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Official TranslationJuly 6, 2014 Fourteenth Sunday in Ordinary TimeReading 1 - Zechariah 9.9-10Thus says the LORD:Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion! Shout out, O daughter of Jerusalem! Behold, your king comes to you! He is righteous, and having salvation,lowly, and riding on a donkey, on a colt, the foal of a donkey.I will cut off the chariot from Ephraim, and the horse from Jerusalem, and the battle bow will be cut off, and he will speak peace to the nations, and his dominion will be from sea to sea, and from the River to the ends of the earth.Responsorial Psalm 145.1-2, 8-9, 10-11, 13-14 Resp. 1R. Lord, I will bless your name forever, my King and my God. or R. Alleluia!I will exalt you, my God, the King.I will praise your name forever and ever.Every day I will bless you,and I will praise your name forever; yea, forever and ever.R. Lord, I will bless your name forever, my King and my God. or R. Alleluia!The Lord is gracious, merciful,slow to anger, and of great loving kindness.The Lord is good to all.His tender mercies are upon all his works.R. Lord, I will bless your name forever, my King and my God. or R. Alleluia!Let all your works, O Lord, praise you,and let your holy ones bless you.They will speak of the glory of your kingdom:and tell of your power.R. Lord, I will bless your name forever, my King and my God. or R. Alleluia!The Lord is faithful in all his words,and loving in all his deeds.The Lord upholds all who fall,and raises up all those who are bowed down.R. Lord, I will bless your name forever, my King and my God. or R. Alleluia!Reading 2 Romans 8.9, 11-13Brothers and sisters:You are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if the Spirit of God dwells in you.But if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, they are not his.If the Spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, he who raised Christ Jesus from the dead will give life to your mortal bodies also through his Spirit who dwells in you. So then, brothers, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live according to the flesh. For if you live according to the flesh, you must die, but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live.Gospel Matthew 11.25-30At that time, Jesus answered, I declare to you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that you hid these things from the wise and understanding, and revealed them to infants. Yes, Father, for so it was well-pleasing in your sight. All things have been delivered to me by my Father. No one knows the Son, except the Father; nor does anyone know the Father, except the Son and anyone to whom the Son desires to reveal him.Come to me, all you who labor and are burdened, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you, and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble of heart, and you will find rest for your souls, for my yoke is easy, and my burden is light. Official TranslationReading 1 Amos 9.11-15Thus says the LORD: On that day I will raise up the fallen tent of David, and close up its breaches, and I will raise up its ruins,and I will build it as in the days of old; that they may possess the remnant of Edom, and all the nations who are called by my name, says the Lord who does this. Behold, the days come, says the Lord, that the plowman shall overtake the reaper,and the one treading grapes him who sows seed;and sweet wine will drip from the mountains,and flow from the hills.I will bring my people Israel back from captivity,and they will rebuild the ruined cities and inhabit them;and they will plant vineyards and drink wine from them.They shall also make gardens, and eat their fruit.I will plant them on their land,and they will no more be plucked up out of their land which I have given them, says the Lord your God.Responsorial Psalm 85.9ab+10, 11-12, 13-14 Resp. 9bR. The Lord will speak peace unto his peopleI will hear what the Lord God has to say,for he will speak peace unto his people,Surely his salvation is near those who fear him, that glory may dwell in our land.R. The Lord will speak peace unto his peopleMercy and truth are met together. Righteousness and peace have kissed each other.Truth springs out of the earth,and righteousness has looked down from heaven.R. The Lord will speak peace unto his peopleThe Lord will give what is good,and our land shall yield its increase.Righteousness shall go before him, and shall prepare a way for his footsteps to walk.R. The Lord will speak peace unto his peopleGospel Matthew 9.14-17Then John s disciples came to Jesus, saying, Why do we and the Pharisees fast often, but your disciples do not fast? Jesus said to them, Can the friends of the bridegroom mourn, as long as the bridegroom is with them? But the days will come when the bridegroom will be taken away from them, and then they will fast.No one puts a piece of unshrunken cloth on an old