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Saturday, February 15, 2014
Sunday Catholic Mass Readings For February 16, 2014
FIRST
READING: Sirach
15: 15 - 20
15
If thou wilt keep the commandments and perform acceptable fidelity
for ever, they shall preserve thee.
16
He hath set water and fire before thee: stretch forth thy hand to
which thou wilt.
17
Before man is life and death, good and evil, that which he shall
choose shall be given him:
18
For the wisdom of God is great, and he is strong in power, seeing all
men without ceasing.
19
The eyes of the Lord are towards them that fear him, and he knoweth
all the work of man.
20
He hath commanded no man to do wickedly, and he hath given no man
license to sin.
PSALM:
Psalms 119:
1 - 2, 4 - 5, 17 - 18, 33 - 34
1
Blessed are the undefiled in the way, who walk in the law of the
Lord.
2
Blessed are they who search his testimonies: that seek him with their
whole heart.
4
Thou hast commanded thy commandments to be kept most diligently.
5
O! that my ways may be directed to keep thy justifications.
17
Give bountifully to thy servant, enliven me: and I shall keep thy
words.
18
Open thou my eyes: and I will consider the wondrous things of thy
law.
33
Set before me for a law the way of thy justifications, O Lord: and I
will always seek after it.
34
Give me understanding, and I will search thy law; and I will keep it
with my whole heart.
SECOND
READING: 1
Corinthians 2: 6 - 10
6
Howbeit we speak wisdom among the perfect: yet not the wisdom of this
world, neither of the princes of this world that come to nought;
7
But we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, a wisdom which is
hidden, which God ordained before the world, unto our glory:
8
Which none of the princes of this world knew; for if they had known
it, they would never have crucified the Lord of glory.
9
But, as it is written: That eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither
hath it entered into the heart of man, what things God hath prepared
for them that love him.
10
But to us God hath revealed them, by this Spirit. For the Spirit
searcheth all things, yea, the deep things of God.
GOSPEL:
Matthew 5:
17 - 37
17
Do not think that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets. I am
not come to destroy, but to fulfill.
18
For amen I say unto you, till heaven and earth pass, one jot, or one
tittle shall not pass of the law, till all be fulfilled.
19
He therefore that shall break one of these least commandments, and
shall so teach men, shall be called the least in the kingdom of
heaven. But he that shall do and teach, he shall be called great in
the kingdom of heaven.
20
For I tell you, that unless your justice abound more than that of the
scribes and Pharisees, you shall not enter into the kingdom of
heaven.
21
You have heard that it was said to them of old: Thou shalt not kill.
And whosoever shall kill shall be in danger of the judgment.
22
But I say to you, that whosoever is angry with his brother, shall be
in danger of the judgment. And whosoever shall say to his brother,
Raca, shall be in danger of the council. And whosoever shall say,
Thou Fool, shall be in danger of hell fire.
23
If therefore thou offer thy gift at the altar, and there thou
remember that thy brother hath any thing against thee;
24
Leave there thy offering before the altar, and go first to be
reconciled to thy brother: and then coming thou shalt offer thy gift.
25
Be at agreement with thy adversary betimes, whilst thou art in the
way with him: lest perhaps the adversary deliver thee to the judge,
and the judge deliver thee to the officer, and thou be cast into
prison.
26
Amen I say to thee, thou shalt not go out from thence till thou repay
the last farthing.
27
You have heard that it was said to them of old: Thou shalt not commit
adultery.
28
But I say to you, that whosoever shall look on a woman to lust after
her, hath already committed adultery with her in his heart.
29
And if thy right eye scandalize thee, pluck it out and cast it from
thee. For it is expedient for thee that one of thy members should
perish, rather than that thy whole body be cast into hell.
30
And if thy right hand scandalize thee, cut it off, and cast it from
thee: for it is expedient for thee that one of thy members should
perish, rather than that thy whole body be cast into hell.
31
And it hath been said, whosoever shall put away his wife, let him
give her a bill of divorce.
32
But I say to you, that whosoever shall put away his wife, excepting
for the cause of fornication, maketh her to commit adultery: and he
that shall marry her that is put away, committeth adultery.
33
Again you have heard that it was said to them of old, Thou shalt not
forswear thyself: but thou shalt perform thy oaths to the Lord.
34
But I say to you not to swear at all, neither by heaven, for it is
the throne of God:
35
Nor by the earth, for it is his footstool: nor by Jerusalem, for it
is the city of the great king:
36
Neither shalt thou swear by thy head, because thou canst not make one
hair white or black.
37
But let your speech be yea, yea: no, no: and that which is over and
above these, is of evil.
