Saturday, February
17, 2018
First Sunday of Lent
– Year B
5:00 pm Novena to Our Lady
5:30 pm Sunset Mass in English
First Reading
GENESIS 9:8-15
8 God spoke as follows
to Noah and his sons,
9 'I am now
establishing my covenant with you and with your descendants to come,
10 and with every living
creature that was with you: birds, cattle and every wild animal with you;
everything that came out of the ark, every living thing on earth.
11 And I shall maintain
my covenant with you: that never again shall all living things be destroyed by
the waters of a flood, nor shall there ever again be a flood to devastate the
earth.'
12 'And this', God said,
'is the sign of the covenant which I now make between myself and you and every
living creature with you for all ages to come:
13 I now set my bow in
the clouds and it will be the sign of the covenant between me and the earth.
14 When I gather the
clouds over the earth and the bow appears in the clouds,
15 I shall recall the
covenant between myself and you and every living creature, in a word all living
things, and never again will the waters become a flood to destroy all living
things.
“The
Word of the Lord”
PSALMS 25:4-5, 6-7,
8-9
4 DIRECT me in your
ways, Yahweh, and teach me your paths.
5 ENCOURAGE me to walk
in your truth and teach me since you are the God who saves me. FOR my hope is
in you all day long -- such is your generosity, Yahweh.
6 GOODNESS and faithful
love have been yours for ever, Yahweh, do not forget them.
7 HOLD not my youthful
sins against me, but remember me as your faithful love dictates.
8 INTEGRITY and
generosity are marks of Yahweh for he brings sinners back to the path.
9 JUDICIOUSLY he guides
the humble, instructing the poor in his way.
Second Reading
First Peter 3:18-22
18 Christ himself died
once and for all for sins, the upright for the sake of the guilty, to lead us
to God. In the body he was put to death, in the spirit he was raised to life,
19 and, in the spirit,
he went to preach to the spirits in prison.
20 They refused to
believe long ago, while God patiently waited to receive them, in Noah's time
when the ark was being built. In it only a few, that is eight souls, were saved
through water.
21 It is the baptism
corresponding to this water which saves you now -- not the washing off of
physical dirt but the pledge of a good conscience given to God through the
resurrection of Jesus Christ,
22 who has entered
heaven and is at God's right hand, with angels, ruling forces and powers
subject to him.
“The
Word of the Lord”
Gospel Reading
MARK 1:12-15
12 And at once the
Spirit drove him into the desert
13 and he remained there
for forty days, and was put to the test by Satan. He was with the wild animals,
and the angels looked after him.
14 After John had been
arrested, Jesus went into Galilee. There he proclaimed the gospel from God
saying,
15 'The time is
fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is close at hand. Repent, and believe the
gospel.'
“The
Gospel of the Lord”
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