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Today's Readings
Reading I
Jer 20:10-13
I hear the whisperings of many: “Terror on every side! Denounce! let
us denounce him!” All those who were my friends are on the watch for
any misstep of mine. “Perhaps he will be trapped; then we can
prevail, and take our vengeance on him.” But the LORD is with me,
like a mighty champion: my persecutors will stumble, they will not
triumph. In their failure they will be put to utter shame, to
lasting, unforgettable confusion. O LORD of hosts, you who test the
just, who probe mind and heart, Let me witness the vengeance you
take on them, for to you I have entrusted my cause. Sing to the
LORD, praise the LORD, For he has rescued the life of the poor from
the power of the wicked!
Responsorial Psalm
Ps 18:2-3a, 3bc-4, 5-6, 7
R. (see 7) In my distress I called upon the Lord, and he heard my
voice. I love you, O LORD, my strength, O LORD, my rock, my
fortress, my deliverer. R. In my distress I called upon the Lord,
and he heard my voice. My God, my rock of refuge, my shield, the
horn of my salvation, my stronghold! Praised be the LORD, I exclaim,
and I am safe from my enemies. R. In my distress I called upon
the Lord, and he heard my voice. The breakers of death surged
round about me, the destroying floods overwhelmed me; The cords of
the nether world enmeshed me, the snares of death overtook me. R.
In my distress I called upon the Lord, and he heard my voice. In
my distress I called upon the LORD and cried out to my God; From his
temple he heard my voice, and my cry to him reached his ears. R.
In my distress I called upon the Lord, and he heard my voice.
Gospel
Jn 10:31-42
The Jews picked up rocks to stone Jesus. Jesus answered them, “I
have shown you many good works from my Father. For which of these
are you trying to stone me?” The Jews answered him, “We are not
stoning you for a good work but for blasphemy. You, a man, are
making yourself God.” Jesus answered them, “Is it not written in
your law, ‘I said, You are gods”‘? If it calls them gods to whom the
word of God came, and Scripture cannot be set aside, can you say
that the one whom the Father has consecrated and sent into the world
blasphemes because I said, ‘I am the Son of God’? If I do not
perform my Father’s works, do not believe me; but if I perform them,
even if you do not believe me, believe the works, so that you may
realize and understand that the Father is in me and I am in the
Father.” Then they tried again to arrest him; but he escaped from
their power. He went back across the Jordan to the place where
John first baptized, and there he remained. Many came to him and
said, “John performed no sign, but everything John said about this
man was true.” And many there began to believe in him. |
