FIRST
READING: James
1:1-11
1
James the servant of God, and of our Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve
tribes which are scattered abroad, greeting.
2
My brethren, count it all joy, when you shall fall into divers
temptations;
3
Knowing that the trying of your faith worketh patience.
4
And patience hath a perfect work; that you may be perfect and entire,
failing in nothing.
5
But if any of you want wisdom, let him ask of God, who giveth to all
men abundantly, and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him.
6
But let him ask in faith, nothing wavering. For he that wavereth is
like a wave of the sea, which is moved and carried about by the wind.
7
Therefore let not that man think that he shall receive any thing of
the Lord.
8
A double minded man is inconstant in all his ways.
9
But let the brother of low condition glory in his exaltation:
10
And the rich, in his being low; because as the flower of the grass
shall he pass away.
11
For the sun rose with a burning heat, and parched the grass, and the
flower thereof fell off, and the beauty of the shape thereof
perished: so also shall the rich man fade away in his ways.
PSALM:
Psalms 119:67-68,
71-72, 75-76
67
Before I was humbled I offended; therefore have I kept thy word.
68
Thou art good; and in thy goodness teach me thy justifications.
71
It is good for me that thou hast humbled me, that I may learn thy
justifications.
72
The law of thy mouth is good to me, above thousands of gold and
silver.
75
I know, O Lord, that thy judgments are equity: and in thy truth thou
hast humbled me.
76
O! let thy mercy be for my comfort, according to thy word unto thy
servant.
GOSPEL:
Mark 8:11-13
11
And the Pharisees came forth, and began to question with him, asking
him a sign from heaven, tempting him.
12
And sighing deeply in spirit, he saith: Why doth this generation seek
a sign? Amen, I say to you, a sign shall not be given to this
generation.
13
And leaving them, he went up again into the ship, and passed to the
other side of the water.
