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Thursday, 27 March 2025
Thursday of the Third Week of Lent
 Antiphons and Readings on p 262 of the Daily Missal

First Reading: Jeremiah 7:23-28

Thus says the Lord:
 “This command I gave my people,
 ‘Obey my voice, and I will be your God,
 and you shall be my people;
 and walk in all the way that I command you,
 that it may be well with you.’
 But they did not obey or incline their ear,
 but walked in their own counsels
 and the stubbornness of their evil hearts,
 and went backward and not forward.
 From the day that your fathers| came out of the land of Egypt
 to this day,
 I have persistently sent all my servants the prophets to them,
 day after day;
 yet they did not listen to me,
 or incline their ear, but stiffened their neck.
 They did worse than their ancestors.

So you shall speak all these words to them,
 but they will not listen to you.
 You shall call to them, but they will not answer you.
 And you shall say to them,
 ‘This is the nation
 that did not obey the voice of the Lord their God,
 and did not accept discipline;
 truth has perished;
 it is cut off from their lips.’”

Responsorial Psalm: Psalm 95:1-2.6-7abc.7d-9 (R. 7d-8a)

R/. O that today you would listen to his voice!
       Harden not your hearts.

Come, let us ring out our joy to the Lord;
 hail the rock who saves us.
 Let us come into his presence, giving thanks;
 let us hail him with a song of praise.

O come; let us bow and bend low.
 Let us kneel before the God who made us,
 for he is our God and we
 the people who belong to his pasture,
 the flock that is led by his hand.

O that today you would listen to his voice!
 “Harden not your hearts as at Meribah,
 as on that day at Massah in the desert
 when your forebears put me to the test;
 when they tried me, though they saw my work.”

R/. O that today you would listen to his voice!
       Harden not your hearts.

Gospel: Luke 11:14-23

At that time:
 Jesus was casting out a demon that was mute;
 when the demon had gone out, the mute man spoke,
 and the people marvelled.
 But some of them said,
 “He casts out demons by Beelzebul, the prince of demons”;
 while others, to test him, sought from him a sign from heaven.

But he, knowing their thoughts, said to them,
 “Every kingdom divided against itself is laid waste,
 and house falls upon house.
 And if Satan also is divided against himself,
 how will his kingdom stand?
 For you say that I cast out demons by Beelzebul.
 And if I cast out demons by Beelzebul,
 by whom do your sons cast them out?
 Therefore they shall be your judges.
 But if it is by the finger of God that I cast out demons,
 then the kingdom of God has come upon you.
 When a strong man, fully armed, guards his own palace,
 his goods are in peace;
 but when one stronger than he assails him and overcomes him,
 he takes away his armour in which he trusted,
 and divides his spoil.
 He who is not with me is against me,
 and he who does not gather with me scatters.”

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Wednesday, 26 March 2025
Wednesday in the Third Week of Lent
 Antiphons and Readings on p 260 of the Daily Missal

First Reading: Deuteronomy 4:1.5-9

Moses spoke to the people, saying,
 “And now, O Israel,
 give heed to the statutes and the ordinances which I teach you,
 and do them; that you may live,
 and go in and take possession of the land
 which the Lord, the God of your ancestors, gives you.
Behold, I have taught you statutes and ordinances,
 as the Lord my God commanded me,
 that you should do them in the land which you are entering
 to take possession of it.
 Keep them and do them;
 for that will be your wisdom and your understanding
 in the sight of the peoples,
 who, when they hear all these statutes, will say,
 ‘Surely this great nation is a wise and understanding people.’
 For what great nation is there that has a god so near to it
 as the Lord our God is to us, whenever we call upon him?
 And what great nation is there,
 that has statutes and ordinances so righteous
 as all this law which I set before you this day?

“Only take heed, and keep your soul diligently,
 lest you forget the things which your eyes have seen,
 and lest they depart from your heart all the days of your life;
 make them known to your children and your children’s children.”

Responsorial Psalm: Psalm 147:12-13, 15-16, 19-20 (R. 12a)

R/. O Jerusalem, glorify the Lord!

O Jerusalem, glorify the Lord!
 O Sion, praise your God!
 He has strengthened the bars of your gates;
 he has blessed your children within you.

He sends out his word to the earth,
 and swiftly runs his command.
 He showers down snow like wool;
 he scatters hoarfrost like ashes.

He reveals his word to Jacob;
 to Israel, his decrees and judgements.
 He has not dealt thus with other nations;
 he has not taught them his judgements.

