Liturgical Readings for : Thursday, 15th January, 2015 Liturgical Notes: St Ita, virgin, MemorialSt Ita was born in Co. Waterford of noble and Christian parents. Early on she set her mind on serving Christ in religious life. She founded a monastery in Killeedy, Co. Limerick, which attracted a 9reat variety of young people. She was given the title ‘foster-mother of the saints of Ireland’. She died in 570. Today’s Scripture Theme Let us not be foolish and reject the word spoken to us today, and in turn lose our own entrance into God’s presence, into the Promised Land. FIRST READING: Hebrews 3:7-14 As long as this ‘today’ lasts, keep encouraging one another. The Holy Spirit says: If only you would listen to him today; do not harden your hearts, as happened in the Rebellion, on the Day of Temptation in the wilderness, when your ancestors challenged me and tested me, though they had seen what I could do for forty years. That was why I was angry with that generation and said: How unreliable these people who refuse to grasp my ways! And so, in anger, I swore that not one would reach the place of rest I had for them. Take care, brothers, that there is not in any one of your community a wicked mind, so unbelieving as to turn away from the living God. Every day, as long as this ‘today’ lasts, keep encouraging one another so that none of you is hardened by the lure of sin, because we shall remain co-heirs with Christ only if we keep a grasp on our first confidence right to the end. Responsorial Psalm Ps 94 Response: O that today you would listen to his voice ‘Harden not your, hearts. 1. Come in; let us bow and bend low; let us kneel before the God who made us for he is our God and we the people who belong to his pasture, the flock that is led by his hand. Response . O that today you would listen to his voice! ‘Harden not your hearts as at Meribah, as on that day at Massah in the desert when your fathers put me to the test; when they tried me, though they saw my work Response 3. For forty years I was wearied of these people and I said: “Their hearts are astray” these people do not know my ways Then I took an oath in my anger: “Never, shall they enter my rest.” Response Gospel Acclamation Ps 118: 88 Alleluia, alleluia! Because of your love give me life, and I will do your will. Alleluia! or Mt 4:23 Alleluia, alleluia! Jesus proclaimed the Good News of the kingdom and cured all kinds of sickness among the people. Alleluia! GOSPEL: Mark 1:40-45 The leprosy left him at once and he was cured. A leper came to him and pleaded on his knees: ‘If you want to’ he said ‘you can cure me’. Feeling sorry for him, Jesus stretched out his hand and touched him. ‘Of course I want to!’ he said. ‘Be cured!’ And the leprosy left him at once and he was cured. Jesus immediately sent him away and sternly ordered him, ‘Mind you say nothing to anyone, but go and show yourself to the priest, and make the offering for your healing prescribed by Moses as evidence of your recovery’. The man went away, but then started talking about it freely and telling the story everywhere, so that Jesus could no longer go openly into any town, but had to stay outside in places where nobody lived. Even so, people from all around would come to him.
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