Saints
Daily Readings:
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First Reading
Sirach 6:5-17
5A pleasant voice multiplies friends, and a gracious tongue multiplies courtesies. 6Let those that are at peace with you be many, but let your advisers be one in a thousand. 7When you gain a friend, gain him through testing, and do not trust him hastily. 8For there is a friend who is such at his own convenience, but will not stand by you in your day of trouble. 9And there is a friend who changes into an enemy, and will disclose a quarrel to your disgrace. 10And there is a friend who is a table companion, but will not stand by you in your day of trouble. 11In prosperity he will make himself your equal, and be bold with your servants; 12but if you are brought low he will turn against you, and will hide himself from your presence. 13Keep yourself far from your enemies, and be on guard toward your friends. 14A faithful friend is a sturdy shelter: he that has found one has found a treasure. 15There is nothing so precious as a faithful friend, and no scales can measure his excellence. 16A faithful friend is an elixir of life; and those who fear the Lord will find him. 17Whoever fears the Lord directs his friendship aright, for as he is, so is his neighbor also. -
Responsorial Psalm
Psalms 119:12, 16, 18, 27, 34-35
12Blessed be thou, O LORD; teach me thy statutes! 16I will delight in thy statutes; I will not forget thy word. 18Open my eyes, that I may behold wondrous things out of thy law. 27Make me understand the way of thy precepts, and I will meditate on thy wondrous works. 34Give me understanding, that I may keep thy law and observe it with my whole heart. 35Lead me in the path of thy commandments, for I delight in it. -
Gospel
Mark 10:1-12
1And he left there and went to the region of Judea and beyond the Jordan, and crowds gathered to him again; and again, as his custom was, he taught them. 2And Pharisees came up and in order to test him asked, "Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife?" 3He answered them, "What did Moses command you?" 4They said, "Moses allowed a man to write a certificate of divorce, and to put her away." 5But Jesus said to them, "For your hardness of heart he wrote you this commandment. 6But from the beginning of creation, `God made them male and female.' 7`For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, 8and the two shall become one flesh.' So they are no longer two but one flesh. 9What therefore God has joined together, let not man put asunder." 10And in the house the disciples asked him again about this matter. 11And he said to them, "Whoever divorces his wife and marries another, commits adultery against her; 12and if she divorces her husband and marries another, she commits adultery."
