In the fifth month, on the seventh day of the month —
which was the nineteenth year of King Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon —
Nebuzaradan, the captain of the bodyguard,
a servant of the king of Babylon, came to Jerusalem.
He burned the house of the Lord, the king’s house,
and all the houses of Jerusalem;
every great house he burned down.
All the army of the Chaldeans who were with the captain of the guard
broke down the walls around Jerusalem.
Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard carried into exile
the rest of the people who were left in the city
and the deserters who had defected to the king of Babylon —
all the rest of the population.
But the captain of the guard left some of the poorest people of the land
to be vinedressers and tillers of the soil.
RESPONSORIAL PSALM 137:1-2, 3, 4-5, 6
Adhaereat lingua mea faucibus meis, si non meminero tui!
R. (6ab) Let my tongue be silenced, if I ever forget you!
By the waters of Babylon we sat down and wept
when we remembered Zion.
As for our harps we hung them up
upon the trees that are in that land.
R. Let my tongue be silenced, if I ever forget you!
For there those who led us away captive
required of us a song
and those who had despoiled us demanded mirth, saying
‘Sing us one of the songs of Zion.’
R. Let my tongue be silenced, if I ever forget you!
How can we sing the Lord’s song
in a strange land?
If I forget you, O Jerusalem
let my right hand forget its mastery.
R. Let my tongue be silenced, if I ever forget you!
Let my tongue cling to the roof of my mouth
if I do not remember you,
if I do not prefer Jerusalem
above my chief joy.
R. Let my tongue be silenced, if I ever forget you!
ALLELUIA Mt 8:17
Christus infirmitates nostras accepit, et aegrotationes nostras portavit.
Christ took away our infirmities
and bore our diseases.
GOSPEL Matthew 8:1-4
When Jesus had come down from the mountain,
great crowds followed him;
and there was a leper who came to him and knelt before him, saying,
“Lord, if you choose, you can make me clean.”
He stretched out his hand and touched him, saying,
“I do choose. Be made clean!”
Immediately his leprosy was cleansed.
Then Jesus said to him,
“See that you say nothing to anyone;
but go, show yourself to the priest,
and offer the gift that Moses commanded,
as a testimony to them.”
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