Daily Reading for Sunday, June 10th, 2018

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Responsorial Psalm, Psalms 130:1-2, 3-4, 5-6, 7-8

¹ [Song of Ascents] From the depths I call to you, Yahweh:

² Lord, hear my cry. Listen attentively to the sound of my pleading!

³ If you kept a record of our sins, Lord, who could stand their ground?

⁴ But with you is forgiveness, that you may be revered.

⁵ I rely, my whole being relies, Yahweh, on your promise.

⁶ My whole being hopes in the Lord, more than watchmen for daybreak; more than watchmen for daybreak

⁷ let Israel hope in Yahweh. For with Yahweh is faithful love, with him generous ransom;

⁸ and he will ransom Israel from all its sins.

Gospel, Mark 3:20-35

²⁰ He went home again, and once more such a crowd collected that they could not even have a meal.

²¹ When his relations heard of this, they set out to take charge of him; they said, 'He is out of his mind.'

²² The scribes who had come down from Jerusalem were saying, 'Beelzebul is in him,' and, 'It is through the prince of devils that he drives devils out.'

²³ So he called them to him and spoke to them in parables,

²⁴ 'How can Satan drive out Satan? If a kingdom is divided against itself, that kingdom cannot last.

²⁵ And if a household is divided against itself, that household can never last.

²⁶ Now if Satan has rebelled against himself and is divided, he cannot last either -- it is the end of him.

²⁷ But no one can make his way into a strong man's house and plunder his property unless he has first tied up the strong man. Only then can he plunder his house.

²⁸ 'In truth I tell you, all human sins will be forgiven, and all the blasphemies ever uttered;

²⁹ but anyone who blasphemes against the Holy Spirit will never be forgiven, but is guilty of an eternal sin.'

³⁰ This was because they were saying, 'There is an unclean spirit in him.'

³¹ Now his mother and his brothers arrived and, standing outside, sent in a message asking for him.

³² A crowd was sitting round him at the time the message was passed to him, 'Look, your mother and brothers and sisters are outside asking for you.'

³³ He replied, 'Who are my mother and my brothers?'

³⁴ And looking at those sitting in a circle round him, he said, 'Here are my mother and my brothers.

³⁵ Anyone who does the will of God, that person is my brother and sister and mother.'

Reading 2, Second Corinthians 4:13--5:1

¹³ But as we have the same spirit of faith as is described in scripture -- I believed and therefore I spoke -we, too, believe and therefore we, too, speak,

¹⁴ realising that he who raised up the Lord Jesus will raise us up with Jesus in our turn, and bring us to himself -- and you as well.

¹⁵ You see, everything is for your benefit, so that as grace spreads, so, to the glory of God, thanksgiving may also overflow among more and more people.

¹⁶ That is why we do not waver; indeed, though this outer human nature of ours may be falling into decay, at the same time our inner human nature is renewed day by day.

¹⁷ The temporary, light burden of our hardships is earning us for ever an utterly incomparable, eternal weight of glory,

¹⁸ since what we aim for is not visible but invisible. Visible things are transitory, but invisible things eternal.

¹ For we are well aware that when the tent that houses us on earth is folded up, there is a house for us from God, not made by human hands but everlasting, in the heavens.