R/. O Jerusalem, glorify the Lord!

Gospel: Matthew 5:17-19

At that time:

Jesus said to his disciples,
 “Do not think that I have come
 to abolish the law and the prophets;
 I have come not to abolish them but to fulfil them.
For truly, I say to you, till heaven and earth pass away,
 not an iota, not a dot,
 will pass from the law until all is accomplished.
 Whoever then relaxes one of the least of these commandments
 and teaches people so,
 shall be called least in the kingdom of heaven;
 but he who does them and teaches them
 shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven.

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Tuesday, 25March 2025
 The Annunciation of the Lord, Solemnity
Antiphons and Readings on p 1588 of the Daily Missal

First Reading: Isaiah 7:10-14; 8:10

Responsorial Psalm: Psalm 40:7-8, 8b-9, 10, 11(R. cf 8a.9a)

R/. See, I have come, Lord, to do your will.

You delight not in sacrifice and offerings,
 but in an open ear.
 You do not ask for holocaust and victim.
 Then I said, “See, I have come.”

In the scroll of the book it stands written of me:
 “I delight to do your will, O my God;
 your instruction lies deep within me.”

Your justice I have proclaimed
 in the great assembly.
 My lips I have not sealed;
 you know it, O Lord.

Your saving help I have not hidden in my heart;
 of your faithfulness and salvation I have spoken.
 I made no secret of your merciful love
 and your faithfulness to the great assembly.

R/. See, I have come, Lord, to do your will.

Second reading: Hebrews 10:4-10

Brothers and sisters:

It is impossible that the blood of bulls and goats
 should take away sins.

Consequently, when Christ came into the world, he said,
 “Sacrifices and offerings you have not desired,
 but a body you have prepared for me;
 in burnt offerings and sin offerings
 you have taken no pleasure.
 Then I said,  ‘Behold, I have come to do your will, O God,’
 as it is written of me in the roll of the book.”
When he said above,
 “You have neither desired nor taken pleasure 
 in sacrifices and offerings and burnt offerings and sin offerings”
 (these are offered according to the law),
 then he added,
 “Behold, I have come to do your will.”
 He abolishes the first in order to establish the second.
 And by that will we have been sanctified
 through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.

Gospel: Luke 1:26-38

At that time:
 The angel Gabriel was sent from God
 to a city of Galilee named Nazareth,
 to a virgin betrothed to a man whose name was Joseph,
 of the house of David;
 and the virgin’s name was Mary. 
 And he came to her and said,
 “Hail, full of grace, the Lord is with you!”
 But she was greatly troubled at the saying
 and considered in her mind what sort of greeting this might be.
 And the angel said to her, “Do not be afraid, Mary,
 for you have found favour with God.
 And behold, you will conceive in your womb and bear a son,
 and you shall call his name Jesus.
He will be great
 and will be called the Son of the Most High;
 and the Lord God will give to him
 the throne of his father David,
 and he will reign over the house of Jacob for ever;
 and of his kingdom there will be no end.”

And Mary said to the angel, “How will this be,
 since I do not know man?”

And the angel said to her, 
 “The Holy Spirit will come upon you,
 and the power of the Most High will overshadow you;
 therefore the child to be born will be called holy, 
 the Son of God.
 And behold, your kinswoman Elizabeth in her old age
 has also conceived a son;
 and this is the sixth month with her who was called barren.
 For with God nothing will be impossible.”

And Mary said, “Behold, I am the handmaid of the Lord;
 let it be to me according to your word.”
 And the angel departed from her.

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Monday, 24 March 2025
Monday in the Third Week of Lent
 Readings and Antiphons on p 255 of the Daily Missal

First Reading: 2 Kings 5:1-15a

Responsorial Psalm: Psalm 42:2, 3; 43:3, 4 (R. 42:3)

R/. My soul is thirsting for God, the living God.
       When can I enter and appear before the face of God?

Like the deer that yearns
 for running streams,
 so my soul is yearning 
 for you, my God.

My soul is thirsting for God,
 the living God;
 when can I enter and appear
 before the face of God?

O send forth your light and your truth;
 they will guide me on.
 They will bring me to your holy mountain,
 to the place where you dwell.

And I will come to the altar of God,
 to God, my joy and gladness.
 To you will I give thanks on the harp,
 O God, my God.

R/. My soul is thirsting for God, the living God.
       When can I enter and appear before the face of God?

