Official Translation
Reading 1 – Proverbs 21.1-6, 10-13
The king’s heart is in the Lord’s hand like flowing water:
he turns it wherever he desires.
Every way of a man is right in his own eyes,
but the Lord weighs the hearts.
To do righteousness and justice
is more acceptable to the Lord than sacrifice.
A high look, and a proud heart:
the lamp of the wicked, is sin.
The plans of the diligent surely lead to plenty,
and everyone who is hasty surely rushes to poverty.
Getting treasures by a lying tongue
is a fleeting vapor and a snare of death.
The soul of the wicked desires evil;
his neighbor finds no mercy in his eyes.
When the mocker is punished, the simple gains wisdom.
When the wise is instructed, he receives knowledge.
The just man considers the house of the wicked,
and brings the wicked to ruin.
Whoever stops his ears at the cry of the poor,
will himself cry out, but shall not be heard.
Responsorial – Psalm 119.1, 27, 30, 34, 35, 44 Resp. 35
R. Lord, guide me on the path of your commandments.
Blessed are those whose ways are blameless,
who walk according to the law of the Lord.
R. Lord, guide me on the path of your commandments.
Let me understand the teaching of your precepts!
Then I will meditate on your wondrous works.
R. Lord, guide me on the path of your commandments.
I have chosen the way of truth.
I have set your ordinances before me.
R. Lord, guide me on the path of your commandments.
Give me understanding, and I will keep your law.
Yes, I will obey it with my whole heart.
R. Lord, guide me on the path of your commandments.
Guide me on the path of your commandments,
for I delight in them.
R. Lord, guide me on the path of your commandments.
So I will obey your law continually,
forever and ever.
R. Lord, guide me on the path of your commandments.
Gospel – Luke 8.19-21
Jesus’ mother and brothers came to him,
but they could not come near because of the crowd.
Someone told him,
“Your mother and your brothers stand outside, desiring to see you.”
But he answered them,
“My mother and my brothers are those who hear the word of God and do it.”
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Monday of the Twenty-fifth Week in Ordinary Time (II)
Official Translation
Reading 1 – Proverbs 3.27-34
Do not withhold good from those to whom it is due,
when it is in the power of your hand to do it.
Do not say to your neighbor, “Go, and come again; I will give it tomorrow”,
when you have it next to you.
Do not devise evil against your neighbor,
since he dwells securely by you.
Do not argue with a man without cause,
if he has done you no harm.
Do not envy the man of violence.
Choose none of his ways.
For the perverse is an abomination to the Lord,
but his friendship is with the upright.
The curse of the Lord is on the house of the wicked,
but he blesses the habitation of the righteous.
Surely he mocks the mockers,
but he gives grace to the humble.
Responsorial – Psalm 15.2-3a, 3bc-4ab, 5 Resp. 1
R. He who walks blamelessly shall dwell on your holy hill.
He who walks blamelessly and does what is right,
and speaks truth in his heart;
and does not slander with his tongue,
R. He who walks blamelessly shall dwell on your holy hill.
He who does no evil to his friend,
nor casts slurs against his fellow human;
in whose eyes a vile man is despised,
but who honors those who fear the Lord.
R. He who walks blamelessly shall dwell on your holy hill.
He who does not lend out his money for usury,
nor takes a bribe against the innocent.
He who does these things
shall never be shaken.
R. He who walks blamelessly shall dwell on your holy hill.
Gospel – Luke 8.16-18
Jesus said to the crowd:
“No one, when they have lit a lamp,
covers it with a container, or puts it under a bed,
instead they put it on a stand,
so that those who enter in may see the light.
For nothing is hidden, that will not be revealed,
nor secret, that will not be known and come to light.
Be careful therefore how you hear.
For whoever has, to them more will be given,
and whoever has not, even what they seem to have
will be taken away from them.”
Reading 1 – Proverbs 3.27-34
Do not withhold good from those to whom it is due,
when it is in the power of your hand to do it.
Do not say to your neighbor, “Go, and come again; I will give it tomorrow”,
when you have it next to you.
Do not devise evil against your neighbor,
since he dwells securely by you.
Do not argue with a man without cause,
if he has done you no harm.
Do not envy the man of violence.
Choose none of his ways.
For the perverse is an abomination to the Lord,
but his friendship is with the upright.
The curse of the Lord is on the house of the wicked,
but he blesses the habitation of the righteous.
Surely he mocks the mockers,
but he gives grace to the humble.
Responsorial – Psalm 15.2-3a, 3bc-4ab, 5 Resp. 1
R. He who walks blamelessly shall dwell on your holy hill.
He who walks blamelessly and does what is right,
and speaks truth in his heart;
and does not slander with his tongue,
R. He who walks blamelessly shall dwell on your holy hill.
He who does no evil to his friend,
nor casts slurs against his fellow human;
in whose eyes a vile man is despised,
but who honors those who fear the Lord.
R. He who walks blamelessly shall dwell on your holy hill.
He who does not lend out his money for usury,
nor takes a bribe against the innocent.
He who does these things
shall never be shaken.
R. He who walks blamelessly shall dwell on your holy hill.
Gospel – Luke 8.16-18
Jesus said to the crowd:
“No one, when they have lit a lamp,
covers it with a container, or puts it under a bed,
instead they put it on a stand,
so that those who enter in may see the light.
For nothing is hidden, that will not be revealed,
nor secret, that will not be known and come to light.
Be careful therefore how you hear.
For whoever has, to them more will be given,
and whoever has not, even what they seem to have
will be taken away from them.”
