Reading 1, Mi 7:14-15, 18-20

¹⁴ With shepherd's crook lead your people to pasture, the flock that is your heritage, living confined in a forest with meadow land all round. Let them graze in Bashan and Gilead as in the days of old!

¹⁵ As in the days when you came out of Egypt, grant us to see wonders!

¹⁸ What god can compare with you for pardoning guilt and for overlooking crime? He does not harbour anger for ever, since he delights in showing faithful love.

¹⁹ Once more have pity on us, tread down our faults; throw all our sins to the bottom of the sea.

²⁰ Grant Jacob your faithfulness, and Abraham your faithful love, as you swore to our ancestors from the days of long ago.

Gospel, Mt 12:46-50

⁴⁶ He was still speaking to the crowds when suddenly his mother and his brothers were standing outside and were anxious to have a word with him.

⁴⁷ still speaking to the crowds when suddenly his mother and his brothers were standing outside and were anxious to have a word with him.

⁴⁸ But to the man who told him this Jesus replied, 'Who is my mother? Who are my brothers?'

⁴⁹ And stretching out his hand towards his disciples he said, 'Here are my mother and my brothers.

⁵⁰ Anyone who does the will of my Father in heaven is my brother and sister and mother.'

September 2010

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