Monday of the Ninth Week in Ordinary Time (May 30, 2016)

Reading 1 and//www.usccb.org/bible/2peter/1and2 2 PT 1and2-7 BelovedandMay grace and peace be yours in abundancethrough knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord.His divine power has bestowed on useverything that makes for life and devotion,through the knowledge of himwho called us by his own glory and power.Through these, he has bestowed on usthe precious and very great promises,so that through them you may come to share in the divine nature,after escaping from the corruption that is in the worldbecause of evil desire.For this very reason,make every effort to supplement your faith with virtue,virtue with knowledge, knowledge with self-control,self-control with endurance, endurance with devotion,devotion with mutual affection, mutual affection with love. Responsorial Psalm and//www.usccb.org/bible/psalms/91and1 PS 91and1-2, 14-15B, 15C-16 R. (see 2b)In you, my God, I place my trust.You who dwell in the shelter of the Most High,who abide in the shadow of the Almighty,Say to the LORD, My refuge and my fortress,my God, in whom I trust.”R.In you, my God, I place my trust.Because he clings to me, I will deliver himI will set him on high because he acknowledges my name.He shall call upon me, and I will answer himI will be with him in distress.R.In you, my God, I place my trust.I will deliver him and glorify himwith length of days I will gratify himand will show him my salvation.R.In you, my God, I place my trust. Alleluia and//www.usccb.org/bible/revelation/1and5 SEE RV 1and5AB R.Alleluia, alleluia.Jesus Christ, you are the faithful witness,the firstborn of the deadyou have loved us and freed us from our sins by your Blood.R.Alleluia, alleluia. Gospel and//www.usccb.org/bible/mark/12:1 MK 12:1-12 Jesus began to speak to the chief priests, the scribes,and the elders in parables. A man planted a vineyard, put a hedge around it,dug a wine press, and built a tower.Then he leased it to tenant farmers and left on a journey.At the proper time he sent a servant to the tenantsto obtain from them some of the produce of the vineyard.But they seized him, beat him,and sent him away empty-handed.Again he sent them another servant.And that one they beat over the head and treated shamefully.He sent yet another whom they killed.So, too, many others some they beat, others they killed.He had one other to send, a beloved son.He sent him to them last of all, thinking, ‘They will respect my son.’But those tenants said to one another, ‘This is the heir.Come, let us kill him, and the inheritance will be ours.’So they seized him and killed him,and threw him out of the vineyard.What then will the owner of the vineyard do?He will come, put the tenants to death,and give the vineyard to others.Have you not read this Scripture passageandThe stone that the builders rejectedhas become the cornerstoneby the Lord has this been done,and it is wonderful in our eyes?”They were seeking to arrest him, but they feared the crowd,for they realized that he had addressed the parable to them.So they left him and went away.