Official Translation
Reading 1 – 2 Samuel 12.1-7a, 10-17
The Lord sent Nathan to David.
He came to him, and said to him,
“There were two men in one city;
the one rich, and the other poor.
The rich man had many flocks and herds,
but the poor man had nothing,
except one little ewe lamb,
which he had bought and raised.
It grew up together with him,
and with his children.
It ate of his own food,
drank of his own cup,
and lay in his bosom,
and was to him like a daughter.
A traveler came to the rich man,
and he did not take of his own flock
and of his own herd,
to prepare a meal for the wayfaring man
who had come to him,
but took the poor man’s lamb,
and dressed it for the man who had come to him.”
David’s anger was greatly kindled against the man,
and he said to Nathan, “As the Lord lives,
the man who has done this deserves to die!
He shall restore the lamb fourfold,
because he did this thing
and because he had no pity!”
Nathan said to David, “You are the man.
Thus says the Lord, the God of Israel:
The sword will never depart from your house,
because you have despised me,
and have taken the wife of Uriah the Hittite
to be your wife.’
“Thus says the Lord:
‘Behold, I will raise up evil against you
out of your own house;
and I will take your wives before your eyes,
and give them to your neighbor,
and he will lie with your wives in the sight of the sun.
For you did it secretly,
but I will do this thing
before all Israel and before the sun.’”
David said to Nathan,
“I have sinned against the Lord.”
Nathan said to David,
“The Lord also has put away your sin.
You will not die.
However, because by this deed
you have given great occasion
to the Lord’s enemies to blaspheme,
the child also who is born to you
shall surely die.”
Nathan departed to his house.
The Lord struck the child that
Uriah’s wife bore to David,
and it was very sick.
David therefore begged God for the child;
and David fasted, and went in,
and lay all night on the ground.
The elders of his house arose beside him,
to raise him up from the earth: but he would not,
nor did he eat bread with them.
Responsorial – Psalm 51.12-13, 14-15, 16-17 Resp. 12a
R. Create in me a clean heart, O God.
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. Create in me a clean heart, O God.
Restore to me the joy of your salvation.
Uphold me with a willing spirit.
Then I will teach transgressors your ways.
Sinners shall be converted to you.
R. Create in me a clean heart, O God.
Deliver me from the guilt of bloodshed, O God, the God of my salvation.
My tongue shall sing aloud of your righteousness.
Lord, open my lips.
My mouth shall declare your praise.
R. Create in me a clean heart, O God.
Gospel – Mark 4.35-41
On that day, when evening had come,
Jesus said to them, “Let us go over to the other side.”
Leaving the multitude, they took him with them,
just as he was, in the boat.
Other small boats were also with him.
A big wind storm arose, and the waves beat into the boat,
so much that the boat was already filled.
He himself was in the stern, asleep on the cushion,
and they woke him up, and told him,
“Teacher, do you not care that we are dying?”
He awoke and rebuked the wind, and said to the sea, “Peace! Be still!”
The wind ceased, and there was a great calm.
He said to them, “Why are you so afraid?
How is it that you have no faith?”
They were greatly afraid, and said to one another,
“Who then is this, that even the wind and the sea obey him?”
Mass Readings
Friday of the Third Week in Ordinary Time (II)
Official Translation
Reading 1 – 2 Samuel 11.1-4a, 5-10a, 13-17
At the turn of the year, at the time when kings go out,
David sent Joab, and his servants with him, and all Israel;
and they destroyed the children of Ammon, and besieged Rabbah.
But David stayed at Jerusalem.
At evening, David arose from his bed
and walked on the roof of the king’s house.
From the roof, he saw a woman bathing;
and the woman was very beautiful to look at.
David sent and inquired after the woman.
Someone said, “Is not this Bathsheba,
the daughter of Eliam, the wife of Uriah the Hittite?”
David sent messengers, and took her;
She came to him, and he lay with her
Then she returned to her house.
The woman conceived;
and she sent and told David, and said, “I am with child.”
David sent to Joab, “Send me Uriah the Hittite.”
Joab sent Uriah to David.
When Uriah had come to him, David asked him how Joab did,
and how the people fared, and how the war prospered.
David said to Uriah, “Go down to your house,and wash your feet.”
Uriah departed out of the king’s house,
and a gift from the king was sent after him.
But Uriah slept at the door of the king’s house
with all the servants of his lord,
and did not go down to his house.
When they had told David, saying,
“Uriah did not go down to his house,”
David called him on the next day,
he ate and drink before David, and he made him drunk.
At evening, he went out to lie on his bed with the servants of his lord,
but did not go down to his house.
In the morning, David wrote a letter to Joab,
and sent it by the hand of Uriah.
He wrote in the letter, saying,
“Send Uriah to the forefront of the heaviest battle,
and draw back from him, that he may be struck, and die.”
When Joab kept watch on the city, he assigned Uriah to the place
where he knew that valiant men were.
The men of the city went out, and fought with Joab.
Some of the people fell, of the officers of David;
and Uriah the Hittite died also.
