Gospel Matthew 10:16-23

 

Today's Readings

Responsorial Psalm 

 

Psalms 37:3-4, 18-19, 27-28, 39-40

 

³ Put your trust in Yahweh and do right, make your home in the land and live secure.

⁴ Make Yahweh your joy and he will give you your heart's desires.

¹⁸ The lives of the just are in Yahweh's care, their birthright will endure for ever;

¹⁹ they will not be put to shame when bad times come, in time of famine they will have plenty.

²⁷ Turn your back on evil and do good, you will have a home for ever,

²⁸ for Yahweh loves justice and will not forsake his faithful. Evil-doers will perish eternally, the descendants of the wicked be annihilated,

³⁹ The upright have Yahweh for their Saviour, their refuge in times of trouble;

⁴⁰ Yahweh helps them and rescues them, he will rescue them from the wicked, and save them because they take refuge in him.

 

Gospel  

Matthew 10:16-23

 

¹⁶ Look, I am sending you out like sheep among wolves; so be cunning as snakes and yet innocent as doves.

¹⁷ 'Be prepared for people to hand you over to sanhedrins and scourge you in their synagogues.

¹⁸ You will be brought before governors and kings for my sake, as evidence to them and to the gentiles.

¹⁹ But when you are handed over, do not worry about how to speak or what to say; what you are to say will be given to you when the time comes,

²⁰ because it is not you who will be speaking; the Spirit of your Father will be speaking in you.

²¹ 'Brother will betray brother to death, and a father his child; children will come forward against their parents and have them put to death.

²² You will be universally hated on account of my name; but anyone who stands firm to the end will be saved.

²³ If they persecute you in one town, take refuge in the next; and if they persecute you in that, take refuge in another. In truth I tell you, you will not have gone the round of the towns of Israel before the Son of man comes.