Wednesday of the First Week in Lent

Official Translation

Reading 1 – Jonah 3.1-10

The word of the Lord came to Jonah again, saying,
“Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city,
and preach to it the message that I give you.”
So Jonah arose, and went to Nineveh,
according to the Lord’s word.

Now Nineveh was an exceedingly great city,
three days’ journey across.
Jonah began to enter into the city
one day’s journey,
and he cried out, and said,
“In forty days, Nineveh will be overthrown!”
The people of Nineveh believed God;
and they proclaimed a fast,
and put on sackcloth,
from their greatest even to their least.

The news reached the king of Nineveh,
and he arose from his throne,
and took off his royal robe,
covered himself with sackcloth,
and sat in ashes.
He made a proclamation
and published through Nineveh
by the decree of the king and his nobles, saying,
“Let neither man nor animal, herd nor flock,
taste anything; let them not feed, nor drink water;
but let them be covered with sackcloth,
both man and animal,
and let them cry mightily to God.
Yes, let them turn everyone from his evil way,
and from the violence that is in his hands.
Who knows whether God will not turn and relent,
and turn away from his fierce anger,
so that we might not perish?”

God saw their works,
that they turned from their evil way.
God relented of the disaster
which he said he would do to them,
and he did not do it.

Responsorial – Psalm 51.3-4, 12-13, 18-19 Resp. 19b

R. A broken and contrite heart, O God, you will not despise.

Have mercy on me, God, according to your loving kindness.
According to the multitude of your tender mercies, blot out my transgressions.
Wash me thoroughly from my iniquity.
Cleanse me from my sin.

R. A broken and contrite heart, O God, you will not despise.

Create in me a clean heart, O God.
Renew a right spirit within me.
Do not cast me out from your presence,
and do not take your Holy Spirit from me.

R. A broken and contrite heart, O God, you will not despise.

For you do not delight in sacrifice.
I would give a burnt offering, but you have no pleasure in it.
My sacrifice, O God, is a broken spirit.
A broken and contrite heart, O God, you will not despise.

R. A broken and contrite heart, O God, you will not despise.

Gospel - Luke 11.29-32

While the crowds were gathering together to Jesus, he began to say,
“This kind is a perverse kind.
It seeks a sign, and no sign will be given to it except the sign of Jonah, the prophet.
For even as Jonah became a sign to the Ninevites, so will the Son of Human be to this kind.
At the judgment, the queen of the south will rise up with the men of this kind,
and will condemn them:
for she came from the ends of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon;
and behold, something greater than Solomon is here.
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, something greater than Jonah is here.”

Wednesday of the First Week in Lent

Official Translation

Reading 1 – Jonah 3.1-10

The word of the Lord came to Jonah again, saying,
“Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city,
and preach to it the message that I give you.”
So Jonah arose, and went to Nineveh,
according to the Lord’s word.

Now Nineveh was an exceedingly great city,
three days’ journey across.
Jonah began to enter into the city
one day’s journey,
and he cried out, and said,
“In forty days, Nineveh will be overthrown!”
The people of Nineveh believed God;
and they proclaimed a fast,
and put on sackcloth,
from their greatest even to their least.

The news reached the king of Nineveh,
and he arose from his throne,
and took off his royal robe,
covered himself with sackcloth,
and sat in ashes.
He made a proclamation
and published through Nineveh
by the decree of the king and his nobles, saying,
“Let neither man nor animal, herd nor flock,
taste anything; let them not feed, nor drink water;
but let them be covered with sackcloth,
both man and animal,
and let them cry mightily to God.
Yes, let them turn everyone from his evil way,
and from the violence that is in his hands.
Who knows whether God will not turn and relent,
and turn away from his fierce anger,
so that we might not perish?”

God saw their works,
that they turned from their evil way.
God relented of the disaster
which he said he would do to them,
and he did not do it.

Responsorial – Psalm 51.3-4, 12-13, 18-19 Resp. 19b

R. A broken and contrite heart, O God, you will not despise.

Have mercy on me, God, according to your loving kindness.
According to the multitude of your tender mercies, blot out my transgressions.
Wash me thoroughly from my iniquity.
Cleanse me from my sin.

R. A broken and contrite heart, O God, you will not despise.

Create in me a clean heart, O God.
Renew a right spirit within me.
Do not cast me out from your presence,
and do not take your Holy Spirit from me.

R. A broken and contrite heart, O God, you will not despise.

For you do not delight in sacrifice.
I would give a burnt offering, but you have no pleasure in it.
My sacrifice, O God, is a broken spirit.
A broken and contrite heart, O God, you will not despise.

R. A broken and contrite heart, O God, you will not despise.

Gospel - Luke 11.29-32

While the crowds were gathering together to Jesus, he began to say,
“This kind is a perverse kind.
It seeks a sign, and no sign will be given to it except the sign of Jonah, the prophet.
For even as Jonah became a sign to the Ninevites, so will the Son of Human be to this kind.
At the judgment, the queen of the south will rise up with the men of this kind,
and will condemn them:
for she came from the ends of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon;
and behold, something greater than Solomon is here.
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, something greater than Jonah is here.”

