Responsorial Psalm
Out of the depths I cry to you, O Lord,
O Lord, hear my voice!
Let your ears pay attention
to the voice of my supplication.
If you should mark our evil,
O Lord, who could stand?
But with you is forgiveness,
and for that you are revered.
I waited for the Lord, my soul waits,
and I put my hope in his word.
My soul expects the Lord
more than watchmen the dawn.
O Israel, hope in the Lord,
for with him is unfailing love
and with him full deliverance.
He will deliver Israel from all its sins.
2nd. READING (Rom 8:8-11)
So, those walking according to the flesh cannot please God. Yet your existence is not
in the flesh, but in the spirit, because the Spirit of God is within you. If you did not
have the Spirit of Christ, you would not belong to him. But Christ is within you;
though the body is branded by death as a consequence of sin, the spirit is life and
holiness. And if the Spirit of Him who raised Jesus from the dead is within you, He
who raised Jesus Christ from among the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies.
Yes, he will do it through his Spirit who dwells within you.
Gospel
The sisters Martha and Mary sent this message to Jesus, "Lord, the one you love is
sick." On hearing this Jesus said, "This illness will not end in death; rather it is for
God's glory and the Son of God will be glorified through it." It is a fact that Jesus
loved Martha and her sister and Lazarus; yet, after he heard of the illness of Lazarus,
he stayed two days longer in the place where he was. Only then did he say to his
disciples, "Let us go into Judea again." When Jesus came, he found that Lazarus had
been in the tomb for four days. When Martha heard that Jesus was coming, she went to
meet him while Mary remained sitting in the house. And she said to Jesus, "If you had
been here, my brother would not have died. But I know that whatever you ask from
God, God will give you." Jesus said, "Your brother will rise again." Martha replied,
"I know that he will rise in the resurrection, at the last day." But Jesus said to her, "I
am the resurrection; whoever believes in me, though he die, shall live. Whoever is
alive by believing in me will never die. Do you believe this?" Martha then answered,
"Yes, Lord, I have come to believe that you are the Christ, the Son of God, he who is
coming into the world." Then he asked, "Where have you laid him?" They answered,
"Lord, come and see." And Jesus wept. The Jews said, "See how he loved him!" But
some of them said, "If he could open the eyes of the blind man, could he not have kept
this man from dying?" Jesus was deeply moved again and drew near to the tomb. It
was a cave with a stone laid across it. Jesus ordered, "Take the stone away." Martha
said to him, "Lord, by now he will smell, for this is the fourth day." Jesus replied,
"Have I not told you that if you believe, you will see the glory of God?" So they
removed the stone. Jesus lifted up his eyes and said, "Father, I thank you for you have
heard me. I knew that you hear me always; but my prayer was for the sake of these
people, that they may believe that you sent me." When Jesus had said this, he cried
out in a loud voice, "Lazarus, come out!" The dead man came out, his hands and feet
bound with linen strips and his face wrapped in a cloth. So Jesus said to them, "Untie
him and let him go." Many of the Jews who had come with Mary believed in Jesus
when they saw what he did.
