Friday of 6th Week in Ordinary Time – Year 1

Send us Fan MailFriday, 21 February 2025Friday of 6th Week in Ordinary Time – Year 1 Antiphons on p. 823 and Readings on p. 840 of the Daily Missal.First Reading: Genesis 11:1-9The whole earth had one language and few words.  And as people migrated from the east,  they found a plain in the land of Shinar and settled there.  And they said to one another,  “Come, let us make bricks, and burn them thoroughly.”  And they had brick for stone, and bitumen for mortar.  Then they said, “Come,  let us build ourselves a city,  and a tower with its top in the heavens,  and let us make a name for ourselves,  lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.” And the Lord came down to see the city and the tower,  which the sons of men had built.  And the Lord said, “Behold, they are one people,  and they have all one language;  and this is only the beginning of what they will do;  and nothing that they propose to do  will now be impossible for them.  Come, let us go down, and there confuse their language,  that they may not understand one another’s speech.”  So the Lord scattered them abroad from there  over the face of all the earth,  and they left off building the city.  Therefore its name was called Babel  because there the Lord confused the language of all the earth;  and from there the Lord scattered them abroad  over the face of all the earth.Responsorial Psalm: Psalm 33:10-11.12-13.14-15 (R. 12b)R/. Blessed the people the Lord has chosen as his heritage.The Lord frustrates the designs of the nations; he defeats the plans of the peoples. The designs of the Lord stand forever, the plans of his heart from age to age.Blessed the nation whose God is the Lord, the people he has chosen as his heritage. From the heavens the Lord looks forth; he sees all the children of men.From the place where he dwells, he gazes on all the dwellers on the earth, he who shapes the hearts of them all, and considers all their deeds.R/. Blessed the people the Lord has chosen as his heritage.Gospel: Mark 8:34 - 9:1At that time:  Jesus called to him the multitude with his disciples,  and said to them,  “If any man would come after me,  let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow me.  For whoever would save his life will lose it;  and whoever loses his life for my sake and the gospel’s  will save it.  For what does it profit a man,  to gain the whole world and forfeit his life?  For what can a man give in return for his life?  For whoever is ashamed of me and of my words  in this adulterous and sinful generation,  of him will the Son of man also be ashamed,  when he comes in the glory of his Father  with the holy angels.”  And he said to them, “Truly, I say to you,  there are some standing here who will not taste death  before they see the kingdom of God come with power.”