February 27, 2022 - 8th Sunday in Ordinary Time (Year C)

 

First Reading - Sir 27:4-7

    When a sieve is shaken, the husks appear; so do a man’s faults when he speaks. As the test of what the potter molds is in the furnace, so in his conversation is the test of a man. The fruit of a tree shows the care it has had; so too does a man’s speech disclose the bent of his mind. Praise no man before he speaks, for it is then that men are tested. 

Responsorial Psalm - Ps 92 

R –Lord, it is good to give thanks to you!

    * It is good to give thanks to the Lord, to sing praise to your name, Most High, to proclaim your kindness at dawn and your faithfulness throughout the night. R. 

    * The just man shall flourish like the palm tree, like a cedar of Lebanon shall he grow. They that are planted in the house of the Lord shall flourish in the courts of our God. R. 

    * They shall bear fruit even in old age; vigorous and sturdy shall they be, declaring how just is the Lord, my Rock, in whom there is no wrong. R. 

Second Reading - 1 Cor 15:54-58

    When this which is corruptible frame takes on incorruptibility and this which is mortal must clothe itself with immortality, then will the saying of Scripture be fulfilled: “Death is swallowed up in victory.” “O death, where is your victory? O death, where is your sting?” 

     The sting of death is sin, and sin gets its power from the law. But thanks be to God who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ. 

     Be steadfast and persevering, my beloved brothers, fully engaged in the work of the Lord. You know that your toil is not in vain when it is done in the Lord.  

Gospel Acclamation - Phil 2:15.16 

Alleluia! Alleluia! 

Shine like lights in the world as you hold on to the word of life. 

Alleluia! Alleluia! 

Gospel - Lk 6:39-45

    Jesus used images in speaking to the disciples: “Can a blind man act as guide to a blind man? Will they not both fall into a ditch? A student is not above his teacher; but every student when he has 

finished his studies will be on a par with his teacher. 

     “Why look at the speck in your brother’s eye when you miss the plank in your own? How can you say to your brother, ‘Brother, let me remove the speck from your eye,’ yet fail yourself to see the plank lodged in your own? Hypocrite, remove the plank from your own eye fi rst; then you will see clearly enough to remove the speck from your brother’s eye. 

     “A good tree does not produce decayed fruit anymore than a decayed tree produces good fruit. Each tree is known by its yield. Figs are not taken from thornbushes, nor grapes picked from brambles. A good man produces goodness from the good in his heart; an evil man produces evil out of his store of evil. Each man speaks from his heart’s abundance.”