Official Translation
Reading 1 – James 2.14-24, 26
What good is it, my brothers and sisters,
if someone says they have faith but not works?
Faith cannot save them, can it?
And if a brother or sister is naked and lacks basic food,
and one of you tells them, “Go in peace, keep warm and well-fed”
and you do not give them the things the body needs,
what good is that?
Even so faith, if it has no works,is dead according to its own nature.
But someone will say that you have faith and I have works.
Show me your faith separate from works,
and I will show you, by my works, my faith.
You believe that God is one.
You do well.
The demons also believe and shudder.
But do you want to know, vain man,
that faith apart from works is dead?
Was not Abraham our father justified by works,
in that he offered up Isaac his son on the altar?
You see that faith worked with his works,
and by works faith was perfected;
and the Scripture was fulfilled which says,
“Abraham believed God, and it was credited to him as righteousness”;
and he was called the friend of God.
You see then that by works, a human is justified, and not only by faith.
For as the body apart from the spirit is dead,
even so faith apart from works is dead.
Responsorial – Psalm 112.1-2, 3-4, 5-6 R. 1b
R. Blessed is the man who delights greatly in the Lord’s commandments.
Blessed is the man who fears the Lord,
who delights greatly in his commandments.
His seed will be mighty in the land.
The generation of the upright will be blessed.
R. Blessed is the human who delights greatly in the Lord’s commandments.
Wealth and riches are in his house.
His righteousness endures forever.
Light dawns in the darkness for the upright,
gracious, merciful, and righteous.
R. Blessed is the human who delights greatly in the Lord’s commandments.
It is well with the man who deals graciously and lends.
He will maintain his cause in judgment.
For he will never be shaken.
The righteous will be remembered forever.
R. Blessed is the human who delights greatly in the Lord’s commandments.
Gospel – Mark 8.34-9:1
Jesus called the crowd to himself
with his disciples, and said to them,
“Whoever wants to come after me,
let them deny themself, and take up their cross, and follow me.
For whoever wants to save their life will lose it;
and whoever will lose their life for my sake and the sake of the Gospel
will save it.
For what does it profit a human,
to gain the whole world, and forfeit their soul?
For what will a human give in exchange for their soul?
For whoever might be ashamed of me and of my words
among the kind who are adulterous and sinful,
the Son of Human also will be ashamed of them,
when he comes in the glory of his Father with the holy angels.”
He said to them, “Amen, I say to you,
there are some standing here who will not even taste death
until they see the Kingdom of God having come with power.”
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Thursday of the Sixth Week in Ordinary Time (II)
Official Translation
Reading 1 – James 2.1-9
My brothers and sisters,
do not hold the faith of our Lord of Glory, Jesus Christ, with partiality.
For if someone with a gold ring, in fine clothing, comes into your synagogue,
and a poor person in filthy clothing also comes in;
and you pay special attention to the one who wears the fine clothing,
and say, “Sit here in a good place”;
and you tell the poor person, “Stand there,” or “Sit by my footstool”;
have you not shown partiality among yourselves,
and become judges with evil thoughts?
Listen, my beloved brothers.
Did God not choose those who are poor in this world
to be rich in faith and heirs of the Kingdom
which he promised to those who love him?
But you have dishonored the poor person.
Do not the rich oppress you, and personally drag you into court?
Do they not blaspheme the honorable name by which you are called?
However, if you fulfill the royal law, according to the Scripture,
“You shall love your neighbor as yourself,” you do well.
But if you show partiality, you commit sin,
being convicted by the law as transgressors.
Responsorial – Psalm 34.2-3, 4-5, 6-7 Resp. 7a
R. The Lord hears the poor who cry out.
I will bless the Lord at all times.
His praise will always be in my mouth.
My soul shall boast in the Lord.
The humble shall hear of it, and be glad.
R. The Lord hears the poor who cry out.
Oh magnify the Lord with me.
Let us exalt his name together.
I sought the Lord, and he answered me,
and delivered me from all my fears.
R. The Lord hears the poor who cry out.
They looked to him, and were radiant.
Their faces shall never be covered with shame.
This poor man cried, and the Lord heard him,
and saved him out of all his troubles.
R. The Lord hears the poor who cry out.
Gospel – Mark 8.27-33
Jesus went out, with his disciples, into the villages of Caesarea Philippi.
On the way he asked his disciples,
“Who do humans say that I am?”
They told him, “John the Baptist, and others, Elijah,
and others, one of the prophets.”
He said to them, “But who do you say that I am?”
Peter answered, “You are the Christ.”
He commanded them that they should tell no one about him.
He began to teach them that the Son of Human must suffer many things,
and be rejected by the elders, the chief priests, and the scribes,
and be killed, and after three days rise again.
He spoke to them openly.
Peter took him aside, and began to rebuke him.
But he, turning around, and seeing his disciples,
rebuked Peter, and said, “Get behind me, Satan!
For you have in mind not the things of God, but the things of humans.”
Reading 1 – James 2.1-9
My brothers and sisters,
do not hold the faith of our Lord of Glory, Jesus Christ, with partiality.
For if someone with a gold ring, in fine clothing, comes into your synagogue,
and a poor person in filthy clothing also comes in;
and you pay special attention to the one who wears the fine clothing,
and say, “Sit here in a good place”;
and you tell the poor person, “Stand there,” or “Sit by my footstool”;
have you not shown partiality among yourselves,
and become judges with evil thoughts?
Listen, my beloved brothers.
Did God not choose those who are poor in this world
to be rich in faith and heirs of the Kingdom
which he promised to those who love him?
But you have dishonored the poor person.
Do not the rich oppress you, and personally drag you into court?
Do they not blaspheme the honorable name by which you are called?
However, if you fulfill the royal law, according to the Scripture,
“You shall love your neighbor as yourself,” you do well.
But if you show partiality, you commit sin,
being convicted by the law as transgressors.
Responsorial – Psalm 34.2-3, 4-5, 6-7 Resp. 7a
R. The Lord hears the poor who cry out.
I will bless the Lord at all times.
His praise will always be in my mouth.
My soul shall boast in the Lord.
The humble shall hear of it, and be glad.
R. The Lord hears the poor who cry out.
Oh magnify the Lord with me.
Let us exalt his name together.
I sought the Lord, and he answered me,
and delivered me from all my fears.
R. The Lord hears the poor who cry out.
They looked to him, and were radiant.
Their faces shall never be covered with shame.
This poor man cried, and the Lord heard him,
and saved him out of all his troubles.
R. The Lord hears the poor who cry out.
Gospel – Mark 8.27-33
Jesus went out, with his disciples, into the villages of Caesarea Philippi.
On the way he asked his disciples,
“Who do humans say that I am?”
They told him, “John the Baptist, and others, Elijah,
and others, one of the prophets.”
He said to them, “But who do you say that I am?”
Peter answered, “You are the Christ.”
He commanded them that they should tell no one about him.
He began to teach them that the Son of Human must suffer many things,
and be rejected by the elders, the chief priests, and the scribes,
and be killed, and after three days rise again.
He spoke to them openly.
Peter took him aside, and began to rebuke him.
But he, turning around, and seeing his disciples,
rebuked Peter, and said, “Get behind me, Satan!
For you have in mind not the things of God, but the things of humans.”
Wednesday of the Sixth Week in Ordinary Time (II)
Official Translation
Reading 1 – James 1.19-27
So, then, my beloved brothers and sisters,
let every human be swift to hear,
slow to speak, and slow to anger;
for the anger of man does not produce
the righteousness of God.
