January 18, 2013
Friday of the First Week in Ordinary Time
We hope that today is a good day.
Today's Bible story based on the calendar of the Catholic Church.
http://www.catholicnewsagency.com/calendar.php
Most of these contents are things of The World English Bible.
http://ebible.org/web/
We hope that everyone in the peace of the Lord.
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+ Saints: St. Charles of Sezze
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+ First Reading: Hebrews 4:1-5, 11
1 Let us fear therefore, lest perhaps anyone of you should seem to have come short of a promise of entering into his rest.
2 For indeed we have had good news preached to us, even as they also did, but the word they heard didn't profit them, because it wasn't mixed with faith by those who heard.
3 For we who have believed do enter into that rest, even as he has said, "As I swore in my wrath, they will not enter into my rest";☆ although the works were finished from the foundation of the world.
4 For he has said this somewhere about the seventh day, "God rested on the seventh day from all his works";☆
5 and in this place again, "They will not enter into my rest."☆
11 Let us therefore give diligence to enter into that rest, lest anyone fall after the same example of disobedience.
☆4:3: Psalm 95:11
☆4:4: Genesis 2:2
☆4:5: Psalm 95:11
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+ Psalm: Psalms 78:3 and 4bc, 6c-7, 8
3 Which we have heard and known,
and our fathers have told us.
4bc (We will not hide them from their children,)
telling to the generation to come the praises of Yahweh,
his strength, and his wondrous deeds that he has done.
6c (that the generation to come might know, even the children who should be born;)
who should arise and tell their children,
7 that they might set their hope in God,
and not forget God's deeds,
but keep his commandments,
8 and might not be as their fathers,
a stubborn and rebellious generation,
a generation that didn't make their hearts loyal,
whose spirit was not steadfast with God.
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+ Gospel: Mark 2:1-12
1 When he entered again into Capernaum after some days, it was heard that he was in the house.
2 Immediately many were gathered together, so that there was no more room, not even around the door; and he spoke the word to them.
3 Four people came, carrying a paralytic to him.
4 When they could not come near to him for the crowd, they removed the roof where he was. When they had broken it up, they let down the mat that the paralytic was lying on.
5 Jesus, seeing their faith, said to the paralytic, "Son, your sins are forgiven you."
6 But there were some of the scribes sitting there, and reasoning in their hearts,
7 "Why does this man speak blasphemies like that? Who can forgive sins but God alone?"
8 Immediately Jesus, perceiving in his spirit that they so reasoned within themselves, said to them, "Why do you reason these things in your hearts?
9 Which is easier, to tell the paralytic, 'Your sins are forgiven;' or to say, 'Arise, and take up your bed, and walk?'
10 But that you may know that the Son of Man has authority on earth to forgive sins"—he said to the paralytic—
11 "I tell you, arise, take up your mat, and go to your house."
12 He arose, and immediately took up the mat, and went out in front of them all; so that they were all amazed, and glorified God, saying, "We never saw anything like this!"
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+ Today's Reading: Romans 3:1-20
1 Then what advantage does the Jew have? Or what is the profit of circumcision? 2 Much in every way! Because first of all, they were entrusted with the revelations of God. 3 For what if some were without faith? Will their lack of faith nullify the faithfulness of God?
4 May it never be! Yes, let God be found true, but every man a liar. As it is written,
"That you might be justified in your words,
and might prevail when you come into judgment."☆
5 But if our unrighteousness commends the righteousness of God, what will we say? Is God unrighteous who inflicts wrath? I speak like men do.
6 May it never be! For then how will God judge the world?
7 For if the truth of God through my lie abounded to his glory, why am I also still judged as a sinner?
8 Why not (as we are slanderously reported, and as some affirm that we say), "Let us do evil, that good may come?" Those who say so are justly condemned.
9 What then? Are we better than they? No, in no way. For we previously warned both Jews and Greeks, that they are all under sin.
10 As it is written,
"There is no one righteous;
no, not one.
11 There is no one who understands.
There is no one who seeks after God.
12 They have all turned aside.
They have together become unprofitable.
There is no one who does good,
no, not so much as one."☆
13 "Their throat is an open tomb.
With their tongues they have used deceit."☆
"The poison of vipers is under their lips";☆
14 "whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness."☆
15 "Their feet are swift to shed blood.
16 Destruction and misery are in their ways.
17 The way of peace, they haven't known."☆
18 "There is no fear of God before their eyes."☆
19 Now we know that whatever things the law says, it speaks to those who are under the law, that every mouth may be closed, and all the world may be brought under the judgment of God.
20 Because by the works of the law, no flesh will be justified in his sight. For through the law comes the knowledge of sin.
☆3:4: Psalm 51:4
☆3:12: Psalms 14:1-3; 53:1-3; Ecclesiastes 7:20
☆3:13: Psalm 5:9
☆3:13: Psalm 140:3
☆3:14: Psalm 10:7
☆3:17: Isaiah 59:7-8
☆3:18: Psalm 36:1
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