First Reading - Gn 3:9-15
After the man, Adam, had eaten of the tree, the Lord God called to the man and asked him: “Where are you?” He answered, “I heard you in the garden; but I was afraid, be- cause I was naked, so I hid myself.” Then God asked: “Who told you that you were naked? Have you eaten, then, from the tree of which I had forbidden you to eat?” The man replied, “The woman whom you put here with me – she gave me fruit from the tree, and so I ate it.” The Lord God then asked the woman, “Why did you do such a thing?” The woman answered, “The snake tricked me into it, so I ate it.”
Then the Lord God said to the serpent: “Because you have done this, you shall be banned from all the animals, and from all wild creatures; on your belly shall you crawl, and dirt shall you eat all the days of your life.
I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and hers; he will strike at your head, while you strike at his heel.”
Responsorial Psalm - Ps 130
R –With the Lord there is mercy, and fullness of redemption!
Let your ears be attentive to my voice of my pleading. R.
But with you is forgiveness, that you may be revered. R.
let Israel wait for the Lord. R.
and he will redeem Israel from all their iniquities. R.
Second Reading - 2 Cor 4:13-5:1
Brothers and sisters: Since we have the same spirit of faith, according to what is written, “I believed, therefore I spoke,” we too believe and therefore speak, knowing that the one who raised the Lord Jesus will raise us also with Jesus and place us with you in his presence. Everything indeed is for you, so that the grace be- stowed in abundance on more and more people may cause the thanksgiving to overflow for the glory of God.
Therefore, we are not discouraged. Rather, although our outer self is wasting away, our inner self is being renewed day by day. For this momentary light affliction is producing for us an eternal weight of glory beyond all comparison, as we look not to what is seen but to what is unseen; for what is seen is transitory, but what is unseen is eternal. We know that, if our earthly dwelling, [which is like] a tent, should be destroyed, we have a building from God, an eternal dwelling in heaven not made by [human] hands.
Gospel Acclamation
Alleluia! Alleluia!
“Now the ruler of this
world will be driven out,” says the Lord;
“and when I am lifted up from the earth, I will draw everyone to myself.
Alleluia! Alleluia!
Gospel - Mk 3:20-35
Jesus came home with his disciples. Again the crowd gathered, making it impossible for them even to eat.
When his relatives heard of this they set out to seize him, for they said, “He is out of his mind.” The scribes who had come from Jerusalem said, “He is possessed by Beelzebul,” and “By the prince of demons he drives out demons.”
Summoning them, Jesus began to speak to them in parables, “How can Satan drive out Satan? If a kingdom is divided against itself, that kingdom cannot stand. And if a house is divided against itself, that house will not be able to stand. And if Satan has risen up against himself and is divided, he cannot stand; that is the end of him. No one can enter a strong man’s house to plunder his property unless he first ties up the strong man. Then he can plunder his house.
Amen, I say to you, all sins and all blasphemies that people utter will be forgiven them. But whoever blasphemes against the Holy Spirit will never be forgiven, for he is guilty of an everlasting sin.” [He said this] because they had said, “He has an unclean spirit.”
Jesus’ mother and his brothers arrived. Standing outside, they sent word to him and called him. A crowd seated around him told him, “Your mother and your brothers and your sisters are outside asking for you.”
But he said to them in reply, “Who are my mother and my brothers?” And looking around at those seated in the circle he said, “Here are my mother and my brothers. For whoever does the will of God is my brother and sister and mother.”
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