garment; for the patch would tear away from the garment, and a worse hole is made. Nor do people put new wine into old wine skins, or else the skins would burst, and the wine be spilled, and the skins ruined. No, they put new wine into fresh wine skins, and both are preserved. Official TranslationReading 1 Amos 8.4-6, 9-12Hear this, you who desire to swallow up the needy,and cause the poor of the land to fail,Saying, When will the new moon be gone, that we may sell grain?And the Sabbath, that we may market wheat,making the ephah small, and the shekel large,and dealing falsely with balances of deceit;that we may buy the poor for silver,and the needy for a pair of shoes,and sell the sweepings with the wheat? It will happen on that day, says the Lord God, that I will cause the sun to go down at noon,and I will darken the earth on the clear day.I will turn your feasts into mourning,and all your songs into lamentation;and I will make you wear sackcloth on all your bodies,and baldness on every head.I will make it like the mourning for an only son,and its end like a bitter day.Behold, the days come, says the Lord God, that I will send a famine in the land,not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water,but of hearing the word of the Lord.They will wander from sea to sea,and from the north even to the east;they will run back and forth to seek the Lord s word,and will not find it.Responsorial Psalm 119.2, 10, 20, 30, 40, 131 Resp. Matthew 4.4R. Not by bread alone does the human live, but by all the words that proceed out of the mouth of God.Blessed are those who keep his statutes,who seek him with their whole heart.R. Not by bread alone does the human live, but by all the words that proceed out of the mouth of God.With my whole heart, I have sought you.Do not let me wander from your commandments.R. Not by bread alone does the human live, but by all the words that proceed out of the mouth of God.My soul is consumed with longing for your ordinances at all times.R. Not by bread alone does the human live, but by all the words that proceed out of the mouth of God.I have chosen the way of truth.I have set your ordinances before me.R. Not by bread alone does the human live, but by all the words that proceed out of the mouth of God.Behold, I long for your precepts!Revive me in your righteousness.R. Not by bread alone does the human live, but by all the words that proceed out of the mouth of God.I opened my mouth wide and panted,for I longed for your commandments.R. Not by bread alone does the human live, but by all the words that proceed out of the mouth of God.Gospel Matthew 9.9-13As Jesus passed by, he saw a human called Matthew sitting at the tax collection office.He said to him, Follow me. He got up and followed him.As he sat in the house, behold, many tax collectors and sinners came and sat down with Jesus and his disciples. When the Pharisees saw it, they said to his disciples, Why does your teacher eat with tax collectors and sinners? When Jesus heard it, he said to them, Those who are healthy have no need for a physician, but those who are sick do.But you go and learn what this means: I desire mercy, and not sacrifice, for I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance. Official TranslationReading 1 Ephesians 2.19-22Brothers and sisters:You are no longer strangers and foreigners, but you are fellow citizens with the saints, and members of the household of God, being built on the foundation of the Apostles and prophets, Christ Jesus himself being the capstone; in whom the whole building, fitted together, grows into a holy temple in the Lord; in him you also are built together for a habitation of God in the Spirit.Responsorial Psalm 117.1bc, 2 Resp. Mark 16.15R. Go to all the world and preach the Gospel.Praise the Lord, all you nations!Extol him, all you peoples!R. Go to all the world and preach the Gospel.For his loving kindness is great toward us.The Lord s faithfulness endures forever.R. Go to all the world and preach the Gospel.Gospel John 20.24-29But Thomas, one of the Twelve, called Didymus, was not with them when Jesus came. So the other disciples said to him, We have seen the Lord! But he said to them, Unless I see in his hands the mark of the nails, and put my finger into the mark of the nailsand put my hand into his side, I will not believe. After eight days his disciples were again inside, and Thomas was with them. Jesus came, though the doors were locked, and stood in the middle, and said, Peace be with you. Then he said to Thomas, Bring here your finger, and see my hands. Bring here your hand, and put it into my side. Do not be unbelieving, but believe. Thomas answered him, My Lord and my God! Jesus said to him, Because you have seen me, you have believed. Blessed are those who have not seen, and have believed. Official TranslationReading 1 Amos 5.14-15, 21-24Seek good, and not evil, that you may live;and so the Lord, the God