Gospel: Luke 4:24-30

At that time:
 When Jesus had come to Nazareth,
 he said to the people in the synagogue,
 “Truly, I say to you, no prophet is acceptable in his own country.
 But in truth, I tell you,
 there were many widows in Israel in the days of Elijah,
 when the heaven was shut up three years and six months,
 when there came a great famine over all the land;
 and Elijah was sent to none of them
 but only to Zarephath, in the land of Sidon,
 to a woman who was a widow.
 And there were many lepers in Israel
 in the time of the prophet Elisha;
 and none of them was cleansed, but only Naaman the Syrian.”

When they heard this,
 all in the synagogue were filled with wrath.
 And they rose up and put him out of the city
 and led him to the brow of the hill on which their city was built,
 that they might throw him down headlong.
 But passing through the midst of them he went away.

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Sunday, 23 March 2025
Third Sunday of Lent, Year C
 Antiphons on p. 243 and Readings on p. 250 of the Daily Missal and on p. 813 of the Sunday Missal.

First Reading: Exodus 3:1-8a, 13-15

In those days:
 Moses was keeping the flock of his father-in-law, Jethro,
 the priest of Midian;
 and he led his flock to the west side of the wilderness,
 and came to Horeb, the mountain of God.
And the angel of the Lord appeared to him in a flame of fire 
 out of the midst of a bush, 
 and he looked, and behold, the bush was burning, 
 yet it was not consumed. 
 And Moses said, 
 “I will turn aside and see this great sight, 
 why the bush is not burnt.” 

When the Lord saw that he turned aside to see, 
 God called to him out of the bush, “Moses, Moses!” 

And he said, “Here am I.” 

Then he said, “Do not come near;
 put off your shoes from your feet,
 for the place on which you are standing is holy ground.”
 And he said, “I am the God of your father,
 the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.”
 And Moses hid his face,
 for he was afraid to look at God. 

Then the Lord said, 
 “I have seen the affliction of my people who are in Egypt 
 and have heard their cry because of their taskmasters; 
 I know their sufferings, 
 and I have come down to deliver them 
 out of the hand of the Egyptians, 
 and to bring them up out of that land 
 to a good and broad land, a land 
 flowing with milk and honey.” 

Then Moses said to God, 
 “If I come to the people of Israel and say to them, 
 ‘The God of your ancestors has sent me to you,’ 
 and they ask me, ‘What is his name?’ 
 what shall I say to them?” 

God said to Moses, “I am who I am.” 
 And he said, “Say this to the people of Israel, 
 ‘I am has sent me to you.’” 
 God also said to Moses, 
 “Say this to the people of Israel, 
 ‘The Lord, the God of your ancestors, 
 the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, 
 has sent me to you’: 
 this is my name forever, 
 and thus I am to be remembered throughout all generations.

Responsorial Psalm: Psalm 103:1-2, 3-4, 6-7, 8 and 11 (R. 8a)

R/. The Lord is compassionate and gracious.

Bless the Lord, O my soul,
 and all within me, his holy name.
 Bless the Lord, O my soul,
 and never forget all his benefits.

It is the Lord who forgives all your sins,
 who heals every one of your ills,
 who redeems your life from the grave,
 who crowns you with mercy and compassion,

The Lord does just deeds,
 gives full justice to all who are oppressed.
 He made known his ways to Moses,
 and his deeds to the children of Israel.

The Lord is compassionate and gracious,
 slow to anger and rich in mercy.
 For as the heavens are high above the earth,
 so strong his mercy for those who fear him.

R/. 

Second Reading: 1 Corinthians 10:1-6,10-12

Gospel: Luke 13:1-9

There were some present at that very time
 who told Jesus of the Galileans
 whose blood Pilate had mingled with their sacrifices.
 And he answered them,
 “Do you think that these Galileans were worse sinners
 than all the other Galileans, because they suffered thus?
 I tell you, No;
 but unless you repent you will all likewise pe

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Saturday 22 March 2025
Saturday, Second Week of Lent
Antiphons and Readings on p.239 of Daily Missal 

First Reading: Micah 7:14-15, 18-20

Responsorial Psalm: Psalm 103:1-2.3-4.9-10.11-12 (R. 8a)

R/. The Lord is compassionate and gracious.

Bless the Lord, O my soul,
 and all within me, his holy name.
 Bless the Lord, O my soul,
 and never forget all his benefits.

It is the Lord who forgives all your sins,
 who heals every one of your ills,
 who redeems your life from the grave,
 who crowns you with mercy and compassion.

