Reading 1, Proverbs 21:1-6, 10-13 1 Like flowing water is a king's heart in Yahweh's hand; he directs it wherever he pleases. 2 All actions are straight in the doer's own eyes, but it is Yahweh who weighs hearts. 3 To do what is upright and just is more pleasing to Yahweh than sacrifice. 4 Haughty eye, proud heart, lamp of the wicked, nothing but sin. 5 The hardworking is thoughtful, and all is gain; too much haste, and all that comes of it is want. 6 To make a fortune with the help of a ...

Reading 1, Proverbs 3:27-34 27 Refuse no kindness to those who have a right to it, if it is in your power to perform it. 28 Do not say to your neighbour, 'Go away! Come another time! I will give it you tomorrow,' if you can do it now. 29 Do not plot harm against your neighbour who is living unsuspecting beside you. 30 Do not pick a groundless quarrel with anyone who has done you no harm. 31 Do not envy the man of violence, never model your conduct on his; 32 for the wilful wrong-doer is ...

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Reading 1, Amos 8:4-7 4 Listen to this, you who crush the needy and reduce the oppressed to nothing, 5 you who say, 'When will New Moon be over so that we can sell our corn, and Sabbath, so that we can market our wheat? Then, we can make the bushel-measure smaller and the shekel-weight bigger, by fraudulently tampering with the scales. 6 We can buy up the weak for silver and the poor for a pair of sandals, and even get a price for the sweepings of the wheat.' 7 Yahweh has sworn by the pride ...

Reading 1, First Corinthians 15:35-37, 42-49 35 Someone may ask: How are dead people raised, and what sort of body do they have when they come? 36 How foolish! What you sow must die before it is given new life; 37 and what you sow is not the body that is to be, but only a bare grain, of wheat I dare say, or some other kind; 42 It is the same too with the resurrection of the dead: what is sown is perishable, but what is raised is imperishable; 43 what is sown is contemptible but what is ...

Reading 1, First Corinthians 15:12-20 12 Now if Christ is proclaimed as raised from the dead, how can some of you be saying that there is no resurrection of the dead? 13 If there is no resurrection of the dead, then Christ cannot have been raised either, 14 and if Christ has not been raised, then our preaching is without substance, and so is your faith. 15 What is more, we have proved to be false witnesses to God, for testifying against God that he raised Christ to life when he did not raise ...

Reading 1, Hebrews 5:7-9 7 During his life on earth, he offered up prayer and entreaty, with loud cries and with tears, to the one who had the power to save him from death, and, winning a hearing by his reverence, 8 he learnt obedience, Son though he was, through his sufferings; 9 when he had been perfected, he became for all who obey him the source of eternal salvation Responsorial Psalm, Psalms 31:2-3, 3-4, 5-6, 15-16, 20 2 turn your ear to me, make haste. Be for me a rock-fastness, a ...

Reading 1, Numbers 21:4-9 4 They left Mount Hor by the road to the Sea of Suph, to skirt round Edom. On the way the people lost patience. 5 They spoke against God and against Moses, 'Why did you bring us out of Egypt to die in the desert? For there is neither food nor water here; we are sick of this meagre diet.' 6 At this, God sent fiery serpents among the people; their bite brought death to many in Israel. 7 The people came and said to Moses, 'We have sinned by speaking against Yahweh and ...

Reading 1, First Corinthians 12:12-14, 27-31 12 For as with the human body which is a unity although it has many parts -- all the parts of the body, though many, still making up one single body -- so it is with Christ. 13 We were baptised into one body in a single Spirit, Jews as well as Greeks, slaves as well as free men, and we were all given the same Spirit to drink. 14 And indeed the body consists not of one member but of many. 27 Now Christ's body is yourselves, each of you with a part ...

Reading 1, First Corinthians 11:17-26, 33 17 Now that I am on the subject of instructions, I cannot congratulate you on the meetings you hold; they do more harm than good. 18 In the first place, I hear that when you all come together in your assembly, there are separate factions among you, and to some extent I believe it. 19 It is no bad thing, either, that there should be differing groups among you so that those who are to be trusted among you can be clearly recognised. 20 So, when you meet ...

