay your vows to the Most High.
“Call upon me in the day of trouble
I will deliver you and you will glorify me.”
R. To the one who orders their life aright, I will show the salvation of God.
Gospel – Luke 19.41-44
As Jesus approached Jerusalem,
he beheld the city and wept over it saying,
“If you had known this day and what was for your peace!
But now they are hid from your eyes.
For the days shall come upon you,
when those who you hate shall entrench against you
and surround you and besiege you at every side,
and flatten you and your children within you
and they shall not leave a stone upon a stone within you –
for this reason: you did not know the time of your visitation.
Reading 1 – 1 Maccabees 2.15-29
He who was sent by King Antiochus came to the city of Modin,
to compel those who had fled there
to sacrifice and burn incense and depart from the law of God.
Many of the people of Israel consented and joined them,
but Mattathias and his sons stood firm.
He who was sent by Antiochus, answering, said to Mattathias,
“You are a ruler, an honorable and great man in this city,
and adorned with sons and kin.”
Therefore be the first to obey the king's commandment,
as all nations have done,
and even the men of Judah and those who remain in Jerusalem,
and you and your sons shall be numbered among the king's Friends,
and enriched with gold, silver, and many presents.
Then Mattathias answered and said with a loud voice:
“Though all the nations obey King Antiochus and every man
depart from the service of the law of his fathers
and consent to these commandments,
I, my sons, and my kin will obey the law of our fathers.
Will it benefit us to forsake the law and right-living?
We will not hearken to the words of King Antiochus,
to sidestep our worship to the right or to the left.”
Now as he finished speaking these words,
a certain Jew came forward in the sight of all
to sacrifice to the idols upon the altar in the city of Modin,
according to the king's commandment.
Mattathias saw this and was grieved.
His restraint trembled, and his wrath was kindled,
according to the judgment of the law.
Running to him, he slayed him at the altar.
At the same time he slayed he who was sent by King Antiochus,
who had compelled them to sacrifice,
and he pulled down the altar.
He showed zeal for the law,
as Phinehas did concerning Zamri the son of Salu.
Then Mattathias cried out in the city with a loud voice, saying:
“Everyone who has zeal for the law and maintains the covenant,
let them follow me.”
So he and his sons fled into the mountains,
leaving all that they had in the city.
Then many who sought judgment and justice went into the wilderness.
Responsorial – Psalm 50.1b-2, 5-6, 14-15 Resp. Psalm 50.23b
R. To the one who orders their life aright, I will show the salvation of God.
The mighty God, the LORD, has spoken and summoned the earth
from the rising of the sun to the going down thereof.
Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty,
God has shined.
R. To the one who orders their life aright, I will show the salvation of God.
“Gather my saints together with me,
those who made a covenant with me by sacrifice.”
The heavens shall declare his righteousness,
for God himself is judge.
R. To the one who orders their life aright, I will show the salvation of God.
Offer to God the eucharistic sacrifice [the sacrifice of thanksgiving]
and pay your vows to the Most High.
“Call upon me in the day of trouble
I will deliver you and you will glorify me.”
R. To the one who orders their life aright, I will show the salvation of God.
Gospel – Luke 19.41-44
As Jesus approached Jerusalem,
he beheld the city and wept over it saying,
“If you had known this day and what was for your peace!
But now they are hid from your eyes.
For the days shall come upon you,
when those who you hate shall entrench against you
and surround you and besiege you at every side,
and flatten you and your children within you
and they shall not leave a stone upon a stone within you –
for this reason: you did not know the time of your visitation.
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