Therefore, putting away all filthiness and overflowing wickedness,
receive with humility the implanted word,
which is able to save your souls.
But be doers of the word, and not only hearers,
deluding your own selves.
For if anyone is a hearer of the word but not a doer,
they are like a man looking at his natural face in a mirror;
for he sees himself, and goes away,
and immediately forgets what sort he is.
But they who look into the perfect law of freedom,
and continue, not as a hearer who forgets, but as a doer of the work,
this one will be blessed in what they do.
If anyone among you thinks themself to be religious
while they do not bridle their tongue,
deceiving their heart,
this one’s religion is worthless.
Pure religion, undefiled before our God and Father, is this:
to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction,
and to keep oneself unstained by the world.
Responsorial – Psalm 15.2-3a, 3bc-4ab, 5; Resp. 1b
R. Lord, who shall live 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. Lord, who shall live 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. Lord, who shall live on your holy hill?
He who does not lend out his money for usury,
nor take a bribe against the innocent.
He who does these things shall never be shaken.
R. Lord, who shall live on your holy hill?
Gospel – Mark 8.22-26
Jesus and his disciples came to Bethsaida.
They brought a blind man to him,
and begged him to touch him.
He took hold of the blind man by the hand
and brought him out of the village.
When he had spit on his eyes and laid his hands on him,
he asked him if he saw anything.
He looked up, and said,
“I see humans; that are as trees that I see walking.”
Again he laid his hands on his eyes.
He looked intently, and was restored,
and saw everyone clearly.
He sent him away to his house, saying,
“Do not enter into the village, nor tell anyone in the village.”
Reading 1 – James 1.19-27
So, then, my beloved brothers and sisters,
let every human be swift to hear,
slow to speak, and slow to anger;
for the anger of man does not produce
the righteousness of God.
Therefore, putting away all filthiness and overflowing wickedness,
receive with humility the implanted word,
which is able to save your souls.
But be doers of the word, and not only hearers,
deluding your own selves.
For if anyone is a hearer of the word but not a doer,
they are like a man looking at his natural face in a mirror;
for he sees himself, and goes away,
and immediately forgets what sort he is.
But they who look into the perfect law of freedom,
and continue, not as a hearer who forgets, but as a doer of the work,
this one will be blessed in what they do.
If anyone among you thinks themself to be religious
while they do not bridle their tongue,
deceiving their heart,
this one’s religion is worthless.
Pure religion, undefiled before our God and Father, is this:
to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction,
and to keep oneself unstained by the world.
Responsorial – Psalm 15.2-3a, 3bc-4ab, 5; Resp. 1b
R. Lord, who shall live 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. Lord, who shall live 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. Lord, who shall live on your holy hill?
He who does not lend out his money for usury,
nor take a bribe against the innocent.
He who does these things shall never be shaken.
R. Lord, who shall live on your holy hill?
Gospel – Mark 8.22-26
Jesus and his disciples came to Bethsaida.
They brought a blind man to him,
and begged him to touch him.
He took hold of the blind man by the hand
and brought him out of the village.
When he had spit on his eyes and laid his hands on him,
he asked him if he saw anything.
He looked up, and said,
“I see humans; that are as trees that I see walking.”
Again he laid his hands on his eyes.
He looked intently, and was restored,
and saw everyone clearly.
He sent him away to his house, saying,
“Do not enter into the village, nor tell anyone in the village.”
Tuesday of the Sixth Week in Ordinary Time (II)
Official Translation
Reading 1 – James 1.12-18
Blessed is the man who endures temptation,
for when he has been proven,
he will receive the crown of life,
which the Lord promised to those who love him.
Let no one say when they are tempted,
“I am tempted by God,”
for God cannot be tempted by evil,
and he himself tempts no one.
But each one is tempted,
when he is drawn away by his own desires, and enticed.
Then the desire, when it has conceived, bears sin;
and the sin, when it is full grown, produces death.
Do not be deceived, my beloved brothers.
Every good gift and every perfect gift
is from above, coming down from the Father of lights,
with whom can be no variation, nor shifting shadow.
Of his own will he gave birth to us by the word of truth,
that we should be a kind of first fruits of his creatures.
Responsorial – Psalm 94.12-13a, 14-15, 18-19 Resp. 12a
R. Blessed is the man whom you discipline, O Lord.
Blessed is the man whom you discipline, O Lord,
and teach with your law;
that you may give him rest from the days of adversity,
R. Blessed is the man whom you discipline, O Lord.
For the Lord will not reject his people,
nor will he forsake his inheritance.
For judgment will return to righteousness.
All the upright in heart shall follow it.
R. Blessed is the man whom you discipline, O Lord.
When I said, “My foot is slipping!”
Your loving kindness, the Lord, held me up.
In the multitude of my thoughts within me,
your comforts delight my soul.
R. Blessed is the man whom you discipline, O Lord.
Gospel – Mark 8.14-21
The disciples forgot to bring bread;
and they did not have more than one loaf in the boat with them.
Jesus warned them, saying, “Take heed:
beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and the leaven of Herod.”
They reasoned with one another, saying,
“It is because we have no bread.”
Jesus, perceiving it, said to them,
“Why do you reason that it is because you have no bread?
Do you not perceive yet, nor understand?
Are your hearts still hardened?
You have eyes; do you not see?
You have ears, do you not hear?
Do you not remember?
When I broke the five loaves among the five thousand,
how many baskets full of broken pieces did you take up?”
They told him, “Twelve.”
“When the seven loaves fed the four thousand,
how many baskets full of broken pieces did you take up?”
They told him, “Seven.”
He asked them, “Do you not yet understand?”
Reading 1 – James 1.12-18
Blessed is the man who endures temptation,
for when he has been proven,
he will receive the crown of life,
which the Lord promised to those who love him.
Let no one say when they are tempted,
“I am tempted by God,”
for God cannot be tempted by evil,
and he himself tempts no one.
But each one is tempted,
when he is drawn away by his own desires, and enticed.
Then the desire, when it has conceived, bears sin;
and the sin, when it is full grown, produces death.
Do not be deceived, my beloved brothers.
Every good gift and every perfect gift
is from above, coming down from the Father of lights,
with whom can be no variation, nor shifting shadow.
Of his own will he gave birth to us by the word of truth,
that we should be a kind of first fruits of his creatures.
Responsorial – Psalm 94.12-13a, 14-15, 18-19 Resp. 12a
R. Blessed is the man whom you discipline, O Lord.
Blessed is the man whom you discipline, O Lord,
and teach with your law;
that you may give him rest from the days of adversity,
R. Blessed is the man whom you discipline, O Lord.
For the Lord will not reject his people,
nor will he forsake his inheritance.
For judgment will return to righteousness.
All the upright in heart shall follow it.
R. Blessed is the man whom you discipline, O Lord.
When I said, “My foot is slipping!”
Your loving kindness, the Lord, held me up.
In the multitude of my thoughts within me,
your comforts delight my soul.
R. Blessed is the man whom you discipline, O Lord.
Gospel – Mark 8.14-21
The disciples forgot to bring bread;
and they did not have more than one loaf in the boat with them.
Jesus warned them, saying, “Take heed:
beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and the leaven of Herod.”
They reasoned with one another, saying,
“It is because we have no bread.”
Jesus, perceiving it, said to them,
“Why do you reason that it is because you have no bread?
Do you not perceive yet, nor understand?
Are your hearts still hardened?
You have eyes; do you not see?
You have ears, do you not hear?
Do you not remember?
When I broke the five loaves among the five thousand,
how many baskets full of broken pieces did you take up?”
