(Saturday of the Eighteenth Week in Ordinary Time Lectionary: 412)
• FIRST READING: Book of Deuteronomy 6:4-13
• PSALM 18:2-3A, 3BC-4, 47 AND 51
• HOLY GOSPEL of Jesus Christ according to Saint Matthew 17:14-20
A man came up to Jesus, knelt down before him, and said,
"Lord, have pity on my son, who is a lunatic and suffers severely;
often he falls into fire, and often into water.
I brought him to your disciples, but they could not cure him."
Jesus said in reply,
"O faithless and perverse generation, how long will I be with you?
How long will I endure you?
Bring the boy here to me."
Jesus rebuked him and the demon came out of him,
and from that hour the boy was cured.
Then the disciples approached Jesus in private and said,
"Why could we not drive it out?"
He said to them, "Because of your little faith.
Amen, I say to you, if you have faith the size of a mustard seed,
you will say to this mountain,
'Move from here to there,' and it will move.
Nothing will be impossible for you." His disciples came and took away the corpse
and buried him; and they went and told Jesus.