Twenty-Fifth Sundayin Ordinary Time
Year B
22nd September 2024 (Sunday)
Psalter: Week 1
Reading of the Day
| First Reading | Wisdom 2:12, 17-20 |
| Response | Behold, the Lord is the upholder of my life.. |
| Second Reading | James 3:16-4:3 |
| Gospel | Mark 9:30-37 |
First Reading
Wisdom 2:12, 17-20
[Ungodly men said:] “Let us lie in wait for the righteous man, because he is inconvenient to us and opposes our actions; he reproaches us for sins against the law and accuses us of sins against our training. Let us see if his words are true, and let us test what will happen at the end of his life; for if the righteous man is God’s son, he will help him and will deliver him from the hand of his adversaries. Let us test him with insult and torture, that we may find out how gentle he is and make trial of his forbearance. Let us condemn him to a shameful death for, according to what he says, he will be protected.”
Responsorial Psalm
Psalm 54:3-4, 5, 6 and 8 (R. see 6b)
R/. Behold, the Lord is the upholder of my life.
O God, save me by your name;
by your power, defend my cause.
O God, hear my prayer;
give ear to the words of my mouth. R/.
For the proud have risen against me,
And the ruthless seek my life.
They have no regard for God. R/.
See, I have God for my help.
The Lord sustains my soul.
I will sacrifice to you with willing heart,
and praise your name, for it is good. R/.
Second Reading
James 3:16-4:3
Beloved: Where jealousy and selfish ambition exist, there will be disorder and every vile practice. But the wisdom from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, open to reason, full of mercy and good fruits, impartial and sincere. And a harvest of righteousness is sown in peace by those who make peace. What causes quarrels and what causes fights among you? Is it not this, that your passions are at war within you? You desire and do not have, so you murder. You covet and cannot obtain, so you fight and quarrel. You do not have, because you do not ask. You ask and do not receive, because you ask wrongly, to spend it on your passions.
Gospel Acclamation
See 2 Thessalonians 2:14
V/. Alleluia
R/. Alleluia
V/. God has called us through the Gospel, to obtain the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ.
R/.Alleluia.
Gospel
Mark 9:30-37
At that time: Jesus and his disciples went on from the mountain and passed through Galilee. And he did not want anyone to know, for he was teaching his disciples, saying to them, “The Son of Man is going to be delivered into the hands of men, and they will kill him. And when he is killed, after three days he will rise.” But they did not understand the saying, and were afraid to ask him. And they came to Capernaum. And when he was in the house he asked them, “What were you discussing on the way?” But they kept silent, for on the way they had argued with one another about who was the greatest. And he sat down and called the twelve. And he said to them, “If anyone would be first, he must be last of all and servant of all.” And he took a child and put him in the midst of them, and taking him in his arms, he said to them, “Whoever receives one such child in my name receives me, and whoever receives me, receives not me but him who sent me.”