He will not always find fault;
 nor persist in his anger forever.
 He does not treat us according to our sins,
 nor repay us according to our faults.

For as the heavens are high above the earth,
 so strong his mercy for those who fear him.
 As far as the east is from the west,
 so far from us does he remove our transgressions.

R/. 

Gospel: Luke 15:1-3, 11-32

At that time:
 The tax collectors and sinners
 were all drawing near to hear Jesus
 And the Pharisees and the scribes murmured, saying,
 “This man receives sinners and eats with them.”

So, he told them this parable:
 And he said, “There was a man who had two sons;
 and the younger of them said to his father,
 ‘Father, give me the share of property that falls to me.’
 And he divided his living between them.

Not many days later,
 the younger son gathered all he had
 and took his journey into a far country,
 and there he squandered his property in loose living.
 And when he had spent everything,
 a great famine arose in that country, and he began to be in want.
 So, he went and joined himself
 to one of the citizens of that country,
 who sent him into his fields to feed swine.
 And he would gladly have fed on the pods that the swine ate;
 and no one gave him anything.
 But when he came to himself, he said,
 ‘How many of my father’s hired servants
 have bread enough and to spare,
 but I perish here with hunger!
 I will arise and go to my father, and I will say to him,
 “Father, I have sinned against heaven and before you;
 I am no longer worthy to be called your son;
 treat me as one of your hired servants.”’

And he arose and came to his father
  But while he was yet at a distance,
 his father saw him and had compassion,
 and ran and embraced him and kissed him.
 And the son said to him, ‘Father,
 I have sinned against heaven and before you;
 I am no longer worthy to be called your son.’
But the father said to his servants,
 Bring quickly the best robe, and put it on him;
 and put a ring on his hand, and shoes on his feet;
 and bring the fatted calf and kill it,
 and let us eat and make merry;
 for this my son was dead, and is alive again;
 he was lost, and is found.’
 And they began to make merry.
 “Now his elder son was in the field;
 and as he came and drew near to the house,
 he heard music and dancing
  And he called one of the servants and asked what this meant.
 And he said to him,
 ‘Your brother has come,
 and your father has killed the fatted calf,
 because he has received him safe and sound.’
 But he was angry and refused to go in.
 His father came out and entreated him,
 but he answered his father,
 ‘Behold, these many years I have served you,
 and I never disobeyed your command;
 yet you never gave me a kid,
 that I might mak

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Friday, 21 March 2025
Friday, Second Week of Lent.
 Antiphons and Readings on p. 237 of the Daily Missal.

First Reading: Genesis 37:3-4, 12-13a, 17b-28

Responsorial Psalm: Psalm 105:16-17.18-19.20-21 (R. 5a)

R/. Remember the wonders the Lord has done.

But he called down a famine on the land;
 he broke their staff of bread.
 He had sent a man ahead of them,
 Joseph sold as a slave.

His feet were weighed down in chains,
 his neck was bound with iron,
 until what he said came to pass,
 and the word of the Lord proved him true.

Then the king sent orders and released him;
 the ruler of the peoples set him free.
 He made him master of his house
 and ruler of all his possessions,

R/. 

Gospel: Matthew 21:33-43.45-46

At that time: 
 Jesus said to the chief priests and the elders of the people, 
 “Hear another parable. 
 There was a householder who planted a vineyard, 
 and set a hedge around it, 
 and dug a winepress in it, and built a tower, 
 and leased it to tenants, and went into another country. 
 When the season of fruit drew near, 
 he sent his servants to the tenants, to get his fruit; 
 and the tenants took his servants and beat one, 
 killed another, and stoned another. 
 Again he sent other servants, more than the first; 
 and they did the same to them. 
 Afterwards, he sent his son to them, saying, 
 ‘They will respect my son.’ 

But when the tenants saw the son, 
 they said to themselves, ‘This is the heir; 
 come, let us kill him and have his inheritance.’ 
 And they took him 
 and cast him out of the vineyard, and killed him. 
 When therefore the owner of the vineyard comes, 
 what will he do to those tenants?” 
 They said to him, 
 “He will put those wretches to a miserable death, 
 and lease the vineyard to other tenants 
 who will give him the fruits in their seasons.” 

Jesus said to them, “Have you never read in the scriptures: ‘
 The very stone which the builders rejected
 has become cornerstone;
 this was the Lord’s doing,
 and it is marvellous in our eyes?’
Therefore I tell you, 
 the kingdom of God will be taken away from you 
 and given to a nation producing the fruits of it.  

