Friday, January 31, 2014 St. John Bosco, Priest (Memorial) Mass Readings 2 Samuel 11: 1 - 10, 13 - 17 1 In the spring of the year, the time when kings go forth to battle, David sent Joab, and his servants with him, and all Israel; and they ravaged the Ammonites, and besieged Rabbah. But David remained at Jerusalem. 2 It happened, late one afternoon, when David arose from his couch and was walking upon the roof of the kings house, that he saw from the roof a woman bathing; and the woman was very beautiful. 3 And David sent and inquired about the woman. And one said, Is not this Bathsheba, the daughter of Eliam, the wife of Uriah the Hittite? 4 So David sent messengers, and took her; and she came to him, and he lay with her. (Now she was purifying herself from her uncleanness.) Then she returned to her house. 5 And the woman conceived; and she sent and told David, I am with child. 6 So David sent word to Joab, Send me Uriah the Hittite. And Joab sent Uriah to David. 7 When Uriah came to him, David asked how Joab was doing, and how the people fared, and how the war prospered. 8 Then David said to Uriah, Go down to your house, and wash your feet. And Uriah went out of the kings house, and there followed him a present from the king. 9 But Uriah slept at the door of the kings house with all the servants of his lord, and did not go down to his house. 10 When they told David, Uriah did not go down to his house, David said to Uriah, Have you not come from a journey? Why did you not go down to your house? 13 And David invited him, and he ate in his presence and drank, so that he made him drunk; and in the evening he went out to lie on his couch with the servants of his lord, but he did not go down to his house. 14 In the morning David wrote a letter to Joab, and sent it by the hand of Uriah. 15 In the letter he wrote, Set Uriah in the forefront of the hardest fighting, and then draw back from him, that he may be struck down, and die. 16 And as Joab was besieging the city, he assigned Uriah to the place where he knew there were valiant men. 17 And the men of the city came out and fought with Joab; and some of the servants of David among the people fell. Uriah the Hittite was slain also. Psalms 132: 1 - 5, 11 - 14 1 Remember, O LORD, in Davids favor, all the hardships he endured; 2 how he swore to the LORD and vowed to the Mighty One of Jacob, 3 I will not enter my house or get into my bed; 4 I will not give sleep to my eyes or slumber to my eyelids, 5 until I find a place for the LORD, a dwelling place for the Mighty One of Jacob. 11 The LORD swore to David a sure oath from which he will not turn back: One of the sons of your body I will set on your throne. 12 If your sons keep my covenant and my testimonies which I shall teach them, their sons also for ever shall sit upon your throne. 13 For the LORD has chosen Zion; he has desired it for his habitation: 14 This is my resting place for ever; here I will dwell, for I have desired it. Mark 4: 21 - 25 21 And he said to them, Is a lamp brought in to be put under a bushel, or under a bed, and not on a stand? 22 For there is nothing hid, except to be made manifest; nor is anything secret, except to come to light. 23 If any man has ears to hear, let him hear. 24 And he said to them, Take heed what you hear; the measure you give will be the measure you get, and still more will be given you. 25 For to him who has will more be given; and from him who has not, even what he has will be taken away. +++
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