Tuesday, February 11, 2014.
Today's Liturgical Reading by Daily Flash, Goa.
Feast of Our Lady of Lourdes, World Day of the Sick.
First Reading : 1 Kings 8:20-23, 27-30
Now the Lord has upheld the promise that he made; for I have risen in the place of my father David; I sit on the throne of Israel, as the Lord promised, and have built the house for the name of the Lord, the God of Israel. There I have provided a place for the ark, in which is the covenant of the Lord that he made with our ancestors when he brought them out of the land of Egypt.”
Solomon’s Prayer of Dedication
Then Solomon stood before the altar of the Lord in the presence of all the assembly of Israel, and spread out his hands to heaven. He said, “O Lord, God of Israel, there is no God like you in heaven above or on earth beneath, keeping covenant and steadfast love for your servants who walk before you with all their heart,
“But will God indeed dwell on the earth? Even heaven and the highest heaven cannot contain you, much less this house that I have built! Regard your servant’s prayer and his plea, O Lord my God, heeding the cry and the prayer that your servant prays to you today;that your eyes may be open night and day toward this house, the place of which you said, ‘My name shall be there,’ that you may heed the prayer that your servant prays toward this place. Hear the plea of your servant and of your people Israel when they pray toward this place; O hear in heaven your dwelling place; heed and forgive.
Second Reading : Psalms 84:3-5, 10-11
Even the sparrow finds a home,
and the swallow a nest for herself,
where she may lay her young,
at your altars, O Lord of
hosts,
my King and my God.
Happy are those who live in your house,
ever singing your praise.
Happy are those whose strength is in you,
in whose heart are the highways to Zion.
For a day in your courts is better
than a thousand elsewhere.
I would rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my
God
than live in the tents of wickedness.
For the Lord God is a sun and shield;
he bestows favor and honor.
No good thing does the Lord withhold
from those who walk uprightly.
Gospel : Mark 7:1-13
The Tradition of the Elders
Now when the Pharisees and
some of the scribes who had come from Jerusalem gathered around him, they
noticed that some of his disciples were eating with defiled hands, that is,
without washing them. (For the Pharisees, and all the Jews, do not eat
unless they thoroughly wash their hands, thus observing the tradition of
the elders; and they do not eat anything from the market unless they wash
it; and there are also many other traditions that they observe, the
washing of cups, pots, and bronze kettles.) So the Pharisees and the
scribes asked him, “Why do your disciples not live according to the
tradition of the elders, but eat with defiled hands?” He said to them,
“Isaiah prophesied rightly about you hypocrites, as it is written,
‘This people honors me with
their lips,
but their hearts are far
from me;
in vain do they worship me,
teaching human precepts as
doctrines.’
You abandon the commandment
of God and hold to human tradition.” Then he said to them, “You have a fine way of rejecting the commandment
of God in order to keep your tradition! For Moses said, ‘Honor your father
and your mother’; and, ‘Whoever speaks evil of father or mother must surely
die.’ But you say that if anyone tells father or mother, ‘Whatever support
you might have had from me is Corban’ (that is, an offering to God)— then
you no longer permit doing anything for a father or mother, thus making
void the word of God through your tradition that you have handed on. And you do
many things like this.”
Feast Mass of Our Lady of Lourdes.
First Reading: Isaiah 66:10-14
Rejoice with Jerusalem, and
be glad for her,
all you who love her;
rejoice with her in joy,
all you who mourn over her—
that you may nurse and be
satisfied
from her consoling breast;
that you may drink deeply
with delight
from her glorious bosom.
For thus says the Lord:
I will extend prosperity to
her like a river,
and the wealth of the
nations like an overflowing stream;
and you shall nurse and be
carried on her arm,
and dandled on her knees.
As a mother comforts her
child,
so I will comfort you;
you shall be comforted in
Jerusalem.
The Reign and Indignation of God
You shall see, and your
heart shall rejoice;
your bodies shall
flourish like the grass;
and it shall be known that
the hand of the Lord is
with his servants,
and his indignation is against his enemies.
Second Reading: Psalms Judith 13:18-19
Then Uzziah said to her, “O daughter, you are blessed by the Most High God above all other women on earth; and blessed be the Lord God, who created the heavens and the earth, who has guided you to cut off the head of the leader of our enemies. Your praise will never depart from the hearts of those who remember the power of God.
Gospel: John 2:1-11
The Wedding at Cana
On the third day there was a wedding in Cana of Galilee, and the mother of Jesus was there. Jesus and his disciples had also been invited to the wedding. When the wine gave out, the mother of Jesus said to him, “They have no wine.” And Jesus said to her, “Woman, what concern is that to you and to me? My hour has not yet come.” His mother said to the servants, “Do whatever he tells you.” Now standing there were six stone water jars for the Jewish rites of purification, each holding twenty or thirty gallons. Jesus said to them, “Fill the jars with water.” And they filled them up to the brim. He said to them, “Now draw some out, and take it to the chief steward.” So they took it. When the steward tasted the water that had become wine, and did not know where it came from (though the servants who had drawn the water knew), the steward called the bridegroom and said to him, “Everyone serves the good wine first, and then the inferior wine after the guests have become drunk. But you have kept the good wine until now.” Jesus did this, the first of his signs, in Cana of Galilee, and revealed his glory; and his disciples believed in him.
Fruit: While I go for Mass and say my prayers regularly am I also becoming a kinder, more loving person to my neighbour?
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