DO NOT MAKE YOURSELVES LIABLE TO JUDGEMENT

FRIDAY WEEK 7 IN ORDINARY TIME: Universalis 
'The Lord is kind and compassionate'

First Reading James 5:9-12 Do not ask for judge, or you may receive it

Do not make complaints against one another, brothers, so as not to be brought to judgement yourselves; the Judge is already to be seen waiting at the gates. For your example, brothers, in submitting with patience, take the prophets who spoke in the name of the Lord; remember it is those who had endurance that we say are the blessed ones. You have heard of the patience of Job, and understood the Lord’s purpose, realising that the Lord is kind and compassionate. 

Above all, my brothers, do not swear by heaven or by the earth, or use any oaths at all. If you mean ‘yes’, you must say ‘yes’; if you mean ‘no’, say ‘no.’ Otherwise you make yourselves liable to judgement.

Responsorial Psalm: The Lord is compassion and love

Gospel Mark 10:1-12 What God has united, man must not divide

CDR: Jesus came to the district of Judaea and the far side of the Jordan. And again crowds gathered round him, and again he taught them, as his custom was. Some Pharisees approached him and asked, ‘Is it against the law for a man to divorce his wife?’ They were testing him. He answered them, ‘What did Moses command you?’ ‘Moses allowed us’ they said ‘to draw up a writ of dismissal and so to divorce.’ Then Jesus said to them, ‘It was because you were so unteachable that he wrote this commandment for you. 

But from the beginning of creation God made them male and female. This is why a man must leave father and mother, and the two become one body. They are no longer two, therefore, but one body. So then, what God has united, man must not divide.’ Back in the house the disciples questioned him again about this, and he said to them, ‘The man who divorces his wife and marries another is guilty of adultery against her. And if a woman divorces her husband and marries another she is guilty of adultery too.’

Father, keep me faithful to your teachings. Make my heart pure. Let your light shine through me. You are compassionate Father, I do not want to be liable to judgement. Please guide my actions.

Jesus, I have confidence in you. Virgin Mary pray for me. Saint Joseph pray for me. Angels of God pray for me. My Angel Guardian pray for me.

Let us pray the Holy Rosary: Hail Mary Full of grace. Ave Maria.

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