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Year 1
First Reading
Gn 8:6-13, 20-22
Noah saw that the surface of the ground was drying up.
A reading from the Book of Genesis
At the end of forty days Noah opened the hatch he had made in the ark,
and he sent out a raven,
to see if the waters had lessened on the earth.
It flew back and forth until the waters dried off from the earth.
Then he sent out a dove,
to see if the waters had lessened on the earth.
But the dove could find no place to alight and perch,
and it returned to him in the ark,
for there was water all over the earth.
Putting out his hand, he caught the dove
and drew it back to him inside the ark.
He waited seven days more and again sent the dove out from the ark.
In the evening the dove came back to him,
and there in its bill was a plucked-off olive leaf!
So Noah knew that the waters had lessened on the earth.
He waited still another seven days
and then released the dove once more;
and this time it did not come back.
In the six hundred and first year of Noah’s life,
in the first month, on the first day of the month,
the water began to dry up on the earth.
Noah then removed the covering of the ark
and saw that the surface of the ground was drying up.
Noah built an altar to the LORD,
and choosing from every clean animal and every clean bird,
he offered burnt offerings on the altar.
When the LORD smelled the sweet odor, he said to himself:
“Never again will I doom the earth because of man
since the desires of man’s heart are evil from the start;
nor will I ever again strike down all living beings, as I have done.
As long as the earth lasts,
seedtime and harvest,
cold and heat,
Summer and winter,
and day and night
shall not cease.
Responsorial Psalm
Ps 116:12-13, 14-15, 18-19
R. :
℟. (17a) To you, Lord, I will offer a sacrifice of praise.
or:
℟. Alleluia.
How shall I make a return to the LORD
for all the good he has done for me?
The cup of salvation I will take up,
and I will call upon the name of the LORD.
℟. To you, Lord, I will offer a sacrifice of praise.
or:
℟. Alleluia.
My vows to the LORD I will pay
in the presence of all his people.
Precious in the eyes of the LORD
is the death of his faithful ones.
℟. To you, Lord, I will offer a sacrifice of praise.
or:
℟. Alleluia.
My vows to the LORD I will pay
in the presence of all his people,
In the courts of the house of the LORD,
in your midst, O Jerusalem.
℟. To you, Lord, I will offer a sacrifice of praise.
or:
℟. Alleluia.
Year 2
First Reading
Jas 1:19-27
Be doers of the word and not hearers only.
A reading from the Letter of Saint James
Know this, my dear brothers and sisters:
everyone should be quick to hear, slow to speak, slow to anger,
for anger does not accomplish the
righteousness of God.
Therefore, put away all filth and evil excess
and humbly welcome the word that has been planted in you
and is able to save your souls.
Be doers of the word and not hearers only, deluding yourselves.
For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer,
he is like a man who looks at his own face in a mirror.
He sees himself, then goes off and promptly forgets
what he looked like.
But the one who peers into the perfect law of freedom and perseveres,
and is not a hearer who forgets but a doer who acts,
such a one shall be blessed in what he does.
If anyone thinks he is religious and does not bridle his tongue
but deceives his heart, his religion is vain.
Religion that is pure and undefiled before God and the Father is this:
to care for orphans and widows in their affliction
and to keep oneself unstained by the world.
Responsorial Psalm
Ps 15:2-3a, 3bc-4ab, 5
R. :
℟. (1b) Who shall live on your holy mountain, O Lord?
He who walks blamelessly and does justice;
Who thinks the truth in his heart
And slanders not with his tongue.
℟. Who shall live on your holy mountain, O Lord?
Who harms not his fellow man,
Nor takes up a reproach against his neighbor;
By whom the reprobate is despised,
While he honors those who fear the LORD.
℟. Who shall live on your holy mountain, O Lord?
Who lend not his money at usury
And accepts no bribe against the innocent.
He who does these things
shall never be disturbed.
℟. Who shall live on your holy mountain, O Lord?
Acclamation before the Gospel
See Eph 1:17-18
℟. Alleluia, alleluia.
May the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ
enlighten the eyes of our hearts,
that we may know what is the hope
that belongs to his call.
℟. Alleluia, alleluia.
Gospel
Mk 8:22-26
His sight was restored and he could see everything distinctly.
A reading from the holy Gospel according to Mark
When Jesus and his disciples arrived at Bethsaida,
people brought to him a blind man and begged Jesus to touch him.
He took the blind man by the hand and led him outside the village.
Putting spittle on his eyes he laid his hands on the man and asked,
“Do you see anything?”
Looking up the man replied, “I see people looking like trees and walking.”
Then he laid hands on the man’s eyes a second time and he saw clearly;
his sight was restored and he could see everything distinctly.
Then he sent him home and said, “Do not even go into the village.”
At the end of the Gospel, the Deacon, or the Priest, acclaims:
The Gospel of the Lord.
All reply:
Praise to you, Lord Jesus Christ.
Then he kisses the book, saying quietly:
Through the words of the Gospel
may our sins be wiped away.
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