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Today's Readings
Reading I
Ex 32:7-14
The LORD said to Moses, “Go down at once to your people whom you
brought out of the land of Egypt, for they have become depraved.
They have soon turned aside from the way I pointed out to them,
making for themselves a molten calf and worshiping it, sacrificing
to it and crying out, ‘This is your God, O Israel, who brought you
out of the land of Egypt!’ The LORD said to Moses, “I see how
stiff-necked this people is. Let me alone, then, that my wrath may
blaze up against them to consume them. Then I will make of you a
great nation.” But Moses implored the LORD, his God, saying,
“Why, O LORD, should your wrath blaze up against your own people,
whom you brought out of the land of Egypt with such great power and
with so strong a hand? Why should the Egyptians say, ‘With evil
intent he brought them out, that he might kill them in the mountains
and exterminate them from the face of the earth’? Let your blazing
wrath die down; relent in punishing your people. Remember your
servants Abraham, Isaac and Israel, and how you swore to them by
your own self, saying, ‘I will make your descendants as numerous as
the stars in the sky; and all this land that I promised, I will give
your descendants as their perpetual heritage.’“ So the LORD
relented in the punishment he had threatened to inflict on his
people.
Responsorial Psalm
106:19-20, 21-22, 23
R. (4a) Remember us, O Lord, as you favor your people. Our
fathers made a calf in Horeb and adored a molten image; They
exchanged their glory for the image of a grass-eating bullock. R.
Remember us, O Lord, as you favor your people. They forgot the
God who had saved them, who had done great deeds in Egypt, Wondrous
deeds in the land of Ham, terrible things at the Red Sea. R.
Remember us, O Lord, as you favor your people. Then he spoke of
exterminating them, but Moses, his chosen one, Withstood him in the
breach to turn back his destructive wrath. R. Remember us, O
Lord, as you favor your people.
Gospel
Jn 5:31-47
Jesus said to the Jews: “If I testify on my own behalf, my testimony
is not true. But there is another who testifies on my behalf, and I
know that the testimony he gives on my behalf is true. You sent
emissaries to John, and he testified to the truth. I do not accept
human testimony, but I say this so that you may be saved. He was a
burning and shining lamp, and for a while you were content to
rejoice in his light. But I have testimony greater than John’s. The
works that the Father gave me to accomplish, these works that I
perform testify on my behalf that the Father has sent me. Moreover,
the Father who sent me has testified on my behalf. But you have
never heard his voice nor seen his form, and you do not have his
word remaining in you, because you do not believe in the one whom he
has sent. You search the Scriptures, because you think you have
eternal life through them; even they testify on my behalf. But you
do not want to come to me to have life. “I do not accept human
praise; moreover, I know that you do not have the love of God in
you. I came in the name of my Father, but you do not accept me; yet
if another comes in his own name, you will accept him. How can you
believe, when you accept praise from one another and do not seek the
praise that comes from the only God? Do not think that I will accuse
you before the Father: the one who will accuse you is Moses, in whom
you have placed your hope. For if you had believed Moses, you would
have believed me, because he wrote about me. But if you do not
believe his writings, how will you believe my words?” |