Friday, February 14, 2014
Catholic Mass Readings For Saturday, February 15, 2014
FIRST
READING: 1 Kings
12: 26 - 32; 13:
33 - 34
26
And Jeroboam said in his heart: Now shall the kingdom return to the
house of David,
27
If this people go up to offer sacrifices in the house of the Lord at
Jerusalem: and the heart of this people will turn to their lord
Roboam the king of Juda, and they will kill me, and return to him.
28
And finding out a device he made two golden calves, and said to them:
Go ye up no more to Jerusalem: Behold thy gods, O Israel, who brought
thee out of the land of Egypt.
29
And he set the one in Bethel, and the other in Dan:
30
And this thing became an occasion of sin: for the people went to
adore the calf as far as Dan.
31
And he made temples in the high places, and priests of the lowest of
the people, who were not of the sons of Levi.
32
And he appointed a feast in the eighth month, on the fifteenth day of
the month, after the manner of the feast that was celebrated in Juda.
And going up to the altar, he did in like manner in Bethel, to
sacrifice to the calves, which he had made: and he placed in Bethel
priests of the high places, which he had made.
33
After these words Jeroboam came not back from his wicked way: but on
the contrary he made of the meanest of the people priests of the high
places: whosoever would, he filled his hand, and he was made a priest
of the high places.
34
And for this cause did the house of Jeroboam sin, and was cut off and
destroyed from the face of the earth.
PSALM:
Psalms 106:
6 - 7, 19 - 22
6
We have sinned with our fathers: we have acted unjustly, we have
wrought iniquity.
7
Our fathers understood not thy wonders in Egypt: they remembered not
the multitude of thy mercies: And they provoked to wrath going up to
the sea, even the Red Sea.
19
They made also a calf in Horeb: and they adored the graven thing.
20
And they changed their glory into the likeness of a calf that eateth
grass.
21
They forgot God, who saved them, who had done great things in Egypt,
22
Wondrous works in the land of Cham: terrible things in the Red Sea.
GOSPEL:
Mark 8:
1 - 10
1
In those days again, when there was a great multitude, and had
nothing to eat; calling his disciples together, he saith to them:
2
I have compassion on the multitude, for behold they have now been
with me three days, and have nothing to eat.
3
And if I shall send them away fasting to their home, they will faint
in the way; for some of them came from afar off.
4
And his disciples answered him: From whence can any one fill them
here with bread in the wilderness?
5
And he asked them: How many loaves have ye? Who said: Seven.
6
And taking the seven loaves, giving thanks, he broke, and gave to his
disciples for to set before them; and they set them before the
people.
7
And they had a few little fishes; and he blessed them, and commanded
them to be set before them.
8
And they did eat and were filled; and they took up that which was
left of the fragments, seven baskets.
9
And they that had eaten were about four thousand; and he sent them
away.
10
And immediately going up into a ship with his disciples, he came into
the parts of Dalmanutha.
Thursday, February 13, 2014
Catholic Mass Readings For Friday, February 14, 2014
FIRST
READING: 1 Kings
11: 29 - 32; 1
Kings 12: 19
29
So it came to paste at that time, that Jeroboam went out of
Jerusalem, and the prophet Ahias the Silonite, clad with a new
garment, found him in the way: and they two were alone in the held.
30
And Ahias taking his new garment, wherewith he was clad, divided it
into twelve parts:
31
And he said to Jeroboam: Take to thee ten pieces: for thus saith the
Lord the God of Israel: Behold I will rend the kingdom out of the
hand of Solomon, and will give thee ten tribes.
32
But one tribe shall remain to him for the sake of my servant David,
and Jerusalem the city, which I have chosen out of all the tribes of
Israel:
19
And Israel revolted from the house of David, unto this day.
PSALM:
Psalms 81:
10 - 15
10
There shall be no new god in thee: neither shalt thou adore a strange
god.
11
For I am the Lord thy God, who brought thee out of the land of Egypt:
open thy mouth wide, and I will fill it.
12
But my people heard not my voice: and Israel hearkened not to me.
13
So I let them go according to the desires of their heart: they shall
walk in their own inventions.
14
If my people had heard me: if Israel had walked in my ways:
15
I should soon have humbled their enemies, and laid my hand on them
that troubled them.
GOSPEL:
Mark 7:
31 - 37
31
And again going out of the coasts of Tyre, he came by Sidon to the
sea of Galilee, through the midst of the coasts of Decapolis.
32
And they bring to him one deaf and dumb; and they besought him that
he would lay his hand upon him.
33
And taking him from the multitude apart, he put his fingers into his
ears, and spitting, he touched his tongue:
34
And looking up to heaven, he groaned, and said to him: Ephpheta,
which is, Be thou opened.
35
And immediately his ears were opened, and the string of his tongue
was loosed, and he spoke right.
36
And he charged them that they should tell no man. But the more he
charged them, so much the more a great deal did they publish it.
37
And so much the more did they wonder, saying: He hath done all things
well; he hath made both the deaf to hear, and the dumb to speak.
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