When the chief priests and the Pharisees heard his parables, 
 they perceived that he was speaking about them.  
 But when they tried to arrest him, the feared the multitudes, 
 because they held him to be a prophet.

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Thursday 20 March 2025
Thursday, Second Week of Lent
Antiphons and Readings on p.234 of Daily Missal 

First Reading: Jeremiah 17:5-10

Thus says the Lord:
 “Cursed is the one who trusts in people
 and makes flesh their arm,
 whose heart turns away from the Lord.
 They are like a shrub in the desert
 and shall not see any good come.
 They shall dwell in the parched places of the wilderness,
 in an uninhabited salt land.

“Blessed is the one who trusts in the Lord,
 whose trust is the Lord.
 They are like a tree planted by water,
 that sends out its roots by the stream,
 and does not fear when heat comes,
 for its leaves remain green,
 and is not anxious in the year of drought,
 for it does not cease to bear fruit.”

The heart is deceitful above all things,
 and desperately corrupt;
 who can understand it?
 “I the Lord search the mind and try the heart,
 to give every person according to their ways,
 according to the fruit of his doings.”

Responsorial Psalm: Psalm 1:1-2.3.4 & 6 (Psalm 40:5ab)

R/. Blessed the man who has placed his trust in the Lord.

Blessed indeed is the man
 who follows not the counsel of the wicked,
 nor stands in the path with sinners,
 nor abides in the company of scorners,
 but whose delight is the law of the Lord,
 and who ponders his law day and night.

He is like a tree that is planted
 besides the flowing waters,
 that yields its fruit in due season,
 and whose leaves shall never fade;
 and all that he does shall prosper.

Not so are the wicked, not so!
 For they, like winnowed chaff,
 shall be driven away by the wind.
 For the Lord knows the way of the just,
 but the way of the wicked will perish.

R/. 

Gospel: Luke 16:19-31

At that time:
 Jesus said to the Pharisees,
 “There was a rich man,
 who was clothed in purple and fine linen
 and who feasted sumptuously every day.
 And at his gate lay a poor man named Lazarus, full of sores,
 who desired to be fed with what fell from the rich man’s table; moreover, the dogs came and licked his sores.
 The poor man died
 and was carried by the angels to Abraham’s bosom.
 The rich man also died and was buried;
 and in Hades, being in torment, he lifted up his eyes,
 and saw Abraham far off and Lazarus in his bosom.
 And he called out, ‘Father Abraham, have mercy upon me,
 and send Lazarus to dip the end of his finger in water
 and cool my tongue;
 for I am in anguish in this flame.’

But Abraham said, ‘Son,
 remember that you in your lifetime received your good things,
 and Lazarus in like manner evil things;
 but now he is comforted here, and you are in anguish.
 And besides all this,
 between us and you a great chasm has been fixed,
 in order that those who would pass from here to you
 may not be able,
 and none may cross from there to us.’

And he said, ‘Then I beg you father,
 to send him to my father’s house,
 for I have five brothers, so that he may warn them,
 lest they also come into this place of torment.’

But Abraham said,
 ‘They have Moses and the prophets;
 let them hear them.’
 And he said, ‘No, father Abraham;
 but if someone goes to them from the dead,
 they will repent.’

He said to him,
 ‘If they do not hear Moses and the prophets,
 neither will they be convinced
 if someone should rise from the dead.’”

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Wednesday, 19 March 2025
 St Joseph, Spouse of the Blessed Virgin Mary
Antiphons and Readings on p 1584 of the Daily Missal

First Reading: 2 Samuel 7:4-5a, 12-14a, 16

In those days:
 The word of the Lord came to Nathan,
 “Go and tell my servant David, ‘Thus says the Lord:
 When your days are fulfilled 
 and you lie down with your ancestors,
 I will raise up your offspring after you,
 who shall come forth from your body,
 and I will establish his kingdom.
 He shall build a house for my name,
 and I will establish the throne of his kingdom for ever.
 I will be his father, and he shall be my son.
 And your house and your kingdom
 shall be made sure for ever before me;
 your throne shall be established for ever.’”

Responsorial Psalm: Psalm 89:2-3, 4-5, 27 and 29

R/. His descendants shall continue forever.

I will sing forever of your mercies, O Lord;
 through all ages my mouth will proclaim your fidelity.
 I have declared your mercy is established forever;
 your fidelity stands firm as the heavens.