They told him, “Twelve.”
“When the seven loaves fed the four thousand,
how many baskets full of broken pieces did you take up?”
They told him, “Seven.”
He asked them, “Do you not yet understand?”
Monday of the Sixth Week in Ordinary Time (II)
Official Translation
Reading 1 – James 1.1-11
James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ,
to the twelve tribes which are in the Dispersion:
Greetings.
Count it all joy, my brothers and sisters,
when you fall into various trials,
knowing that the testing of your faith
produces endurance.
Let endurance work completely,
that you may be perfect and complete,
lacking in nothing.
But if any of you lacks wisdom,
let them ask of God,
who gives to all liberally and without reproach;
and it will be given to them.
But let them ask in faith, without any doubting,
for they who doubt are like a wave of the sea,
driven by the wind and tossed.
Let not that human think
that they will receive anything from the Lord.
They are a double-minded human,
unstable in all their ways.
But let the brother and sister in humble circumstances
glory in their high position;
and the rich in their humility,
because like the flower in the grass,
he will pass away.
For the sun arises with the scorching wind,
and withers the grass,
and the flower in it falls,
and the beauty of its appearance perishes.
Thus also will the rich fade away in their pursuits.
Responsorial – Psalm 119.67, 68, 71, 72, 75, 76 Resp. 77a
R. Let your tender mercies come to me, Lord, that I may live.
Before I was afflicted, I went astray;
but now I observe your word.
R. Let your tender mercies come to me, Lord, that I may live.
You are good, and do good.
Teach me your statutes.
R. Let your tender mercies come to me, Lord, that I may live.
It is good for me that I have been afflicted,
that I may learn your statutes.
R. Let your tender mercies come to me, Lord, that I may live.
The law of your mouth is better to me
than thousands of pieces of gold and silver.
R. Let your tender mercies come to me, Lord, that I may live.
Lord, I know that your judgments are righteous,
that in faithfulness you have afflicted me.
R. Let your tender mercies come to me, Lord, that I may live.
Please let your loving kindness be for my comfort,
according to your word to your servant.
R. Let your tender mercies come to me, Lord, that I may live.
Gospel – Mark 8.11-13
The Pharisees came out and began to question Jesus,
seeking from him a sign from heaven,
and testing him.
He sighed deeply in his spirit,
and said, “Why does this kind seek a sign?
Amen I say to you, no sign will be given to this kind.”
He left them, and again entering into the boat, departed to the other side.
Reading 1 – James 1.1-11
James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ,
to the twelve tribes which are in the Dispersion:
Greetings.
Count it all joy, my brothers and sisters,
when you fall into various trials,
knowing that the testing of your faith
produces endurance.
Let endurance work completely,
that you may be perfect and complete,
lacking in nothing.
But if any of you lacks wisdom,
let them ask of God,
who gives to all liberally and without reproach;
and it will be given to them.
But let them ask in faith, without any doubting,
for they who doubt are like a wave of the sea,
driven by the wind and tossed.
Let not that human think
that they will receive anything from the Lord.
They are a double-minded human,
unstable in all their ways.
But let the brother and sister in humble circumstances
glory in their high position;
and the rich in their humility,
because like the flower in the grass,
he will pass away.
For the sun arises with the scorching wind,
and withers the grass,
and the flower in it falls,
and the beauty of its appearance perishes.
Thus also will the rich fade away in their pursuits.
Responsorial – Psalm 119.67, 68, 71, 72, 75, 76 Resp. 77a
R. Let your tender mercies come to me, Lord, that I may live.
Before I was afflicted, I went astray;
but now I observe your word.
R. Let your tender mercies come to me, Lord, that I may live.
You are good, and do good.
Teach me your statutes.
R. Let your tender mercies come to me, Lord, that I may live.
It is good for me that I have been afflicted,
that I may learn your statutes.
R. Let your tender mercies come to me, Lord, that I may live.
The law of your mouth is better to me
than thousands of pieces of gold and silver.
R. Let your tender mercies come to me, Lord, that I may live.
Lord, I know that your judgments are righteous,
that in faithfulness you have afflicted me.
R. Let your tender mercies come to me, Lord, that I may live.
Please let your loving kindness be for my comfort,
according to your word to your servant.
R. Let your tender mercies come to me, Lord, that I may live.
Gospel – Mark 8.11-13
The Pharisees came out and began to question Jesus,
seeking from him a sign from heaven,
and testing him.
He sighed deeply in his spirit,
and said, “Why does this kind seek a sign?
Amen I say to you, no sign will be given to this kind.”
He left them, and again entering into the boat, departed to the other side.
Saturday of the Fifth Week in Ordinary Time (II)
Official Translation
Reading 1 – 1 Kings 12.26-32; 13.33-34
Jeroboam said in his heart,
“Now the kingdom will return to the house of David.
If this people goes up to offer sacrifices
in the Lord’s house at Jerusalem,
then the hearts of these people
will turn again to their master,
to Rehoboam king of Judah;
and they will kill me,
and return to Rehoboam king of Judah.”
So the king took counsel,
and made two calves of gold;
and he said to them,
“Long enough have you gone up to Jerusalem.
Look and see your God, Israel,
who brought you up out of the land of Egypt!”
He set the one in Bethel, and the other he put in Dan.
This thing became a sin;
for the people went to worship, even going to the one in Dan.
He made temples on the high places,
and made priests from among the people
who were not of the sons of Levi.
Jeroboam ordained a feast
in the eighth month, on the fifteenth day of the month,
like the feast that is in Judah,
and he went up to the altar in Bethel,
sacrificing to the calves that he had made:
and he placed in Bethel
the priests of the high places that he he built.
After this Jeroboam did not return from his evil way,
but again made priests of the high places
from among all the people.
Whoever wanted to, he consecrated him,
that there might be priests of the high places.
This was a sin of the house of Jeroboam,
so it was cut off and destroyed from the face of the earth.
Responsorial – Psalm 106.6-7ab, 19-20, 21-22 Resp. 4a
R. Remember me, the Lord, with the favor that you show to your people.
We have sinned with our fathers.
We have committed iniquity. We have done wickedly.
Our fathers, in Egypt,
did not understand your wonders.
R. Remember me, the Lord, with the favor that you show to your people.
They made a calf in Horeb,
and worshiped a molten image.
Thus they exchanged their glory
for an image of a bull that eats grass.
R. Remember me, the Lord, with the favor that you show to your people.
They forgot God, their Savior,
who had done great things in Egypt,
Wondrous works in the land of Ham,
and awesome things by the Red Sea.
R. Remember me, the Lord, with the favor that you show to your people.
Gospel – Mark 8.1-10
In those days, when there was once again
a very large crowd who had nothing to eat.
Jesus called his disciples to himself,
and said to them,
“I have compassion for the crowd,
because they have stayed with me now three days,
and have nothing to eat.
If I send them away fasting to their home,
they will faint on the way,
for some of them have come a long way.”
His disciples answered him,
“From where could one satisfy
these people with bread here in a deserted place?”
He asked them, “How many loaves do you have?”
They said, “Seven.”
He commanded the crowd to sit down on the ground,
and he took the seven loaves.
Having given thanks, he broke them,
and gave them to his disciples to serve,
and they served the crowd.
And they had a few small fish.
Having blessed them, he said to serve these also.
They ate, and were filled.
They took up seven baskets of broken pieces that were left over.
Those who had eaten were about four thousand.
Then he sent them away.
Immediately he entered into the boat with his disciples,
and came into the region of Dalmanutha.
