Eleventh Sunday in Ordinary Time
Year B
16th June 2024 (Sunday)
Psalter: 3
Reading of the Day
| First Reading | Ezekiel 17:22-24 |
| Response | It is good to give thanks to you, O Lord. |
| Second Reading | 2 Corinthians 5:6-10 |
| Gospel | Mark 4:26-34 |
First Reading
Ezekiel 17:22-24
Thus says the Lord God: “I myself will take a spring from the lofty top of the cedar and will set it out. I will break off from the topmost of its young twigs a tender one, and I myself will plant it on a high and lofty mountain. On the mountain height of Israel will I plant it, that it may bear branches and produce fruit and become a noble cedar. And under it will dwell every kind of bird; in the shade of its branches birds of every sort will nest. And all the trees of the field shall know that I am the Lord; I bring low the high tree, and make high the low tree, dry up the green tree, and make the dry tree flourish. I am the Lord; I have spoken, and I will do it.”
Responsorial Psalm
Psalm 92:2-3, 13-14, 15-16 (R. see 2a)
R/. It is good to give thanks to you, O Lord.
It is good to give thanks to the Lord,
To make music to your name, O Most High,
to proclaim your loving mercy in the morning,
and your truth in the watches of the night. R/.
The just will flourish like the palm tree,
and grow like a Lebanon cedar.
Planted in the house of the Lord,
they will flourish in the courts of our God. R/.
Still bearing fruit when they are old,
still full of sap, still green,
to proclaim that the Lord is upright.
In him, my rock, there is no wrong. R/.
Second Reading
2 Corinthians 5:6-10
Brethren: We are always of good courage. We know that while we are at home in the body we are away from the Lord, for we walk by faith, not by sight. Yes, we are of good courage, and we would rather be away from the body and at home with the Lord. So whether we are at home or away, we make it our aim to please him. For we must all appear before the judgement seat of Christ, so that each one may receive what is due for what he has done in the body, whether good or evil.
Gospel Acclamation
V/. Alleluia
R/. Alleluia
V/. The seed is the word of God, the sower is Christ all who come to him will live for ever.
R/. Alleluia.
Gospel
Mark 4:26-34
At that time: Jesus said to the crowds, “The kingdom of God is as if a man should scatter seed on the ground. He sleeps and rises night and day, and the seed sprouts and grows; he knows not how. The earth produces by itself, first the blade, then the ear, then the full grain in the ear. But when the grain is ripe, at once he puts in the sickle, because the harvest has come.” And he said, “With what can we compare the kingdom of God, or what parable shall we use for it? It is like a grain of mustard seed, which, when sown on the ground, is the smallest of all the seeds on earth, yet when it is sown it grows up and becomes larger than all the garden plants and puts out large branches, so that the birds of the air can make nests in its shade.” With many such parables he spoke the word to them, as they were able to hear it. He did not speak to them without a parable, but privately to his own disciples he explained everything. ”
