FIRST READING
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“I will put enmity between your seed and her seed.”
A reading from the Book of Genesis (Genesis 3:9-15.20)
[After Adam had eaten of the tree,]
the LORD God called to him and said,
“Where are you?”
And he said,
“I heard the sound of you in the garden,
and I was afraid, because I was naked;
and I hid myself.”
He said, “Who told you that you were naked?
Have you eaten of the tree
of which I commanded you not to eat?”
The man said,
“The woman whom you gave to be with me,
she gave me fruit of the tree, and I ate.”
Then the LORD God said to the woman,
“What is this that you have done?”
The woman said,
“The serpent beguiled me, and I ate.”
The LORD God said to the serpent,
“Because you have done this,
cursed are you above all cattle,
and above all wild animals;
upon your belly you shall go,
and dust you shall eat
all the days of your life.
I will put enmity between you and the woman,
and between your seed and her seed;
he shall bruise your head,
and you shall bruise his heel.”
The man called his wife’s name Eve,
because she was the mother of all living.
The word of the Lord.
RESPONSORIAL PSALM
Psalm 87:1-2-3 and 5.6-7
R/. Glorious things are told of you, O city of God.
Founded by him on the holy mountain,
the Lord loves the gates of Sion,
more than all the dwellings of Jacob. R/.
Of you are told glorious things,
you. O city of God!
But of Sion it shall be said,
“Each one was born in her.”
He, the Most High, established it. R/.
In his register of peoples the LORD writes,
“Here was this one born.”
The singers cry out in chorus,
“In you, all find their home.” R/.
ALLELUIA
V/ Alleluia. R/. Alleluia.
V/ O happy Virgin, you gave birth to the Lord;
O blessed mother of the Church
you warm our hearts with the Spirit of your Son Jesus Christ/span>
R/. Alleluia.
GOSPEL
Behold, your Son. Behold, your mother.
† A reading from the holy Gospel according to John (John 19:25-34)
At that time:
Standing by the cross of Jesus were his mother,
and his mother’s sister, Mary the wife of Clopas,
and Mary Magdalene.
When Jesus saw his mother,
and the disciple whom he loved standing near,
he said to his mother,
“Woman, behold your son!”
Then he said to the disciple,
“Behold, your mother!”
And from that hour
the disciple took her to his own home.
The Gospel of the Lord.