GENESIS 3: 9 – 15

[After Adam had eaten of the tree,] the Lord God called to him, and said to him, “Where are you?” And he said, “I heard the sound of you in the garden, and I was afraid, because I was naked; and I hid myself.” He said, “Who told you that you were naked?  Have you eaten of the tree of which I commanded you not to eat?” The man said, “The woman whom you gave to be with me, she gave me fruit of the tree, and I ate.” Then the Lord God said to the woman, “What is this that you have done?” The woman said, “The serpent beguiled me, and I ate.” The Lord God said to the serpent, “Because you have done this, cursed are you above all cattle, and above all wild animals; upon your belly you shall go, and dust you shall eat all the days of your life.  I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your seed and her seed; he shall bruise your head, and you shall bruise his heel.”

The Word of the Lord.

RESPONSORIAL PSALM 
Psalm 130: 1 – 2, 3 – 4, 5 – 7a, 7b – 8 (R.) 7bc

R/. With the Lord there is mercy, in him is plentiful redemption.

Out of the depths I cry to you,
O Lord;  Lord, hear my voice!
O let your ears be attentive 
to the sound of my pleading. R/.

If you, O Lord, should mark iniquities,
Lord, who could stand?
But with you is found forgiveness,
that you may be revered. R/.

I long for you, O Lord,
my soul longs for his word.
My soul hopes in the Lord 
more than watchmen for daybreak.
More than watchmen for daybreak,
let Israel hope for the Lord. R/.

For with the Lord there is mercy, 
in him is plentiful redemption.
It is he who will redeem Israel 
from all its iniquities. R/.

SECOND READING       
“We believe, and so we speak.”
2ND CORINTHIANS 4: 13 – 5: 1

Brethren: Since we have the same spirit of faith as he had who wrote, “I believed, and so I spoke,” we too believe, and so we speak, knowing that he who raised the Lord Jesus will raise us also with Jesus and bring us with you into his presence. For it is all for your sake, so that as grace extends to more and more people it may increase thanksgiving, to the glory of God. So we do not lose heart. Though our outer man is wasting away, our inner man is being renewed every day. For this slight momentary affliction is preparing for us an eternal weight of glory beyond all comparison, because we look not to the things that are seen but to the things that are unseen; for the things that are seen are transient, but the things that are unseen are eternal. For we know that if the earthly tent we live in is destroyed, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.

The Word of the Lord.

GOSPEL ACCLAMATION
John 12:31-32

Alleluia.
Now shall the ruler of this world be cast out, says the Lord; and I, when I am lifted up from the earth, will draw all men to myself.
Alleluia.

GOSPEL
“Satan is coming to an end.”
MARK 3: 20 – 35

At that time: Jesus went home with his disciples; and the crowd came together again, so that they could not even eat. And when his friends heard it, they went out to seize him, for they said, “He is beside himself.” And the scribes who came down from Jerusalem said, “He is possessed by Beelzebul, and by the prince of demons he casts out the demons.” And he called them to him, and said to them in parables, “How can Satan cast out Satan? If a kingdom is divided against itself, that kingdom cannot stand. And if a house is divided against itself, that house will not be able to stand. And if Satan has risen up against himself and is divided, he cannot stand, but is coming to an end. But no one can enter a strong man’s house and plunder his goods, unless he first binds the strong man; then indeed he may plunder his house. “Truly, I say to you, all sins will be forgiven the sons of men, and whatever blasphemies they utter; but whoever blasphemes against the Holy Spirit never has forgiveness, but is guilty of an eternal sin” — for they had said, “He has an unclean spirit.” And his mother and his brethren came; and standing outside they sent to him and called him. And a crowd was sitting about him; and they said to him, “Your mother and your brethren are outside, asking for you.” And he replied, “Who are my mother and my brethren?” And looking around on those who sat about him, he said, “Here are my mother and my brethren! Whoever does the will of God is my brother, and sister, and mother.”

The Gospel of the Lord.

