A faithful friend is beyond price
Reading 1 SIR 6:5-17
A kind
Let your acquaintances be many,
When you gain a friend, first test him,
For one sort is a friend when it suits him,
Another is a friend who becomes an enemy,
Another is a friend, a boon companion,
When things go well, he is your other self,
But if you are brought low, he turns against you
Keep away from your enemies;
A faithful friend is a sturdy shelter;
A faithful friend is beyond price,
A faithful friend is a life-saving remedy,
For he who fears God behaves accordingly,
Responsorial Psalm PS 119:12, 16, 18, 27, 34, 35
R.
I will not forget your words
Alleluia SEE JN 17:17B, 17A
R. Alleluia,
Your word, O Lord, is truth;
R. Alleluia,
Gospel MK10:1-12
Jesus came into the district of Judea and across the Jordan.
Again crowds gathered around him and, as was his custom,
The Pharisees approached him and asked,
“Is it lawful for a husband to divorce his wife?”
They were testing him.
He said to them in reply, “What did Moses command you?”
They replied,
“Moses permitted a husband to write a bill of divorce
and dismiss her.”
But Jesus told them,
“Because of the hardness of your hearts
he wrote you this commandment.
But from the beginning of creation, God made them male and female.
For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother
and be joined to his wife,
and the two shall become one flesh.
So they are no longer two but one flesh.
Therefore what God has joined together,
no human being must separate.”
In the house the disciples again questioned Jesus about this.
He said to them,
“Whoever divorces his wife and marries another
commits adultery against her;
and if she divorces her husband and marries another,
she commits adultery.”