FIRST
READING: 1 Kings 11:29-32; 12:19
29
So it came to paste at that time, that Jeroboam went out of
Jerusalem, and the prophet Ahias the Silonite, clad with a new
garment, found him in the way: and they two were alone in the held.
30
And Ahias taking his new garment, wherewith he was clad, divided it
into twelve parts:
31
And he said to Jeroboam: Take to thee ten pieces: for thus saith the
Lord the God of Israel: Behold I will rend the kingdom out of the
hand of Solomon, and will give thee ten tribes.
32
But one tribe shall remain to him for the sake of my servant David,
and Jerusalem the city, which I have chosen out of all the tribes of
Israel:
19
And Israel revolted from the house of David, unto this day.
PSALM:
Psalms 81:10-15
10
There shall be no new god in thee: neither shalt thou adore a strange
god.
11
For I am the Lord thy God, who brought thee out of the land of Egypt:
open thy mouth wide, and I will fill it.
12
But my people heard not my voice: and Israel hearkened not to me.
13
So I let them go according to the desires of their heart: they shall
walk in their own inventions.
14
If my people had heard me: if Israel had walked in my ways:
15
I should soon have humbled their enemies, and laid my hand on them
that troubled them.
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.
