Mass Readings for June 9, 2023

Tobit 11:5-17
Psalms 146:1-2,6-10
Mark 12:35-37

Tobit 11:5-17
(5) Anna sat looking around toward the path for her son. (6) She saw him coming, and said to his father, “Behold, your son is coming with the man that went with him!” (7) Raphael said, “I know, Tobias, that your father will open his eyes. (8) Therefore anoint his eyes with the gall, and being pricked therewith, he will rub, and willl make the white films fall away. Then he will see you.” (9) Anna ran to him, and fell upon the neck of her son, and said to him, “I have seen you, my child! I am ready to die.” They wept both. (10) Tobit went toward the door and stumbled; but his son ran to him, (11) and took hold of his father. He rubbed the gall on his father’s eyes, saying, “Cheer up, my father.” (12) When his eyes began to hurt, he rubbed them. (13) Then the white films scaled away from the corners of his eyes; and he saw his son, and fell upon his neck. (14) He wept, and said, “Blessed are you, O God, and blessed is your name forever! Blessed are all your holy angels! (15) For you scourged, and had mercy on me. Behold, I see my son Tobias.” And his son went in rejoicing, and told his father the great things that had happened to him in Media. (16) Tobit went out to meet his daughter-in-law at the gate of Nineveh, rejoicing, and blessing God. Those who saw him go marveled, because he had received his sight. (17) Tobit gave thanks before them, because God had shown mercy on him. When Tobit came near to Sarah his daughter-in-law, he blessed her, saying, “Welcome, daughter! Blessed is God who has brought you to us, and blessed are your father and your mother.” And there was joy among all his kindred who were at Nineveh.

Psalms 146:1-2,6-10
(1) Praise Yah! Praise Yahweh, my soul. (2) While I live, I will praise Yahweh. I will sing praises to my God as long as I exist. (6) who made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that is in them; who keeps truth forever; (7) who executes justice for the oppressed; who gives food to the hungry. Yahweh frees the prisoners. (8) Yahweh opens the eyes of the blind. Yahweh raises up those who are bowed down. Yahweh loves the righteous. (9) Yahweh preserves the foreigners. He upholds the fatherless and widow, but the way of the wicked he turns upside down. (10) Yahweh will reign forever; your God, O Zion, to all generations. Praise Yah!

Mark 12:35-37
(35) Jesus responded, as he taught in the temple, “How is it that the scribes say that the Christ is the son of David? (36) For David himself said in the Holy Spirit, ‘The Lord said to my Lord, “Sit at my right hand, until I make your enemies the footstool of your feet.”’ (37) Therefore David himself calls him Lord, so how can he be his son?” The common people heard him gladly.