Reading 1 – 1 Kings 12.26-32; 13.33-34
Jeroboam said in his heart,
“Now the kingdom will return to the house of David.
If this people goes up to offer sacrifices
in the Lord’s house at Jerusalem,
then the hearts of these people
will turn again to their master,
to Rehoboam king of Judah;
and they will kill me,
and return to Rehoboam king of Judah.”
So the king took counsel,
and made two calves of gold;
and he said to them,
“Long enough have you gone up to Jerusalem.
Look and see your God, Israel,
who brought you up out of the land of Egypt!”
He set the one in Bethel, and the other he put in Dan.
This thing became a sin;
for the people went to worship, even going to the one in Dan.
He made temples on the high places,
and made priests from among the people
who were not of the sons of Levi.
Jeroboam ordained a feast
in the eighth month, on the fifteenth day of the month,
like the feast that is in Judah,
and he went up to the altar in Bethel,
sacrificing to the calves that he had made:
and he placed in Bethel
the priests of the high places that he he built.
After this Jeroboam did not return from his evil way,
but again made priests of the high places
from among all the people.
Whoever wanted to, he consecrated him,
that there might be priests of the high places.
This was a sin of the house of Jeroboam,
so it was cut off and destroyed from the face of the earth.
Responsorial – Psalm 106.6-7ab, 19-20, 21-22 Resp. 4a
R. Remember me, the Lord, with the favor that you show to your people.
We have sinned with our fathers.
We have committed iniquity. We have done wickedly.
Our fathers, in Egypt,
did not understand your wonders.
R. Remember me, the Lord, with the favor that you show to your people.
They made a calf in Horeb,
and worshiped a molten image.
Thus they exchanged their glory
for an image of a bull that eats grass.
R. Remember me, the Lord, with the favor that you show to your people.
They forgot God, their Savior,
who had done great things in Egypt,
Wondrous works in the land of Ham,
and awesome things by the Red Sea.
R. Remember me, the Lord, with the favor that you show to your people.
Gospel – Mark 8.1-10
In those days, when there was once again
a very large crowd who had nothing to eat.
Jesus called his disciples to himself,
and said to them,
“I have compassion for the crowd,
because they have stayed with me now three days,
and have nothing to eat.
If I send them away fasting to their home,
they will faint on the way,
for some of them have come a long way.”
His disciples answered him,
“From where could one satisfy
these people with bread here in a deserted place?”
He asked them, “How many loaves do you have?”
They said, “Seven.”
He commanded the crowd to sit down on the ground,
and he took the seven loaves.
Having given thanks, he broke them,
and gave them to his disciples to serve,
and they served the crowd.
And they had a few small fish.
Having blessed them, he said to serve these also.
They ate, and were filled.
They took up seven baskets of broken pieces that were left over.
Those who had eaten were about four thousand.
Then he sent them away.
Immediately he entered into the boat with his disciples,
and came into the region of Dalmanutha.
Twenty-fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time (B)
Official Translation
Reading 1 – Isaiah 50.5-9a
The Lord God has opened my ear to hear,
and I was not rebellious, nor have I turned back.
I gave my back to the strikers,
and my cheeks to those who plucked my beard;
I did not hide my face from shame and spitting.
For the Lord God will help me;
therefore I have not been confounded:
therefore I have set my face like a flint,
and I know that I shall not be disappointed.
He is near who justifies me;
who will bring charges against me?
Let us stand up together.
Who is my adversary?
Let him come near to me.
Behold, the Lord God will help me.
Who shall condemn me?
Responsorial – Psalm 116.1-2, 3-4, 5-6, 8-9 Resp. 9
R. I will walk before the Lord in the land of the living. or R. Alleluia!
I love the Lord, because he listens
to my voice and my cries for mercy.
Because he has turned his ear to me,
when I call on him.
R. I will walk before the Lord in the land of the living. or R. Alleluia!
The cords of death surrounded me,
the pains of Sheol got hold of me.
I found trouble and sorrow.
Then I called on the name of the Lord:
“O Lord, I beg you, deliver my soul.”
R. I will walk before the Lord in the land of the living. or R. Alleluia!
The Lord is gracious and righteous.
Yes, our God is merciful.
The Lord preserves the simple.
I was brought low, and he saved me.
R. I will walk before the Lord in the land of the living. or R. Alleluia!
For you have delivered my soul from death,
my eyes from tears, and my feet from falling.
I will walk before the Lord
in the land of the living.
R. I will walk before the Lord in the land of the living. or R. Alleluia!
Reading 2 – James 2.14-18
What good is it, my brothers and sisters,
if someone says they have faith but not works?
Faith cannot save them, can it?
And if a brother or sister is naked and lacks basic food,
and one of you tells them, “Go in peace, keep warm and well-fed”,
but you do not give them the things the body needs,
what good is that?
Even so faith, if it has no works, is dead according to its own nature.
But someone will say, “You have faith and I have works.”
Show me your faith separate from works,
and I will show you, by my works, my faith.
Gospel – Mark 8.27-35
Jesus went out, with his disciples, into the villages of Caesarea Philippi.
On the way he asked his disciples, “Who do humans say that I am?”
They told him, “John the Baptist, and others, Elijah, and others, one of the prophets.”
He said to them, “But who do you say that I am?”
Peter answered, “You are the Christ.”
He commanded them that they should tell no one about him.
He began to teach them that the Son of Man must suffer many things,
and be rejected by the elders, the chief priests, and the scribes,
and be killed, and after three days rise again.
He spoke to them openly.
Peter took him aside, and began to rebuke him.
But he, turning around, and seeing his disciples,
rebuked Peter, and said, “Get behind me, Satan!
For you have in mind not the things of God, but the things of humans.”
Jesus called the crowd to himself with his disciples, and said to them:
“Whoever wants to come after me,
let them deny themself, and take up their cross, and follow me.
For whoever wants to save their life will lose it;
and whoever will lose their life
for my sake and the sake of the Gospel
will save it.”
Reading 1 – Isaiah 50.5-9a
The Lord God has opened my ear to hear,
and I was not rebellious, nor have I turned back.
I gave my back to the strikers,
and my cheeks to those who plucked my beard;
I did not hide my face from shame and spitting.
For the Lord God will help me;
therefore I have not been confounded:
therefore I have set my face like a flint,
and I know that I shall not be disappointed.
He is near who justifies me;
who will bring charges against me?
Let us stand up together.
Who is my adversary?
Let him come near to me.
Behold, the Lord God will help me.
Who shall condemn me?
Responsorial – Psalm 116.1-2, 3-4, 5-6, 8-9 Resp. 9
R. I will walk before the Lord in the land of the living. or R. Alleluia!
I love the Lord, because he listens
to my voice and my cries for mercy.
Because he has turned his ear to me,
when I call on him.
R. I will walk before the Lord in the land of the living. or R. Alleluia!
The cords of death surrounded me,
the pains of Sheol got hold of me.
I found trouble and sorrow.
Then I called on the name of the Lord:
“O Lord, I beg you, deliver my soul.”
R. I will walk before the Lord in the land of the living. or R. Alleluia!
The Lord is gracious and righteous.
Yes, our God is merciful.
The Lord preserves the simple.
I was brought low, and he saved me.
R. I will walk before the Lord in the land of the living. or R. Alleluia!
For you have delivered my soul from death,
my eyes from tears, and my feet from falling.
I will walk before the Lord
in the land of the living.
R. I will walk before the Lord in the land of the living. or R. Alleluia!
Reading 2 – James 2.14-18
What good is it, my brothers and sisters,
if someone says they have faith but not works?
