Friday of the Fifth Week in Ordinary Time
Year B
Reading 1
1 kgs 11:29-32; 12:19
And at that time, when Jerobo´am went out of Jerusalem, the prophet Ahi´jah the Shi´lonite found him on the road. Now Ahi´jah had clad himself with a new garment; and the two of them were alone in the open country. Then Ahi´jah laid hold of the new garment that was on him, and tore it into twelve pieces. And he said to Jerobo´am, “Take for yourself ten pieces; for thus says the Lord, the God of Israel, ‘Behold, I am about to tear the kingdom from the hand of Solomon, and will give you ten tribes (but he shall have one tribe, for the sake of my servant David and for the sake of Jerusalem, the city which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel). So Israel has been in rebellion against the house of David to this day.
Gospel
Mk 7:31-37
Then he returned from the region of Tyre, and went through Sidon to the Sea of Galilee, through the region of the Decap´olis. And they brought to him a man who was deaf and had an impediment in his speech; and they besought him to lay his hand upon him. And taking him aside from the multitude privately, he put his fingers into his ears, and he spat and touched his tongue; and looking up to heaven, he sighed, and said to him, “Eph´phatha,” that is, “Be opened.” And his ears were opened, his tongue was released, and he spoke plainly. And he charged them to tell no one; but the more he charged them, the more zealously they proclaimed it. And they were astonished beyond measure, saying, “He has done all things well; he even makes the deaf hear and the dumb speak.”
Readings are taken from Dynamic Catholic’s Bible: RSV Catholic Edition.
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