From: Luke 10:13-16

Jesus Condemns Cities For Their Unbelief

(Jesus said,) [13] “Woe to you, Chorazin! woe to you, Bethsaida! for if the migh-
ty works done in you had been done in Tyre and Sidon, they would have repen-
ted long ago, sitting in sackcloth and ashes. [14] But it shall be more tolerable
in the judgment for Tyre and Sidon than for you. [15] And you, Capernaum, will
you be exalted to Heaven? You shall be brought down to Hades.

[16] “He who hears you hears Me, and he who rejects you rejects Me, and he
who rejects Me rejects Him who sent Me.”

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Commentary:

16. On the evening of the day of His resurrection, our Lord entrusts His Apostles
with the mission received from the Father, endowing them with powers similar to
His own (John 20:21). Some days later He will confer on Peter the primacy He
had already promised him (John 21:15-17). The Pope is the successor of Peter,
and the bishops the successor of the Apostles (cf. “Lumen Gentium”, 20). There-
fore, “Bishops who teach in communion with the Roman Pontiff are to be revered
by all as witnesses of divine and Catholic truth [...]. This loyal submission of the
will and intellect must be given, in a special way, to the authentic teaching autho-
rity of the Roman Pontiff, even when he does not speak “ex cathedra” (Vatican II,
“Lumen Gentium”, 25).

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Source: “The Navarre Bible: Text and Commentaries”. Biblical text from the
Revised Standard Version and New Vulgate. Commentaries by members of
the Faculty of Theology, University of Navarre, Spain.

Published by Four Courts Press, Kill Lane, Blackrock, Co. Dublin, Ireland, and
by Scepter Publishers in the United States.

Scripture readings from the Jerusalem Bible by Darton, Longman & Todd

Readings at Mass

Liturgical Colour: Green.

First reading
Job 38:1,12-21,40:3-5 ©

The immeasurable greatness of God

From the heart of the tempest the Lord gave Job his answer. He said:

Have you ever in your life given orders to the morning

or sent the dawn to its post,

telling it to grasp the earth by its edges

and shake the wicked out of it,

when it changes the earth to sealing clay

and dyes it as a man dyes clothes;

stealing the light from wicked men

and breaking the arm raised to strike?

Have you journeyed all the way to the sources of the sea,

or walked where the Abyss is deepest?

Have you been shown the gates of Death

or met the janitors of Shadowland?

Have you an inkling of the extent of the earth?

Tell me all about it if you have!

Which is the way to the home of the light,

and where does darkness live?

You could then show them the way to their proper places,

or put them on the path to where they live!

If you know all this, you must have been born with them,

you must be very old by now!

Job replied to the Lord:

My words have been frivolous: what can I reply?

I had better lay my finger on my lips.

I have spoken once... I will not speak again;

more than once... I will add nothing.

Responsorial Psalm
Psalm 138(139):1-3,7-10,13-14 ©