Responsorial – Psalm 51.3-4, 5-6a, 6bcd-7, 10-11 Resp. 3a
R. Have mercy, O Lord, for we have sinned.
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. Have mercy, O Lord, for we have sinned.
For I know my transgressions.
My sin is constantly before me.
Against you, and you alone, have I sinned,
and done what is evil in your sight;
R. Have mercy, O Lord, for we have sinned.
I have done what is evil in your sight;
that you may be proved right when you speak,
and justified when you judge.
Behold, I was born in iniquity.
A sinner, as my mother conceived me.
R. Have mercy, O Lord, for we have sinned.
Let me hear joy and gladness,
That the bones which you have broken may rejoice.
Hide your face from my sins,
and blot out all of my iniquities.
R. Have mercy, O Lord, for we have sinned.
Gospel – Mark 4.26-34
Jesus said to the crowds,
“The Kingdom of God is like when a human
casts seed on the earth,
and sleeps and rises night and day,
and the seed springs up and grows,
they know not how.
For the earth bears fruit:
first the blade, then the ear,
then the full grain in the ear.
But when the fruit is ripe,
immediately they put in the sickle,
because the harvest has come.”
He said, “To what will we compare the Kingdom of God?
Or with what parable will we illustrate it?
It is like a grain of mustard seed,
which, when it is sown in the earth,
is smaller than the other seeds that are on the earth,
yet when it is sown, grows up,
and becomes greater than all the plants,
and puts out great branches,
so that the birds of the sky
can lodge under its shadow.”
With many such parables he spoke the word to them,
as they were able to hear it.
Without a parable he did not speak to them;
but privately to his own disciples he explained everything.
Reading 1 – 2 Samuel 11.1-4a, 5-10a, 13-17
At the turn of the year, at the time when kings go out,
David sent Joab, and his servants with him, and all Israel;
and they destroyed the children of Ammon, and besieged Rabbah.
But David stayed at Jerusalem.
At evening, David arose from his bed
and walked on the roof of the king’s house.
From the roof, he saw a woman bathing;
and the woman was very beautiful to look at.
David sent and inquired after the woman.
Someone said, “Is not this Bathsheba,
the daughter of Eliam, the wife of Uriah the Hittite?”
David sent messengers, and took her;
She came to him, and he lay with her
Then she returned to her house.
The woman conceived;
and she sent and told David, and said, “I am with child.”
David sent to Joab, “Send me Uriah the Hittite.”
Joab sent Uriah to David.
When Uriah had come to him, David asked him how Joab did,
and how the people fared, and how the war prospered.
David said to Uriah, “Go down to your house,and wash your feet.”
Uriah departed out of the king’s house,
and a gift from the king was sent after him.
But Uriah slept at the door of the king’s house
with all the servants of his lord,
and did not go down to his house.
When they had told David, saying,
“Uriah did not go down to his house,”
David called him on the next day,
he ate and drink before David, and he made him drunk.
At evening, he went out to lie on his bed with the servants of his lord,
but did not go down to his house.
In the morning, David wrote a letter to Joab,
and sent it by the hand of Uriah.
He wrote in the letter, saying,
“Send Uriah to the forefront of the heaviest battle,
and draw back from him, that he may be struck, and die.”
When Joab kept watch on the city, he assigned Uriah to the place
where he knew that valiant men were.
The men of the city went out, and fought with Joab.
Some of the people fell, of the officers of David;
and Uriah the Hittite died also.
Responsorial – Psalm 51.3-4, 5-6a, 6bcd-7, 10-11 Resp. 3a
R. Have mercy, O Lord, for we have sinned.
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. Have mercy, O Lord, for we have sinned.
For I know my transgressions.
My sin is constantly before me.
Against you, and you alone, have I sinned,
and done what is evil in your sight;
R. Have mercy, O Lord, for we have sinned.
I have done what is evil in your sight;
that you may be proved right when you speak,
and justified when you judge.
Behold, I was born in iniquity.
A sinner, as my mother conceived me.
R. Have mercy, O Lord, for we have sinned.
Let me hear joy and gladness,
That the bones which you have broken may rejoice.
Hide your face from my sins,
and blot out all of my iniquities.
R. Have mercy, O Lord, for we have sinned.
Gospel – Mark 4.26-34
Jesus said to the crowds,
“The Kingdom of God is like when a human
casts seed on the earth,
and sleeps and rises night and day,
and the seed springs up and grows,
they know not how.
For the earth bears fruit:
first the blade, then the ear,
then the full grain in the ear.
But when the fruit is ripe,
immediately they put in the sickle,
because the harvest has come.”
He said, “To what will we compare the Kingdom of God?
Or with what parable will we illustrate it?
It is like a grain of mustard seed,
which, when it is sown in the earth,
is smaller than the other seeds that are on the earth,
yet when it is sown, grows up,
and becomes greater than all the plants,
and puts out great branches,
so that the birds of the sky
can lodge under its shadow.”
With many such parables he spoke the word to them,
as they were able to hear it.
