February 26, 2014

Reading

James   4: 13-17

4:13 But who are you to judge your neighbor? Consider this, you who say, “Today or tomorrow we will go into that city, and certainly we will spend a year there, and we will do business, and we will make our profit,”

4:14 consider that you do not know what will be tomorrow.

4:15 For what is your life? It is a mist that appears for a brief time, and afterwards will vanish away. So what you ought to say is: “If the Lord wills,” or, “If we live,” we will do this or that.

4:16 But now you exult in your arrogance. All such exultation is wicked.

4:17 Therefore, he who knows that he ought to do a good thing, and does not do it, for him it is a sin.

Gospel

Mark    9: 38-40

9:38 But Jesus said: “Do not prohibit him. For there is no one who can act with virtue in my name and soon speak evil about me.

9:39 For whoever is not against you is for you.

9:40 For whoever, in my name, will give you a cup of water to drink, because you belong to Christ: Amen I say to you, he shall not lose his reward.