Mass Readings for September 29, 2024

Numbers 11:25-29
Psalms 19:8,10,12-14
James 5:1-6
Mark 9:38-43,45,47-48

Numbers 11:25-29
(25) Yahweh came down in the cloud, and spoke to him, and took of the Spirit that was on him, and put it on the seventy elders. When the Spirit rested on them, they prophesied, but they did so no more. (26) But two men remained in the camp. The name of one was Eldad, and the name of the other Medad: and the Spirit rested on them; and they were of those who were written, but had not gone out to the Tent; and they prophesied in the camp. (27) A young man ran, and told Moses, and said, “Eldad and Medad are prophesying in the camp!” (28) Joshua the son of Nun, the servant of Moses, one of his chosen men, answered, “My lord Moses, forbid them!” (29) Moses said to him, “Are you jealous for my sake? I wish that all Yahweh’s people were prophets, that Yahweh would put his Spirit on them!”

Psalms 19:8,10,12-14
(8) Yahweh’s precepts are right, rejoicing the heart. Yahweh’s commandment is pure, enlightening the eyes. (10) More to be desired are they than gold, yes, than much fine gold; sweeter also than honey and the extract of the honeycomb. (12) Who can discern his errors? Forgive me from hidden errors. (13) Keep back your servant also from presumptuous sins. Let them not have dominion over me. Then I will be upright. I will be blameless and innocent of great transgression. (14) Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be acceptable in your sight, Yahweh, my rock, and my redeemer.

James 5:1-6
(1) Come now, you rich, weep and howl for your miseries that are coming on you. (2) Your riches are corrupted and your garments are moth-eaten. (3) Your gold and your silver are corroded, and their corrosion will be for a testimony against you, and will eat your flesh like fire. You have laid up your treasure in the last days. (4) Behold, the wages of the laborers who mowed your fields, which you have kept back by fraud, cry out, and the cries of those who reaped have entered into the ears of the Lord of Armies. (5) You have lived in luxury on the earth, and taken your pleasure. You have nourished your hearts as in a day of slaughter. (6) You have condemned, you have murdered the righteous one. He doesn’t resist you.

Mark 9:38-43,45,47-48
(38) John said to him, “Teacher, we saw someone who doesn’t follow us casting out demons in your name; and we forbade him, because he doesn’t follow us.” (39) But Jesus said, “Don’t forbid him, for there is no one who will do a mighty work in my name, and be able quickly to speak evil of me. (40) For whoever is not against us is on our side. (41) For whoever will give you a cup of water to drink in my name, because you are Christ’s, most certainly I tell you, he will in no way lose his reward. (42) Whoever will cause one of these little ones who believe in me to stumble, it would be better for him if he were thrown into the sea with a millstone hung around his neck. (43) If your hand causes you to stumble, cut it off. It is better for you to enter into life maimed, rather than having your two hands to go into Gehenna, into the unquenchable fire, (45) If your foot causes you to stumble, cut it off. It is better for you to enter into life lame, rather than having your two feet to be cast into Gehenna, into the fire that will never be quenched— (47) If your eye causes you to stumble, cast it out. It is better for you to enter into God’s Kingdom with one eye, rather than having two eyes to be cast into the Gehenna of fire, (48) ‘where their worm doesn’t die, and the fire is not quenched.’