Svondo 9 Chikumi 2024
Svondo yegumi yegore – B

Chiverengo chokutanga: Mavambo 3,9-15

Inzwai chiverengo chinobva mubhuku raMavambo
Adhamu apedza kudya muchero womuti 9 Mwari
Tenzi akamudaidza achiti, “Uri kupiko?” 10Adhamu
akati, “Ndanzwa kufamba kwamanga muchiita
mubindu ndikatya nokuti handina kusimira,
ndokubva ndahwanda.”
11 Mwari akati, “Ndiani akakuudza kuti hauna
kusimira? Wadyasu muti wandakati usadye?”
12 Adhamu akati, “Mukadzi wamakandipa kuti
ndive naye, ndiye andipa muchero womuti iwoyo
ndikadya.”
13 Mwari Tenzi akabvunza mukadzi achiti, “Chii
chawaita ichochi?” Mukadzi akati, “Nyoka ndiyo
yandifurira ndikabva ndadya.”
14Mwari Tenzi akataurira nyoka kuti,
“Pamusana pezvawaita izvozvi;
wapinda rushambwa pazvipfuwo zvose
nemhuka dzose dzesango.
Uchafamba nedumbu rako uchidya guruva
upenyu hwako hwose.
15Ndichaisa ruvengo pakati pako nomukadzi,
napakati pechizvarwa chake nechizvarwa
chako,
chizvarwa chake chichapwanya musoro wako,
iwe ucharuma chitsitsinho chake.”
Shoko raTenzi

Rwiyo rwokutsinhira:
Nziyo 130,1-2.3-4.5-6.7-8. (D – 7)

(D) – TENZI ane mwoyochena; maari mune ruponeso rwakawanda.
1Ndakadanidzira kwamuri TENZI,
ndiri makadzika.
2TENZI inzwai izwi rangu,
rerekerai nzeve dzenyu kuizwi romunamato
wangu.
(D) – TENZI ane mwoyochena; maari mune ruponeso rwakawanda.
3Kana imi TENZI mukapfundira zvivi,
ndiani angapamire.
4Asi imi munoregerera kuitira kuti
muremekedzwe.
(D) – TENZI ane mwoyochena; maari mune ruponeso rwakawanda.
5 Ini ndinomirira TENZI, mweya wangu unomirira,
ndinovimba neshoko rake.
6Ndinomirira TENZI, kupinda kumirira kuita
varindiri mambakwedza,
kupinda varindiri mambakwedza.
(D) – TENZI ane mwoyochena; maari mune ruponeso rwakawanda
7Isiraeri ngaitarisire kuna TENZI, nokuti TENZI
ane mwoyochena;
maari mune ruponeso rwakawanda.
8Achaponesa Isiraeri kuzvivi zvayo zvose.
(D) – TENZI ane mwoyochena; maari mune ruponeso rwakawanda.

Chiverengo chechipiri:
2 VaKorinde 4,13—5,1

Inzwai chiverengo chinobva mutsamba yechipiri yaPauro kuvaKorinde
Hama dzangu, 13 zvatiine mweya mumwechetewo
wechitendero wakanga uine uyo akanyora achiti,
“Ndakatenda ndikataura, saizvozvo,” isuwo
takatenda tinotaura saizvozvo, 14 tichiziva kuti iye
akamutsa Tenzi Jesu, achatimutsawo naJesu
achizotiunza pamwechete nemi paari. 15Zvose izvi
kuitira imi, kuti nyasha nokupararira kwadzinoita
kuvanhu vakawanda, kutendawo kuwande, kuti
Mwari agorumbidzwa nazvo.
16Nezvo hatirasi mwoyo. Kunyange tavakuchembera,
umunhu hwedu hokunze; hwomukati huri kutovandudzwa zuva nezuva, 17nokuti tunhamo tunopera
utwu, twuri kutigadzirira mbiri isingaperi, inoremerera, isina chokuienzanisa nacho. 18Chikonzero
chacho ndechokuti ziso redu harisi pazvinhu
zvinoonekwa, asi kuzvinhu zvisingaonekwi nokuti
zvinhu zvinoonekwa zvinopfuura asi zvinhu
zvisingaonekwi zvinogara nokusingaperi. 1 Isu tinoziva wani kuti kana muviri uno womusasa
wapasi pano watigere wapazwa, tinowana imba
inobva kuna Mwari isina kuvakwa namaoko
avanhu inogara nokusingaperi kudenga.
Shoko raTenzi.

Kupemberera Shoko Rakanaka:
Johani 12,31b-32

Areruya, Areruya. Tenzi anoti: mutongi
wapasi pano ava kudzingirwa kunze. Iniwo kana
ndarembedzwa pamusoro payo nyika, ndichakwezvera vanhu vose kwandiri. Areruya.

