FIRST
READING: Habakkuk
1: 12 -- 2: 4
12
Wast thou not from the beginning, O Lord my God, my holy one, and we
shall not die? Lord, thou hast appointed him for judgment: and made
him strong for correction.
13
Thy eyes are too pure to behold evil, and thou canst not look on
iniquity. Why lookest thou upon them that do unjust things, and
holdest thy peace when the wicked devoureth the man that is more just
than himself?
14
And thou wilt make men as the fishes of the sea, and as the creeping
things that have no ruler.
15
He lifted up all them with his hook, he drew them in his drag, and
gathered them into his net: for this he will be glad and rejoice.
16
Therefore will he offer victims to his drag, and he will sacrifice to
his net: because through them his portion is made fat, and his meat
dainty.
17
For this cause therefore he spreadeth his net, and will not spare
continually to slay the nations.
1
I will stand upon my watch, and fix my foot upon the tower: and I
will watch, to see what will be said to me, and what I may answer to
him that reproveth me.
2
And the Lord answered me, and said: Write the vision, and make it
plain upon tables: that he that readeth it may run over it.
3
For as yet the vision is far off, and it shall appear at the end, and
shall not lie: if it make any delay, wait for it: for it shall surely
come, and it shall not be slack.
4
Behold, he that is unbelieving, his soul shall not be right in
himself: but the just shall live in his faith.
PSALM:
Psalms 9:
8 - 13
8
But the Lord remaineth for ever. He hath prepared his throne in
judgment:
9
And he shall judge the world in equity, he shall judge the people in
justice.
10
And the Lord is become a refuge for the poor: a helper in due time in
tribulation.
11
And let them trust in thee who know thy name: for thou hast not
forsaken them that seek thee, O Lord.
12
Sing ye to the Lord, who dwelleth in Sion: declare his ways among the
Gentiles:
13
For requiring their blood he hath remembered the: he hath not
forgotten the cry of the poor.
GOSPEL:
Matthew 17:
14 - 20
14
And when he was come to the multitude, there came to him a man
falling down on his knees before him, saying: Lord, have pity on my
son, for he is a lunatic, and suffereth much: for he falleth often
into the fire, and often into the water.
15
And I brought him to thy disciples, and they could not cure him.
16
Then Jesus answered and said: O unbelieving and perverse generation,
how long shall I be with you? How long shall I suffer you? bring him
hither to me.
17
And Jesus rebuked him, and the devil went out of him, and the child
was cured from that hour.
18
Then came the disciples to Jesus secretly, and said: Why could not we
cast him out?
19
Jesus said to them: Because of your unbelief. For, amen I say to you,
if you have faith as a grain of mustard seed, you shall say to this
mountain, Remove from hence hither, and it shall remove; and nothing
shall be impossible to you.
20
But this kind is not cast out but by prayer and fasting.
