Mass Readings for February 28, 2025

Sirach 6:5-17
Psalms 119:12,16,18,27,34-35
Mark 10:1-12

Sirach 6:5-17
(5) Sweet words will multiply a man’s friends; And a fair-speaking tongue will multiply courtesies. (6) Let those that are at peace with you be many; But your counselors one of a thousand. (7) If you would get you a friend, get him by proving, And be not in haste to trust him. (8) For there is a friend that is so for his own occasion; And he will not continue in the day of your affliction. (9) And there is a friend that turns to enmity; And he will discover strife to your reproach. (10) And there is a friend that is a companion at the table; And he will not continue in the day of your affliction. (11) And in your prosperity he will be as yourself, And will be bold over your servants: (12) If you shall be brought low, he will be against you, And will hide himself from your face. (13) Separate yourself from your enemies; And beware of your friends. (14) A faithful friend is a strong defence; And he that has found him has found a treasure. (15) There is nothing that can be taken in exchange for a faithful friend; And his excellency is beyond price. (16) A faithful friend is a medicine of life; And those who fear the Lord will find him. (17) He that fears the Lord directs his friendship aright; For as he is, so is his neighbor also.

Psalms 119:12,16,18,27,34-35
(12) Blessed are you, Yahweh. Teach me your statutes. (16) I will delight myself in your statutes. I will not forget your word. (18) Open my eyes, that I may see wondrous things out of your law. (27) Let me understand the teaching of your precepts! Then I will meditate on your wondrous works. (34) Give me understanding, and I will keep your law. Yes, I will obey it with my whole heart. (35) Direct me in the path of your commandments, for I delight in them.

Mark 10:1-12
(1) He arose from there and came into the borders of Judea and beyond the Jordan. Multitudes came together to him again. As he usually did, he was again teaching them. (2) Pharisees came to him testing him, and asked him, “Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife?” (3) He answered, “What did Moses command you?” (4) They said, “Moses allowed a certificate of divorce to be written, and to divorce her.” (5) But Jesus said to them, “For your hardness of heart, he wrote you this commandment. (6) But from the beginning of the creation, God made them male and female. (7) For this cause a man will leave his father and mother, and will join to his wife, (8) and the two will become one flesh, so that they are no longer two, but one flesh. (9) What therefore God has joined together, let no man separate.” (10) In the house, his disciples asked him again about the same matter. (11) He said to them, “Whoever divorces his wife, and marries another, commits adultery against her. (12) If a woman herself divorces her husband, and marries another, she commits adultery.”