Basilica Sunday Mass 29 August 2021 National Shrine – 22nd Sunday in Ordinary Time

Basilica Sunday Mass 29 August 2021 National Shrine – 22nd Sunday in Ordinary Time 

The Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington D.C., is a Catholic church dedicated to the Blessed Mother, patroness of our nation. It is a place of worship, pilgrimage, evangelization, and reconciliation. Mary’s Shrine invites people from across the country and beyond to share in Christ’s ever-living presence.

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Reading 1, Deuteronomy 4:1-2, 6-8
Responsorial Psalm, Psalms 15:2-3, 3-4, 4-5
Gospel, Mark 7:1-8, 14-15, 21-23
Reading 2, James 1:17-18, 21-22, 27

Reading 1, Deuteronomy 4:1-2, 6-8
1 ‘And now, Israel, listen to the laws and customs which I am teaching you today, so that, by observing them, you may survive to enter and take possession of the country which Yahweh, God of your ancestors, is giving you.

2 You must add nothing to what I command you, and take nothing from it, but keep the commandments of Yahweh your God just as I lay them down for you.

6 Keep them, put them into practice, and other peoples will admire your wisdom and prudence. Once they know what all these laws are, they will exclaim, “No other people is as wise and prudent as this great nation!”

7 And indeed, what great nation has its gods as near as Yahweh our God is to us whenever we call to him?

8 And what great nation has laws and customs as upright as the entirety of this Law which I am laying down for you today?

Basilica Sunday Mass 29 August 2021 National Shrine – 22nd Sunday in Ordinary Time

Responsorial Psalm, Psalms 15:2-3, 3-4, 4-5
2 Whoever lives blamelessly, who acts uprightly, who speaks the truth from the heart,

3 who keeps the tongue under control, who does not wrong a comrade, who casts no discredit on a neighbour,

4 who looks with scorn on the vile, but honours those who fear Yahweh, who stands by an oath at any cost,

5 who asks no interest on loans, who takes no bribe to harm the innocent. No one who so acts can ever be shaken.