of Hosts, will be with you as you say.Hate evil, love good,and establish justice in the courts.It may be that the Lord, the God of Hosts, will be gracious to the remnant of Joseph. I hate, I despise your feasts,and I cannot stand your solemn assemblies.Yes, though you offer me your burnt offerings and meal offerings,I will not accept them;nor will I regard the peace offerings of your fat animals.Take away from me the noise of your songs!I will not listen to the music of your harps.But let justice roll on like rivers,and righteousness like a mighty stream.Responsorial Psalm 50.7, 8-9, 10-11, 12-13, 16bc-17 Resp. 23bR. I will show God s salvation to the just. Hear, my people, and I will speak;Israel, I will testify against you.I am God, your God.R. I will show God s salvation to the just.I do not rebuke you for your sacrifices.Your burnt offerings are continually before me.I have no need for a bull from your stall,nor goats from your pens.R. I will show God s salvation to the just.For every animal of the forest is mine,and the livestock on a thousand hills.I know all the birds of the mountains.The wild animals of the field are mine.R. I will show God s salvation to the just.If I were hungry, I would not tell you,for the world is mine, and all that is in it.Will I eat the flesh of bulls,or drink the blood of goats?R. I will show God s salvation to the just. What right do you have to declare my statutes,and take my covenant on your lips,since you hate instruction,and throw my words behind you?R. I will show God s salvation to the just.Gospel Matthew 8.28-34When Jesus came into the country of the Gadarenes,two people possessed by demons met him there, coming out of the tombs.They were exceedingly fierce, so that nobody could pass that way. Behold, they cried out, saying, What have you to do with us, Jesus, Son of God? Have you come here to torment us before the time? Now there was a herd of many pigs feeding far away from them. The demons begged him, saying, If you cast us out, permit us to go away into the herd of pigs. He said to them, Go! They came out, and went into the herd of pigs: and behold, the whole herd of pigs rushed down the cliff into the sea and died in the water. Those who fed them fled, and went away into the city, and told everything, including what happened to those who were possessed with demons. Behold, all the city came out to meet Jesus. When they saw him, they begged that he would depart from their borders.Official TranslationReading 1 Deuteronomy 7.6-11Moses said to the people: For you are a holy people to the Lord your God, the Lord your God has chosen you to be a people for his own possession, above all peoples who are on the face of the earth. The Lord did not set his love on you, nor choose you, because you were more in number than any people, for you were the fewest of all peoples, but because the Lord loves you, and because he would keep the oath which he swore to your fathers. The Lord brought you out with a mighty hand, and redeemed you out of the house of bondage, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt. Know therefore that the Lord your God is God, the faithful God, who keeps covenant and loving kindness with them who love him and keep his commandments to a thousand generations, and repays those who hate him to their face, to destroy them. He will not be slack to him who hates him; he will repay him to his face. You shall therefore keep the commandment, and the statutes, and the ordinances, which I command you this day, to do them."Responsorial Psalm 103.1-2, 3-4, 6-7, 8, 10 Resp. 17R. The Lord s loving kindness is from everlasting to everlasting with those who fear him.Praise The Lord, my soul!All that is within me, praise his holy name!Praise The Lord, my soul,and forget not all his benefits.R. The Lord s loving kindness is from everlasting to everlasting with those who fear him.He forgives all your sins;he heals all your diseases;he redeems your life from destruction;he crowns you with loving kindness and tender mercies.R. The Lord s loving kindness is from everlasting to everlasting with those who fear him.The Lord is merciful and gracious,slow to anger and abounding in kindness.He has not dealt with us according to our sins,nor repaid us according to our guilt.R. The Lord s loving kindness is from everlasting to everlasting with those who fear him.Reading 2 - 1 John 4.7-16Beloved, let us love one another, for love is of God; and everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God. The one who does not love, does not know God, for God is love. By this God s love was revealed in us, that God has sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live through him. In this is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son as the atoning sacrifice for our sins.Beloved, if God thus loved us, we also ought to love one another. No one has ever seen God. If we love one another, God remains in