Gospel of 11 August 2018

Saturday of the XVIII week of Ordinary Time

Book of Habakkuk 1,12: 17.2,1-4-XNUMX.
Are you not from the beginning, Lord, my God, my Saint? We will not die, Lord. You chose it to do justice, you made it strong, or Rock, to chastise.
You with eyes so pure that you cannot see evil and you cannot look at iniquity, because, seeing the wicked, you keep silent while the wicked swallows the righteous?
You treat men like fish from the sea, like a worm that has no master.
He takes them all on the hook, pulls them up with their jackets, collects them in the net, and happily enjoys them.
Therefore he offers sacrifices to his net and burns incense to his bed, because his food is fatty and his food succulent.
Will he therefore continue to empty his jacket and massacre the people without mercy?
I will stand by the sentry, standing on the fortress, spying, to see what he will tell me, what he will answer to my complaints.
The Lord replied and said to me: “Write the vision and engrave it well on the tablets so that it can be read quickly.
It is a vision that attests to a term, speaks of a deadline and does not lie; if it lingers, wait for it, because it will certainly come and will not be late ”.
Behold, he who does not have the upright soul succumbs, while the righteous will live by his faith.

Salmi 9(9A),8-9.10-11.12-13.
But the Lord is seated forever;
erects his throne for judgment:
will judge the world with justice,
he will rightly decide the causes of peoples.

The Lord will be a shelter for the oppressed,
in times of distress a safe haven.
Those who know your name trust you,
because you do not abandon those who seek you, Lord.

Sing hymns to the Lord, who dwells in Zion,
narrate his works among peoples.
Vindice of the blood, he recalls,
do not forget the cry of the afflicted.

From the Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Matthew 17,14-20.
At that time, a man approached Jesus
who, throwing himself on his knees, said to him: «Lord, have mercy on my son. He is epileptic and suffers a lot; it often falls into fire and often also into water;
I have already brought it to your disciples, but they have not been able to heal it ».
And Jesus answered: «O unbelieving and perverse generation! How long will I be with you? How long will I have to put up with you? Bring it here ».
And Jesus spoke to him threateningly, and the devil came out of him and from that moment the boy was healed.
Then the disciples, approaching Jesus on the sidelines, asked him: "Why have we not been able to drive him out?"
And he replied, "Because of your little faith. In truth I say to you: if you have faith equal to a mustard seed, you can say to this mountain: move from here to there, and it will move, and nothing will be impossible for you ».