First Reading Deuteronomy 18:15-20 ·
I will raise up a prophet and put my words into his mouth
Moses said to the people: ‘The Lord your God will raise up for you a prophet
like myself, from among yourselves, from your own brothers; to him you must
listen. This is what you yourselves asked of the Lord your God at Horeb on the
day of the Assembly. “Do not let me hear again” you said “the voice of the Lord
my God, nor look any longer on this great fire, or I shall die”; and the Lord
said to me, “All they have spoken is well said. I will raise up a prophet like
yourself for them from their own brothers; I will put my words into his mouth
and he shall tell them all I command him. The man who does not listen to my words
that he speaks in my name, shall be held answerable to me for it. But the
prophet who presumes to say in my name a thing I have not commanded him to say,
or who speaks in the name of other gods, that prophet shall die.”’
The word of the Lord.
Responsorial Psalm Psalm 94(95):1-2,6-9
O that today you would listen to his voice! ‘Harden not your hearts.’
hail the rock who saves us.
Let us come before him, giving thanks,
with songs let us hail the Lord.
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.
‘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.’
O that today you would listen to his voice! ‘Harden not your hearts.’
Second Reading 1 Corinthians 7:32-35 ·
Give your undivided attention to the Lord
I would like to see you free from all worry. An unmarried man can devote
himself to the Lord’s affairs, all he need worry about is pleasing the Lord;
but a married man has to bother about the world’s affairs and devote himself to
pleasing his wife: he is torn two ways. In the same way an unmarried woman,
like a young girl, can devote herself to the Lord’s affairs; all she need worry
about is being holy in body and spirit. The married woman, on the other hand,
has to worry about the world’s affairs and devote herself to pleasing her
husband. I say this only to help you, not to put a halter round your necks, but
simply to make sure that everything is as it should be, and that you give your
undivided attention to the Lord.
The word of the Lord.
Gospel Acclamation Mt11:25
Blessed are you, Father,
Lord of heaven and earth,
for revealing the mysteries of the kingdom
to mere children.
Alleluia!
Or: Mt4:16
The people that lived in darkness
has seen a great light;
on those who dwell in the land and shadow of death
a light has dawned.
Alleluia!
Gospel Mark 1:21-28
Unlike the scribes, he taught them with authority
Jesus and his disciples went as far as Capernaum, and as soon as the sabbath
came he went to the synagogue and began to teach. And his teaching made a deep
impression on them because, unlike the scribes, he taught them with authority.
In their synagogue just then there was a man possessed by an
unclean spirit and it shouted, ‘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.’ But
Jesus said sharply, ‘Be quiet! Come out of him!’ And the unclean spirit threw
the man into convulsions and with a loud cry went out of him. The people were
so astonished that they started asking each other what it all meant. ‘Here is a
teaching that is new’ they said ‘and with authority behind it: he gives orders
even to unclean spirits and they obey him.’ And his reputation rapidly spread
everywhere, through all the surrounding Galilean countryside.
The Gospel of the Lord.
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