Reading
Habbukkuk 1: 12-2:4
| 1:12 | Have you not existed from the beginning, Lord my God, my holy one, and so we shall not die? Lord, you have stationed him for judgment, and you have establish that his strength will be swept away. |
| 1:13 | Your eyes are pure, you do not behold evil, and you cannot look towards iniquity. Why do you look upon the agents of iniquity, and remain silent, while the impious is devouring one who is more just than himself? |
| 1:14 | And you will make men like the fish of the sea and like the creeping things that have no ruler. |
| 1:15 | He lifted up everything with his hook. He drew them in with his dragnet, and gathered them into his netting. Over this, he will rejoice and exult. |
| 1:16 | For this reason, he will offer victims to his dragnet, and he will sacrifice to his netting. For through them, his portion has been made fat, and his meals elite. |
| 1:17 | Because of this, therefore, he expands his dragnet and will not be lenient in continually putting to death the peoples. |
| 2:1 | I will stand firm during my watch, and fix my position over the fortification. And I will observe carefully, to see what might be said to me and what I might respond to my opponent. |
| 2:2 | And the Lord responded to me and said: Write the vision and explain it on tablets, so that he who reads it may run through it. |
| 2:3 | For as yet the vision is far off, and it will appear in the end, and it will not lie. If it expresses any delay, wait for it. For it is arriving and it will arrive, and it will not be hindered. |
| 2:4 | Behold, he who is unbelieving, his soul will not be right within himself; but he who is just shall live in his faith. |
Gospel
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.”