Responsorial Psalm
In you, O Lord, I seek refuge; let me not be disgraced.
In your justice help me and deliver me,
turn your ear to me and save me!
Be my rock of refuge, a stronghold to give me safety,
for you are my rock and my fortress.
Rescue me, O my God, from the hand of the wicked,
from the grasp of cruel and violent people.
For you, O Lord, have been my hope, my trust,
O God, from my youth.
I have relied on you from birth: from my mother's
womb you brought me forth. My praise is of you
continually.
My lips will proclaim your intervention and tell of
your salvation all day,
little though it is what I can understand.
You have taught me from my youth and until now I
proclaim your marvels.
2nd. READING (1Cor 12,31;13,1-13)
Be that as it may, set your hearts on the most precious gifts, and I will show you a
much better way. If I could speak all the human and angelic tongues, but had no love,
I would only be sounding brass or a clanging cymbal. If I had prophecy, knowing
secret things with all kinds of knowledge, and had faith great enough to remove
mountains, but had no love, I would be nothing. If I gave everything I had to the
poor, and even gave up my own body, but only to receive praise and not through
love, it would be of no value to me. Love is patient, kind, without envy. It is not
boastful or arrogant. It is not ill-mannered nor does it seek its own interest. Love
overcomes anger and forgets offenses. It does not take delight in wrong, but rejoices in
truth. Love excuses everything, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
Love will never end. Prophecies may cease, tongues be silent and knowledge
disappear. For knowledge grasps something of the truth and prophecy as well. And
when what is perfect comes, everything imperfect will pass away. When I was a child
I thought and reasoned like a child, but when I grew up, I gave up childish ways.
Likewise, at present we see dimly as in a faulty mirror, but then it shall be face to face.
Now we know in part, but then I will know as I am known. Now we have faith, hope
and love, these three, but the greatest of these is love.
Gospel
Then he said to them, "Today these prophetic words come true even as you listen." All
agreed with him and were lost in wonder, while he kept on speaking of the grace of
God. Nevertheless they asked, "Who is this but Joseph's son?" So he said,
"Doubtless you will quote me the saying: Doctor, heal yourself! Do here in your town
what they say you did in Capernaum." Jesus added, "No prophet is honored in his own
country. Truly, I say to you, there were many widows in Israel in the days of Elijah,
when the heavens withheld rain for three years and six months and a great famine
came over the whole land. Yet Elijah was not sent to any of them, but to a widow of
Zarephath, in the country of Sidon. There were also many lepers in Israel in the time
of Elisha, the prophet, and no one was healed except Naaman, the Syrian." On hearing
these words, the whole assembly became indignant. They rose up and brought him out
of the town, to the edge of the hill on which Nazareth is built, intending to throw him
down the cliff. But he passed through their midst and went his way.