Faith cannot save them, can it?
And if a brother or sister is naked and lacks basic food,
and one of you tells them, “Go in peace, keep warm and well-fed”,
but you do not give them the things the body needs,
what good is that?
Even so faith, if it has no works, is dead according to its own nature.
But someone will say, “You have faith and I have works.”
Show me your faith separate from works,
and I will show you, by my works, my faith.
Gospel – Mark 8.27-35
Jesus went out, with his disciples, into the villages of Caesarea Philippi.
On the way he asked his disciples, “Who do humans say that I am?”
They told him, “John the Baptist, and others, Elijah, and others, one of the prophets.”
He said to them, “But who do you say that I am?”
Peter answered, “You are the Christ.”
He commanded them that they should tell no one about him.
He began to teach them that the Son of Man must suffer many things,
and be rejected by the elders, the chief priests, and the scribes,
and be killed, and after three days rise again.
He spoke to them openly.
Peter took him aside, and began to rebuke him.
But he, turning around, and seeing his disciples,
rebuked Peter, and said, “Get behind me, Satan!
For you have in mind not the things of God, but the things of humans.”
Jesus called the crowd to himself with his disciples, and said to them:
“Whoever wants to come after me,
let them deny themself, and take up their cross, and follow me.
For whoever wants to save their life will lose it;
and whoever will lose their life
for my sake and the sake of the Gospel
will save it.”
Friday of the Sixth Week in Ordinary Time (II)
Official Translation
Reading 1 – James 2.14-24, 26
What good is it, my brothers and sisters,
if someone says they have faith but not works?
Faith cannot save them, can it?
And if a brother or sister
is naked and lacks basic food,
and one of you tells them,
“Go in peace, keep warm and well-fed”
and you do not give them
the things the body needs,
what good is that?
Even so faith, if it has no works,
is dead according to its own nature.
But someone will say,
“You have faith and I have works.
Show me your faith separate from works,
and I will show you, by my works, my faith.”
You believe that God is one.
You do well.
The demons also believe and shudder.
But do you want to know, vain man,
that faith apart from works is dead?
Was not Abraham our father
justified by works,
in that he offered up Isaac his son
on the altar?
You see that faith worked with his works,
and by works faith was perfected;
and the Scripture was fulfilled which says,
“Abraham believed God,
and it was credited to him as righteousness”;
and he was called the friend of God.
You see then that by works, a human is justified,
and not only by faith.
For as the body apart from the spirit is dead,
even so faith apart from works is dead.
Responsorial – Psalm 112.1-2, 3-4, 5-6 R. 1b
R. Blessed is the man who delights greatly in the Lord’s commandments.
Blessed is the man who fears the Lord,
who delights greatly in his commandments.
His seed will be mighty in the land.
The generation of the upright will be blessed.
R. Blessed is the human who delights greatly in the Lord’s commandments.
Wealth and riches are in his house.
His righteousness endures forever.
Light dawns in the darkness for the upright,
gracious, merciful, and righteous.
R. Blessed is the human who delights greatly in the Lord’s commandments.
It is well with the man who deals graciously and lends.
He will maintain his cause in judgment.
For he will never be shaken.
The righteous will be remembered forever.
R. Blessed is the human who delights greatly in the Lord’s commandments.
Gospel – Mark 8.34-9:1
Jesus called the crowd to himself
with his disciples, and said to them,
“Whoever wants to come after me,
let them deny themself,
and take up their cross,
and follow me.
For whoever wants to save their life
will lose it;
and whoever will lose their life
for my sake and the sake of the Gospel
will save it.
For what does it profit a human,
to gain the whole world,
and forfeit their soul?
For what will a human give
in exchange for their soul?
For whoever might be ashamed of me
and of my words
among the kind who are adulterous and sinful,
the Son of Human also will be ashamed of them,
when he comes in the glory of his Father
with the holy angels.”
He said to them, “Amen, I say to you,
there are some standing here
who will not even taste death
until they see the Kingdom of God
having come with power.”
Reading 1 – James 2.14-24, 26
What good is it, my brothers and sisters,
if someone says they have faith but not works?
Faith cannot save them, can it?
And if a brother or sister
is naked and lacks basic food,
and one of you tells them,
“Go in peace, keep warm and well-fed”
and you do not give them
the things the body needs,
what good is that?
Even so faith, if it has no works,
is dead according to its own nature.
But someone will say,
“You have faith and I have works.
Show me your faith separate from works,
and I will show you, by my works, my faith.”
You believe that God is one.
You do well.
The demons also believe and shudder.
But do you want to know, vain man,
that faith apart from works is dead?
Was not Abraham our father
justified by works,
in that he offered up Isaac his son
on the altar?
You see that faith worked with his works,
and by works faith was perfected;
and the Scripture was fulfilled which says,
“Abraham believed God,
and it was credited to him as righteousness”;
and he was called the friend of God.
You see then that by works, a human is justified,
and not only by faith.
For as the body apart from the spirit is dead,
even so faith apart from works is dead.
Responsorial – Psalm 112.1-2, 3-4, 5-6 R. 1b
R. Blessed is the man who delights greatly in the Lord’s commandments.
Blessed is the man who fears the Lord,
who delights greatly in his commandments.
His seed will be mighty in the land.
The generation of the upright will be blessed.
R. Blessed is the human who delights greatly in the Lord’s commandments.
Wealth and riches are in his house.
His righteousness endures forever.
Light dawns in the darkness for the upright,
gracious, merciful, and righteous.
R. Blessed is the human who delights greatly in the Lord’s commandments.
It is well with the man who deals graciously and lends.
He will maintain his cause in judgment.
For he will never be shaken.
The righteous will be remembered forever.
R. Blessed is the human who delights greatly in the Lord’s commandments.
Gospel – Mark 8.34-9:1
Jesus called the crowd to himself
with his disciples, and said to them,
“Whoever wants to come after me,
let them deny themself,
and take up their cross,
and follow me.
For whoever wants to save their life
will lose it;
and whoever will lose their life
for my sake and the sake of the Gospel
will save it.
For what does it profit a human,
to gain the whole world,
and forfeit their soul?
For what will a human give
in exchange for their soul?
For whoever might be ashamed of me
and of my words
among the kind who are adulterous and sinful,
the Son of Human also will be ashamed of them,
when he comes in the glory of his Father
with the holy angels.”
He said to them, “Amen, I say to you,
there are some standing here
who will not even taste death
until they see the Kingdom of God
having come with power.”
Thursday of the Sixth Week in Ordinary Time (II)
Official Translation
Reading 1 – James 2.1-9
My brothers and sisters,
do not hold the faith
of our Lord of Glory, Jesus Christ,
with partiality.
For if someone with a gold ring,
in fine clothing,
comes into your synagogue,
and a poor person in filthy clothing
also comes in;
and you pay special attention
to the one who wears the fine clothing,
and say, “Sit here in a good place”;
and you tell the poor person,
“Stand there,” or
“Sit by my footstool”;
have you not shown partiality
among yourselves,
and become judges with evil thoughts?
Listen, my beloved brothers.
Did God not choose
those who are poor in this world
to be rich in faith
and heirs of the Kingdom
which he promised
to those who love him?
But you have dishonored the poor person.
Do not the rich oppress you,
and personally drag you into court?
Do they not blaspheme
the honorable name
by which you are called?
However, if you fulfill the royal law,
according to the Scripture,
“You shall love your neighbor as yourself,”
you do well.
But if you show partiality,
you commit sin,
being convicted by the law
as transgressors.
