FIRST
READING: James 1:
19 - 27
19
You know, my dearest brethren. And let every man be swift to hear,
but slow to speak, and slow to anger.
20
For the anger of man worketh not the justice of God.
21
Wherefore casting away all uncleanness, and abundance of naughtiness,
with meekness receive the ingrafted word, which is able to save your
souls.
22
But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own
selves.
23
For if a man be a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he shall be
compared to a man beholding his own countenance in a glass.
24
For he beheld himself, and went his way, and presently forgot what
manner of man he was.
25
But he that hath looked into the perfect law of liberty, and hath
continued therein, not becoming a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the
work; this man shall be blessed in his deed.
26
And if any man think himself to be religious, not bridling his
tongue, but deceiving his own heart, this man's religion is vain.
27
Religion clean and undefiled before God and the Father, is this: to
visit the fatherless and widows in their tribulation: and to keep
one's self unspotted from this world.
PSALM:
Psalms 15:
2 - 5
2
He that walketh without blemish, and worketh justice:
3
He that speaketh truth in his heart, who hath not used deceit in his
tongue: Nor hath done evil to his neighbour: nor taken up a reproach
against his neighbours.
4
In his sight the malignant is brought to nothing: but he glorifieth
them that fear the Lord. He that sweareth to his neighbour, and
deceiveth not;
5
He that hath not put out his money to usury, nor taken bribes against
the innocent: He that doth these things shall not be moved for ever.
GOSPEL:
Mark 8:
22 - 26
22
And they came to Bethsaida; and they bring to him a blind man, and
they besought him that he would touch him.
23
And taking the blind man by the hand, he led him out of the town; and
spitting upon his eyes, laying his hands on him, he asked him if he
saw any thing.
24
And looking up, he said: I see men as it were trees, walking.
25
After that again he laid his hands upon his eyes, and he began to
see, and was restored, so that he saw all things clearly.
26
And he sent him into his house, saying: Go into thy house, and if
thou enter into the town, tell nobody.
