Mass Readings
Fifteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time
Sunday · Ordinary Time · Cycle B · Year I · Green
Reading I
And Amasias said to Amos: Thou seer, go, flee away into the land of Juda: and eat bread there, and prophesy there.
But prophesy not again any more in Bethel: because it is the king's sanctuary, and it is the house of the kingdom.
And Amos answered and said to Amasias: I am not a prophet, nor am I the son of a prophet: but I am a herdsman plucking wild figs.
And the Lord took me when I followed the flock, and the Lord said to me: Go, prophesy to my people Israel.
Responsorial Psalm
I will hear what the Lord God will speak in me: for he will speak peace unto his people: And unto his saints: and unto them that are converted to the heart.
Surely his salvation is near to them that fear him : that glory may dwell in our land.
Mercy and truth have met each other: justice and peace have kissed.
Truth is sprung out of the earth: and justice hath looked down from heaven.
For the Lord will give goodness: and our earth shall yield her fruit.
Justice shall walk before him: and he shall set his steps in the way.
Reading II
or Eph 1:3-10
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath blessed us with spiritual blessings in heavenly places, in Christ:
As he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and unspotted in his sight in charity.
Who hath predestinated us unto the adoption of children through Jesus Christ unto himself: according to the purpose of his will:
Unto the praise of the glory of his grace, in which he hath graced us, in his beloved son.
In whom we have redemption through his blood, the remission of sins, according to the riches of his, grace,
Which hath superabounded in us, in all wisdom and prudence,
That he might make known unto us the mystery of his will, according to his good pleasure, which he hath purposed in him,
In the dispensation of the fulness of times, to re-establish all things in Christ, that are in heaven and on earth, in him.
In whom we also are called by lot, being predestinated according to the purpose of him who worketh all things according to the counsel of his will.
That we may be unto the praise of his glory: we who before hoped in Christ:
In whom you also, after you had heard the word of truth (the gospel of your salvation), in whom also believing, you were signed with the holy Spirit of promise.
Who is the pledge of our inheritance, unto the redemption of acquisition, unto the praise of his glory.
Gospel Acclamation
That the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give unto you the spirit of wisdom and of revelation, in the knowledge of him:
The eyes of your heart enlightened that you may know what the hope is of his calling and what are the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints.
Gospel
And he called the twelve; and began to send them two and two, and gave them power over unclean spirits.
And he commanded them that they should take nothing for the way, but a staff only; no scrip, no bread, nor money in their purse,
But to be shod with sandals, and that they should not put on two coats.
And he said to them: Wheresoever you shall enter into an house, there abide till you depart from that place.
And whosoever shall not receive you, nor hear you; going forth from thence, shake off the dust from your feet for a testimony to them.
And going forth they preached men should do penance:
And they cast out many devils, and anointed with oil many that were sick, and healed them.
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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