Responsorial – Psalm 34.2-3, 4-5, 6-7 Resp. 7a
R. The Lord hears the poor who cry out.
I will bless the Lord at all times.
His praise will always be in my mouth.
My soul shall boast in the Lord.
The humble shall hear of it, and be glad.
R. The Lord hears the poor who cry out.
Oh magnify the Lord with me.
Let us exalt his name together.
I sought the Lord, and he answered me,
and delivered me from all my fears.
R. The Lord hears the poor who cry out.
They looked to him, and were radiant.
Their faces shall never be covered with shame.
This poor man cried, and the Lord heard him,
and saved him out of all his troubles.
R. The Lord hears the poor who cry out.
Gospel – Mark 8.27-33
Jesus went out, with his disciples,
into the villages of Caesarea Philippi.
On the way he asked his disciples,
“Who do humans say that I am?”
They told him, “John the Baptist,
and others, Elijah,
and others, one of the prophets.”
He said to them,
“But who do you say that I am?”
Peter answered, “You are the Christ.”
He commanded them
that they should tell no one about him.
He began to teach them
that the Son of Man must
suffer many things,
and be rejected by the elders,
the chief priests, and the scribes,
and be killed,
and after three days rise again.
He spoke to them openly.
Peter took him aside,
and began to rebuke him.
But he, turning around,
and seeing his disciples,
rebuked Peter, and said,
“Get behind me, Satan!
For you have in mind
not the things of God,
but the things of humans.”
Reading 1 – James 2.1-9
My brothers and sisters,
do not hold the faith
of our Lord of Glory, Jesus Christ,
with partiality.
For if someone with a gold ring,
in fine clothing,
comes into your synagogue,
and a poor person in filthy clothing
also comes in;
and you pay special attention
to the one who wears the fine clothing,
and say, “Sit here in a good place”;
and you tell the poor person,
“Stand there,” or
“Sit by my footstool”;
have you not shown partiality
among yourselves,
and become judges with evil thoughts?
Listen, my beloved brothers.
Did God not choose
those who are poor in this world
to be rich in faith
and heirs of the Kingdom
which he promised
to those who love him?
But you have dishonored the poor person.
Do not the rich oppress you,
and personally drag you into court?
Do they not blaspheme
the honorable name
by which you are called?
However, if you fulfill the royal law,
according to the Scripture,
“You shall love your neighbor as yourself,”
you do well.
But if you show partiality,
you commit sin,
being convicted by the law
as transgressors.
Responsorial – Psalm 34.2-3, 4-5, 6-7 Resp. 7a
R. The Lord hears the poor who cry out.
I will bless the Lord at all times.
His praise will always be in my mouth.
My soul shall boast in the Lord.
The humble shall hear of it, and be glad.
R. The Lord hears the poor who cry out.
Oh magnify the Lord with me.
Let us exalt his name together.
I sought the Lord, and he answered me,
and delivered me from all my fears.
R. The Lord hears the poor who cry out.
They looked to him, and were radiant.
Their faces shall never be covered with shame.
This poor man cried, and the Lord heard him,
and saved him out of all his troubles.
R. The Lord hears the poor who cry out.
Gospel – Mark 8.27-33
Jesus went out, with his disciples,
into the villages of Caesarea Philippi.
On the way he asked his disciples,
“Who do humans say that I am?”
They told him, “John the Baptist,
and others, Elijah,
and others, one of the prophets.”
He said to them,
“But who do you say that I am?”
Peter answered, “You are the Christ.”
He commanded them
that they should tell no one about him.
He began to teach them
that the Son of Man must
suffer many things,
and be rejected by the elders,
the chief priests, and the scribes,
and be killed,
and after three days rise again.
He spoke to them openly.
Peter took him aside,
and began to rebuke him.
But he, turning around,
and seeing his disciples,
rebuked Peter, and said,
“Get behind me, Satan!
For you have in mind
not the things of God,
but the things of humans.”
Wednesday of the Sixth Week in Ordinary Time (II)
Official Translation
Reading 1 – James 1.19-27
So, then, my beloved
brothers and sisters,
let every human be swift to hear,
slow to speak, and slow to anger;
for the anger of man
does not produce
the righteousness of God.
Therefore, putting away
all filthiness and overflowing wickedness,
receive with humility the implanted word,
which is able to save your souls.
But be doers of the word,
and not only hearers,
deluding your own selves.
For if anyone is a hearer of the word
but not a doer,
they are like a man
looking at his natural face in a mirror;
for he sees himself, and goes away,
and immediately forgets
what sort he is.
But they who look into
the perfect law of freedom,
and continue,
not as a hearer who forgets,
but as a doer of the work,
this one will be blessed in what they do.
If anyone among you thinks
themself to be religious
while they do not bridle their tongue,
deceiving their heart,
this one’s religion is worthless.
Pure religion,
undefiled before our God and Father,
is this:
to visit the fatherless and widows
in their affliction,
and to keep oneself
unstained by the world.
Responsorial – Psalm 15.2-3a, 3bc-4ab, 5; Resp. 1b
R. Lord, who shall live 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. Lord, who shall live 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. Lord, who shall live on your holy hill?
He who does not lend out his money for usury,
nor take a bribe against the innocent.
He who does these things shall never be shaken.
R. Lord, who shall live on your holy hill?
Gospel – Mark 8.22-26
Jesus and his disciples
came to Bethsaida.
They brought a blind man to him,
and begged him to touch him.
He took hold of the blind man
by the hand
and brought him
out of the village.
When he had spit on his eyes
and laid his hands on him,
he asked him if he saw anything.
He looked up, and said,
“I see humans;
that are as trees that I see walking.”
Again he laid his hands on his eyes.
He looked intently,
and was restored,
and saw everyone clearly.
He sent him away to his house, saying,
“Do not enter into the village,
nor tell anyone in the village.”
Reading 1 – James 1.19-27
So, then, my beloved
brothers and sisters,
let every human be swift to hear,
slow to speak, and slow to anger;
for the anger of man
does not produce
the righteousness of God.
Therefore, putting away
all filthiness and overflowing wickedness,
receive with humility the implanted word,
which is able to save your souls.
But be doers of the word,
and not only hearers,
deluding your own selves.
For if anyone is a hearer of the word
but not a doer,
they are like a man
looking at his natural face in a mirror;
for he sees himself, and goes away,
and immediately forgets
what sort he is.
But they who look into
the perfect law of freedom,
and continue,
not as a hearer who forgets,
but as a doer of the work,
this one will be blessed in what they do.
If anyone among you thinks
themself to be religious
while they do not bridle their tongue,
deceiving their heart,
this one’s religion is worthless.
Pure religion,
undefiled before our God and Father,
is this:
to visit the fatherless and widows
in their affliction,
and to keep oneself
unstained by the world.
Responsorial – Psalm 15.2-3a, 3bc-4ab, 5; Resp. 1b
R. Lord, who shall live 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. Lord, who shall live 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. Lord, who shall live on your holy hill?
He who does not lend out his money for usury,
nor take a bribe against the innocent.
He who does these things shall never be shaken.
R. Lord, who shall live on your holy hill?
Gospel – Mark 8.22-26
Jesus and his disciples
came to Bethsaida.
They brought a blind man to him,
and begged him to touch him.
He took hold of the blind man
by the hand
and brought him
out of the village.
When he had spit on his eyes
and laid his hands on him,
he asked him if he saw anything.
He looked up, and said,
“I see humans;
that are as trees that I see walking.”
Again he laid his hands on his eyes.
He looked intently,
and was restored,
and saw everyone clearly.
