SUNDAY BETWEEN 2 AND 8 OCTOBER
YEAR B
PROPER 22
TRACK 1
FIRST READING Job 1.1; 2.1-10
A reading from the book of Job.
1 There was once a man in the land of Uz whose name was
Job. That man was blameless and upright, one who feared God and
turned away from evil.
1 One day the heavenly beings came to present themselves
before the LORD, and Satan also came among them to present himself
before the LORD.
2 The LORD said to Satan, 'Where have you come from?'
Satan answered the LORD, 'From going to and fro on the earth,
and from walking up and down on it.'
3 The LORD said to Satan, 'Have you considered my servant
Job? There is no one like him on the earth, a blameless and upright
man who fears God and turns away from evil. He still persists
in his integrity, although you incited me against him, to destroy
him for no reason.'
4 Then Satan answered the LORD, 'Skin for skin! All that
people have they will give to save their lives.
5 But stretch out your hand now and touch his bone and
his flesh, and he will curse you to your face.'
6 The LORD said to Satan, 'Very well, he is in your power;
only spare his life.'
7 So Satan went out from the presence of the LORD, and
inflicted loathsome sores on Job from the sole of his foot to
the crown of his head.
8 Job took a potsherd with which to scrape himself, and
sat among the ashes.
9 Then his wife said to him, 'Do you still persist in
your integrity? Curse God, and die.'
10 But he said to her, 'You speak as any foolish woman
would speak. Shall we receive the good at the hand of God, and
not receive the bad?' In all this Job did not sin with his lips.
PSALM Psalm 26
RR I will live with integrity, O Lord; [redeem me and have
pity on me].
1 Give judgement for me, O Lord, for I have lived with
integrity; I have trusted in the Lord and have not faltered.
2 Test me, O Lord, and try me; examine my heart and my
mind. RR
3 For your love is before my eyes; I have walked faithfully
with you.
4 I have not sat with the worthless, nor do I consort
with the deceitful.
5 I have hated the company of evildoers; I will not sit
down with the wicked. RR
6 I will wash my hands in innocence, O Lord, that I may
go in procession round your altar,
7 Singing aloud a song of thanksgiving and recounting
all your wonderful deeds. RR
8 Lord, I love the house in which you dwell and the place
where your glory abides.
9 Do not sweep me away with sinners, nor my life with
those who thirst for blood,
10 Whose hands are full of evil plots, and their right
hand full of bribes. RR
11 As for me, I will live with integrity; redeem me, O
Lord, and have pity on me.
12 My foot stands on level ground; in the full assembly
I will bless the Lord. RR
Or TRACK 2
FIRST READING Genesis 2.18-24
A reading from the book of Genesis.
18 The LORD God said, 'It is not good that the man should
be alone; I will make him a helper as his partner.'
19 So out of the ground the LORD God formed every animal
of the field and every bird of the air, and brought them to the
man to see what he would call them; and whatever the man called
every living creature, that was its name.
20 The man gave names to all cattle, and to the birds
of the air, and to every animal of the field; but for the man
there was not found a helper as his partner.
21 So the LORD God caused a deep sleep to fall upon the
man, and he slept; then he took one of his ribs and closed up
its place with flesh.
22 And the rib that the LORD God had taken from the man
he made into a woman and brought her to the man.
23 Then the man said, 'This at last is bone of my bones
and flesh of my flesh; this one shall be called Woman, for out
of Man this one was taken.'
24 Therefore a man leaves his father and his mother and
clings to his wife, and they become one flesh.
PSALM Psalm 8
RR How exalted is your name in all the world!
1 O Lord our governor, how exalted is your name in all
the world!
2 Out of the mouths of infants and children your majesty
is praised above the heavens.
3 You have set up a stronghold against your adversaries,
to quell the enemy and the avenger. RR
4 When I consider your heavens, the work of your fingers,
the moon and the stars you have set in their courses,
5 What are mortals, that you should be mindful of them?
mere human beings, that you should seek them out? RR
6 You have made them little lower than the angels; you
adorn them with glory and honour.
7 You give them mastery over the works of your hands;
and put all things under their feet, RR
8 All sheep and oxen, even the wild beasts of the field,
9 The birds of the air, the fish of the sea, and whatsoever
walks in the paths of the sea.
10 O Lord our governor, how exalted is your name in all
the world! RR
SECOND READING Hebrews 1.1-4; 2.5-12
A reading from the letter to the Hebrews.
1 Long ago God spoke to our ancestors in many and various
ways by the prophets,
2 but in these last days he has spoken to us by a Son,
whom he appointed heir of all things, through whom he also created
the worlds.
3 He is the reflection of God's glory and the exact imprint
of God's very being, and he sustains all things by his powerful
word. When he had made purification for sins, he sat down at the
right hand of the Majesty on high,
4 having become as much superior to angels as the name
he has inherited is more excellent than theirs.
5 Now God did not subject the coming world, about which
we are speaking, to angels.
6 But someone has testified somewhere, 'What are human
beings that you are mindful of them, or mortals, that you care
for them?
7 You have made them for a little while lower than the
angels; you have crowned them with glory and honour,
8 subjecting all things under their feet.' Now in subjecting
all things to them, God left nothing outside their control. As
it is, we do not yet see everything in subjection to them,
9 but we do see Jesus, who for a little while was made
lower than the angels, now crowned with glory and honour because
of the suffering of death, so that by the grace of God he might
taste death for everyone.
10 It was fitting that God, for whom and through whom
all things exist, in bringing many children to glory, should make
the pioneer of their salvation perfect through sufferings.
11 For the one who sanctifies and those who are sanctified
all have one Father. For this reason Jesus is not ashamed to call
them brothers and sisters,
12 saying, 'I will proclaim your name to my brothers and
sisters, in the midst of the congregation I will praise you.'
GOSPEL Mark 10.2-16
Hear the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ according to Mark.
2 Some Pharisees came, and to test Jesus they asked,
'Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife?'
3 He answered them, 'What did Moses command you?'
4 They said, 'Moses allowed a man to write a certificate
of dismissal and to divorce her.'
5 But Jesus said to them, 'Because of your hardness of
heart he wrote this commandment for you.
6 But from the beginning of creation, "God made
them male and female."
7 "For this reason a man shall leave his father
and mother and be joined to his wife,
8 and the two shall become one flesh." So they are
no longer two, but one flesh.
9 Therefore what God has joined together, let no one
separate.'
10 Then in the house the disciples asked him again about
this matter.
11 Jesus said to them, 'Whoever divorces his wife and
marries another commits adultery against her;
12 and if she divorces her husband and marries another,
she commits adultery.'
13 People were bringing little children to him in order
that he might touch them; and the disciples spoke sternly to them.
14 But when Jesus saw this, he was indignant and said
to them, 'Let the little children come to me; do not stop them;
for it is to such as these that the kingdom of God belongs.
15 Truly I tell you, whoever does not receive the kingdom
of God as a little child will never enter it.'
16 And he took them up in his arms, laid his hands on
them, and blessed them.
