Readings at Mass Tuesday 15 February 2022

 Readings at Mass

Tuesday 15 February 2022

Saints Cyril, monk, and Methodius, Bishop 

6th Week in Ordinary Time 

Liturgical Colour: Green.

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First reading

James 1:12-18

Happy the man who stands firm when trials come. He has proved himself, and will win the prize of life, the crown that the Lord has promised to those who love him.

    Never, when you have been tempted, say, ‘God sent the temptation’; God cannot be tempted to do anything wrong, and he does not tempt anybody. Everyone who is tempted is attracted and seduced by his own wrong desire. Then the desire conceives and gives birth to sin, and when sin is fully grown, it too has a child, and the child is death.

    Make no mistake about this, my dear brothers: it is all that is good, everything that is perfect, which is given us from above; it comes down from the Father of all light; with him there is no such thing as alteration, no shadow of a change. By his own choice he made us his children by the message of the truth so that we should be a sort of first-fruits of all that he had created.

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Responsorial Psalm

Psalm 94:12-15,18-19

Response: Happy the man whom you teach, O Lord.

Happy the man whom you teach, O Lord,

    whom you train by means of your law;

to him you give peace in evil days

    while the pit is being dug for the wicked.

The Lord will not abandon his people

    nor forsake those who are his own;

for judgement shall again be just

    and all true hearts shall uphold it.

When I think: ‘I have lost my foothold’;

    your mercy, Lord, holds me up.

When cares increase in my heart

    your consolation calms my soul.

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Gospel Acclamation

Jn14:23

Alleluia, alleluia!

If anyone loves me he will keep my word,

and my Father will love him, 

and we shall come to him.

Alleluia!

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Gospel

Mark 8:14-21

The disciples had forgotten to take any food and they had only one loaf with them in the boat. Then he gave them this warning, ‘Keep your eyes open; be on your guard against the yeast of the Pharisees and the yeast of Herod.’ And they said to one another, ‘It is because we have no bread.’ And Jesus knew it, and he said to them, ‘Why are you talking about having no bread? Do you not yet understand? Have you no perception? Are your minds closed? Have you eyes that do not see, ears that do not hear? Or do you not remember? When I broke the five loaves among the five thousand, how many baskets full of scraps did you collect?’ They answered, ‘Twelve.’ ‘And when I broke the seven loaves for the four thousand, how many baskets full of scraps did you collect?’ And they answered, ‘Seven.’ Then he said to them, ‘Are you still without perception?’

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Scripture readings from the Jerusalem Bible, Text of the Psalms from The Grail