“With my chosen one I have made a covenant;
 I have sworn to David my servant:
 I will establish your descendants forever,
 and set up your throne through all ages.”

“He will call out to me, ‘You are my father,
 my God, the rock of my salvation.’
 I will keep my faithful love for him always;
 with him my covenant shall last.” 

R/. His descendants shall continue forever.

Second reading: Romans 4:13, 16-18, 22

Brothers and sisters:

The promise to Abraham and his descendants,
 that they should inherit the world,
 did not come through the law
 but through the righteousness of faith.

That is why all depends on faith,
 in order that the promise may rest on grace
 and be guaranteed to all his descendants—
 not only to the adherents of the law
 but also to those who share the faith of Abraham,
 for he is the father of us all,
 as it is written,
 “I have made you the father of many nations”—
 in the presence of the God in whom he believed,
 who gives life to the dead
 and calls into existence the things that do not exist.
 In hope he believed against hope,
 that he should become the father of many nations;
 as he had been told,
 “So shall your descendants be.”
 That is why his faith
 was “reckoned to him as righteousness.”

Gospel: Matthew 1:16, 18-21, 24a

Jacob was the father of Joseph the husband of Mary,
 of whom Jesus was born, who is called Christ.

Now the birth of Jesus Christtook place in this way.
 When his mother Mary had been betrothed to Joseph,
 before they came together
 she was found to be with child of the Holy Spirit;
 and her husband Joseph,
 being a just man and unwilling to put her to shame,
 resolved to send her away quietly.
 But as he considered this, behold,
 an angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream, saying,
 “Joseph, son of David,
 do not fear to take Mary your wife,
 for that which is conceived in her is of the Holy Spirit;
 she will bear a son, 
 and you shall call his name Jesus,
 for he will save his people from their sins.”

When Joseph woke from sleep,
 he did as the angel of the Lord commanded him.

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Tuesday, 18 March 2025
Tuesday, Second Week of Lent.
 Antiphons and Readings on p. 230 of the Daily Missal.

First Reading: Isaiah 1:10.16-20

A reading from the Book of Isaiah.

Hear the word of the Lord, 
 you rulers of Sodom! 
 Give ear to the teaching of our God, 
 you people of Gomorrah! 

Wash yourselves; make yourselves clean; 
 remove the evil of your doings from before my eyes; 
 cease to do evil, 
 learn to do good; 
 seek justice, 
 correct oppression; 
 defend the fatherless, 
 plead for the widow. 

“Come now, let us reason together, 
 says the Lord: 
 though your sins are like scarlet, 
 they shall be as white as snow; 
 though they are red like crimson, 
 they shall become like wool. 
 If you are willing and obedient, 
 you shall eat the good of the land; 
 but if you refuse and rebel, 
 you shall be devoured by the sword; 
 for the mouth of the Lord has spoken.”

Responsorial Psalm: Psalm 50:8-9, 16bc-17, 21 & 23 (R. 23bc)

R/. To one whose way is blameless,
 I will show the salvation of God.

I do not rebuke you for your sacrifices;
 your offerings are always before me.
 I do not take more bullocks from your farms,
 nor goats from among your herds.

“How can you recite my commandments,
 and take my covenant on your lips,
 you who despise correction,
 and cast my words behind you,

You do this, and should I keep silence?
 Do you think that I am like you?
 I accuse you, lay the charge before you.
 A sacrifice of praise gives me honour,
 and to one whose way is blameless,
 I will show the salvation of God.”

R/. To one whose way is blameless,
 I will show the salvation of God.

Gospel: Matthew 23:1-12

At that time:
 Jesus said to the crowds and to his disciples,
“The scribes and the Pharisees sit on Moses’ seat;
 so practise and observe whatever they tell you,
 but not what they do;
 for they preach, but do not practice.
 They bind heavy burdens, hard to bear,
 and lay them on people’s shoulders;
 but they themselves will not move them with their finger.
 They do all their deeds to be seen by people;
 for they make their phylacteries broad and their fringes long,
 and they love the place of honour at feasts
 and the best seats in the synagogues,
 and salutations in the market places,
 and being called rabbi by people.
 But you are not to be called rabbi,
 for you have one teacher, and you are all brethren.
 And call no man your father on earth,
 for you have one Father, who is in heaven.
Neither be called masters, 
 for you have one master, the Christ. 
 He who is greatest among you shall be your servant; 
 whoever exalts himself will be humbled, 
 and whoever humbles himself will be exalted.