Without a parable he did not speak to them;
but privately to his own disciples he explained everything.
Thursday of the Third Week in Ordinary Time (II)
Official Translation
Reading 1 – 2 Samuel 7.18-19, 24-29
So did Nathan speak to David.
Then David the king went in, and sat before the Lord, and he said,
“Who am I, Lord God, and what is my house,
that you have brought me thus far?
But this was still a small thing in your eyes, Lord God,
for you have spoken also of your servant's house for a great while to come,
and this is a teaching for mankind, Lord God!
You have established for yourself your people Israel
to be a people to you forever,
and you, O Lord, became their God.
Now, Lord God, the word that you have spoken concerning your servant,
and concerning his house, confirm it forever, and do as you have spoken.
Let your name be magnified forever, saying,
‘The Lord of hosts is God over Israel’,
and the house of your servant David shall be established before you.
For you, O Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, have revealed to your servant, saying,
‘I will build you a house.’
Therefore your servant has found it in his heart to pray this prayer to you.
Now, O Lord God, you are God, and your words are truth,
and you have promised this good thing to your servant,
now therefore let it please you to bless the house of your servant,
that it may continue forever before you,
for you, Lord God, have spoken it,
and with your blessing let the house of your servant be blessed forever.”
Responsorial – Psalm 132.1-2, 3-5, 11, 12, 13-14 Resp. Luke 1.32b
R. The Lord God will give him the throne of his father, David.
Lord, remember David
and all his affliction,
how he swore to the Lord,
and vowed to the Mighty One of Jacob:
R. The Lord God will give him the throne of his father, David.
“Surely I will not come into the structure of my house,
nor go up into my bed;
I will give no sleep to my eyes,
nor slumber to my eyelids;
until I find out a home for the Lord,
a dwelling for the Mighty One of Jacob.”
R. The Lord God will give him the throne of his father, David.
The Lord has sworn to David in truth.
He will not turn from it:
“I will set the fruit of your body
on your throne.”
R. The Lord God will give him the throne of his father, David.
“If your sons will keep my covenant,
my testimony that I will teach them,
their sons also
will sit on your throne forevermore.”
R. The Lord God will give him the throne of his father, David.
For the Lord has chosen Zion.
He has desired it for his dwelling.
“This is my resting place forever.
Here I will live, for I have desired it.”
R. The Lord God will give him the throne of his father, David.
Gospel – Mark 4.21-25
Jesus said to his disciples,
“Is the lamp brought in in order to put it under a basket or under a bed?
Is it not put on a stand?
For there is nothing hidden, except to be revealed;
nor is anything made secret, but that it should come to light.
If anyone has ears to hear, let them hear.”
He said to them, “Take heed what you do hear.
For whatever measure you measure, will be measured out to you,
and more will be given to you.
For whoever has, to them will more be given,
and they who do not have, even that which they have will be taken away.”
Reading 1 – 2 Samuel 7.18-19, 24-29
So did Nathan speak to David.
Then David the king went in, and sat before the Lord, and he said,
“Who am I, Lord God, and what is my house,
that you have brought me thus far?
But this was still a small thing in your eyes, Lord God,
for you have spoken also of your servant's house for a great while to come,
and this is a teaching for mankind, Lord God!
You have established for yourself your people Israel
to be a people to you forever,
and you, O Lord, became their God.
Now, Lord God, the word that you have spoken concerning your servant,
and concerning his house, confirm it forever, and do as you have spoken.
Let your name be magnified forever, saying,
‘The Lord of hosts is God over Israel’,
and the house of your servant David shall be established before you.
For you, O Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, have revealed to your servant, saying,
‘I will build you a house.’
Therefore your servant has found it in his heart to pray this prayer to you.
Now, O Lord God, you are God, and your words are truth,
and you have promised this good thing to your servant,
now therefore let it please you to bless the house of your servant,
that it may continue forever before you,
for you, Lord God, have spoken it,
and with your blessing let the house of your servant be blessed forever.”
Responsorial – Psalm 132.1-2, 3-5, 11, 12, 13-14 Resp. Luke 1.32b
R. The Lord God will give him the throne of his father, David.
Lord, remember David
and all his affliction,
how he swore to the Lord,
and vowed to the Mighty One of Jacob:
R. The Lord God will give him the throne of his father, David.
“Surely I will not come into the structure of my house,
nor go up into my bed;
I will give no sleep to my eyes,
nor slumber to my eyelids;
until I find out a home for the Lord,
a dwelling for the Mighty One of Jacob.”
R. The Lord God will give him the throne of his father, David.
The Lord has sworn to David in truth.
He will not turn from it:
“I will set the fruit of your body
on your throne.”
R. The Lord God will give him the throne of his father, David.
“If your sons will keep my covenant,
my testimony that I will teach them,
their sons also
will sit on your throne forevermore.”
R. The Lord God will give him the throne of his father, David.
For the Lord has chosen Zion.
He has desired it for his dwelling.
“This is my resting place forever.
Here I will live, for I have desired it.”