us, and his love is perfected in us.By this we know that we remain in him and he in us:because he has given us of his Spirit. We have seen and testify that the Father has sent the Son as the Savior of the world. Whoever confesses that Jesus is the Son of God, God remains in him, and he in God.We know and have believed in the love which God has for us. God is love, and whoever remains in love remains in God, and God remains in them. Gospel Matthew 11.25-30At that time, Jesus answered, I thank you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that you hid these things from the wise and understanding, and revealed them to infants. Yes, Father, for so it was well-pleasing in your sight. All things have been delivered to me by my Father. No one knows the Son, except the Father; nor does anyone know the Father, except the Son and anyone to whom the Son desires to reveal him.Come to me, all you who labor and are burdened, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you, and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble of heart, and you will find rest for your souls, for my yoke is easy, and my burden is light. Official TranslationReading 1 2 Kings 24.8-17Jehoiachin was eighteen years old when he began to reign; and he reigned in Jerusalem three months.His mother s name was Nehushta the daughter of Elnathan of Jerusalem. He did what was evil in the sight of the Lord, according to all that his father had done. At that time the servants of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came up to Jerusalem, and the city was besieged. Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came to the city, while his servants were besieging it; and Jehoiachin the king of Judah went out to the king of Babylon,he, and his mother, and his servants, and his princes, and his officers: and the king of Babylon took him in the eighth year of his reign. He carried out of there all the treasures of the Lord s house, and the treasures of the king s house, and cut in pieces all the vessels of gold, which Solomon king of Israel had made in the Lord s temple, as the Lord had said. He carried away all Jerusalem, and all the princes, and all the mighty men of valor, ten thousand captives, and all the craftsmen and the smiths; no one remained, except the poorest people of the land. He carried away Jehoiachin to Babylon; and the king s mother, and the king s wives, and his officers, and the chief men of the land, he carried into captivity from Jerusalem to Babylon. All the men of might, seven thousand, and the craftsmen and the smiths, one thousand, all of them strong and apt for war, all of them the king of Babylon brought captive to Babylon. The king of Babylon made Mattaniah, Jehoiachin s father s brother, king in his place, and changed his name to Zedekiah.Responsorial Psalm 79.1b-2, 3-5, 8, 9 Resp. 9R. For the glory of your name, deliver us O Lord.God, the nations have come into your inheritance.They have defiled your holy temple.They have laid Jerusalem in heaps.They have given the dead bodies of your servants to be food for the birds of the sky,the flesh of your saints to the animals of the earth.R. For the glory of your name, deliver us O Lord.Their blood they have shed like water around Jerusalem.There was no one to bury them.We have become a reproach to our neighbors,a scoffing and derision to those who are around us.How long, O Lord? Will you be angry forever?Will your jealousy burn like fire?R. For the glory of your name, deliver us O Lord.Do not hold the iniquities of our forefathers against us.Let your tender mercies speedily meet us,for we are in desperate need.R. For the glory of your name, deliver us O Lord.Help us, God of our salvation, for the glory of your name.Deliver us, and forgive our sins, for your name s sake.R. For the glory of your name, deliver us O Lord.Gospel Matthew 7.21-29Jesus said to his disciples: Not everyone who says to me, Lord, Lord , shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but the doer of the will of my Father in heaven.Many will tell me on that day, Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name, in your name cast out demons, and in your name do many mighty works? Then I will tell them, I never knew you. Depart from me, you evildoers. All, therefore who hear these my words and do them, is like a wise man, who built his house on the rock.The rain fell; the floods came; and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it did not fallfor it was founded on the rock.And all the hearers of these my words, who do not do them, is like a foolish man, who built his house upon the sand:The rain fell; the floods came; and the winds blew and beat on that house; and it fell and great was the fall of it.When Jesus had finished saying these things, the crowds were astonished at his teaching, for he taught them with authority, not like the scribes.

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