Sunday, January 28, 2016: (FOURTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME) Readings for today: Deuteronomy 18:15-20 / 1 Corinthians 7:32-35 / Mark 1:21-28:
Readings from: http://www.usccb.org/bible/readings/012818.cfm (Pics from elsewhere on the internet)
Reading 1 - A reading from the book of Deuteronomy (Deuteronomy 18:15-20):
Moses spoke to all the people, saying:
"A prophet like me will the LORD, your God, raise up for you
from among your own kin;
to him you shall listen.
This is exactly what you requested of the LORD, your God, at Horeb
on the day of the assembly, when you said,
'Let us not again hear the voice of the LORD, our God,
nor see this great fire any more, lest we die.'
And the LORD said to me, 'This was well said.
I will raise up for them a prophet like you from among their kin,
and will put my words into his mouth;
he shall tell them all that I command him.
Whoever will not listen to my words which he speaks in my name,
I myself will make him answer for it.
But if a prophet presumes to speak in my name
an oracle that I have not commanded him to speak,
or speaks in the name of other gods, he shall die.'"
Responsorial Psalm - (Psalm 95: "If today you hear His voice" by David Haas):
From: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uZZoVBbmbRc
Lyrics from: http://www.theinterpretersfriend.org/songs/if-2da-u-hr-hs-vyc.html
Refrain: If today you hear his voice, harden not your hearts. (repeat)
1. Come, ring out our joy to the Lord. Hail the Rock who saves us. Let us come now before him. With songs let us hail the Lord.
Re: If today you hear his voice, harden not your hearts. (repeat)
2. Come, let us bow and bend low. Let us kneel before him who made us, for he is our God, we his people, the flock that is led by his hand.
Re: If today you hear his voice, harden not your hearts. (repeat)
3. O that today you would hear his voice, "Harden not your hearts, as on that day in the dessert, when your parents put me to the test."
Re: If today you hear his voice, harden not your hearts. (repeat)
Reading 2 - A reading from the first letter of St. Paul to the Corinthians (1 Corinthians 7:32-35):
Brothers and sisters:
I should like you to be free of anxieties.
An unmarried man is anxious about the things of the Lord,
how he may please the Lord.
But a married man is anxious about the things of the world,
how he may please his wife, and he is divided.
An unmarried woman or a virgin is anxious about the things of the Lord,
so that she may be holy in both body and spirit.
A married woman, on the other hand,
is anxious about the things of the world,
how she may please her husband.
I am telling you this for your own benefit,
not to impose a restraint upon you,
but for the sake of propriety
and adherence to the Lord without distraction.
Alleluia: (Matthew 4:16)
From: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aLnDpqehhtc
R. Alleluia, alleluia, alleluia.
The people who sit in darkness have seen a great light;
on those dwelling in a land overshadowed by death,
light has arisen.
R. Alleluia, alleluia, alleluia.
Gospel - A reading from the holy Gospel according to St. Mark (Mark 1:21-28):
Then they came to Capernaum,
and on the sabbath Jesus entered the synagogue and taught.
The people were astonished at his teaching,
for he taught them as one having authority and not as the scribes.
In their synagogue was a man with an unclean spirit;
he cried out, "What have you to do with us, Jesus of Nazareth?
Have you come to destroy us?
I know who you are—the Holy One of God!"
Jesus rebuked him and said,
"Quiet! Come out of him!"
The unclean spirit convulsed him and with a loud cry came out of him.
All were amazed and asked one another,
"What is this?
A new teaching with authority.
He commands even the unclean spirits and they obey him."
His fame spread everywhere throughout the whole region of Galilee.
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Homily:
From: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lJapJ8EmxRY
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