Friday, 30 January 2026 Friday, 3rd Week in Ordinary Time – Year II Antiphons on p. 748 and Readings on p. 767 of the Daily Missal.

Send us Fan MailEntrance Antiphon: CF. Ps 95: 1-6O sing a new song to the Lord; sing to the Lord, all the earth. In his presence are majesty and splendour, strength and honour in his holy place.First Reading: 2 Samuel 11:1-4a.5-10a.13-17A reading from the Second Book of Samuel.It happened that, in the spring of the year, the time when kings go forth to battle, David sent Joab, and his servants with him, and all Israel; and they ravaged the Ammonites and besieged Rabbah. But David remained at Jerusalem.It happened, late one afternoon, when David arose from his couch and was walking upon the roof of the king’s house, that he saw from the roof a woman bathing; and the woman was very beautiful. And David sent and inquired about the woman. And one said, “Is not this Bathsheba, the daughter of Eliam, the wife of Uriah the Hittite?” So David sent messengers and took her, and she came to him, and he lay with her. And the woman conceived; and she sent and told David, “I am with child.”So David sent word to Joab, “Send me Uriah the Hittite.” And Joab sent Uriah to David. When Uriah came to him, David asked how Joab was doing, and how the people fared, and how the war prospered. Then David said to Uriah, “Go down to your house, and wash your feet.” And Uriah went out of the king’s house, and there followed him a present from the king. But Uriah slept at the door of the king’s house with all the servants of his lord, and did not go down to his house. They told David, “Uriah did not go down to his house.” And David invited him, and he ate in his presence and drank so that he made him drunk, and in the evening he went out to lie on his couch with the servants of his lord, but he did not go down to his house.In the morning David wrote a letter to Joab and sent it by the hand of Uriah. In the letter he wrote, “Set Uriah in the forefront of the hardest fighting, and then draw back from him, that he may be struck down, and die.” And as Joab was besieging the city, he assigned Uriah to the place where he knew there were valiant men. And the men of the city came out and fought with Joab, and some of the servants of David among the people fell. Uriah the Hittite was slain also.The Word of the Lord.Responsorial Psalm: Psalm 51:3-7.10-11 (R. cf. 3a)R/. Have mercy, O Lord, for we have sinned.Have mercy on me, O God,according to your merciful love;according to your great compassion,blot out my transgressions.Wash me completely from my iniquity,and cleanse me from my sin.My transgressions, truly I know them;my sin is always before me.Against you, you alone, have I sinned;what is evil in your sight I have done.So you are just in your sentence,without reproach in your judgment.O see, in guilt, I was born,a sinner when my mother conceived me.Let me hear rejoicing and gladness,that the bones you have crushed may exult.Turn away your face from my sins,and blot out all my guilt.R/. Have mercy, O Lord, for we have sinned.Alleluia, Alleluia.Blessed are you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that you have revealed to little ones the mysteries of the kingdom.Alleluia.Gospel: Mark 4:26-34A reading from the Holy Gospel according to Mark.At that time: Jesus said to the crowds, “The kingdom of God is as if a man should scatter seed upon the ground and should sleep and rise night and day, and the seed should sprout and