Readings
Proper readings
First Reading
Eph 3:14-19
To know the love of Christ that surpasses knowledge.
A reading from the Letter of Saint Paul to the Ephesians
Brothers and sisters:
I kneel before the Father,
from whom every family in heaven and on earth is named,
that he may grant you in accord with the riches of his glory
to be strengthened with power through his Spirit in the inner self,
and that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith;
that you, rooted and grounded in love,
may have strength to comprehend with all the holy ones
what is the breadth and length and height and depth,
and to know the love of Christ that surpasses knowledge,
so that you may be filled with all the fullness of God.
The word of the Lord.
Responsorial Psalm
Ps 119:9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14
R. :
℟. (12) Lord, teach me your statutes.
How shall a young man be faultless in his way?
By keeping to your words.
℟. Lord, teach me your statutes.
With all my heart I seek you;
let me not stray from your commands.
℟. Lord, teach me your statutes.
Within my heart I treasure your promise,
that I may not sin against you.
℟. Lord, teach me your statutes.
Blessed are you, O LORD;
teach me your statutes.
℟. Lord, teach me your statutes.
With my lips I declare
all the ordinances of your mouth.
℟. Lord, teach me your statutes.
In the way of your decrees
I rejoice, as much as in all riches.
℟. Lord, teach me your statutes.
Acclamation before the Gospel
Mt 23:9b, 10b
℟. Alleluia, alleluia.
You have but one Father in heaven;
you have one master, the Christ.
℟. Alleluia, alleluia.
Gospel
Mt 23:8-12
The greatest among you must be your servant.
✠ A reading from the holy Gospel according to Matthew
Jesus spoke to the crowds and to his disciples:
“Do not be called ‘Rabbi.’
You have but one teacher, and you are all brothers.
Call no one on earth your father;
you have but one Father in heaven.
Do not be called ‘Master’;
you have but one master, the Christ.
The greatest among you must be your servant.
Whoever exalts himself will be humbled;
but whoever humbles himself will be exalted.”
At the end of the Gospel, the Deacon, or the Priest, acclaims:
The Gospel of the Lord.
All reply:
Praise to you, Lord Jesus Christ.
Then he kisses the book, saying quietly:
Through the words of the Gospel
may our sins be wiped away.
Weekday readings
First Reading
Ex 2:1-15a
She called him Moses for she said, “I drew him out of the water.” After Moses had grown up, he visited his people.
A reading from the Book of Exodus
A certain man of the house of Levi married a Levite woman,
who conceived and bore a son.
Seeing that he was a goodly child, she hid him for three months.
When she could hide him no longer, she took a papyrus basket,
daubed it with bitumen and pitch,
and putting the child in it,
placed it among the reeds on the river bank.
His sister stationed herself at a distance
to find out what would happen to him.
Pharaoh’s daughter came down to the river to bathe,
while her maids walked along the river bank.
Noticing the basket among the reeds, she sent her handmaid to fetch it.
On opening it, she looked, and lo, there was a baby boy, crying!
She was moved with pity for him and said,
“It is one of the Hebrews’ children.”
Then his sister asked Pharaoh’s daughter,
“Shall I go and call one of the Hebrew women
to nurse the child for you?”
“Yes, do so,” she answered.
So the maiden went and called the child’s own mother.
Pharaoh’s daughter said to her,
“Take this child and nurse it for me, and I will repay you.”
The woman therefore took the child and nursed it.
When the child grew, she brought him to Pharaoh’s daughter,
who adopted him as her son and called him Moses;
for she said, “I drew him out of the water.”
On one occasion, after Moses had grown up,
when he visited his kinsmen and witnessed their forced labor,
he saw an Egyptian striking a Hebrew, one of his own kinsmen.
Looking about and seeing no one,
he slew the Egyptian and hid him in the sand.
The next day he went out again, and now two Hebrews were fighting!
So he asked the culprit,
“Why are you striking your fellow Hebrew?”
But the culprit replied,
“Who has appointed you ruler and judge over us?
Are you thinking of killing me as you killed the Egyptian?”
Then Moses became afraid and thought,
“The affair must certainly be known.”
Pharaoh, too, heard of the affair and sought to put Moses to death.
But Moses fled from him and stayed in the land of Midian.
The word of the Lord.
Responsorial Psalm
Ps 69:3, 14, 30-31, 33-34
R. :
℟. (see 33) Turn to the Lord in your need, and you will live.
I am sunk in the abysmal swamp
where there is no foothold;
I have reached the watery depths;
the flood overwhelms me.
℟. Turn to the Lord in your need, and you will live.
But I pray to you, O LORD,
for the time of your favor, O God!
In your great kindness answer me
with your constant help.
℟. Turn to the Lord in your need, and you will live.
But I am afflicted and in pain;
let your saving help, O God, protect me;
I will praise the name of God in song,
and I will glorify him with thanksgiving.
℟. Turn to the Lord in your need, and you will live.
“See, you lowly ones, and be glad;
you who seek God, may your hearts revive!
For the LORD hears the poor,
and his own who are in bonds he spurns not.”
℟. Turn to the Lord in your need, and you will live.
Acclamation before the Gospel
Ps 95:8
℟. Alleluia, alleluia.
If today you hear his voice,
harden not your hearts.
℟. Alleluia, alleluia.
Gospel
Mt 11:20-24
It will be more tolerable for Tyre and Sidon and for the land of Sodom on the day of judgment than for you.
✠ A reading from the holy Gospel according to Matthew
Jesus began to reproach the towns
where most of his mighty deeds had been done,
since they had not repented.
“Woe to you, Chorazin! Woe to you, Bethsaida!
For if the mighty deeds done in your midst
had been done in Tyre and Sidon,
they would long ago have repented in sackcloth and ashes.
But I tell you, it will be more tolerable
for Tyre and Sidon on the day of judgment than for you.
And as for you, Capernaum:
Will you be exalted to heaven?
You will go down to the nether world.
For if the mighty deeds done in your midst had been done in Sodom,
it would have remained until this day.
But I tell you, it will be more tolerable
for the land of Sodom on the day of judgment than for you.”
At the end of the Gospel, the Deacon, or the Priest, acclaims:
The Gospel of the Lord.
All reply:
Praise to you, Lord Jesus Christ.
Then he kisses the book, saying quietly:
Through the words of the Gospel
may our sins be wiped away.