R. The Lord God will give him the throne of his father, David.
Gospel – Mark 4.21-25
Jesus said to his disciples,
“Is the lamp brought in in order to put it under a basket or under a bed?
Is it not put on a stand?
For there is nothing hidden, except to be revealed;
nor is anything made secret, but that it should come to light.
If anyone has ears to hear, let them hear.”
He said to them, “Take heed what you do hear.
For whatever measure you measure, will be measured out to you,
and more will be given to you.
For whoever has, to them will more be given,
and they who do not have, even that which they have will be taken away.”
Wednesday of the Third Week in Ordinary Time (II)
Official Translation
Reading 1 – 2 Samuel 7.4-17
It happened that same night,
that the word of the Lord came to Nathan, saying,
“Go and tell my servant David, ‘Thus says the Lord:
“Shall you build me a house to dwell in?
I have not dwelt in a house
from the day on which I led the children of Israel
out of Egypt to the present,
but I have been going about in a tent under cloth.
In all my wanderings everywhere among the children of Israel,
did I ever utter a word to any one of the judges
whom I charged to tend my people Israel, to ask:
Why have you not built me a house of cedar?’
“Now then, speak thus to my servant David,
‘The LORD of hosts has this to say:
I took you from the sheep pen,
from following the sheep,
that you should be prince over my people Israel.
I have been with you wherever you went,
and have cut off all your enemies from before you.
I will make you a great name,
like the name of the great ones who are in the earth.
I will appoint a place for my people Israel,
and will plant them that they may dwell in their own place,
and be moved no more;
nor shall the children of wickedness
afflict them anymore, as at first,
and from the days that I commanded judges
to be over my people Israel.
I will cause you to rest from all your enemies.
Moreover the Lord tells you
that the Lord will make you a house.
When your days are fulfilled,
and you sleep with your fathers,
I will set up your seed after you,
who shall proceed out of your loins,
and I will establish his kingdom.
He will build a house for my name, and I will establish the throne of his kingdom forever.
I will be his father, and he shall be my son.
If he commits iniquity, I will chasten him with the rod of men,
and with the stripes of the children of men;
but my loving kindness will not depart from him,
as I took it from Saul,
whom I put away before you.
Your house and your kingdom shall be made sure forever before me.
Your throne shall be established forever.”
Nathan spoke to David all these words,
according to all this vision.
Responsorial - Psalm 89.4-5, 27-28, 29-30 Resp. 29a
R. I will make my love for my servant endure forever.
“I have made a covenant with my chosen one,
I have sworn to David, my servant,
‘I will establish your offspring forever,
and build up your throne to all generations.’”
R. I will make my love for my servant endure forever.
He will call to me, ‘You are my Father,
my God, and the rock of my salvation!’
I will appoint him my firstborn,
the highest of the kings of the earth.
R. I will make my love for my servant endure forever.
I will keep my loving kindness for him forever more.
My covenant will stand firm with him.
I will also make his offspring endure forever,
and his throne as the days of heaven.
R. I will make my love for my servant endure forever.
Gospel – Mark 4.1-20
Again Jesus began to teach by the sea.
A large crowd was gathered to him,
so that he got into a boat on the sea, and sat down.
The whole crowd was on the seashore.
He taught them many things in parables, and told them in his teaching,
“Listen! Behold, the farmer went out to sow,
and as he sowed, some seed fell by the road, and the birds came and devoured it.
Others fell on the rocky ground, where it had little soil,
and immediately it sprang up, because it had no depth of soil.
When the sun had risen, it was scorched; and because it had no root, it withered away.
Others fell among the thorns, and the thorns grew up, and choked it,
and it yielded no fruit.
Others fell into the good ground, and yielded fruit, growing up and increasing.
Some produced thirty-fold, some sixty-fold, and some one-hundred-fold.”
He said, “Whoever has ears to hear, let him hear.”
When he was alone, those who were by him along with the Twelve asked him about the parables.
He said to them, “To you is given the mystery of the Kingdom of God,
but to those who are outside, all things are done in parables, that
‘seeing they may see, and not perceive; and hearing they may hear, and not understand;
lest perhaps they should turn again, and their sins be forgiven them.’”
He said to them, “Do you not understand this parable?
How will you understand any of the parables?
The farmer sows the word.
The ones by the road are the ones where the word is sown,
and when they have heard, immediately Satan comes,
and takes away the word which has been sown in them.
And these are those who are sown on the rocky places,
who, when they have heard the word, immediately receive it with joy.
They have no root in themselves, but are short-lived.
When oppression or persecution arises because of the word, immediately they stumble.
Others are those who are sown among the thorns.
These are those who have heard the word,
but the cares of this age, and the deceitfulness of riches, and the desire for other things
entering in choke the word, and it becomes unfruitful.
Those which were sown on the good ground are those who hear the word, and accept it,
and bear fruit, some thirty-fold, some sixty-fold, and some one-hundred-fold.”
