FIRST
READING: Ecclesiastes
3: 1 - 11
1
All things have their season, and in their times all things pass
under heaven.
2
A time to be born and a time to die. A time to plant, and a time to
pluck up that which is planted.
3
A time to kill, and a time to heal. A time to destroy, and a time to
build.
4
A time to weep, and a time to laugh. A time to mourn, and a time to
dance.
5
A time to scatter stones, and a time to gather. A time to embrace,
and a time to be far from embraces.
6
A time to get, and a time to lose. A time to keep, and a time to cast
away.
7
A time to rend, and a time to sew. A time to keep silence, and a time
to speak.
8
A time of love, and a time of hatred. A time of war, and a time of
peace.
9
What hath man more of his labour?
10
I have seen the trouble, which God hath given the sons of men to be
exercised in it.
11
He hath made all things good in their time, and hath delivered the
world to their consideration, so that man cannot find out the work
which God hath made from the beginning to the end.
PSALM:
Psalms 144:
1 - 4
1
Blessed be the Lord my God, who teacheth my hands to fight, and my
fingers to war.
2
My mercy, and my refuge: my support, and my deliverer: My protector,
and I have hoped in him: who subdueth my people under me.
3
Lord, what is man, that thou art made known to him? or the son of
man, that thou makest account of him?
4
Man is like to vanity: his days pass away like a shadow.
GOSPEL:
Luke 9:
18 - 22
18
And it came to pass, as he was alone praying, his disciples also were
with him: and he asked them, saying: Whom do the people say that I
am?
19
But they answered, and said: John the Baptist; but some say Elias;
and others say that one of the former prophets is risen again.
20
And he said to them: But whom do you say that I am? Simon Peter
answering, said: The Christ of God.
21
But he strictly charging them, commanded they should tell this to no
man.
22
Saying: The Son of man must suffer many things, and be rejected by
the ancients and chief priests and scribes, and be killed, and the
third day rise again.
