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Today's Readings
Reading I
Wis 2:1a, 12-22
The wicked said among themselves, thinking not aright: “Let us beset
the just one, because he is obnoxious to us; he sets himself against
our doings, Reproaches us for transgressions of the law and charges
us with violations of our training. He professes to have knowledge
of God and styles himself a child of the LORD. To us he is the
censure of our thoughts; merely to see him is a hardship for us,
Because his life is not like that of others, and different are his
ways. He judges us debased; he holds aloof from our paths as from
things impure. He calls blest the destiny of the just and boasts
that God is his Father. Let us see whether his words be true; let us
find out what will happen to him. For if the just one be the son of
God, he will defend him and deliver him from the hand of his foes.
With revilement and torture let us put him to the test that we may
have proof of his gentleness and try his patience. Let us condemn
him to a shameful death; for according to his own words, God will
take care of him.” These were their thoughts, but they erred; for
their wickedness blinded them, and they knew not the hidden counsels
of God; neither did they count on a recompense of holiness nor
discern the innocent souls’ reward.
Responsorial Psalm
Ps 34:17-18, 19-20, 21 and 23
R. (19a) The Lord is close to the brokenhearted. The LORD
confronts the evildoers, to destroy remembrance of them from the
earth. When the just cry out, the LORD hears them, and from all
their distress he rescues them. R. The Lord is close to the
brokenhearted. The LORD is close to the brokenhearted; and those
who are crushed in spirit he saves. Many are the troubles of the
just man, but out of them all the LORD delivers him. R. The Lord
is close to the brokenhearted. He watches over all his bones;
not one of them shall be broken. The LORD redeems the lives of his
servants; no one incurs guilt who takes refuge in him. R. The
Lord is close to the brokenhearted.
Gospel
Jn 7:1-2,
10, 25-30
Jesus moved about within Galilee; he did not wish to travel in
Judea, because the Jews were trying to kill him. But the Jewish
feast of Tabernacles was near. But when his brothers had gone
up to the feast, he himself also went up, not openly but as it were
in secret. Some of the inhabitants of Jerusalem said, “Is he
not the one they are trying to kill? And look, he is speaking openly
and they say nothing to him. Could the authorities have realized hat
he is the Christ? But we know where he is from. When the Christ
comes, no one will know where he is from.” So Jesus cried out in the
temple area as he was teaching and said, “You know me and also know
where I m from. Yet I did not come on my own, but the one who
sent me, whom you do not know, is true. I know him, because I am
from him, and he sent me.” So they tried to arrest him, but no one
laid a hand upon him, because his hour had not yet come. |
