10th Sunday of Ordinary Time

9And the Lord God called Adam and said to him: “Where are you?” 10And he said, “I heard your voice in Paradise, and I was afraid, because I was naked, and so I hid myself.” 11He said to him, “Then who told you that you were naked, if you have not eaten of the tree from which I instructed you that you should not eat?” 12And Adam said, “The woman, whom you gave to me as a companion, gave to me from the tree, and I ate.” 13And the Lord God said to the woman, “Why have you done this?” And she responded, “The serpent deceived me, and I ate.” 14And the Lord God said to the serpent: “Because you have done this, you are cursed among all living things, even the wild beasts of the earth. Upon your breast shall you travel, and the ground shall you eat, all the days of your life. 15I will put enmities between you and the woman, between your offspring and her offspring. She will crush your head, and you will lie in wait for her heel.”

1A Canticle in steps. From the depths, I have cried out to you, O Lord.

2O Lord, hear my voice. Let your ears be attentive to the voice of my supplication.

3If you, O Lord, were to heed iniquities, who, O Lord, could persevere?

4For with you, there is forgiveness, and because of your law, I persevered with you, Lord. My soul has persevered in his word.

5My soul has hoped in the Lord.

6From the morning watch, even until night, let Israel hope in the Lord.

7For with the Lord there is mercy, and with him there is bountiful redemption.

8And he will redeem Israel from all his iniquities.

4:13But we have the same Spirit of faith. And just as it is written, “I believed, and for that reason I spoke,” so we also believe, and for that reason, we also speak. 14For we know that the One who raised up Jesus will raise us up also with Jesus and will place us with you. 15Thus, all is for you, so that grace, abounding through many in thanksgiving, may abound to the glory of God. 16For this reason, we are not insufficient. But it is as though our outer man is corrupted, while our inner man is renewed from day to day. 17For though our tribulation is, at the present time, brief and light, it accomplishes in us the weight of a sublime eternal glory, beyond measure. 18And we are contemplating, not the things that are seen, but the things that are unseen. For the things that are seen are temporal, whereas the things that are not seen are eternal.

5:1For we know that, when our earthly house of this habitation is dissolved, we have a building of God, a house not made with hands, eternal in heaven.

20And they went to a house, and the crowd gathered together again, so much so that they were not even able to eat bread. 21And when his own had heard of it, they went out to take hold of him. For they said: “Because he has gone mad.” 22And the scribes who had descended from Jerusalem said, “Because he has Beelzebub, and because by the prince of demons does he cast out demons.” 23And having called them together, he spoke to them in parables: “How can Satan cast out Satan? 24For if a kingdom is divided against itself, that kingdom is not able to stand. 25And if a house is divided against itself, that house is not able to stand. 26And if Satan has risen up against himself, he would be divided, and he would not be able to stand; instead he reaches the end. 27No one is able to plunder the goods of a strong man, having entered into the house, unless he first binds the strong man, and then he shall plunder his house. 28Amen I say to you, that all sins will be forgiven the sons of men, and the blasphemies by which they will have blasphemed. 29But he who will have blasphemed against the Holy Spirit shall not have forgiveness in eternity; instead he shall be guilty of an eternal offense.” 30For they said: “He has an unclean spirit.” 31And his mother and brothers arrived. And standing outside, they sent to him, calling him. 32And the crowd was sitting around him. And they said to him, “Behold, your mother and your brothers are outside, seeking you.” 33And responding to them, he said, “Who is my mother and my brothers?” 34And looking around at those who were sitting all around him, he said: “Behold, my mother and my brothers. 35For whoever has done the will of God, the same is my brother, and my sister and mother.”