Reading 1 – 2 Samuel 7.4-17
It happened that same night,
that the word of the Lord came to Nathan, saying,
“Go and tell my servant David, ‘Thus says the Lord:
“Shall you build me a house to dwell in?
I have not dwelt in a house
from the day on which I led the children of Israel
out of Egypt to the present,
but I have been going about in a tent under cloth.
In all my wanderings everywhere among the children of Israel,
did I ever utter a word to any one of the judges
whom I charged to tend my people Israel, to ask:
Why have you not built me a house of cedar?’
“Now then, speak thus to my servant David,
‘The LORD of hosts has this to say:
I took you from the sheep pen,
from following the sheep,
that you should be prince over my people Israel.
I have been with you wherever you went,
and have cut off all your enemies from before you.
I will make you a great name,
like the name of the great ones who are in the earth.
I will appoint a place for my people Israel,
and will plant them that they may dwell in their own place,
and be moved no more;
nor shall the children of wickedness
afflict them anymore, as at first,
and from the days that I commanded judges
to be over my people Israel.
I will cause you to rest from all your enemies.
Moreover the Lord tells you
that the Lord will make you a house.
When your days are fulfilled,
and you sleep with your fathers,
I will set up your seed after you,
who shall proceed out of your loins,
and I will establish his kingdom.
He will build a house for my name, and I will establish the throne of his kingdom forever.
I will be his father, and he shall be my son.
If he commits iniquity, I will chasten him with the rod of men,
and with the stripes of the children of men;
but my loving kindness will not depart from him,
as I took it from Saul,
whom I put away before you.
Your house and your kingdom shall be made sure forever before me.
Your throne shall be established forever.”
Nathan spoke to David all these words,
according to all this vision.
Responsorial - Psalm 89.4-5, 27-28, 29-30 Resp. 29a
R. I will make my love for my servant endure forever.
“I have made a covenant with my chosen one,
I have sworn to David, my servant,
‘I will establish your offspring forever,
and build up your throne to all generations.’”
R. I will make my love for my servant endure forever.
He will call to me, ‘You are my Father,
my God, and the rock of my salvation!’
I will appoint him my firstborn,
the highest of the kings of the earth.
R. I will make my love for my servant endure forever.
I will keep my loving kindness for him forever more.
My covenant will stand firm with him.
I will also make his offspring endure forever,
and his throne as the days of heaven.
R. I will make my love for my servant endure forever.
Gospel – Mark 4.1-20
Again Jesus began to teach by the sea.
A large crowd was gathered to him,
so that he got into a boat on the sea, and sat down.
The whole crowd was on the seashore.
He taught them many things in parables, and told them in his teaching,
“Listen! Behold, the farmer went out to sow,
and as he sowed, some seed fell by the road, and the birds came and devoured it.
Others fell on the rocky ground, where it had little soil,
and immediately it sprang up, because it had no depth of soil.
When the sun had risen, it was scorched; and because it had no root, it withered away.
Others fell among the thorns, and the thorns grew up, and choked it,
and it yielded no fruit.
Others fell into the good ground, and yielded fruit, growing up and increasing.
Some produced thirty-fold, some sixty-fold, and some one-hundred-fold.”
He said, “Whoever has ears to hear, let him hear.”
When he was alone, those who were by him along with the Twelve asked him about the parables.
He said to them, “To you is given the mystery of the Kingdom of God,
but to those who are outside, all things are done in parables, that
‘seeing they may see, and not perceive; and hearing they may hear, and not understand;
lest perhaps they should turn again, and their sins be forgiven them.’”
He said to them, “Do you not understand this parable?
How will you understand any of the parables?
The farmer sows the word.
The ones by the road are the ones where the word is sown,
and when they have heard, immediately Satan comes,
and takes away the word which has been sown in them.
And these are those who are sown on the rocky places,
who, when they have heard the word, immediately receive it with joy.
They have no root in themselves, but are short-lived.
When oppression or persecution arises because of the word, immediately they stumble.
Others are those who are sown among the thorns.
These are those who have heard the word,
but the cares of this age, and the deceitfulness of riches, and the desire for other things
entering in choke the word, and it becomes unfruitful.
Those which were sown on the good ground are those who hear the word, and accept it,
and bear fruit, some thirty-fold, some sixty-fold, and some one-hundred-fold.”
Tuesday of the Third Week in Ordinary Time (II)
Official Translation
Reading 1 - 2 Samuel 6.12b-15, 17-19
David went and brought up
the Ark of God from the house of Obed-Edom
into the city of David with joy.
It took place in this way:
when those who bore the Lord’s Ark
had gone six paces,
he sacrificed an ox and a fattened calf.
David danced before the Lord with all his might;
clothed in a linen ephod.
So David and all the house of Israel
brought up the Ark of the Lord with shouting,
and with the sound of the trumpet.
They brought in the Ark of the Lord,
and set it in its place,
in the middle of the tent
that David had pitched for it;
and David offered burnt offerings and peace offerings
before the Lord.
When David had finished offering
the burnt offering and the peace offerings,
he blessed the people in the name of the Lord of Hosts.
