1st Reading ~ Ezekiel 33: 7-9
7 Son of man I have appointed you as watchman for the House
of Israel. When you hear a word from my mouth, warn them from me. 8 If I say to
someone wicked, “Evil- doer, you are to die,” and you do not speak to warn the
wicked person to renounce such ways, the wicked person will die for this guilt,
but I shall hold you responsible for the death. 9 If, however, you do warn
someone wicked to renounce such ways and repent, and that person does not
repent, then the culprit will die for this guilt, but you yourself will have
saved your life.
Responsorial Psalm ~ Psalm 95: 1-2, 6-7, 8-9
1 Come, let us cry out with joy to Yahweh, acclaim the rock
of our salvation. 2 Let us come into his presence with thanksgiving, acclaim
him with music.
6 Come, let us bow low and do reverence; kneel before Yahweh
who made us! 7 For he is our God, and we the people of his sheepfold, the flock
of his hand. If only you would listen to him today!
8 Do not harden your hearts as at Meribah, as at the time of
Massah in the dessert, 9 when your ancestors challenged me, put me to the test,
and saw what I could do!
2nd Reading ~ Romans 13: 8-10
8 The only thing you should owe to anyone is love for one
another, for to love other person is to fulfil the law. 9 All these: You shall
not commit adultery, You shall not kill, You shall not steal, you shall not
covet, and all the other commandments that there are, are summed up in this
single phrase: You must love your neighbour as yourself. 10 Love can cause no
harm to your neighbour, and so love is the fulfilment of the law.
Gospel ~ Matthew 18: 15-20
15 If your brother does something wrong, go and have it out with
him alone, between your two selves. If he listens to you, you have won back
your brother. 16 if he does not listen take one or two others along with you:
whatever the misdemeanour, the evidence or two or three witness is required to
sustain the charge. 17 But if he refuses to listen to these, report it to the
community; and if he refuses to listen to the community, treat him like a
gentile or a tax collector. 18 In truth I tell you, whatever you bind on earth
will be bound in heaven; whatever you loose on earth will be loosed in heaven.
19 In truth I tell you once again, if two of you on earth agree to ask anything
at all, it will be granted to you by my Father in heaven. 20 for where two or three
meet in my name, I am there among them.