Wednesday of the First Week in Lent

Official Translation

Reading 1 – Jonah 3.1-10

The word of the Lord came to Jonah again, saying,
“Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city,
and preach to it the message that I give you.”
So Jonah arose, and went to Nineveh,
according to the Lord’s word.

Now Nineveh was an exceedingly great city,
three days’ journey across.
Jonah began to enter into the city
one day’s journey,
and he cried out, and said,
“In forty days, Nineveh will be overthrown!”
The people of Nineveh believed God;
and they proclaimed a fast,
and put on sackcloth,
from their greatest even to their least.

The news reached the king of Nineveh,
and he arose from his throne,
and took off his royal robe,
covered himself with sackcloth,
and sat in ashes.
He made a proclamation
and published through Nineveh
by the decree of the king and his nobles, saying,
“Let neither man nor animal, herd nor flock,
taste anything; let them not feed, nor drink water;
but let them be covered with sackcloth,
both man and animal,
and let them cry mightily to God.
Yes, let them turn everyone from his evil way,
and from the violence that is in his hands.
Who knows whether God will not turn and relent,
and turn away from his fierce anger,
so that we might not perish?”

God saw their works,
that they turned from their evil way.
God relented of the disaster
which he said he would do to them,
and he did not do it.

Responsorial – Psalm 51.3-4, 12-13, 18-19 Resp. 19b

R. A broken and contrite heart, O God, you will not despise.

Have mercy on me, God, according to your loving kindness.
According to the multitude of your tender mercies, blot out my transgressions.
Wash me thoroughly from my iniquity.
Cleanse me from my sin.

R. A broken and contrite heart, O God, you will not despise.

Create in me a clean heart, O God.
Renew a right spirit within me.
Do not cast me out from your presence,
and do not take your Holy Spirit from me.

R. A broken and contrite heart, O God, you will not despise.

For you do not delight in sacrifice.
I would give a burnt offering, but you have no pleasure in it.
My sacrifice, O God, is a broken spirit.
A broken and contrite heart, O God, you will not despise.

R. A broken and contrite heart, O God, you will not despise.

Gospel - Luke 11.29-32

While the crowds were gathering together to Jesus, he began to say,
“This kind is a perverse kind.
It seeks a sign, and no sign will be given to it except the sign of Jonah, the prophet.
For even as Jonah became a sign to the Ninevites, so will the Son of Human be to this kind.
At the judgment, the queen of the south will rise up with the men of this kind,
and will condemn them:
for she came from the ends of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon;
and behold, something greater than Solomon is here.
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, something greater than Jonah is here.”

Third Sunday in Ordinary Time (B)

Official Translation

Reading 1 – Jonah 3.1-5, 10

The word of the Lord came to Jonah, saying,
“Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city,
and preach to it the message that I give you.”
So Jonah arose, and went to Nineveh,
according to the Lord’s word.

Now Nineveh was an exceedingly great city,
three days’ journey across.
Jonah began to enter into the city
one day’s journey,
and he cried out, and said,
“In forty days, Nineveh will be overthrown!”
The people of Nineveh believed God;
and they proclaimed a fast,
and put on sackcloth,
from their greatest even to their least.

God saw their works,
that they turned from their evil way.
God relented of the disaster
which he said he would do to them,
and he did not do it.

Responsorial – Psalm 25.4-5, 6-7, 8-9 Resp. 4a

R. Show me your ways, O Lord.

Show me your ways, O Lord.
Teach me your paths.
Guide me in your truth, and teach me,
For you are the God of my salvation,

R. Show me your ways, O Lord.

Lord, remember your tender mercies
and your loving kindness,
they are from of old.
Remember me according to your loving kindness,
for your goodness’ sake, O Lord.

R. Show me your ways, O Lord.

Good and upright is the Lord,
therefore he will instruct sinners in the way.
He will guide the humble in justice.
He will teach the humble his way.

R. Show me your ways, O Lord.

Reading 2 – 1 Corinthians 7.29-31

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.

Gospel – Mark 1.14-20

Now after John was taken into custody,
Jesus came into Galilee,
preaching the Gospel of God,
and saying, “The time is fulfilled,
and the Kingdom of God is at hand!
Repent, and believe in the Gospel.”

Passing along by the sea of Galilee,
he saw Simon and Andrew the brother of Simon
casting a net into the sea,
for they were fishers.
Jesus said to them, “Come follow me,
and I will make you into fishers of humans.”
Immediately they left their nets,
and followed him.
Going on a little further from there,
he saw James the son of Zebedee,
and John, his brother,
who were also in a boat, mending the nets.
Immediately he called them,
and they left their father, Zebedee,
in the boat with the hired servants,
and went after him.