Reading 1, First Corinthians 5:1-8

¹ It is widely reported that there is sexual immorality among you, immorality of a kind that is not found even among gentiles: that one of you is living with his stepmother.

² And you so filled with your own self-importance! It would have been better if you had been grieving bitterly, so that the man who has done this thing were turned out of the community.

³ For my part, however distant I am physically, I am present in spirit and have already condemned the man who behaved in this way, just as though I were present in person.

⁴ When you have gathered together in the name of our Lord Jesus, with the presence of my spirit, and in the power of our Lord Jesus,

⁵ hand such a man over to Satan, to be destroyed as far as natural life is concerned, so that on the Day of the Lord his spirit may be saved.

⁶ Your self-satisfaction is ill founded. Do you not realise that only a little yeast leavens the whole batch of dough?

⁷ Throw out the old yeast so that you can be the fresh dough, unleavened as you are. For our Passover has been sacrificed, that is, Christ;

⁸ let us keep the feast, then, with none of the old yeast and no leavening of evil and wickedness, but only the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.

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Responsorial Psalm, Psalms 5:5-6, 7, 12

⁵ Boasters cannot stand their ground under your gaze. You hate evil-doers,

⁶ liars you destroy; the violent and deceitful Yahweh detests.

⁷ But, so great is your faithful love, I may come into your house, and before your holy temple bow down in reverence of you.

¹² It is you who bless the upright, Yahweh, you surround them with favour as with a shield.

Gospel, Luke 6:6-11

⁶ Now on another Sabbath he went into the synagogue and began to teach, and a man was present, and his right hand was withered.

⁷ The scribes and the Pharisees were watching him to see if he would cure somebody on the Sabbath, hoping to find something to charge him with.

⁸ But he knew their thoughts; and he said to the man with the withered hand, 'Get up and stand out in the middle!' And he came forward and stood there.

⁹ Then Jesus said to them, 'I put it to you: is it permitted on the Sabbath to do good, or to do evil; to save life, or to destroy it?'

¹⁰ Then he looked round at them all and said to the man, 'Stretch out your hand.' He did so, and his hand was restored.

¹¹ But they were furious and began to discuss the best way of dealing with Jesus.

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