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| (left to right) "The Merchants Chased from the Temple" , "Jesus Forbids the Carrying of Loads in the Forecourt of the Temple", and "The Accursed Fig Tree" -- by James Tissot |
FIRST
READING: Sirach
44: 1, 9-13
1
Let us now praise men of renown, and our fathers in their generation.
9
And there are some, of whom there is no memorial: who are perished,
as if they had never been: and are become as if they had never been
born, and their children with them.
10
But these were men of mercy, whose godly deeds have not failed:
11
Good things continue with their seed,
12
Their posterity are a holy inheritance, and their seed hath stood in
the covenants.
13
And their children for their sakes remain for ever: their seed and
their glory shall not be forsaken.
PSALM:
Psalms 149: 1-6,
9
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:
Mark 11: 11-26
11
And he entered into Jerusalem, into the temple: and having viewed all
things round about, when now the eventide was come, he went out to
Bethania with the twelve.
12
And the next day when they came out from Bethania, he was hungry.
13
And when he had seen afar off a fig tree having leaves, he came if
perhaps he might find any thing on it. And when he was come to it, he
found nothing but leaves. For it was not the time for figs.
14
And answering he said to it: May no man hereafter eat fruit of thee
any more for ever. And his disciples heard it.
15
And they came to Jerusalem. And when he was entered into the temple,
he began to cast out them that sold and bought in the temple, and
overthrew the tables of the moneychangers, and the chairs of them
that sold doves.
16
And he suffered not that any man should carry a vessel through the
temple;
17
And he taught, saying to them: Is it not written, My house shall be
called the house of prayer to all nations? But you have made it a den
of thieves.
18
Which when the chief priests and the scribes had heard, they sought
how they might destroy him. For they feared him, because the whole
multitude was in admiration at his doctrine.
19
And when evening was come, he went forth out of the city.
20
And when they passed by in the morning they saw the fig tree dried up
from the roots.
21
And Peter remembering, said to him: Rabbi, behold the fig tree, which
thou didst curse, is withered away.
22
And Jesus answering, saith to them: Have the faith of God.
23
Amen I say to you, that whosoever shall say to this mountain, Be thou
removed and be cast into the sea, and shall not stagger in his heart,
but believe, that whatsoever he saith shall be done; it shall be done
unto him.
24
Therefore I say unto you, all things, whatsoever you ask when ye
pray, believe that you shall receive; and they shall come unto you.
25
And when you shall stand to pray, forgive, if you have aught against
any man; that your Father also, who is in heaven, may forgive you
your sins.
26
But if you will not forgive, neither will your Father that is in
heaven, forgive you your sins.