Reading 1, Exodus 32:7-11, 13-14 7 Yahweh then said to Moses, 'Go down at once, for your people whom you brought here from Egypt have become corrupt. 8 They have quickly left the way which I ordered them to follow. They have cast themselves a metal calf, worshipped it and offered sacrifice to it, shouting, "Israel, here is your God who brought you here from Egypt!" ' 9 Yahweh then said to Moses, 'I know these people; I know how obstinate they are! 10 So leave me now, so that my anger can ...

Reading 1, First Corinthians 10:14-22 14 For that reason, my dear friends, have nothing to do with the worship of false gods. 15 I am talking to you as sensible people; weigh up for yourselves what I have to say. 16 The blessing-cup, which we bless, is it not a sharing in the blood of Christ; and the loaf of bread which we break, is it not a sharing in the body of Christ? 17 And as there is one loaf, so we, although there are many of us, are one single body, for we all share in the one ...

Reading 1, 1 Corinthians 9:16-19, 22B-27 16 In fact, preaching the gospel gives me nothing to boast of, for I am under compulsion and I should be in trouble if I failed to do it. 17 If I did it on my own initiative I would deserve a reward; but if I do it under compulsion I am simply accepting a task entrusted to me. 18 What reward do I have, then? That in my preaching I offer the gospel free of charge to avoid using the rights which the gospel allows me. 19 So though I was not a slave to ...

Reading 1, Micah 5:1-4 1 But you (Bethlehem) Ephrathah, the least of the clans of Judah, from you will come for me a future ruler of Israel whose origins go back to the distant past, to the days of old. 2 Hence Yahweh will abandon them only until she who is in labour gives birth, and then those who survive of his race will be reunited to the Israelites. 3 He will take his stand and he will shepherd them with the power of Yahweh, with the majesty of the name of his God, and they will be ...

Reading 1, First Corinthians 7:25-31 25 About people remaining virgin, I have no directions from the Lord, but I give my own opinion as a person who has been granted the Lord's mercy to be faithful. 26 Well then, because of the stress which is weighing upon us, the right thing seems to be this: it is good for people to stay as they are. 27 If you are joined to a wife, do not seek to be released; if you are freed of a wife, do not look for a wife. 28 However, if you do get married, that is ...

Reading 1, First Corinthians 6:1-11 1 Is one of you with a complaint against another so brazen as to seek judgement from sinners and not from God's holy people? 2 Do you not realise that the holy people of God are to be the judges of the world? And if the world is to be judged by you, are you not competent for petty cases? 3 Do you not realise that we shall be the judges of angels? - then quite certainly over matters of this life. 4 But when you have matters of this life to be judged, you ...

Reading 1, First Corinthians 5:1-8 1 It is widely reported that there is sexual immorality among you, immorality of a kind that is not found even among gentiles: that one of you is living with his stepmother. 2 And you so filled with your own self-importance! It would have been better if you had been grieving bitterly, so that the man who has done this thing were turned out of the community. 3 For my part, however distant I am physically, I am present in spirit and have already condemned the ...

Reading 1, Wisdom 9:13-18 13 'What human being indeed can know the intentions of God? And who can comprehend the will of the Lord? 14 For the reasoning of mortals is inadequate, our attitudes of mind unstable; 15 for a perishable body presses down the soul, and this tent of clay weighs down the mind with its many cares. 16 It is hard enough for us to work out what is on earth, laborious to know what lies within our reach; who, then, can discover what is in the heavens? 17 And who could ever ...

Reading 1, First Corinthians 4:9-15 9 For it seems to me that God has put us apostles on show right at the end, like men condemned to death: we have been exhibited as a spectacle to the whole universe, both angelic and human. 10 Here we are, fools for Christ's sake, while you are the clever ones in Christ; we are weak, while you are strong; you are honoured, while we are disgraced. 11 To this day, we go short of food and drink and clothes, we are beaten up and we have no homes; 12 we earn ...

Reading 1, First Corinthians 4:1-5 1 People should think of us as Christ's servants, stewards entrusted with the mysteries of God. 2 In such a matter, what is expected of stewards is that each one should be found trustworthy. 3 It is of no importance to me how you or any other human court may judge me: I will not even be the judge of my own self. 4 It is true that my conscience does not reproach me, but that is not enough to justify me: it is the Lord who is my judge. 5 For that reason, do ...