Sunday, June 9
Tenth Sunday in Ordinary Time
Roman Ordinary calendar
Book of Genesis 3,9-15.
The LORD God called to the Adam and asked him, “Where are you?”
He answered, “I heard you in the garden; but I was afraid, because I was naked, so I hid myself.”
Then he asked, “Who told you that you were naked? You have eaten, then, from the tree of which I had forbidden you to eat!”
The man replied, “The woman whom you put here with me–she gave me fruit from the tree, so I ate it.”
The LORD God then asked the woman, “Why did you do such a thing?” The woman answered, “The serpent tricked me into it, so I ate it.”
Then the LORD God said to the serpent: “Because you have done this, you shall be banned from all the animals and from all the wild creatures; On your belly shall you crawl, and dirt shall you eat all the days of your life.
I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and hers; He will strike at your head, while you strike at his heel.”
Psalms 130(129),1-2.3-4ab.4c-6.7-8.
Out of the depths I cry to you, O LORD
LORD, hear my voice!
Let your ears be attentive
to my voice in supplication.
If you, O LORD, mark iniquities,
LORD, who can stand?
But with you is forgiveness,
But with you is forgiveness,
that you may be revered.
I trust in the LORD;
my soul trusts in his word.
My soul waits for the Lord
more than sentinels for dawn.
For with the LORD is kindness
and with him is plenteous redemption;
and he will redeem Israel
from all their iniquities.
Second Letter to the Corinthians 4,13-18.5,1.
Since, then, we have the same spirit of faith, according to what is written, “I believed, therefore I spoke,” we too believe and therefore speak,
knowing that the one who raised the Lord Jesus will raise us also with Jesus and place us with you in his presence.
Everything indeed is for you, so that the grace bestowed in abundance on more and more people may cause the thanksgiving to overflow for the glory of God.
Therefore, we are not discouraged; rather, although our outer self is wasting away, our inner self is being renewed day by day.
For this momentary light affliction is producing for us an eternal weight of glory beyond all comparison,
as we look not to what is seen but to what is unseen; for what is seen is transitory, but what is unseen is eternal.
For we know that if our earthly dwelling, a tent, should be destroyed, we have a building from God, a dwelling not made with hands, eternal in heaven.
Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint Mark 3,20-35.
Jesus came with his disciples into the house. Again the crowd gathered, making it impossible for them even to eat.
When his relatives heard of this they set out to seize him, for they said, “He is out of his mind.”
The scribes who had come from Jerusalem said, “He is possessed by Beelzebul,” and “By the prince of demons he drives out demons.”
Summoning them, he began to speak to them in parables, “How can Satan drive out Satan?
If a kingdom is divided against itself, that kingdom cannot stand.
And if a house is divided against itself, that house will not be able to stand.
And if Satan has risen up against himself and is divided, he cannot stand; that is the end of him.
But no one can enter a strong man’s house to plunder his property unless he first ties up the strong man. Then he can plunder his house.
Amen, I say to you, all sins and all blasphemies that people utter will be forgiven them.
But whoever blasphemes against the holy Spirit will never have forgiveness, but is guilty of an everlasting sin.”
For they had said, “He has an unclean spirit.”
His mother and his brothers arrived. Standing outside they sent word to him and called him.
A crowd seated around him told him, “Your mother and your brothers (and your sisters) are outside asking for you.”
But he said to them in reply, “Who are my mother and (my) brothers?”
And looking around at those seated in the circle he said, “Here are my mother and my brothers.
(For) whoever does the will of God is my brother and sister and mother.”
Saint Francis de Sales (1567-1622)
Bishop of Geneva and Doctor of the Church
Letter to Prsident Brulart, St Francis de Sales
Our Lord knows what he is doing: let’s do what he wants!
We must consider that there is no vocation that does not have its troubles, its bitterness and aversions, and, which is more – if not those who are fully resigned in the will of God – everyone would likely exchange your condition for that of others: those who are bishops would like to be not; Those who are married would like to be not, and those who are not would like it so.
Where do these general fretful spirits come from, if not from a certain displeasure that we have at constraint, and a malignancy of mind that makes us think that everyone is better off than us? But it is all one: anyone who is not fully resigned, that he turns from side to side, he will never have rest. Those who have a fever are never content, they do not stay a quarter of an hour in a bed they would like to be in another; It’s not the fault of the bed, but it’s the fever that torments them everywhere. A person who does not have the fever for his own will is satisfied with everything; As long as God is served, she does not care in what quality God uses her: as long as she does the divine will, all is equal to her. But that’s not all. You must not only want to do the will of God, but to be devoted, you must do it with pleasure. (…)
“I would like this and that; I would be better here and there”: these are temptations. Our Lord knows what he is doing: let’s do what he wants, let’s stay where he put us.
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