Mass Readings for March 2, 2025

Sirach 27:4-7
Psalms 92:1-2,12-15
1 Corinthians 15:54-58
Luke 6:39-45

Sirach 27:4-7
(4) In the shaking of a sieve, the refuse remains; So the filth of man in his reasoning. (5) The furnace will prove the potter’s vessels; And the trial of a man is in his reasoning. (6) The fruit of a tree declares the husbandry thereof; So is the utterance of the thought of the heart of a man. (7) Praise no man before you hear him reason; For this is the trial of men.

Psalms 92:1-2,12-15
(1) It is a good thing to give thanks to Yahweh, to sing praises to your name, Most High; (2) to proclaim your loving kindness in the morning, and your faithfulness every night, (12) The righteous shall flourish like the palm tree. He will grow like a cedar in Lebanon. (13) They are planted in Yahweh’s house. They will flourish in our God’s courts. (14) They will still produce fruit in old age. They will be full of sap and green, (15) to show that Yahweh is upright. He is my rock, and there is no unrighteousness in him.

1 Corinthians 15:54-58
(54) But when this perishable body will have become imperishable, and this mortal will have put on immortality, then what is written will happen: “Death is swallowed up in victory.” (55) “Death, where is your sting? Hades, where is your victory?” (56) The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law. (57) But thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ. (58) Therefore, my beloved brothers, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the Lord’s work, because you know that your labor is not in vain in the Lord.

Luke 6:39-45
(39) He spoke a parable to them. “Can the blind guide the blind? Won’t they both fall into a pit? (40) A disciple is not above his teacher, but everyone when he is fully trained will be like his teacher. (41) Why do you see the speck of chaff that is in your brother’s eye, but don’t consider the beam that is in your own eye? (42) Or how can you tell your brother, ‘Brother, let me remove the speck of chaff that is in your eye,’ when you yourself don’t see the beam that is in your own eye? You hypocrite! First remove the beam from your own eye, and then you can see clearly to remove the speck of chaff that is in your brother’s eye. (43) For there is no good tree that produces rotten fruit; nor again a rotten tree that produces good fruit. (44) For each tree is known by its own fruit. For people don’t gather figs from thorns, nor do they gather grapes from a bramble bush. (45) The good man out of the good treasure of his heart brings out that which is good, and the evil man out of the evil treasure of his heart brings out that which is evil, for out of the abundance of the heart, his mouth speaks.