Reading 1, Sirach 5:1-8

¹ Do not put your confidence in your money or say, 'With this I am self-sufficient.'

² Do not be led by your appetites and energy to follow the passions of your heart.

³ And do not say, 'Who has authority over me?' for the Lord will certainly give you your deserts.

⁴ Do not say, 'I have sinned, but what harm has befallen me?' for the Lord's forbearance is long.

⁵ Do not be so sure of forgiveness that you add sin to sin.

⁶ And do not say, 'His compassion is great, he will forgive me my many sins'; for with him are both mercy and retribution, and his anger does not pass from sinners.

⁷ Do not delay your return to the Lord, do not put it off day after day; for suddenly the Lord's wrath will blaze out, and on the day of punishment you will be utterly destroyed.

⁸ Do not set your heart on ill-gotten gains, they will be of no use to you on the day of disaster.

Responsorial Psalm, Psalms 1:1-2, 3-4, 6

¹ How blessed is anyone who rejects the advice of the wicked and does not take a stand in the path that sinners tread, nor a seat in company with cynics,

² but who delights in the law of Yahweh and murmurs his law day and night.

³ Such a one is like a tree planted near streams; it bears fruit in season and its leaves never wither, and every project succeeds.

⁴ How different the wicked, how different! Just like chaff blown around by the wind

⁶ For Yahweh watches over the path of the upright, but the path of the wicked is doomed.

Gospel, Mark 9:41-50

⁴¹ 'If anyone gives you a cup of water to drink because you belong to Christ, then in truth I tell you, he will most certainly not lose his reward.

⁴² 'But anyone who is the downfall of one of these little ones who have faith, would be better thrown into the sea with a great millstone hung round his neck.

⁴³ And if your hand should be your downfall, cut it off; it is better for you to enter into life crippled, than to have two hands and go to hell, into the fire that can never be put out.

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⁴⁵ And if your foot should be your downfall, cut it off; it is better for you enter into life lame, than to have two feet and be thrown into hell.

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⁴⁷ And if your eye should be your downfall, tear it out; it is better for you to enter into the kingdom of God with one eye, than to have two eyes and be thrown into hell

⁴⁸ where their worm will never die nor their fire be put out.

⁴⁹ For everyone will be salted with fire.

⁵⁰ Salt is a good thing, but if salt has become insipid, how can you make it salty again? Have salt in yourselves and be at peace with one another.'

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