Today’s
Readings

First Reading

1 Kings 11:29-32; 12:19

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Responsorial Psalm

Psalm 81:10-11ab, 12-13, 14-15

1. 10

   There shall be no new god in thee: neither shalt thou adore a strange god.

2. 11

   For I am the Lord thy God, who brought thee out of the land of Egypt: open thy mouth wide, and I will fill it.

3. 12

   But my people heard not my voice: and Israel hearkened not to me.

4. 13

   So I let them go according to the desires of their heart: they shall walk in their own inventions.

5. 14

   If my people had heard me: if Israel had walked in my ways:

6. 15

   I should soon have humbled their enemies, and laid my hand on them that troubled them.

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Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition · public domain · 73 books. Psalm numbers follow the Roman lectionary.

Gospel

Mark 7:31-37

1. 31

   And again going out of the coasts of Tyre, he came by Sidon to the sea of Galilee, through the midst of the coasts of Decapolis.

2. 32

   And they bring to him one deaf and dumb; and they besought him that he would lay his hand upon him.

3. 33

   And taking him from the multitude apart, he put his fingers into his ears, and spitting, he touched his tongue:

4. 34

   And looking up to heaven, he groaned, and said to him: Ephpheta, which is, Be thou opened.

5. 35

   And immediately his ears were opened, and the string of his tongue was loosed, and he spoke right.

6. 36

   And he charged them that they should tell no man. But the more he charged them, so much the more a great deal did they publish it.

7. 37

   And so much the more did they wonder, saying: He hath done all things well; he hath made both the deaf to hear, and the dumb to speak.

Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition · public domain · 73 books. Psalm numbers follow the Roman lectionary.