He sent him away to his house, saying,
“Do not enter into the village,
nor tell anyone in the village.”
Tuesday of the Sixth Week in Ordinary Time (II)
Official Translation
Reading 1 – James 1.12-18
Blessed is the man
who endures temptation,
for when he has been proven,
he will receive the crown of life,
which the Lord promised
to those who love him.
Let no one say when they are tempted,
“I am tempted by God,”
for God cannot be tempted by evil,
and he himself tempts no one.
But each one is tempted,
when he is drawn away by his own desires,
and enticed.
Then the desire, when it has conceived,
bears sin;
and the sin, when it is full grown,
produces death.
Do not be deceived,
my beloved brothers.
Every good gift
and every perfect gift
is from above,
coming down from
the Father of lights,
with whom can be no variation,
nor shifting shadow.
Of his own will
he gave birth to us
by the word of truth,
that we should be
a kind of first fruits of his creatures.
Responsorial – Psalm 94.12-13a, 14-15, 18-19 Resp. 12a
R. Blessed is the man whom you discipline, O Lord.
Blessed is the man whom you discipline, O Lord,
and teach with your law;
that you may give him rest from the days of adversity,
R. Blessed is the man whom you discipline, O Lord.
For the Lord will not reject his people,
nor will he forsake his inheritance.
For judgment will return to righteousness.
All the upright in heart shall follow it.
R. Blessed is the man whom you discipline, O Lord.
When I said, “My foot is slipping!”
Your loving kindness, the Lord, held me up.
In the multitude of my thoughts within me,
your comforts delight my soul.
R. Blessed is the man whom you discipline, O Lord.
Gospel – Mark 8.14-21
The disciples forgot to bring bread;
and they did not have
more than one loaf in the boat with them.
Jesus warned them, saying,
“Take heed:
beware of the leaven of the Pharisees
and the leaven of Herod.”
They reasoned with one another, saying,
“It is because we have no bread.”
Jesus, perceiving it, said to them,
“Why do you reason that it is
because you have no bread?
Do you not perceive yet,
nor understand?
Are your hearts still hardened?
You have eyes; do you not see?
You have ears, do you not hear?
Do you not remember?
When I broke the five loaves
among the five thousand,
how many baskets
full of broken pieces did you take up?”
They told him, “Twelve.”
“When the seven loaves
fed the four thousand,
how many baskets
full of broken pieces did you take up?”
They told him, “Seven.”
He asked them, “Do you not yet understand?”
Reading 1 – James 1.12-18
Blessed is the man
who endures temptation,
for when he has been proven,
he will receive the crown of life,
which the Lord promised
to those who love him.
Let no one say when they are tempted,
“I am tempted by God,”
for God cannot be tempted by evil,
and he himself tempts no one.
But each one is tempted,
when he is drawn away by his own desires,
and enticed.
Then the desire, when it has conceived,
bears sin;
and the sin, when it is full grown,
produces death.
Do not be deceived,
my beloved brothers.
Every good gift
and every perfect gift
is from above,
coming down from
the Father of lights,
with whom can be no variation,
nor shifting shadow.
Of his own will
he gave birth to us
by the word of truth,
that we should be
a kind of first fruits of his creatures.
Responsorial – Psalm 94.12-13a, 14-15, 18-19 Resp. 12a
R. Blessed is the man whom you discipline, O Lord.
Blessed is the man whom you discipline, O Lord,
and teach with your law;
that you may give him rest from the days of adversity,
R. Blessed is the man whom you discipline, O Lord.
For the Lord will not reject his people,
nor will he forsake his inheritance.
For judgment will return to righteousness.
All the upright in heart shall follow it.
R. Blessed is the man whom you discipline, O Lord.
When I said, “My foot is slipping!”
Your loving kindness, the Lord, held me up.
In the multitude of my thoughts within me,
your comforts delight my soul.
R. Blessed is the man whom you discipline, O Lord.
Gospel – Mark 8.14-21
The disciples forgot to bring bread;
and they did not have
more than one loaf in the boat with them.
Jesus warned them, saying,
“Take heed:
beware of the leaven of the Pharisees
and the leaven of Herod.”
They reasoned with one another, saying,
“It is because we have no bread.”
Jesus, perceiving it, said to them,
“Why do you reason that it is
because you have no bread?
Do you not perceive yet,
nor understand?
Are your hearts still hardened?
You have eyes; do you not see?
You have ears, do you not hear?
Do you not remember?
When I broke the five loaves
among the five thousand,
how many baskets
full of broken pieces did you take up?”
They told him, “Twelve.”
“When the seven loaves
fed the four thousand,
how many baskets
full of broken pieces did you take up?”
They told him, “Seven.”
He asked them, “Do you not yet understand?”
Monday of the Sixth Week in Ordinary Time (II)
Official Translation
Reading 1 – James 1.1-11
James, a servant of God
and of the Lord Jesus Christ,
to the twelve tribes which
are in the Dispersion:
Greetings.
Count it all joy, my brothers and sisters,
when you fall into various trials,
knowing that the testing of your faith
produces endurance.
Let endurance work completely,
that you may be perfect and complete,
lacking in nothing.
But if any of you lacks wisdom,
let them ask of God,
who gives to all liberally and without reproach;
and it will be given to them.
But let them ask in faith, without any doubting,
for they who doubt are like a wave of the sea,
driven by the wind and tossed.
Let not that human think
that they will receive anything from the Lord.
They are a double-minded human,
unstable in all their ways.
But let the brother and sister in humble circumstances
glory in their high position;
and the rich in their humility,
because like the flower in the grass,
he will pass away.
For the sun arises with the scorching wind,
and withers the grass,
and the flower in it falls,
and the beauty of its appearance perishes.
Thus also will the rich fade away in their pursuits.
Responsorial – Psalm 119.67, 68, 71, 72, 75, 76 Resp. 77a
R. Let your tender mercies come to me, Lord, that I may live.
Before I was afflicted, I went astray;
but now I observe your word.
R. Let your tender mercies come to me, Lord, that I may live.
You are good, and do good.
Teach me your statutes.
R. Let your tender mercies come to me, Lord, that I may live.
It is good for me that I have been afflicted,
that I may learn your statutes.
R. Let your tender mercies come to me, Lord, that I may live.
The law of your mouth is better to me
than thousands of pieces of gold and silver.
R. Let your tender mercies come to me, Lord, that I may live.
Lord, I know that your judgments are righteous,
that in faithfulness you have afflicted me.
R. Let your tender mercies come to me, Lord, that I may live.
Please let your loving kindness be for my comfort,
according to your word to your servant.
R. Let your tender mercies come to me, Lord, that I may live.
Gospel – Mark 8.11-13
The Pharisees came out
and began to question Jesus,
seeking from him
a sign from heaven,
and testing him.
He sighed deeply in his spirit,
and said, “Why does this kind
seek a sign?
Most certainly I tell you,
no sign will be given to this kind.”
He left them,
and again entering into the boat,
departed to the other side.
Reading 1 – James 1.1-11
James, a servant of God
and of the Lord Jesus Christ,
to the twelve tribes which
are in the Dispersion:
Greetings.
Count it all joy, my brothers and sisters,
when you fall into various trials,
knowing that the testing of your faith
produces endurance.
Let endurance work completely,
that you may be perfect and complete,
lacking in nothing.
But if any of you lacks wisdom,
let them ask of God,
who gives to all liberally and without reproach;
and it will be given to them.
But let them ask in faith, without any doubting,
for they who doubt are like a wave of the sea,
driven by the wind and tossed.
