First Reading
Ezk 18, 25-28
The word of the Lord was addressed to me as follows: you say: Yahweh's way is not
just! Why, Israel! Is my position wrong? Is it not rather that yours is wrong? If the
righteous man dies after turning from his righteous deeds and sinning, he dies because
of his sins. And if the wicked man does what is good and right, after turning from the
sins he committed, he will save his life. He will live and not die, because he has
opened his eyes and turned from the sins he had committed.
Responsorial Psalm
Teach me your ways, O Lord;
make known to me your paths.
Guide me in your truth and instruct me,
for you are my God, my saviour;
I hope in you all day long.
Remember your compassion, O Lord,
your unfailing love from of old.
Remember not the sins of my youth,
but in your love remember me.
Good and upright,
the Lord teaches sinners his way.
He teaches the humble of heart
and guides them in what is right.
Second Reading
Phil 2, 1-11
If I may advise you in the name of Christ and if you can hear it as the voice of love; if
we share the same spirit and are capable of mercy and compassion, then I beg of you
make me very happy: have one love, one spirit, one feeling, do nothing through
rivalry or vain conceit. On the contrary let each of you gently consider the others as
more important than yourselves. Do not seek your own interest, but rather that of
others. Let what was seen in Christ Jesus be seen in you: Though being divine in
nature, he did not claim in fact equality with God, but emptied himself, taking on the
nature of a servant, made in human likeness, and in his appearance found as a man. He
humbled himself by being obedient to death, death on the cross. That is why God
exalted him and gave him the Name which outshines all names, so that at the Name of
Jesus all knees should bend in heaven, on earth and among the dead, and all tongues
proclaim that Christ Jesus is the Lord to the glory of God the Father.
Gospel
Mt 21, 28-32
Jesus said to the chief priests and the elders of the people: "What do you think of this?
A man had two sons. He went to the first and said to him: 'Son, today go and work in
my vineyard.' And the son answered: 'I don't want to.' But later he thought better of it
and went. Then the father went to the second and gave him the same command. This
son replied: 'I will go, sir,' but he did not go. Which of the two did what the father
wanted?" They answered, "The first." And Jesus said to them, "Truly, I say to you: the
publicans and the prostitutes are ahead of you on the way to the kingdom of heaven.
For John came to show you the way of goodness but you did not believe him, yet the
publicans and the prostitutes did. You were witnesses of this, but you neither repented
nor believed him.