Mass Readings for Wednesday, September 12, 2012

FIRST READING: 1 Corinthians 7: 25 - 31

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25 Now concerning virgins, I have no commandment of the Lord; but I give counsel, as having obtained mercy of the Lord, to be faithful.

26 I think therefore that this is good for the present necessity, that it is good for a man so to be.

27 Art thou bound to a wife? seek not to be loosed. Art thou loosed from a wife? seek not a wife.

28 But if thou take a wife, thou hast not sinned. And if a virgin marry, she hath not sinned: nevertheless, such shall have tribulation of the flesh. But I spare you.

29 This therefore I say, brethren; the time is short; it remaineth, that they also who have wives, be as if they had none;

30 And they that weep, as though they wept not; and they that rejoice, as if they rejoiced not; and they that buy, as though they possessed not;

31 And they that use this world, as if they used it not: for the fashion of this world passeth away.

PSALM: Psalms 45: 11 - 12, 14 - 17

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11 Hearken, O daughter, and see, and incline thy ear: and forget thy people and thy father's house.

12 And the king shall greatly desire thy beauty; for he is the Lord thy God, and him they shall adore.

14 All the glory of the king's daughter is within in golden borders,

15 Clothed round about with varieties. After her shall virgins be brought to the king: her neighbours shall be brought to thee.

16 They shall be brought with gladness and rejoicing: they shall be brought into the temple of the king.

17 Instead of thy fathers, sons are born to thee: thou shalt make them princes over all the earth.

GOSPEL: Luke 6: 20 - 26

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20 And he, lifting up his eyes on his disciples, said: Blessed are ye poor, for yours is the kingdom of God.

21 Blessed are ye that hunger now: for you shall be filled. Blessed are ye that weep now: for you shall laugh.

22 Blessed shall you be when men shall hate you, and when they shall separate you, and shall reproach you, and cast out your name as evil, for the Son of man's sake.

23 Be glad in that day and rejoice; for behold, your reward is great in heaven. For according to these things did their fathers to the prophets.

24 But woe to you that are rich: for you have your consolation.

25 Woe to you that are filled: for you shall hunger. Woe to you that now laugh: for you shall mourn and weep.

26 Woe to you when men shall bless you: for according to these things did their fathers to the false prophets.

Mass Readings for Tuesday, September 11, 2012

"Ordaining of the Twelve Apostles" - by James Tissot

FIRST READING: 1 Corinthians 6: 1 - 11

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1 Dare any of you, having a matter against another, go to be judged before the unjust, and not before the saints?

2 Know you not that the saints shall judge this world? And if the world shall be judged by you, are you unworthy to judge the smallest matters?

3 Know you not that we shall judge angels? how much more things of this world?

4 If therefore you have judgments of things pertaining to this world, set them to judge, who are the most despised in the church.

5 I speak to your shame. Is it so that there is not among you any one wise man, that is able to judge between his brethren?

6 But brother goeth to law with brother, and that before unbelievers.

7 Already indeed there is plainly a fault among you, that you have lawsuits one with another. Why do you not rather take wrong? Why do you not rather suffer yourselves to be defrauded?

8 But you do wrong and defraud, and that to your brethren.

9 Know you not that the unjust shall not possess the kingdom of God? Do not err: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers,

10 Nor the effeminate, nor liers with mankind, nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor railers, nor extortioners, shall possess the kingdom of God.

11 And such some of you were; but you are washed, but you are sanctified, but you are justified in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, and the Spirit of our God.

PSALM: Psalms 149: 1 - 6, 9

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1 Sing ye to the Lord a new canticle: let his praise be in the church of the saints.

2 Let Israel rejoice in him that made him: and let the children of Sion be joyful in their king.

3 Let them praise his name in choir: let them sing to him with the timbrel and the psaltery.

4 For the Lord is well pleased with his people: and he will exalt the meek unto salvation.

5 The saints shall rejoice in glory: they shall be joyful in their beds.

6 The high praise of God shall be in their mouth: and two-edged swords in their hands.

9 To execute upon them the judgment that is written: this glory is to all his saints. Alleluia.

GOSPEL: Luke 6: 12 - 19

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12 And it came to pass in those days, that he went out into a mountain to pray, and he passed the whole night in the prayer of God.

13 And when day was come, he called unto him his disciples; and he chose twelve of them (whom also he named apostles).

14 Simon, whom he surnamed Peter, and Andrew his brother, James and John, Philip and Bartholomew,

15 Matthew and Thomas, James the son of Alpheus, and Simon who is called Zelotes,

16 And Jude, the brother of James, and Judas Iscariot, who was the traitor.

17 And coming down with them, he stood in a plain place, and the company of his disciples, and a very great multitude of people from all Judea and Jerusalem, and the sea coast both of Tyre and Sidon,

18 Who were come to hear him, and to be healed of their diseases. And they that were troubled with unclean spirits, were cured.

19 And all the multitude sought to touch him, for virtue went out from him, and healed all.

Mass Readings for Monday, September 10, 2012

"The Man with the Withered Hand"  -  by James Tissot

FIRST READING: 1 Corinthians 5: 1 - 8

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1 It is absolutely heard that there is fornication among you and such fornication as the like is not among the heathens: that one should have his father’s wife.

2 And you are puffed up and have not rather mourned: that he might be taken away from among you that hath done this thing.

3 I indeed, absent in body but present in spirit, have already judged, as though I were present, him that hath so done,

4 In the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, you being gathered together and my spirit, with the power of our Lord Jesus:

5 To deliver such a one to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that the spirit may be saved in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ.

6 Your glorying is not good. Know you not that a little leaven corrupteth the whole lump?

7 Purge out the old leaven, that you may be a new paste, as you are unleavened. For Christ our pasch is sacrificed.

8 Therefore, let us feast, not with the old leaven, nor with the leaven of malice and wickedness: but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.

PSALM: Psalms 5: 5 - 7, 12

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5 Neither shall the wicked dwell near thee: nor shall the unjust abide before thy eyes.

6 Thou hatest all the workers of iniquity: thou wilt destroy all that speak a lie. The bloody and the deceitful man the Lord will abhor.

7 But as for me in the multitude of thy mercy, I will come into thy house; I will worship towards thy holy temple, in thy fear.

12 For thou wilt bless the just. O Lord, thou hast crowned us, as with a shield of thy good will.

GOSPEL: Luke 6: 6 - 11

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6 And it came to pass also, on another sabbath, that he entered into the synagogue and taught. And there was a man whose right hand was withered.

7 And the scribes and Pharisees watched if he would heal on the sabbath: that they might find an accusation against him.

8 But he knew their thoughts and said to the man who had the withered hand: Arise and stand forth in the midst. And rising he stood forth.

9 Then Jesus said to them: I ask you, if it be lawful on the sabbath days to do good or to do evil? To save life or to destroy?

10 And looking round about on them all, he said to the man: Stretch forth thy hand. And he stretched it forth. And his hand was restored.

11 And they were filled with madness: and they talked one with another, what they might do to Jesus.

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.