Reading 1, Titus 3:1-7

¹ Remind them to be obedient to the officials in authority; to be ready to do good at every opportunity;

² not to go slandering other people but to be peaceable and gentle, and always polite to people of all kinds.

³ There was a time when we too were ignorant, disobedient and misled and enslaved by different passions and dissipations; we lived then in wickedness and malice, hating each other and hateful ourselves.

⁴ But when the kindness and love of God our Saviour for humanity were revealed,

⁵ it was not because of any upright actions we had done ourselves; it was for no reason except his own faithful love that he saved us, by means of the cleansing water of rebirth and renewal in the Holy Spirit

⁶ which he has so generously poured over us through Jesus Christ our Saviour;

⁷ so that, justified by his grace, we should become heirs in hope of eternal life.

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Responsorial Psalm, Psalms 23:1-3, 3-4, 5, 6

¹ [Psalm Of David] Yahweh is my shepherd, I lack nothing.

² In grassy meadows he lets me lie. By tranquil streams he leads me

³ to restore my spirit. He guides me in paths of saving justice as befits his name.

⁴ Even were I to walk in a ravine as dark as death I should fear no danger, for you are at my side. Your staff and your crook are there to soothe me.

⁵ You prepare a table for me under the eyes of my enemies; you anoint my head with oil; my cup brims over.

⁶ Kindness and faithful love pursue me every day of my life. I make my home in the house of Yahweh for all time to come.

Gospel, Luke 17:11-19

¹¹ Now it happened that on the way to Jerusalem he was travelling in the borderlands of Samaria and Galilee.

¹² As he entered one of the villages, ten men suffering from a virulent skin-disease came to meet him. They stood some way off

¹³ and called to him, 'Jesus! Master! Take pity on us.'

¹⁴ When he saw them he said, 'Go and show yourselves to the priests.' Now as they were going away they were cleansed.

¹⁵ Finding himself cured, one of them turned back praising God at the top of his voice

¹⁶ and threw himself prostrate at the feet of Jesus and thanked him. The man was a Samaritan.

¹⁷ This led Jesus to say, 'Were not all ten made clean? The other nine, where are they?

¹⁸ It seems that no one has come back to give praise to God, except this foreigner.'

¹⁹ And he said to the man, 'Stand up and go on your way. Your faith has saved you.'

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