He gave to all the people,
among the whole multitude of Israel,
both men and women, to everyone,
a portion of bread, roast meat, and raisins.
Then all the people departed,
everyone to his house.
Responsorial – Psalm 24.7, 8, 9, 10 Resp. 8
R. Who is the King of glory? The Lord.
Lift up your heads, you gates!
Be lifted up, you everlasting doors,
and the King of glory will come in.
R. Who is the King of glory? The Lord.
Who is the King of glory?
The Lord strong and mighty,
the Lord mighty in battle.
R. Who is the King of glory? The Lord.
Lift up your heads, you gates;
yes, lift them up, you everlasting doors,
and the King of glory will come in.
R. Who is the King of glory? The Lord.
Who is this King of glory?
The Lord of Hosts is the King of glory!
Gospel – Mark 3.31-35
Jesus’ mother and his brothers came,
and standing outside, they sent for him, calling him.
A multitude was sitting around him,
and they told him,
“Behold, your mother, your brothers, and your sisters
are outside looking for you.”
He answered them,
“Who are my mother and my brothers?”
Looking around at those who sat around him,
he said, “Behold, my mother and my brothers!
For whoever does the will of God,
that one is my brother and sister and mother.”
Reading 1 - 2 Samuel 6.12b-15, 17-19
David went and brought up
the Ark of God from the house of Obed-Edom
into the city of David with joy.
It took place in this way:
when those who bore the Lord’s Ark
had gone six paces,
he sacrificed an ox and a fattened calf.
David danced before the Lord with all his might;
clothed in a linen ephod.
So David and all the house of Israel
brought up the Ark of the Lord with shouting,
and with the sound of the trumpet.
They brought in the Ark of the Lord,
and set it in its place,
in the middle of the tent
that David had pitched for it;
and David offered burnt offerings and peace offerings
before the Lord.
When David had finished offering
the burnt offering and the peace offerings,
he blessed the people in the name of the Lord of Hosts.
He gave to all the people,
among the whole multitude of Israel,
both men and women, to everyone,
a portion of bread, roast meat, and raisins.
Then all the people departed,
everyone to his house.
Responsorial – Psalm 24.7, 8, 9, 10 Resp. 8
R. Who is the King of glory? The Lord.
Lift up your heads, you gates!
Be lifted up, you everlasting doors,
and the King of glory will come in.
R. Who is the King of glory? The Lord.
Who is the King of glory?
The Lord strong and mighty,
the Lord mighty in battle.
R. Who is the King of glory? The Lord.
Lift up your heads, you gates;
yes, lift them up, you everlasting doors,
and the King of glory will come in.
R. Who is the King of glory? The Lord.
Who is this King of glory?
The Lord of Hosts is the King of glory!
Gospel – Mark 3.31-35
Jesus’ mother and his brothers came,
and standing outside, they sent for him, calling him.
A multitude was sitting around him,
and they told him,
“Behold, your mother, your brothers, and your sisters
are outside looking for you.”
He answered them,
“Who are my mother and my brothers?”
Looking around at those who sat around him,
he said, “Behold, my mother and my brothers!
For whoever does the will of God,
that one is my brother and sister and mother.”
Monday of the Third Week in Ordinary Time (II)
Official Translation
Reading 1 - 2 Samuel 5.1-7, 10
All the tribes of Israel
came to David at Hebron,
and spoke, saying,
“Behold, we are your bone and your flesh.
In times past, when Saul was king over us,
it was you who led out and brought in Israel.
The Lord said to you,
‘You shall be shepherd of my people Israel,
and you shall be prince over Israel.’”
So all the elders of Israel
came to the king at Hebron;
and King David made a covenant with them
in Hebron before the Lord;
and they anointed David king over Israel.
David was thirty years old
when he began to reign,
and he reigned forty years.
In Hebron he reigned over Judah
seven years and six months;
and in Jerusalem he reigned
thirty-three years over all Israel and Judah.
The king and his men went to Jerusalem
against the Jebusites,
the inhabitants of the land,
who spoke to David, saying,
“The blind and the lame will chase you away.
You shall not come in here”;
thinking, “David cannot come in here.”
But David took the stronghold of Zion;
the city of David.
David grew greater and greater;
for the Lord of Hosts was with him.
Responsorial - Psalm 89.20, 21-22, 25-26 Resp. 25a
R. My faithfulness and my loving kindness will be with him.
Then you spoke in vision
to your saints you said,
“I have bestowed strength on the warrior.
I have exalted a young man from the people.
R. My faithfulness and my loving kindness will be with him.
I have found David, my servant.
I have anointed him with my holy oil,
With him my hand shall be established.
My arm will strengthen him.
R. My faithfulness and my loving kindness will be with him.
My faithfulness and my loving kindness will be with him.
In my name, his horn will be exalted.
I will set his hand also on the sea,
and his right hand on the rivers.
R. My faithfulness and my loving kindness will be with him.
Gospel – Mark 3.22-30
The scribes who came down from Jerusalem said,
“Beelzebul has him,” and,
“By the prince of the demons he casts out the demons.”
