FIRST READING: Job 38: 1, 8-11
1
Then the Lord answered Job out of a whirlwind, and said:
8
Who shut up the sea with doors, when it broke forth as issuing out of
the womb:
9
When I made a cloud the garment thereof, and wrapped it in a mist as
in swaddling bands?
10
I set my bounds around it, and made it bars and doors:
11
And I said: Hitherto thou shalt come, and shalt go no further, and
here thou shalt break thy swelling waves.
PSALM:
Psalms 107:
23-26, 28-31
23
They that go down to the sea in ships, doing business in the great
waters:
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These have seen the works of the Lord, and his wonders in the deep.
25
He said the word, and there arose a storm of wind: and the waves
thereof were lifted up.
26
They mount up to the heavens, and they go down to the depths: their
soul pined away with evils.
28
And they cried to the Lord in their affliction: and he brought them
out of their distresses.
29
And he turned the storm into a breeze: and its waves were still.
30
And they rejoiced because they were still: and he brought them to the
haven which they wished for.
31
Let the mercies of the Lord give glory to him, and his wonderful
works to the children of men.
SECOND
READING:
2 Corinthians
5: 14-17
14
For the charity of Christ presseth us: judging this, that if one died
for all, then all were dead.
15
And Christ died for all; that they also who live, may not now live to
themselves, but unto him who died for them, and rose again.
16
Wherefore henceforth, we know no man according to the flesh. And if
we have known Christ according to the flesh; but now we know him so
no longer.
17
If then any be in Christ a new creature, the old things are passed
away, behold all things are made new.
GOSPEL:
Mark 4:
35-41
35
And he saith to them that day, when evening was come: Let us pass
over to the other side.
36
And sending away the multitude, they take him even as he was in the
ship: and there were other ships with him.
37
And there arose a great storm of wind, and the waves beat into the
ship, so that the ship was filled.
38
And he was in the hinder part of the ship, sleeping upon a pillow;
and they awake him, and say to him: Master, doth it not concern thee
that we perish?
39
And rising up, he rebuked the wind, and said to the sea: Peace, be
still. And the wind ceased: and there was made a great calm.
40
And he said to them: Why are you fearful? have you not faith yet?
41
And they feared exceedingly: and they said one to another: Who is
this (thinkest thou) that both wind and sea obey him?
