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| "The Pharisees Question Jesus" -- by James Tissot |
FIRST
READING: Ruth
1: 1, 3 - 6, 14 - 16, 22
1
In the days of one of the judges, when the judges ruled, there came a
famine in the land. And a certain man of Bethlehem Juda, went to
sojourn in the land of Moab with his wife and his two sons.
3
And Elimelech the husband of Noemi died: and she remained with her
sons.
4
And they took wives of the women of Moab, of which one was called
Orpha, and the other Ruth. And they dwelt there ten years.
5
And they both died, to wit, Mahalon and Chelion: and the woman was
left alone, having lost both her sons and her husband.
6
And she arose to go from the land of Moab to her own country with
both her daughters in law: for she had heard that the Lord had looked
upon his people, and had given them food.
14
And they lifted up their voice, and began to weep again: Orpha kissed
her mother in law and returned: Ruth stuck close to her mother in
law.
15
And Noemi said to her: Behold thy kinswoman is returned to her
people, and to her gods, go thou with her.
16
She answered: Be not against me, to desire that I should leave thee
and depart: for whithersoever thou shalt go, I will go: and where
thou shalt dwell, I also will dwell. Thy people shall be my people,
and thy God my God.
22
So Noemi came with Ruth the Moabitess her daughter in law, from the
land of her sojournment: and returned into Bethlehem, in the
beginning of the barley harvest.
PSALM:
Psalms 146:
5 - 10
5
Blessed is he who hath the God of Jacob for his helper, whose hope is
in the Lord his God:
6
Who made heaven and earth, the sea, and all things that are in them.
7
Who keepeth truth for ever: who executeth judgment for them that
suffer wrong: who giveth food to the hungry. The Lord looseth them
that are fettered:
8
The Lord enlighteneth the blind. The Lord lifteth up them that are
cast down: the Lord loveth the just.
9
The Lord keepeth the strangers, he will support the fatherless and
the widow: and the ways of sinners he will destroy.
10
The Lord shall reign for ever: thy God, O Sion, unto generation and
generation.
GOSPEL:
Matthew 22: 34 - 40
34
But the Pharisees hearing that he had silenced the Sadducees, came
together:
35
And one of them, a doctor of the law, asking him, tempting him:
36
Master, which is the greatest commandment in the law?
37
Jesus said to him: Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with thy whole
heart, and with thy whole soul, and with thy whole mind.
38
This is the greatest and the first commandment.
39
And the second is like to this: Thou shalt love thy neighbour as
thyself.
40
On these two commandments dependeth the whole law and the prophets.