Shoko Rakanaka: Mariko 3,20-35

Inzwai Shoko Rakanaka rakanyorwa naMariko
20 Jesu akaenda kumba; gurumwandira ravanhu
ndokubva ramuunganirazve, zvokuti vakatadza
kana kudya chaiko. 21 Zvino hama dzake padzakazvinzwa, dzakauya kuzomutora nokuti zvainzi,
“Wava kupenga.”
22 Uyezve nyanzvi dzoMutemo dzakabva Jerusaremu dzaiti, “Akagarwa naBheerizebhuri, uye kuti
anodzinga mweya yakaipa nesimba rejinda
remweya yakaipa.” 23 Ipapo Jesu akadaidza vanhu
ndokutaura kwavari nemienzaniso, achiti, “Nhaimi,
Satani angadzinge Satani seiko? 24Kana umambo
hwavakuzvirwisa, umambo ihwohwo haungagoni
kumira. 25 Kana vemba imwechete vorwisana pachavo, imba iyoyo haigoni kumira. 26Zvino kana
iye Satani ava kuzvirwisa, haangagoni kumira, asi
kuti ava kutoenda kumagumo ake. 27 Hakuna
munhu angapinde mumba merume rine simba kuti
ari pambe zvinhu zvaro, kusatoti atanga arisunga
ndokuzopamba zvemba yaro.
28 “Zvirokwazvo ndinoti kwamuri, zvitadzo zvose
nokushonha Mwari kwose kunoregererwa vanhu.
29 Asi ani naani anoshonha Mweya Mutsvene
haachazomboregererwa chitadzo chake; achava
nemhosva yechitadzo chinoramba chiripo narini
wose.” 30 Akadaro nokuti vakati, “Ane mweya
wakaipa.”
31Zvino amai vake uye vakoma navanun’una vake
vakauya vakamira panze, ndokutumira munhu
kundomudaidza. 32Vanhu vazhinji vakanga vagere
pasi vakamukomberedza, vakati kwaari, “Amai
venyu uye vakoma navanun’una venyu vari panze
vari kukudai.” 33 Iye akavapindura achiti, “Ko, amai
vangu navakoma navanun’una vangu ndavanaani?”
34 Ndokuringa-ringa vaya vakanga vagere vakamukomberedza, ndokuti, “Ava ndivo amai vangu
navakoma navanun’una vangu! 35Ani naani anoita
kuda kwaMwari ndiye mukoma nomunun’una
neni, ndiye hanzvadzi naamai vangu.
Shoko raTenzi
JUNE 9TH 2024.

TENTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME YEAR B.

FIRST READING
“I will put enmity between your seed and her seed.”
GOSPEL REFLECTION: Sincere Repentance
Sunday, June 9, 2024

“Amen, I say to you, all sins and all blasphemies that people utter will be forgiven them. But whoever blasphemes against the Holy Spirit will never have forgiveness, but is guilty of an everlasting sin.” For they had said, “He has an unclean spirit.” (Mark 3:28–30)

Jesus spoke these words to the crowds who had gathered around His home in Capernaum because two groups of people had just spoken very critically of Him in a public way. First, some of His extended family arrived and said to everyone, “He is out of his mind.” And then some of the scribes from Jerusalem said, “He is possessed by Beelzebul.” Thus, Jesus states clearly that their blasphemy is a sin against the Holy Spirit and will have everlasting consequences.

Why is it that certain sins will never be forgiven? What exactly is a sin against the Holy Spirit? Traditionally, our Church has identified this sin in a couple of ways. First, it is a sin of final impenitence, that is, the sin of obstinately persisting in grave sin. Obstinacy, or the refusal to repent, is a sin that cannot be forgiven, simply because the person committing it never seeks forgiveness. They become so entrenched in their sin that they refuse to change. Thus, the mercy of God is incapable of entering into them. Second, it has also been identified as presumption, meaning a person sins while expecting God to forgive. Presumption is more subtle; however, it also has the effect of keeping a person from the sincere repentance that is needed for forgiveness. The presumptuous person never fully repents and amends their life as long as they remain in their sin.

Of all the many sins you struggle with or might struggle with in the future, pay special attention to the sins against the Holy Spirit. Though we should never think we have a right to God’s forgiveness, we must always believe that God’s mercy is so great that the moment we humbly acknowledge our sin and sincerely repent of it, God will forgive. But the key is “sincerity.” In order to be forgiven, the repentance within us must be sincere, authentic, real and complete. We cannot fool God. We can certainly fool ourselves, but not God.

One of the best ways to regularly be certain that you are not guilty of any sin against the Holy Spirit is by going to the Sacrament of Confession and confessing your sins with openness, thoroughness and humility. Own your sin. Acknowledge it. Experience sorrow for it. Resolve to change. Then confess it and trust in God’s mercy.

Reflect, today, upon any way that you lack sincerity and thoroughness in your repentance from sin. Are you honest with yourself about the sins you have committed? Have you taken ownership of those sins? If so, have you also confessed them to God and firmly resolved never to commit them again? Take repentance seriously so that you never even begin to fall down the slippery slope that leads to any sin against the Holy Spirit.

PRAYER:
Most merciful Lord, You offer forgiveness to all who come to You with humility and sincere sorrow. Please fill me with these virtues and give me the resolve to change as I open myself to Your unfathomable mercy. Jesus, I trust in You.