Gospel
text (Mc 7,24-30):
Jesus went to the border of the Tyrian country. There He entered a house and
did not want anyone to know He was there, but He could not remain hidden. A
woman, whose small daughter had an evil spirit, heard of him and came and fell
at his feet. Now this woman was a pagan, a Syrophoenician by birth, and she
begged him to drive the demon out of her daughter. Jesus told her, «Let the children
be fed first, for it is not right to take the children's bread and throw it to
the dogs». But she replied, «Sir, even the dogs under the table eat the crumbs
from the children's bread». Then Jesus said to her, «You may go your way;
because of such a reply the demon has gone out of your daughter». And when the
woman went home, she found her child lying in bed and the demon gone.
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