The 27th of February, 2022 is the Eighth Sunday in Ordinary Time. The Bible scriptures for the holy mass readings for this day came from the 2022 Liturgical Calendar.
Reading 1: SIR 27:4-7
The first reading from The Wisdom of Jesus the Son of Sirach or Ecclesiasticus.
In the shaking of a sieve, the refuse remains, so does the filth of man in his thoughts.
The furnace tests the potter’s vessels; so the test of a person is in his thoughts.
The fruit of a tree discloses its cultivation, so is the utterance of the thought of a person’s heart.
Praise no man before you hear his thoughts, for this is how people are tested.
Responsorial Psalm: PS 92:1-2, 12-13, 14-15
Response: It is a good thing to give thanks to Yahweh.
It is a good thing to give thanks to Yahweh, to sing praises to your name, Most High, to proclaim your loving kindness in the morning, and your faithfulness every night.
R: It is a good thing to give thanks to Yahweh.
The righteous shall flourish like the palm tree. He will grow like a cedar in Lebanon.
They are planted in Yahweh’s house. They will flourish in our God’s courts.
R: It is a good thing to give thanks to Yahweh.
They will still produce fruit in old age. They will be full of sap and green, to show that Yahweh is upright. He is my rock, and there is no unrighteousness in him.
R: It is a good thing to give thanks to Yahweh.
Reading 2: 1 COR 15:54-58
The second reading from the Letter of Saint Paul to the Corinthians.
But when this perishable body will have become imperishable, and this mortal will have put on immortality, then what is written will happen: “Death is swallowed up in victory.”
“Death, where is your sting? Hades, where is your victory?”
The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law.
But thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.
Therefore, my beloved brothers, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the Lord’s work, because you know that your labor is not in vain in the Lord.
Gospel of the Day: LK 6:39-45
From the gospel verse according to Luke.
He spoke a parable to them. “Can the blind guide the blind? Won’t they both fall into a pit?
A disciple is not above his teacher, but everyone when he is fully trained will be like his teacher.
Why do you see the speck of chaff that is in your brother’s eye, but don’t consider the beam that is in your own eye?
Or how can you tell your brother, ‘Brother, let me remove the speck of chaff that is in your eye,’ when you yourself don’t see the beam that is in your own eye? You hypocrite! First remove the beam from your own eye, and then you can see clearly to remove the speck of chaff that is in your brother’s eye.”
“For there is no good tree that produces rotten fruit, nor again a rotten tree that produces good fruit.
For each tree is known by its own fruit. For people don’t gather figs from thorns, nor do they gather grapes from a bramble bush.
The good man out of the good treasure of his heart brings out that which is good, and the evil man out of the evil treasure of his heart brings out that which is evil, for out of the abundance of the heart, his mouth speaks.”
