Responsorial Psalm: Praise the Lord, my soul!

Praise the Lord, my soul!

23rd Sunday of Ordinary Time, Year B

Verse 1
The LORD keeps faith forever,
secures justice for the oppressed,
gives food to the hungry.
The LORD sets captives free. (R)

Verse 2
The LORD gives sight to the blind.
The LORD raises up those who were bowed down;
the LORD loves the just.
The LORD protects strangers. (R)

Verse 3
The fatherless and the widow he sustains,
but the way of the wicked he thwarts.
The LORD shall reign forever;
your God, O Zion, through all generations. Alleluia. (R)

Note:
also in: 32nd Sunday of Ordinary Time, Year B and
             26th Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year C 

Responsorial Psalm: 22nd Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year B He who does justice will live in the presence of the Lord.

He who does justice will live in the presence of the Lord.

Verse 1
One who walks blamelessly and does justice;
who thinks the truth in his heart
and slanders not with his tongue. (R)

Verse 2
Who harms not his fellow man,
nor takes up a reproach against his neighbor;
by whom the reprobate is despised,
while he honors those who fear the LORD. (R)

Verse 3
Who lends not his money at usury
and accepts no bribe against the innocent.
One who does these things
shall never be disturbed. (R)

also identical with 16th Sunday in Ordinary Time Year C

Responsorial Psalm: 21st Sunday in Ordinary Time Year B - Taste and see the goodness of the Lord.

Taste and see the goodness of the Lord.

Verse 1
I will bless the LORD at all times;
his praise shall be ever in my mouth.
Let my soul glory in the LORD;
the lowly will hear me and be glad. (R)

Verse 2
The LORD has eyes for the just,
and ears for their cry.
The LORD confronts the evildoers,
to destroy remembrance of them from the earth. (R)

Verse 3
When the just cry out, the LORD hears them,
and from all their distress he rescues them.
The LORD is close to the brokenhearted;
and those who are crushed in spirit he saves. (R)

Verse 4
Many are the troubles of the just one,
but out of them all the LORD delivers him;
he watches over all his bones;
not one of them shall be broken. (R)

21st Sunday in Ordinary Time Year B

Responsorial Psalm: 14th Sunday in Ordinary Time -Year B, Our eyes are fixed on the Lord, pleading for his mercy.

Response:

Our eyes are fixed on the Lord,
pleading for his mercy.

Verse 1
To you I lift up my eyes
who are enthroned in heaven-
As the eyes of servants
are on the hands of their masters.

Verse 2
As the eyes of a maid
are on the hands of her mistress,
So are our eyes on the Lord, our God,
till he have pity on us.

Verse 3
Have pity on us, O Lord, have pity on us,
for we are more than sated with contempt;
our souls are more than sated
with the mockery of the arrogant,
with the contempt of the proud.

Responsorial Psalm - Sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time - Year B - PS 32:1-2, 5, 11

Responsorial Psalm - Sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time - Year B  - PS 32:1-2, 5, 11
Response:

"I turn to you, Lord, in time of trouble, 

and you fill me with the joy of salvation."

1
Blessed is he whose fault is taken away,
whose sin is covered.
Blessed the man to whom the LORD imputes not guilt,
in whose spirit there is no guile. (R)

2
Then I acknowledged my sin to you,
my guilt I covered not.
I said, “I confess my faults to the LORD,”
and you took away the guilt of my sin. (R)

3
Be glad in the LORD and rejoice, you just;
exult, all you upright of heart. (R)

Blessed are those who fear the Lord. Psalm 128:1-2, 3, 4-5

Psalm 128:1-2, 3, 4-5

R: Blessed are those who fear the Lord.

Blessed are you who fear the Lord, who walk in his ways!
For you shall eat the fruit of your handiwork;
blessed shall you be, and favored. (R)

Your wife shall be like a fruitful vine in the recesses of your home;
Your children like olive plants around your table. (R)

Behold, thus is the man blessed who fears the Lord.
The Lord bless you from Zion:
may you see the prosperity of Jerusalem all the days of your life. (R)