FIRST
READING: Genesis
1: 20 - 31 -- 2:
4
20
And God said, "Let the waters bring forth swarms of living
creatures, and let birds fly above the earth across the firmament of
the heavens."
21
So God created the great sea monsters and every living creature that
moves, with which the waters swarm, according to their kinds, and
every winged bird according to its kind. And God saw that it was
good.
22
And God blessed them, saying, "Be fruitful and multiply and fill
the waters in the seas, and let birds multiply on the earth."
23
And there was evening and there was morning, a fifth day.
24
And God said, "Let the earth bring forth living creatures
according to their kinds: cattle and creeping things and beasts of
the earth according to their kinds." And it was so.
25
And God made the beasts of the earth according to their kinds and the
cattle according to their kinds, and everything that creeps upon the
ground according to its kind. And God saw that it was good.
26
Then God said, "Let us make man in our image, after our
likeness; and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and
over the birds of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the
earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps upon the earth."
27
So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created
him; male and female he created them.
28
And God blessed them, and God said to them, "Be fruitful and
multiply, and fill the earth and subdue it; and have dominion over
the fish of the sea and over the birds of the air and over every
living thing that moves upon the earth."
29
And God said, "Behold, I have given you every plant yielding
seed which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree with
seed in its fruit; you shall have them for food.
30
And to every beast of the earth, and to every bird of the air, and to
everything that creeps on the earth, everything that has the breath
of life, I have given every green plant for food." And it was
so.
31
And God saw everything that he had made, and behold, it was very
good. And there was evening and there was morning, a sixth day.
1
Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of
them.
2
And on the seventh day God finished his work which he had done, and
he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had done.
3
So God blessed the seventh day and hallowed it, because on it God
rested from all his work which he had done in creation.
4
These are the generations of the heavens and the earth when they were
created. In the day that the LORD God made the earth and the heavens.
PSALM:
Psalms 8:
4 - 9
4
what is man that thou art mindful of him, and the son of man that
thou dost care for him?
5
Yet thou hast made him little less than God, and dost crown him with
glory and honor.
6
Thou hast given him dominion over the works of thy hands; thou hast
put all things under his feet,
7
all sheep and oxen, and also the beasts of the field,
8
the birds of the air, and the fish of the sea, whatever passes along
the paths of the sea.
9
O LORD, our Lord, how majestic is thy name in all the earth!
GOSPEL:
Mark 7:
1 - 13
1
Now when the Pharisees gathered together to him, with some of the
scribes, who had come from Jerusalem,
2
they saw that some of his disciples ate with hands defiled, that is,
unwashed.
3
(For the Pharisees, and all the Jews, do not eat unless they wash
their hands, observing the tradition of the elders;
4
and when they come from the market place, they do not eat unless they
purify themselves; and there are many other traditions which they
observe, the washing of cups and pots and vessels of bronze.)
5
And the Pharisees and the scribes asked him, "Why do your
disciples not live according to the tradition of the elders, but eat
with hands defiled?"
6
And he said to them, "Well did Isaiah prophesy of you
hypocrites, as it is written, `This people honors me with their lips,
but their heart is far from me;
7
in vain do they worship me, teaching as doctrines the precepts of
men.'
8
You leave the commandment of God, and hold fast the tradition of
men."
9
And he said to them, "You have a fine way of rejecting the
commandment of God, in order to keep your tradition!
10
For Moses said, `Honor your father and your mother'; and, `He who
speaks evil of father or mother, let him surely die';
11
but you say, `If a man tells his father or his mother, What you would
have gained from me is Corban' (that is, given to God) --
12
then you no longer permit him to do anything for his father or
mother,
13
thus making void the word of God through your tradition which you
hand on. And many such things you do."
