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Liturgical Colour: Violet. Year: A(II).

First reading	Isaiah 48:17-19

‘Oh that you had paid attention to my commandments!’

Thus says the Lord, your Redeemer,

the Holy One of Israel:

‘I am the Lord your God,

who teaches you to profit,

who leads you in the way you should go.

Oh that you had paid attention to my commandments!

Then your peace would have been like a river,

and your righteousness like the waves of the sea;

your offspring would have been like the sand,

and your descendants like its grains;

their name would never be cut off

or destroyed from before me.’

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Responsorial Psalm
Ps 1:1-2. 3. 4, 6. ℟ Psalm 40(39):5a

Whoever follows you, Lord, will have the light of life.

Blessed indeed is the man

who follows not the counsel of the wicked,

nor stands in the path with sinners,

nor abides in the company of scorners,

but whose delight is the law of the Lord,

and who ponders his law day and night.

Whoever follows you, Lord, will have the light of life.

He is like a tree that is planted

beside the flowing waters,

that yields its fruit in due season,

and whose leaves shall never fade;

and all that he does shall prosper.

Whoever follows you, Lord, will have the light of life.

Not so are the wicked, not so!

For they, like winnowed chaff,

shall be driven away by the wind.

For the Lord knows the way of the righteous,

but the way of the wicked will perish.

Whoever follows you, Lord, will have the light of life.

Gospel Acclamation

Alleluia, alleluia.

The Lord will come, go out to meet him;

he is the prince of peace.

Alleluia.

Gospel
Matthew 11:16-19

They listened to neither John nor the Son of Man.

At that time: Jesus said to the crowd: ‘To what shall I compare this generation? It is like children sitting in the market-places and calling to their playmates,

“We played the flute for you, and you did not dance;

we sang a dirge, and you did not mourn.”

‘For John came neither eating nor drinking, and they say, “He has a demon.” The Son of Man came eating and drinking, and they say, “Look at him! A glutton and a drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and sinners!” Yet wisdom is justified by her deeds.’

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The readings on this page are from the English Standard Version, which is used at Mass in Great Britain. The Jerusalem Bible (which is used at Mass in much of the English-speaking world) will appear instead if you set this page to use a calendar from outside Great Britain. The New American Bible readings, which are used at Mass in the United States, are available in the Universalis apps, programs and downloads.