FIRST
READING:
Genesis 3:
1-8
1
Now the serpent was more subtle than any of the beasts of the earth
which the Lord God had made. And he said to the woman: Why hath God
commanded you, that you should not eat of every tree of paradise?
2
And the woman answered him, saying: Of the fruit of the trees that
are in paradise we do eat:
3
But of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of paradise, God
hath commanded us that we should not eat; and that we should not
touch it, lest perhaps we die.
4
And the serpent said to the woman: No, you shall not die the death.
5
For God doth know that in what day soever you shall eat thereof, your
eyes shall be opened: and you shall be as Gods, knowing good and
evil.
6
And the woman saw that the tree was good to eat, and fair to the
eyes, and delightful to behold: and she took of the fruit thereof,
and did eat, and gave to her husband who did eat.
7
And the eyes of them both were opened: and when they perceived
themselves to be naked, they sewed together fig leaves, and made
themselves aprons.
8
And when they heard the voice of the Lord God walking in paradise at
the afternoon air, Adam and his wife hid themselves from the face of
the Lord God, amidst the trees of paradise.
PSALM:
Psalms 32:
1-2, 5-7
1
Blessed are they whose iniquities are forgiven, and whose sins are
covered.
2
Blessed is the man to whom the Lord hath not imputed sin, and in
whose spirit there is no guile.
5
I have acknowledged my sin to thee, and my injustice I have not
concealed. I said I will confess against myself my injustice to the
Lord: and thou hast forgiven the wickedness of my sin.
6
For this shall every one that is holy pray to thee in a seasonable
time. And yet in a flood of many waters, they shall not come nigh
unto him.
7
Thou art my refuge from the trouble which hath encompassed me: my
joy, deliver me from them that surround me.
GOSPEL:
Mark 7:
31-37
31
And again going out of the coasts of Tyre, he came by Sidon to the
sea of Galilee, through the midst of the coasts of Decapolis.
32
And they bring to him one deaf and dumb; and they besought him that
he would lay his hand upon him.
33
And taking him from the multitude apart, he put his fingers into his
ears, and spitting, he touched his tongue:
34
And looking up to heaven, he groaned, and said to him: Ephpheta,
which is, Be thou opened.
35
And immediately his ears were opened, and the string of his tongue
was loosed, and he spoke right.
36
And he charged them that they should tell no man. But the more he
charged them, so much the more a great deal did they publish it.
37
And so much the more did they wonder, saying: He hath done all things
well; he hath made both the deaf to hear, and the dumb to speak.