He summoned them, and said to them in parables,
“How can Satan cast out Satan?
If a kingdom is divided against itself,
that kingdom cannot stand.
If a house is divided against itself,
that house cannot stand.
If Satan has risen up against himself,
and is divided, he cannot stand,
but is at an end.
But no one can enter into
the house of the strong man to plunder,
unless he first ties up the strong man;
and then he will plunder his house.
Amen I say to you,
all sins of the sons and daughters of humans
will be forgiven,
even their blasphemies which they might blaspheme;
but whoever may blaspheme
against the Holy Spirit
has no forgiveness in eternity,
but is bound by an eternal sin.”
because they said, “He has an unclean spirit.”
Reading 1 - 2 Samuel 5.1-7, 10
All the tribes of Israel
came to David at Hebron,
and spoke, saying,
“Behold, we are your bone and your flesh.
In times past, when Saul was king over us,
it was you who led out and brought in Israel.
The Lord said to you,
‘You shall be shepherd of my people Israel,
and you shall be prince over Israel.’”
So all the elders of Israel
came to the king at Hebron;
and King David made a covenant with them
in Hebron before the Lord;
and they anointed David king over Israel.
David was thirty years old
when he began to reign,
and he reigned forty years.
In Hebron he reigned over Judah
seven years and six months;
and in Jerusalem he reigned
thirty-three years over all Israel and Judah.
The king and his men went to Jerusalem
against the Jebusites,
the inhabitants of the land,
who spoke to David, saying,
“The blind and the lame will chase you away.
You shall not come in here”;
thinking, “David cannot come in here.”
But David took the stronghold of Zion;
the city of David.
David grew greater and greater;
for the Lord of Hosts was with him.
Responsorial - Psalm 89.20, 21-22, 25-26 Resp. 25a
R. My faithfulness and my loving kindness will be with him.
Then you spoke in vision
to your saints you said,
“I have bestowed strength on the warrior.
I have exalted a young man from the people.
R. My faithfulness and my loving kindness will be with him.
I have found David, my servant.
I have anointed him with my holy oil,
With him my hand shall be established.
My arm will strengthen him.
R. My faithfulness and my loving kindness will be with him.
My faithfulness and my loving kindness will be with him.
In my name, his horn will be exalted.
I will set his hand also on the sea,
and his right hand on the rivers.
R. My faithfulness and my loving kindness will be with him.
Gospel – Mark 3.22-30
The scribes who came down from Jerusalem said,
“Beelzebul has him,” and,
“By the prince of the demons he casts out the demons.”
He summoned them, and said to them in parables,
“How can Satan cast out Satan?
If a kingdom is divided against itself,
that kingdom cannot stand.
If a house is divided against itself,
that house cannot stand.
If Satan has risen up against himself,
and is divided, he cannot stand,
but is at an end.
But no one can enter into
the house of the strong man to plunder,
unless he first ties up the strong man;
and then he will plunder his house.
Amen I say to you,
all sins of the sons and daughters of humans
will be forgiven,
even their blasphemies which they might blaspheme;
but whoever may blaspheme
against the Holy Spirit
has no forgiveness in eternity,
but is bound by an eternal sin.”
because they said, “He has an unclean spirit.”
Third Sunday in Ordinary Time (A)
Official Translation
Reading 1 - Isaiah 8.23-9.3
They will turn their faces upward, and look to the earth,
and see distress, darkness, and the gloom of anguish.
They will be driven into thick darkness.
But there shall be no more gloom for her who was in anguish.
In the former time, the Lord brought into contempt the land of Zebulun
and the land of Naphtali;
but in the latter time he has made it glorious, by the way of the sea,
beyond the Jordan, Galilee of the nations.
The people who walked in darkness
have seen a great light.
On those who lived in the land of the shadow of death,
the light has shined.
You have multiplied the nation.
You have increased their joy.
They rejoice before you as with the harvest joy,
as humans rejoice when they divide plunder.
For the yoke of their burden,
and the staff on their shoulder,
the rod of their oppressor,
you have broken as in the day of Midian.
Responsorial – Psalm 27.1, 4, 13-14 Resp. 1a
R. The LORD is my light and my salvation.
The LORD is my light and my salvation;
whom shall I fear?
The LORD is the strength of my life;
of whom shall I be afraid?
R. The LORD is my light and my salvation.
One thing have I desired of the LORD,
this will I seek after:
that I may dwell in the house of the LORD
all the days of my life,
to behold the beauty of the LORD,
and to study in his temple.
R. The LORD is my light and my salvation.
I believe that I will see the goodness of the LORD
in the land of the living.
Wait for the LORD; be of good courage.
He will strengthen your heart. Wait for the LORD.
R. The LORD is my light and my salvation.
Reading 2 – 1 Corinthians 1.10-13, 17
Now I beg you, brothers and sisters, through the name of our Lord, Jesus Christ,
that you all speak the same thing
and that there be no divisions among you,
but that you be perfected together in the same mind and in the same judgment.
