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Today's Readings
Reading I
1 Pt 1:18-25
Beloved: Realize that you were ransomed from your futile conduct,
handed on by your ancestors, not with perishable things like silver
or gold but with the precious Blood of Christ as of a spotless
unblemished Lamb. He was known before the foundation of the world
but revealed in the final time for you, who through him believe in
God who raised him from the dead and gave him glory, so that your
faith and hope are in God. Since you have purified yourselves by
obedience to the truth for sincere brotherly love, love one another
intensely from a pure heart. You have been born anew, not from
perishable but from imperishable seed, through the living and
abiding word of God, for: “All flesh is like grass, and all
its glory like the flower of the field; the grass withers, and the
flower wilts; but the word of the Lord remains forever.” This is the
word that has been proclaimed to you.
Responsorial Psalm
147:12-13, 14-15, 19-20
R. (12a) Praise the Lord, Jerusalem. or: R.
Alleluia. Glorify the LORD, O Jerusalem; praise your God, O
Zion. For he has strengthened the bars of your gates; he has blessed
your children within you. R. Praise the Lord, Jerusalem. or:
R. Alleluia. He has granted peace in your borders; with the
best of wheat he fills you. He sends forth his command to the earth;
swiftly runs his word! R. Praise the Lord, Jerusalem. or: R.
Alleluia. He has proclaimed his word to Jacob, his statutes
and his ordinances to Israel. He has not done thus for any other
nation; his ordinances he has not made known to them. Alleluia. R.
Praise the Lord, Jerusalem. or: R. Alleluia.
Gospel
Mk 10:32-45
The disciples were on the way, going up to Jerusalem, and Jesus went
ahead of them. They were amazed, and those who followed were afraid.
Taking the Twelve aside again, he began to tell them what was going
to happen to him. “Behold, we are going up to Jerusalem, and the Son
of Man will be handed over to the chief priests and the scribes, and
they will condemn him to death and hand him over to the Gentiles who
will mock him, spit upon him, scourge him, and put him to death, but
after three days he will rise.” Then James and John, the sons
of Zebedee, came to Jesus and said to him, “Teacher, we want you to
do for us whatever we ask of you.” He replied, “What do you wish me
to do for you?” They answered him, “Grant that in your glory we may
sit one at your right and the other at your left.” Jesus said to
them, “You do not know what you are asking. Can you drink the
chalice that I drink or be baptized with the baptism with which I am
baptized?” They said to him, “We can.” Jesus said to them, “The
chalice that I drink, you will drink, and with the baptism with
which I am baptized, you will be baptized; but to sit at my right or
at my left is not mine to give but is for those for whom it has been
prepared.” When the ten heard this, they became indignant at James
and John. Jesus summoned them and said to them, “You know that those
who are recognized as rulers over the Gentiles lord it over them,
and their great ones make their authority over them felt. But it
shall not be so among you. Rather, whoever wishes to be great among
you will be your servant; whoever wishes to be first among you will
be the slave of all. For the Son of Man did not come to be served
but to serve and to give his life as a ransom for many.”
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