Sunday Mass Readings For September 09, 2012

FIRST READING: Isaiah 35: 4 - 7

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4 Say to the fainthearted: Take courage, and fear not: behold your God

will bring the revenge of recompense: God himself will come and will save

you.

5 Then shall the eyes of the blind be opened, and the ears of the deaf shall

be unstopped.

6 Then shall the lame man leap as a hart, and the tongue of the dumb shall

be free: for waters are broken out in the desert, and streams in the

wilderness.

7 And that which was dry land, shall become a pool, and the thirsty land

springs of water. In the dens where dragons dwell before, shall rise up the

verdure of the reed and the bulrush.

PSALM: Psalms 146: 7 - 10

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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.

SECOND READING: James 2: 1 - 5

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1 My brethren, have not the faith of our Lord Jesus Christ of glory with

respect of persons.

2 For if there shall come into your assembly a man having a golden ring, in

fine apparel, and there shall come in also a poor man in mean attire,

3 And you have respect to him that is clothed with the fine apparel, and

shall say to him: Sit thou here well; but say to the poor man: Stand thou

there, or sit under my footstool:

4 Do you not judge within yourselves, and are become judges of unjust

thoughts?

5 Hearken, my dearest brethren: hath not God chosen the poor in this

world, rich in faith, and heirs of the kingdom which God hath promised to

them that love him?

GOSPEL: Mark 7: 31 - 37

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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.

Sunday Mass Readings For September 02, 2012

FIRST READING: Deuteronomy 4: 1 - 2, 6 - 8

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1 And now, O Israel, hear the commandments and judgments which I teach thee: that doing them, thou mayst live, and entering in mayst possess the land which the Lord the God of your fathers will give you.

2 You shall not add to the word that I speak to you, neither shall you take away from it: keep the commandments of the Lord your God which I command you.

6 And you shall observe, and fulfil them in practice. For this is your wisdom, and understanding in the sight of nations, that hearing all these precepts, they may say: Behold a wise and understanding people, a great nation.

7 Neither is there any other nation so great, that hath gods so nigh them, as our God is present to all our petitions.

8 For what other nation is there so renowned that hath ceremonies, and just judgments, and all the law, which I will set forth this day before our eyes?

PSALM: Psalms 15: 2 - 5

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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.

SECOND READING: James 1: 17 - 18, 21 - 22, 27

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17 Every best gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no change nor shadow of alteration.

18 For of his own will hath he begotten us by the word of truth, that we might be some beginning of his creature.

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.

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.

GOSPEL: Mark 7: 1 - 8, 14 - 15, 21 - 23

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1 And there assembled together unto him the Pharisees and some of the scribes, coming from Jerusalem.

2 And when they had seen some of his disciples eat bread with common, that is, with unwashed hands, they found fault.

3 For the Pharisees and all the Jews eat not without often washing their hands, holding the tradition of the ancients.

4 And when they come from the market, unless they be washed, they eat not: and many other things there are that have been delivered to them to observe, the washings of cups and of pots and of brazen vessels and of beds.

5 And the Pharisees and scribes asked him: Why do not thy disciples walk according to the tradition of the ancients, but they eat bread with common hands?

6 But he answering, said to them: Well did Isaias prophesy of you hypocrites, as it is written: This people honoureth me with their lips, but their heart is far from me.

7 And in vain do they worship me, teaching doctrines and precepts of men.

8 For leaving the commandment of God, you hold the tradition of men, the washing of pots and of cups: and many other things you do like to these.

14 And calling again the multitude unto him, he said to them: Hear ye me all and understand.

15 There is nothing from without a man that entering into him can defile him. But the things which come from a man, those are they that defile a man.

21 For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders,

22 Thefts, covetousness, wickedness, deceit, lasciviousness, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, foolishness.

23 All these evil things come from within and defile a man.