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Reading I: Numbers 11:25-29
Responsorial Psalm: 19:8, 10, 12-13, 14
Reading II: James 5:1-6
Gospel: Mark 9:38-43, 45, 47-48

Christ, you are love, which gets its meaning from you.
(Introductory Prayers)

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THE GOSPEL

Mark 9:38-43, 45, 47-48

For whoever is not against us is for us.

Who is for us?

Those who
give welcome to the refugee?
Who shelter the homeless,
who care for the earth,
who feed the hungry,
teach the ignorant,
stand for justice,
who give a
drop of
 water
 in
his
name?

Jesus,
 all we want
 is to be on your side.

 To care for your children,
to serve your poor, to welcome
the immigrant, to free the prisoner.

Lord, we ask you,
give us all only
your  
  grace.  


THE FIRST READING

Numbers 11:25-29

They had not gone out to the tent,
yet the spirit came to rest on them also
       and they prophesied in the camp.

Seventy
 Elders all together,
 welcomed the Spirit, in the tent.
But to Joshua’s dismay seventy-two of the
 elders began to prophesy to those in the camp

Holy Spirit,
you don’t keep our rules.
 We can’t hem you in or harness you, or say
“You can’t go there” or “You wouldn’t dare do that.”
 You go, like the wind, where you will, and we
sense the breeze you send; but we
do not feel whence it comes
or where it goes.

So
we ask you
for this, at least:
let us welcome your
sweet breathing
into us.


THE SECOND READING

James 5:1-6

Behold, the wages you withheld from the workers
who harvested your fields are crying aloud.

Wages denied to workers
cry out to the Lord.

 Instead, let us
cry out
for
 the helpless
who are required to labor,
and workers in the maquilas of El Salvador,
sweatshops in Guatemala, China, and the Dominican Republic.

 Instead,
let us
cry out
 and care for
human dignity,
 humane work,
and
persons of
God.

Let us be
God’s
love.

 


Anne Osdieck
Art by Martin Erspamer, OSB
from Religious Clip Art for the Liturgical Year (A, B, and C). This art may be reproduced only by parishes who purchase the collection in book or CD-ROM form. For more information go http://www.ltp.org