February 11, 2017
I hope you have a nice day today too.
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Our Lady of Lourdes (Optional Memorial)
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Gospel: Mark 8:1-10
1?In those days, when there was a very great multitude, and they had nothing to eat, Jesus called his disciples to himself, and said to them,
2? "I have compassion on the multitude, because they have stayed with me now three days, and have nothing to eat.
3? If I send them away fasting to their home, they will faint on the way, for some of them have come a long way."
4?His disciples answered him, "From where could one satisfy these people with bread here in a deserted place?"
5?He asked them, "How many loaves do you have?"
They said, "Seven."
6?He commanded the multitude to sit down on the ground, and he took the seven loaves. Having given thanks, he broke them, and gave them to his disciples to serve, and they served the multitude.
7?They had a few small fish. Having blessed them, he said to serve these also.
8?They ate, and were filled. They took up seven baskets of broken pieces that were left over.
9?Those who had eaten were about four thousand. Then he sent them away.
10?Immediately he entered into the boat with his disciples, and came into the region of Dalmanutha.
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Genesis 3:9-24
9?The LORD God called to the man, and said to him, "Where are you?"
10?The man said, "I heard your voice in the garden, and I was afraid, because I was naked; and I hid myself."
11?God said, "Who told you that you were naked? Have you eaten from the tree that I commanded you not to eat from?"
12?The man said, "The woman whom you gave to be with me, she gave me fruit from the tree, and I ate it."
13?The LORD God said to the woman, "What have you done?"
The woman said, "The serpent deceived me, and I ate."
14?The LORD God said to the serpent,
"Because you have done this,
you are cursed above all livestock,
and above every animal of the field.
You shall go on your belly
and you shall eat dust all the days of your life.
15?I will put hostility between you and the woman,
and between your offspring and her offspring.
He will bruise your head,
and you will bruise his heel."
16?To the woman he said,
"I will greatly multiply your pain in childbirth.
In pain you will bear children.
Your desire will be for your husband,
and he will rule over you."
17?To Adam he said,
"Because you have listened to your wife's voice,
and ate from the tree,
about which I commanded you, saying, 'You shall not eat of it,'
the ground is cursed for your sake.
You will eat from it with much labour all the days of your life.
18?It will yield thorns and thistles to you;
and you will eat the herb of the field.
19?By the sweat of your face will you eat bread until you return to the ground,
for out of it you were taken.
For you are dust,
and to dust you shall return."
20?The man called his wife Eve because she would be the mother of all the living.
21?The LORD God made coats of animal skins for Adam and for his wife, and clothed them.
22?The LORD God said, "Behold, the man has become like one of us, knowing good and evil. Now, lest he reach out his hand, and also take of the tree of life, and eat, and live forever..."
23?Therefore the LORD God sent him out from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from which he was taken.
24?So he drove out the man; and he placed cherubim* at the east of the garden of Eden, and a flaming sword which turned every way, to guard the way to the tree of life.
*3:24: cherubim are powerful angelic creatures, messengers of God with wings. See Ezekiel 10.
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* The World English Bible
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◇ February 11, 2017 Daily Mass Reading
http://ccc.usccb.org/cccradio/NABPodcasts/17_02_11.mp3
◇ Daily Readings February 11, 2017
http://www.usccb.org/bible/readings/021117.cfm
◇ Liturgical Calendar
http://www.catholicnewsagency.com/calendarday.php?date=2017-02-11
◇ Zondervan King James Audio Bible
http://www.biblegateway.com/audio/dramatized/kjv/Mark.8
◇ King James Version Bible Online
http://www.kingjamesbibleonline.org/book.php?book=Mark&chapter=8&verse=
◇ The New American Bible, Revised Edition (NABRE)
http://www.usccb.org/bible/books-of-the-bible/index.cfm
◇ Douay-Rheims Bible
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