Reading
Deuteronomy 6: 4- 13
6:4 Listen, O Israel: the Lord our God is one Lord.
6:5 You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your strength.
6:6 And these words, which I instruct to you this day, shall be in your heart.
6:7 And you shall explain them to your sons. And you shall meditate upon them sitting in your house, and walking on a journey, when lying down and when rising up.
6:8 And you shall bind them like a sign on your hand, and they shall be placed and shall move between your eyes.
6:9 And you shall write them at the threshold and on the doors of your house.
6:10 And when the Lord your God will have led you into the land, about which he swore to your fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and when he will have given to you great and excellent cities, which you did not build;
6:11 houses full of goods, which you did not amass; cisterns, which you did not dig; vineyards and olive groves, which you did not plant;
6:12 and when you will have eaten and been satisfied:
6:13 take care diligently, lest you forget the Lord, who led you away from the land of Egypt, from the house of servitude. You shall fear the Lord your God, and you shall serve him alone, and you shall swear by his name.
Gospel
The Holy Gospel According to Matthew 17: 14- 20
| 17:14 | And when he had arrived at the multitude, a man approached him, falling to his knees before him, saying: “Lord, take pity on my son, for he is an epileptic, and he suffers harm. For he frequently falls into fire, and often also into water. |
| 17:15 | And I brought him to your disciples, but they were not able to cure him.” |
| 17:16 | Then Jesus responded by saying: “What an unbelieving and perverse generation! How long shall I be with you? How long shall I endure you? Bring him here to me.” |
| 17:17 | And Jesus rebuked him, and the demon went out of him, and the boy was cured from that hour. |
| 17:18 | Then the disciples approached Jesus privately and said, “Why were we unable to cast him out?” |
| 17:19 | Jesus said to them: “Because of your unbelief. Amen I say to you, certainly, if you will have faith like a grain of mustard seed, you will say to this mountain, ‘Move from here to there,’ and it shall move. And nothing will be impossible for you. |
| 17:20 | But this kind is not cast out, except through prayer and fasting.” |