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Year 2 Weekday Reading. (27/5/10)
Thursday of the Eighth Week in Ordinary Time
Reading 1
Beloved:
Like
newborn infants, long for pure spiritual milk
so that
through it you may grow into salvation,
for you
have tasted that the Lord is good.
Come
to him, a living stone, rejected by human beings
but
chosen and precious in the sight of God,
and, like
living stones,
let
yourselves be built into a spiritual house
to be a
holy priesthood to offer spiritual sacrifices
acceptable
to God through Jesus Christ.
You
are a chosen race, a royal priesthood,
a
holy nation, a people of his own,
so
that you may announce the praises of
him
who
called you out of darkness into his wonderful light.
Once
you were no people
but now
you are God’s people;
you had
not received mercy
but now
you have received mercy.
Beloved,
I urge you as aliens and sojourners
to keep
away from worldly desires that wage war against the soul.
Maintain
good conduct among the Gentiles,
so that
if they speak of you as evildoers,
they may
observe your good works
and glorify God on the day of visitation.
Responsorial Psalm
R.
(2c) Come with joy into
the presence of the Lord.
Sing
joyfully to the LORD, all you lands;
serve the
LORD with gladness;
come
before him with joyful song.
R.
Come with joy into the presence of the Lord.
Know
that the LORD is God;
he made
us, his we are;
his
people, the flock he tends.
R.
Come with joy into the presence of the Lord.
Enter
his gates with thanksgiving,
his
courts with praise;
Give
thanks to him;
bless his
name.
R.
Come with joy into the presence of the Lord.
The
LORD is good:
his
kindness endures forever,
and his
faithfulness, to all generations.
R.
Come with joy into the presence of the Lord.
Gospel
The
disciples were on the way, going up to Jerusalem,
and Jesus
went ahead of them.
They
were amazed, and those who followed were afraid.
Taking
the Twelve aside again, he began to tell them
what was
going to happen to him.
“Behold,
we are going up to Jerusalem, and the Son of Man
will be
handed over to the chief priests and the scribes,
and they
will condemn him to death
and hand
him over to the Gentiles who will mock him,
spit upon
him, scourge him, and put him to death,
but after
three days he will rise.”
Then
James and John, the sons of Zebedee,
came to
Jesus and said to him,
“Teacher,
we want you to do for us whatever we ask of you.”
He
replied, “What do you wish me to do for you?”
They
answered him,
“Grant
that in your glory
we may
sit one at your right and the other at your left.”
Jesus
said to them, “You do not know what you are asking.
Can
you drink the chalice that I drink
or be
baptized with the baptism with which I am baptized?”
They
said to him, “We can.”
Jesus
said to them, “The chalice that I drink, you will drink,
and with
the baptism with which I am baptized, you will be baptized;
but to
sit at my right or at my left is not mine to give
but is
for those for whom it has been prepared.”
When
the ten heard this, they became indignant at James and John.
Jesus
summoned them and said to them,
“You
know that those who are recognized as rulers over the Gentiles
lord it
over them,
and their
great ones make their authority over them felt.
But
it shall not be so among you.
Rather,
whoever wishes to be great among you will be your servant;
whoever
wishes to be first among you will be the slave of all.
For
the Son of Man did not come to be served but to serve
and to give his life as a ransom for many.”
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