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Readings at Mass

Liturgical Colour: White. Year: A(II).

Readings for the feria

Readings for the memorial

These are the readings for the feria

First reading
Habakkuk 1:12-2:4

‘The righteous shall live by his faith.’

Are you not from everlasting,

O Lord my God, my Holy One?

We shall not die.

O Lord, you have ordained them as a judgement,

and you, O Rock, have established them for reproof.

You who are of purer eyes than to see evil

and cannot look at wrong,

why do you idly look at traitors

and remain silent when the wicked swallows up

the man more righteous than he?

You make mankind like the fish of the sea,

like crawling things that have no ruler.

He brings all of them up with a hook;

he drags them out with his net;

he gathers them in his dragnet;

so he rejoices and is glad.

Therefore he sacrifices to his net

and makes offerings to his dragnet;

for by them he lives in luxury,

and his food is rich.

Is he then to keep on emptying his net

and mercilessly killing nations for ever?

I will take my stand at my watchpost

and station myself on the tower,

and look out to see what he will say to me,

and what I will answer concerning my complaint.

And the Lord answered me:

‘Write the vision;

make it plain on tablets,

so he may run who reads it.

For still the vision awaits its appointed time;

it hastens to the end — it will not lie.

If it seems slow, wait for it;

it will surely come; it will not delay.

‘Behold, his soul is puffed up;

it is not upright within him,

but the righteous shall live by his faith.’

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Responsorial Psalm
Ps 9(9A):8-9. 10-11. 12-13. ℟11b

You will not forsake those who seek you, O Lord.

The Lord sits enthroned for ever;

he has set up his throne for judgement.

He will judge the world with righteousness;

he will govern the peoples with equity.

You will not forsake those who seek you, O Lord.

For the oppressed, the Lord will be a stronghold,

a stronghold in times of distress.

Those who know your name will trust you;

you will not forsake those who seek you, O Lord.

You will not forsake those who seek you, O Lord.

Sing psalms to the Lord who dwells in Sion.

Tell his mighty works among the peoples,

for the Avenger of Blood has remembered them,

has not forgotten the cry of the poor.

You will not forsake those who seek you, O Lord.

Gospel Acclamation
Cf. 2 Timothy 1:10

Alleluia, alleluia.

Our Saviour Christ Jesus abolished death

and brought life to light through the gospel.

Alleluia.

Gospel
Matthew 17:14-20

‘If you have faith, nothing will be impossible for you.’

At that time: A man came up to Jesus and, kneeling before him, said, ‘Lord, have mercy on my son, for he has seizures and he suffers terribly. For often he falls into the fire, and often into the water. And I brought him to your disciples, and they could not heal him.’ And Jesus answered, ‘O faithless and twisted generation, how long am I to be with you? How long am I to bear with you? Bring him here to me.’ And Jesus rebuked the demon, and it came out of him, and the boy was healed instantly. Then the disciples came to Jesus privately and said, ‘Why could we not cast it out?’ He said to them, ‘Because of your little faith. For truly, I say to you, if you have faith like a grain of mustard seed, you will say to this mountain, “Move from here to there”, and it will move, and nothing will be impossible for you.’

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These are the readings for the memorial

First reading
1 Corinthians 2:1-10a

‘We impart a secret and hidden wisdom of God.’

I, when I came to you, brothers and sisters, did not come proclaiming to you the testimony of God with lofty speech or wisdom. For I decided to know nothing among you except Jesus Christ and him crucified. And I was with you in weakness and in fear and much trembling, and my speech and my message were not in plausible words of wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power, so that your faith might not rest in the wisdom of men but in the power of God.

Yet among the mature we do impart wisdom, although it is not a wisdom of this age or of the rulers of this age, who are doomed to pass away. But we impart a secret and hidden wisdom of God, which God decreed before the ages for our glory. None of the rulers of this age understood this, for if they had, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory. But, as it is written,

‘What no eye has seen, nor ear heard,

nor the heart of man imagined,

what God has prepared for those who love him’ —

these things God has revealed to us through the Spirit.