11th Sunday of Ordinary Time

2Thus, setting out from Raphidim, and going directly to the desert of Sinai, they encamped in the same place, and there Israel pitched their tents away from the region of the mountain. 3Then Moses ascended to God. And the Lord called to him from the mountain, and he said: “This you shall say to the house of Jacob, and announce to the sons of Israel: 4‘You have seen what I have done to the Egyptians, in what way I carried you upon the wings of eagles and how I have taken you for myself. 5If, therefore, you will hear my voice, and you will keep my covenant, you will be to me a particular possession out of all people. For all the earth is mine. 6And you will be to me a priestly kingdom and a holy nation.’ These are the words that you will speak to the sons of Israel.”

1A Psalm of Confession.

2Shout joyfully to God, all the earth. Serve the Lord with rejoicing. Enter into his sight in exultation.

3Know that the Lord himself is God. He made us, and we ourselves did not. We are his people and the sheep of his pasture.

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5For the Lord is sweet, his mercy is in eternity, and his truth is from generation to generation.

6Yet why did Christ, while we were still infirm, at the proper time, suffer death for the impious? 7Now someone might barely be willing to die for the sake of justice, for example, perhaps someone might dare to die for the sake of a good man. 8But God demonstrates his love for us in that, while we were yet sinners, at the proper time, 9Christ died for us. Therefore, having been justified now by his blood, all the more so shall we be saved from wrath through him. 10For if we were reconciled to God through the death of his Son, while we were still enemies, all the more so, having been reconciled, shall we be saved by his life. 11And not only that, but we also glory in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received reconciliation.

9:36Then, seeing the multitudes, he had compassion on them, because they were distressed and were reclining, like sheep without a shepherd. 37Then he said to his disciples: “The harvest indeed is great, but the laborers are few. 38Therefore, petition the Lord of the harvest, so that he may sent out laborers to his harvest.”

10:1And having called together his twelve disciples, he gave them authority over unclean spirits, to cast them out and to cure every sickness and every infirmity. 2Now the names of the twelve Apostles are these: the First, Simon, who is called Peter, and Andrew his brother, 3James of Zebedee, and John his brother, Philip and Bartholomew, Thomas and Matthew the tax collector, and James of Alphaeus, and Thaddaeus, 4Simon the Canaanite, and Judas Iscariot, who also betrayed him. 5Jesus sent these twelve, instructing them, saying: “Do not travel by the way of the Gentiles, and do not enter into the city of the Samaritans, 6but instead go to the sheep who have fallen away from the house of Israel. 7And going forth, preach, saying: ‘For the kingdom of heaven has drawn near.’ 8Cure the infirm, raise the dead, cleanse lepers, cast out demons. You have received freely, so give freely.