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Mass Readings

Wednesday, May 19, 2027

Wednesday of the seventh week of Ordinary Time

Weekday · Ordinary Time · Cycle B · Year I · Green

Reading I

Sir 4:11-19

And thou shalt be as the obedient son of the most High, and he will have mercy on thee more than a mother.

Wisdom inspireth life into her children, and protecteth them that seek after her, and will go before them in the way of justice.

And he that loveth her, loveth life: and they that watch for her, shall embrace her sweetness.

They that hold her fast, shall inherit life: and whithersoever she entereth, God will give a blessing.

They that serve her, shall be servants to the holy one: and God loveth them that love her.

He that hearkeneth to her, shall judge nations: and he that looketh upon her, shall remain secure.

If he trust to her, he shall inherit her, and his generation shall be in assurance.

For she walketh with him in temptation, and at the first she chooseth him.

She will bring upon him fear and dread and trial: and she will scourge him with the affliction of her discipline, till she try him by her laws, and trust his soul.

Responsorial Psalm

Ps 119:165, 168, 171, 172, 174, 175

Much peace have they that love thy law, and to them there is no stumbling block.

I have kept thy commandments and thy testimonies: because all my ways are in thy sight.

My lips shall utter a hymn, when thou shalt teach me thy justifications.

My tongue shall pronounce thy word: because all thy commandments are justice.

I have longed for thy salvation, O Lord; and thy law is my meditation.

My soul shall live and shall praise thee: and thy judgments shall help me.

Gospel Acclamation

John 14:6

Jesus saith to him: I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No man cometh to the Father, but by me.

Gospel

Mark 9:38-40

But Jesus said: Do not forbid him. For there is no man that doth a miracle in my name and can soon speak ill of me.

For he that is not against you is for you.

For whosoever shall give you to drink a cup of water in my name, because you belong to Christ: amen I say to you, he shall not lose his reward.

About These Readings

Scripture text from the Douay-Rheims Bible (Challoner revision, 1899), which is in the public domain. The Mass readings follow the Lectionary for Mass approved for the dioceses of the United States.

The Douay-Rheims follows the Vulgate numbering, which in the Psalms, Sirach, and a few other books can differ by a chapter or a few verses from the numbering in the modern Lectionary. The text is the same passage.

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