First Reading: (1 Kings 19: 19-21)
Responsorial Psalm: (Psalms 16: 1b-2a and 5, 7-8, 9-10)
Gospel:Â (Matthew 5: 33-37)
First Reading: (1 Kings 19: 19-21)
And Elias departing from thence, found Eliseus the son of Saphat, ploughing with twelve yoke of oxen: and he was one of them that were ploughing with twelve yoke of oxen: and when Elias came up to him, he cast his mantle upon him.
And he forthwith left the oxen and ran after Elias, and said: Let me, I pray thee, kiss my father and my mother, and then I will follow thee. And he said to him: Go, and return back: for that which was my part, I have done to thee.
And returning back from him, he took a yoke of oxen, and killed them, and boiled the flesh with the plough of the oxen, and gave to the people, and they ate: and rising up he went away, and followed Elias, and ministered to him.
Responsorial Psalm: (Psalms 16: 1b-2a and 5, 7-8, 9-10)
Preserve me, O Lord, for I have put trust in thee.
I have said to the Lord, thou art my God, for thou hast no need of my goods.
The Lord is the portion of my inheritance and of my cup: it is thou that wilt restore my inheritance to me.
I will bless the Lord, who hath given me understanding: moreover my reins also have corrected me even till night.
I set the Lord always in my sight: for he is at my right hand, that I be not moved.
Therefore my heart hath been glad, and my tongue hath rejoiced: moreover my flesh also shall rest in hope.
Because thou wilt not leave my soul in hell; nor wilt then give thy holy one to see corruption.
Gospel:Â (Matthew 5: 33-37)
Again you have heard that it was said to them of old, Thou shalt not forswear thyself: but thou shalt perform thy oaths to the Lord.
But I say to you not to swear at all, neither by heaven, for it is the throne of God: Nor by the earth, for it is his footstool: nor by Jerusalem, for it is the city of the great king: Neither shalt thou swear by thy head, because thou canst not make one hair white or black.
But let your speech be yea, yea: no, no: and that which is over and above these, is of evil.