Saturday of the Twenty-fourth Week in Ordinary Time (II)
Official Translation
Reading 1 – 1 Corinthians 15.35-37, 42-49
Brothers and sisters:
Someone will say, “How are the dead raised?”
and, “With what kind of body do they come back?”
Fool, what you plant does not come alive unless it dies.
What you plant is not the body that will come to be,
but a mere grain, perhaps of wheat, or of some other kind.
So also is the resurrection of the dead.
Planted as perishable, but raised as imperishable.
Planted in dishonor, but raised in glory.
Planted in weakness, but raised in power.
Planted an ensouled body, it is raised a spiritual body.
If there is an ensouled body, there is also a spiritual one.
So it is written, “The first human, Adam, became a living soul.”
The last Adam comes alive in the spirit.
But the spiritual is not first, but the ensouled, then the spiritual.
The first human is from the land, made of dirt.
The second human is from heaven.
As the dirt, so are those of the dirt,
and as the heavenly, so are those of the heavenly.
Just as we have borne the image of the dirt,
Let us also bear the image of the heavenly.
Responsorial – Psalm 56.10c-12, 13-14 Resp. 14
R. I will walk before God in the light of the living.
I know this, that God is for me.
In God, whose word I praise.
I have put my trust in God; I will not be afraid.
What can man do to me?
R. I will walk before God in the light of the living.
Your vows are on me, God.
I will give thank offerings to you.
For you have delivered my soul from death,
and prevented my feet from stumbling,
so that I will walk before God in the light of the living.
R. I will walk before God in the light of the living.
Gospel – Luke 8.4-15
When a great crowd came together,
and people from every city were coming to him,
he spoke in a parable: “The farmer went out to sow his seed.
As he sowed, some fell along the road,
and it was trampled underfoot, and the birds of the sky devoured it.
Other seed fell on the rock, and as soon as it grew,
it withered away, because it had no moisture.
Some other fell amid the thorns, and the thorns grew with it, and choked it.
Some other fell into the good land,
and grew, and produced one hundred times as much fruit.”
As he said these things, he called out, “Whoever has ears to hear, let them hear!”
Then his disciples asked him, “What does this parable mean?”
He said, “To you it is given to know the mysteries of the Kingdom of God,
but to the rest it is in parables, that:
'Seeing they may not see, and hearing they may not understand.’
Now the parable is this: The seed is the word of God.
Those along the road are those who hear,
then the devil comes, and takes away the word from their heart,
that they may not believe and be saved.
Those on the rock are they who, when they hear, receive the word with joy,
but these have no root, and believe for a while then fall away in time of temptation.
That which fell among the thorns, these are those who have heard,
and as they go on their way they are choked
with cares, riches, and pleasures of life, and bring no fruit to maturity.
As for that in the beautiful soil, they are those who, hearing the word,
embrace it with a beautiful and good heart, and bear fruit with perseverance.
Reading 1 – 1 Corinthians 15.35-37, 42-49
Brothers and sisters:
Someone will say, “How are the dead raised?”
and, “With what kind of body do they come back?”
Fool, what you plant does not come alive unless it dies.
What you plant is not the body that will come to be,
but a mere grain, perhaps of wheat, or of some other kind.
So also is the resurrection of the dead.
Planted as perishable, but raised as imperishable.
Planted in dishonor, but raised in glory.
Planted in weakness, but raised in power.
Planted an ensouled body, it is raised a spiritual body.
If there is an ensouled body, there is also a spiritual one.
So it is written, “The first human, Adam, became a living soul.”
The last Adam comes alive in the spirit.
But the spiritual is not first, but the ensouled, then the spiritual.
The first human is from the land, made of dirt.
The second human is from heaven.
As the dirt, so are those of the dirt,
and as the heavenly, so are those of the heavenly.
Just as we have borne the image of the dirt,
Let us also bear the image of the heavenly.
Responsorial – Psalm 56.10c-12, 13-14 Resp. 14
R. I will walk before God in the light of the living.
I know this, that God is for me.
In God, whose word I praise.
I have put my trust in God; I will not be afraid.
What can man do to me?
R. I will walk before God in the light of the living.
Your vows are on me, God.
I will give thank offerings to you.
For you have delivered my soul from death,
and prevented my feet from stumbling,
so that I will walk before God in the light of the living.
R. I will walk before God in the light of the living.
Gospel – Luke 8.4-15
When a great crowd came together,
and people from every city were coming to him,
he spoke in a parable: “The farmer went out to sow his seed.
As he sowed, some fell along the road,
and it was trampled underfoot, and the birds of the sky devoured it.
Other seed fell on the rock, and as soon as it grew,
it withered away, because it had no moisture.
Some other fell amid the thorns, and the thorns grew with it, and choked it.
Some other fell into the good land,
and grew, and produced one hundred times as much fruit.”
As he said these things, he called out, “Whoever has ears to hear, let them hear!”
Then his disciples asked him, “What does this parable mean?”
He said, “To you it is given to know the mysteries of the Kingdom of God,
but to the rest it is in parables, that:
'Seeing they may not see, and hearing they may not understand.’
Now the parable is this: The seed is the word of God.
Those along the road are those who hear,
then the devil comes, and takes away the word from their heart,
that they may not believe and be saved.
Those on the rock are they who, when they hear, receive the word with joy,
but these have no root, and believe for a while then fall away in time of temptation.
That which fell among the thorns, these are those who have heard,
and as they go on their way they are choked
with cares, riches, and pleasures of life, and bring no fruit to maturity.
As for that in the beautiful soil, they are those who, hearing the word,
embrace it with a beautiful and good heart, and bear fruit with perseverance.
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