For it has been reported to me concerning you, my brothers and sisters,
by those who are from Chloe's household, that there are rivalries among you.
Now I mean this, that each one of you says,
"I follow Paul," "I follow Apollos," "I follow Cephas," or, "I follow Christ."
Is Christ divided?
Was Paul crucified for you?
Or were you baptized into the name of Paul?
Christ sent me not to baptize, but to preach the Gospel,
and not in the wisdom of logic,
lest the cross of Christ be emptied.
Gospel – Matthew 4.12-23
Now when Jesus heard that John had been arrested, he withdrew into Galilee.
Leaving Nazareth, he came and lived in Capernaum, which is by the sea,
in the region of Zebulun and Naphtali,
that it might be fulfilled which was spoken through Isaiah the prophet, saying:
“The land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali,
toward the sea, beyond the Jordan,
Galilee of the Gentiles,
the people who sat in darkness saw a great light,
to those who sat in the region and shadow of death,
to them light has dawned.”
From that time, Jesus began to preach, and to say,
“Repent! For the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand.”
As he was walking by the sea of Galilee,
he saw two brothers, Simon called Peter and Andrew his brother,
casting a net into the sea, for they were fishermen.
He said to them, “Follow me, and I will make you fishers of men.”
They immediately left their nets, and followed him.
Continuing on from there, he saw two more brothers,
James the son of Zebedee, and John his brother,
in a boat with Zebedee their father, mending their nets; and he called them.
They immediately left the boat and their father and followed him.
He went about in all Galilee, teaching in their synagogues,
preaching the Gospel of the Kingdom,
and healing every disease and every sickness among the people.
Reading 1 - Isaiah 8.23-9.3
They will turn their faces upward, and look to the earth,
and see distress, darkness, and the gloom of anguish.
They will be driven into thick darkness.
But there shall be no more gloom for her who was in anguish.
In the former time, the Lord brought into contempt the land of Zebulun
and the land of Naphtali;
but in the latter time he has made it glorious, by the way of the sea,
beyond the Jordan, Galilee of the nations.
The people who walked in darkness
have seen a great light.
On those who lived in the land of the shadow of death,
the light has shined.
You have multiplied the nation.
You have increased their joy.
They rejoice before you as with the harvest joy,
as humans rejoice when they divide plunder.
For the yoke of their burden,
and the staff on their shoulder,
the rod of their oppressor,
you have broken as in the day of Midian.
Responsorial – Psalm 27.1, 4, 13-14 Resp. 1a
R. The LORD is my light and my salvation.
The LORD is my light and my salvation;
whom shall I fear?
The LORD is the strength of my life;
of whom shall I be afraid?
R. The LORD is my light and my salvation.
One thing have I desired of the LORD,
this will I seek after:
that I may dwell in the house of the LORD
all the days of my life,
to behold the beauty of the LORD,
and to study in his temple.
R. The LORD is my light and my salvation.
I believe that I will see the goodness of the LORD
in the land of the living.
Wait for the LORD; be of good courage.
He will strengthen your heart. Wait for the LORD.
R. The LORD is my light and my salvation.
Reading 2 – 1 Corinthians 1.10-13, 17
Now I beg you, brothers and sisters, through the name of our Lord, Jesus Christ,
that you all speak the same thing
and that there be no divisions among you,
but that you be perfected together in the same mind and in the same judgment.
For it has been reported to me concerning you, my brothers and sisters,
by those who are from Chloe's household, that there are rivalries among you.
Now I mean this, that each one of you says,
"I follow Paul," "I follow Apollos," "I follow Cephas," or, "I follow Christ."
Is Christ divided?
Was Paul crucified for you?
Or were you baptized into the name of Paul?
Christ sent me not to baptize, but to preach the Gospel,
and not in the wisdom of logic,
lest the cross of Christ be emptied.
Gospel – Matthew 4.12-23
Now when Jesus heard that John had been arrested, he withdrew into Galilee.
Leaving Nazareth, he came and lived in Capernaum, which is by the sea,
in the region of Zebulun and Naphtali,
that it might be fulfilled which was spoken through Isaiah the prophet, saying:
“The land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali,
toward the sea, beyond the Jordan,
Galilee of the Gentiles,
the people who sat in darkness saw a great light,
to those who sat in the region and shadow of death,
to them light has dawned.”
From that time, Jesus began to preach, and to say,
“Repent! For the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand.”
As he was walking by the sea of Galilee,
he saw two brothers, Simon called Peter and Andrew his brother,
casting a net into the sea, for they were fishermen.
He said to them, “Follow me, and I will make you fishers of men.”
They immediately left their nets, and followed him.
Continuing on from there, he saw two more brothers,
James the son of Zebedee, and John his brother,
in a boat with Zebedee their father, mending their nets; and he called them.
They immediately left the boat and their father and followed him.
He went about in all Galilee, teaching in their synagogues,
preaching the Gospel of the Kingdom,
and healing every disease and every sickness among the people.
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