Readings for Tuesday, January 13th, 2015 First Reading, Hebrews 2:5-12 5 It was not under angels that he put the world to come, about which we are speaking. 6 Someone witnesses to this somewhere with the words: What are human beings that you spare a thought for them, a child of Adam that you care for him? 7 For a short while you have made him less than the angels; you have crowned him with glory and honour, 8 put all things under his feet. For in putting all things under him he made no exceptions. At present, it is true, we are not able to see that all things are under him, 9 but we do see Jesus, who was for a short while made less than the angels, now crowned with glory andhonour because he submitted to death; so that by Gods grace his experience of death should benefit all humanity. 10 It was fitting that God, for whom and through whom everything exists, should, in bringing many sons to glory, make perfect through suffering the leader of their salvation. 11 For consecrator and consecrated are all of the same stock; that is why he is not ashamed to call them brothers 12 in the text: I shall proclaim your name to my brothers, praise you in full assembly; or in the text: Responsorial Psalm, Psalms 8:2, 5, 6-7, 8-9 2 even through the mouths of children, or of babes in arms, you make him a fortress, firm against your foes, to subdue the enemy and the rebel. 6 made him lord of the works of your hands, put all things under his feet, 7 sheep and cattle, all of them, and even the wild beasts, 8 birds in the sky, fish in the sea, when he makes his way across the ocean. 9 Yahweh our Lord, how majestic your name throughout the world! Second Reading, 1John 2:18-25 18 Children, this is the final hour; you have heard that the Antichrist is coming, and now many Antichrists have already come; from this we know that it is the final hour. 19 They have gone from among us, but they never really belonged to us; if they had belonged to us, they would have stayed with us. But this was to prove that not one of them belonged to us. 20 But you have been anointed by the Holy One, and have all received knowledge. 21 I have written to you not because you are ignorant of the truth, but because you are well aware of it, and because no lie can come from the truth. 22 Who is the liar, if not one who claims that Jesus is not the Christ? This is the Antichrist, who denies both the Father and the Son. 23 Whoever denies the Son cannot have the Father either; whoever acknowledges the Son has the Father too. 24 Let what you heard in the beginning remain in you; as long as what you heard in the beginning remains in you, you will remain in the Son and in the Father. 25 And the promise he made you himself is eternal life. Gospel, Mark 1:21-28 21 They went as far as Capernaum, and at once on the Sabbath he went into the synagogue and began to teach. 22 And his teaching made a deep impression on them because, unlike the scribes, he taught them with authority. 23 And at once in their synagogue there was a man with an unclean spirit, and he shouted, 24 What do you want with us, Jesus of Nazareth? Have you come to destroy us? I know who you are: the Holy One of God. 25 But Jesus rebuked it saying, Be quiet! Come out of him! 26 And the unclean spirit threw the man into convulsions and with a loud cry went out of him. 27 The people were so astonished that they started asking one another what it all meant, saying, Here is a teaching that is new, and with authority behind it: he gives orders even to unclean spirits and they obey him. 28 And his reputation at once spread everywhere, through all the surrounding Galilean countryside. The Gospel of the Lord.
Posted on: Tue, 13 Jan 2015 05:00:00 +0000
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