Let not that human think
that they will receive anything from the Lord.
They are a double-minded human,
unstable in all their ways.
But let the brother and sister in humble circumstances
glory in their high position;
and the rich in their humility,
because like the flower in the grass,
he will pass away.
For the sun arises with the scorching wind,
and withers the grass,
and the flower in it falls,
and the beauty of its appearance perishes.
Thus also will the rich fade away in their pursuits.
Responsorial – Psalm 119.67, 68, 71, 72, 75, 76 Resp. 77a
R. Let your tender mercies come to me, Lord, that I may live.
Before I was afflicted, I went astray;
but now I observe your word.
R. Let your tender mercies come to me, Lord, that I may live.
You are good, and do good.
Teach me your statutes.
R. Let your tender mercies come to me, Lord, that I may live.
It is good for me that I have been afflicted,
that I may learn your statutes.
R. Let your tender mercies come to me, Lord, that I may live.
The law of your mouth is better to me
than thousands of pieces of gold and silver.
R. Let your tender mercies come to me, Lord, that I may live.
Lord, I know that your judgments are righteous,
that in faithfulness you have afflicted me.
R. Let your tender mercies come to me, Lord, that I may live.
Please let your loving kindness be for my comfort,
according to your word to your servant.
R. Let your tender mercies come to me, Lord, that I may live.
Gospel – Mark 8.11-13
The Pharisees came out
and began to question Jesus,
seeking from him
a sign from heaven,
and testing him.
He sighed deeply in his spirit,
and said, “Why does this kind
seek a sign?
Most certainly I tell you,
no sign will be given to this kind.”
He left them,
and again entering into the boat,
departed to the other side.
Saturday of the Fifth Week in Ordinary Time (II)
Official Translation
Reading 1 – 1 Kings 12.26-32; 13.33-34
Jeroboam said in his heart,
“Now the kingdom will return
to the house of David.
If this people goes up to offer sacrifices
in the Lord’s house at Jerusalem,
then the hearts of these people
will turn again to their master,
to Rehoboam king of Judah;
and they will kill me,
and return to Rehoboam king of Judah.”
So the king took counsel,
and made two calves of gold;
and he said to them,
“Long enough have you
gone up to Jerusalem.
Look and see your God, Israel,
who brought you up out of the land of Egypt!”
He set the one in Bethel,
and the other he put in Dan.
This thing became a sin;
for the people went to worship
even going to the one in Dan.
He made temples on the high places,
and made priests from among the people
who were not of the sons of Levi.
Jeroboam ordained a feast
in the eighth month,
on the fifteenth day of the month,
like the feast that is in Judah,
and he went up to the altar in Bethel,
sacrificing to the calves that he had made:
and he placed in Bethel
the priests of the high places
that he he built.
After this Jeroboam did not return
from his evil way,
but again made priests of the high places
from among all the people.
Whoever wanted to, he consecrated him,
that there might be priests of the high places.
This was a sin of the house of Jeroboam,
so it was cut off and destroyed
from the face of the earth.
Responsorial – Psalm 106.6-7ab, 19-20, 21-22 Resp. 4a
R. Remember me, the Lord, with the favor that you show to your people.
We have sinned with our fathers.
We have committed iniquity. We have done wickedly.
Our fathers, in Egypt,
did not understand your wonders.
R. Remember me, the Lord, with the favor that you show to your people.
They made a calf in Horeb,
and worshiped a molten image.
Thus they exchanged their glory
for an image of a bull that eats grass.
R. Remember me, the Lord, with the favor that you show to your people.
They forgot God, their Savior,
who had done great things in Egypt,
Wondrous works in the land of Ham,
and awesome things by the Red Sea.
R. Remember me, the Lord, with the favor that you show to your people.
Gospel – Mark 8.1-10
In those days, when there was once again
a very large crowd who had nothing to eat.
Jesus called his disciples to himself,
and said to them,
“I have compassion for the crowd,
because they have stayed with me now three days,
and have nothing to eat.
If I send them away fasting to their home,
they will faint on the way,
for some of them have come a long way.”
His disciples answered him,
“From where could one satisfy
these people with bread here in a deserted place?”
He asked them, “How many loaves do you have?”
They said, “Seven.”
He commanded the crowd to sit down on the ground,
and he took the seven loaves.
Having given thanks,
he broke them,
and gave them to his disciples to serve,
and they served the crowd.
And they had a few small fish.
Having blessed them, he said to serve these also.
They ate, and were filled.
They took up seven baskets of broken pieces
that were left over.
Those who had eaten
were about four thousand.
Then he sent them away.
Immediately he entered into the boat
with his disciples,
and came into the region of Dalmanutha.
Reading 1 – 1 Kings 12.26-32; 13.33-34
Jeroboam said in his heart,
“Now the kingdom will return
to the house of David.
If this people goes up to offer sacrifices
in the Lord’s house at Jerusalem,
then the hearts of these people
will turn again to their master,
to Rehoboam king of Judah;
and they will kill me,
and return to Rehoboam king of Judah.”
So the king took counsel,
and made two calves of gold;
and he said to them,
“Long enough have you
gone up to Jerusalem.
Look and see your God, Israel,
who brought you up out of the land of Egypt!”
He set the one in Bethel,
and the other he put in Dan.
This thing became a sin;
for the people went to worship
even going to the one in Dan.
He made temples on the high places,
and made priests from among the people
who were not of the sons of Levi.
Jeroboam ordained a feast
in the eighth month,
on the fifteenth day of the month,
like the feast that is in Judah,
and he went up to the altar in Bethel,
sacrificing to the calves that he had made:
and he placed in Bethel
the priests of the high places
that he he built.
After this Jeroboam did not return
from his evil way,
but again made priests of the high places
from among all the people.
Whoever wanted to, he consecrated him,
that there might be priests of the high places.
This was a sin of the house of Jeroboam,
so it was cut off and destroyed
from the face of the earth.
Responsorial – Psalm 106.6-7ab, 19-20, 21-22 Resp. 4a
R. Remember me, the Lord, with the favor that you show to your people.
We have sinned with our fathers.
We have committed iniquity. We have done wickedly.
Our fathers, in Egypt,
did not understand your wonders.
R. Remember me, the Lord, with the favor that you show to your people.
They made a calf in Horeb,
and worshiped a molten image.
Thus they exchanged their glory
for an image of a bull that eats grass.
R. Remember me, the Lord, with the favor that you show to your people.
They forgot God, their Savior,
who had done great things in Egypt,
Wondrous works in the land of Ham,
and awesome things by the Red Sea.
R. Remember me, the Lord, with the favor that you show to your people.
Gospel – Mark 8.1-10
In those days, when there was once again
a very large crowd who had nothing to eat.
Jesus called his disciples to himself,
and said to them,
“I have compassion for the crowd,
because they have stayed with me now three days,
and have nothing to eat.
If I send them away fasting to their home,
they will faint on the way,
for some of them have come a long way.”
His disciples answered him,
“From where could one satisfy
these people with bread here in a deserted place?”
He asked them, “How many loaves do you have?”
They said, “Seven.”
He commanded the crowd to sit down on the ground,
and he took the seven loaves.
Having given thanks,
he broke them,
and gave them to his disciples to serve,
and they served the crowd.
And they had a few small fish.
Having blessed them, he said to serve these also.
They ate, and were filled.
They took up seven baskets of broken pieces
that were left over.
Those who had eaten
were about four thousand.
Then he sent them away.
Immediately he entered into the boat
with his disciples,
and came into the region of Dalmanutha.
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