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FIRST READING

Malachi 3:16-4:6

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PSALM

Psalm 125

A song of ascents. Those who trust in the LORD are like Mount Zion. It cannot be moved; it abides forever.

As the mountains surround Jerusalem, so the LORD surrounds His people, both now and forevermore.

For the scepter of the wicked will not rest upon the land allotted to the righteous, so that the righteous will not put forth their hands to injustice.

Do good, O LORD, to those who are good, and to the upright in heart.

But those who turn to crooked ways the LORD will banish with the evildoers. Peace be upon Israel.

SECOND READING

Mark 9:9-13

Verse 9. As they were coming down the mountain, Jesus admonished them not to tell anyone what they had seen until the Son of Man had risen from the dead. Verse 10. So they kept this matter to themselves, discussing what it meant to rise from the dead. Verse 11. And they asked Jesus, “Why do the scribes say that Elijah must come first?” Verse 12. He replied, “Elijah does indeed come first, and he restores all things. Why then is it written that the Son of Man must suffer many things and be rejected? Verse 13. But I tell you that Elijah has indeed come, and they have done to him whatever they wished, just as it is written about him.”