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Today's Readings
Reading I
Jas 4:1-10
Beloved: Where do the wars and where do the conflicts among you come
from? Is it not from your passions that make war within your
members? You covet but do not possess. You kill and envy but you
cannot obtain; you fight and wage war. You do not possess because
you do not ask. You ask but do not receive, because you ask wrongly,
to spend it on your passions. Adulterers! Do you not know that to be
a lover of the world means enmity with God? Therefore, whoever wants
to be a lover of the world makes himself an enemy of God. Or do you
suppose that the Scripture speaks without meaning when it says, The
spirit that he has made to dwell in us tends toward jealousy?
But he bestows a greater grace; therefore, it says: God resists the
proud, but gives grace to the humble. So submit yourselves to
God. Resist the Devil, and he will flee from you. Draw near to God,
and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners, and
purify your hearts, you of two minds. Begin to lament, to mourn, to
weep. Let your laughter be turned into mourning and your joy into
dejection. Humble yourselves before the Lord and he will exalt you.
Responsorial Psalm
55:7-8, 9-10a, 10b-11a, 23
R. (23a) Throw your cares on the Lord, and he will support you.
And I say, “Had I but wings like a dove, I would fly away and be
at rest. Far away I would flee; I would lodge in the wilderness.” R.
Throw your cares on the Lord, and he will support you. I
would wait for him who saves me from the violent storm and the
tempest.” Engulf them, O Lord; divide their counsels. R. Throw
your cares on the Lord, and he will support you. In the city I
see violence and strife, day and night they prowl about upon its
walls. R. Throw your cares on the Lord, and he will support
you. Cast your care upon the LORD, and he will support you;
never will he permit the just man to be disturbed. R. Throw
your cares on the Lord, and he will support you.
Gospel
Mk 9:30-37
Jesus and his disciples left from there and began a journey through
Galilee, but he did not wish anyone to know about it. He was
teaching his disciples and telling them, “The Son of Man is to be
handed over to men and they will kill him, and three days after his
death the Son of Man will rise.” But they did not understand
the saying, and they were afraid to question him. They came to
Capernaum and, once inside the house, he began to ask them,
“What were you arguing about on the way?” But they remained silent.
For they had been discussing among themselves on the way who was the
greatest. Then he sat down, called the Twelve, and said to them, “If
anyone wishes to be first, he shall be the last of all and the
servant of all.” Taking a child, he placed it in their midst,
and putting his arms around it, he said to them, “Whoever receives
one child such as this in my name, receives me; and whoever receives
me, receives not me but the One who sent me.”
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