Saturday, 3rd Week in Ordinary Time – Year 1 Memorial of Blessed Benedict Daswa

Send us Fan MailSaturday, 1 February 2025Saturday, 3rd Week in Ordinary Time – Year 1 Memorial of Blessed Benedict Daswa Antiphons on p. 1893 Readings on p. 769 and of the Daily Missal.First Reading: Hebrews 11:1-2, 8-19Brothers and sisters:  Faith is the assurance of things hoped for,  the conviction of things not seen.  For by it the people of old received divine approval. By faith Abraham obeyed when he was called  to go out to a place which he was to receive as an inheritance;  and he went out, not knowing where he was to go. By faith he sojourned in the land of promise,  as in a foreign land, living in tents with Isaac and Jacob,  heirs with him of the same promise.  For he looked forward to the city which has foundations,  whose builder and maker is God.  By faith Sarah herself received power to conceive,  even when she was past the age,  since she considered him faithful who had promised.  Therefore from one man, and him as good as dead,  were born descendants as many as the stars of heaven  and as the innumerable grains of sand by the seashore.These all died in faith,  not having received what was promised,  but having seen it and greeted it from afar,  and having acknowledged that they were strangers  and exiles on the earth.  For people who speak thus  make it clear that they are seeking a homeland.  If they had been thinking of that land  from which they had gone out,  they would have had opportunity to return.  But as it is, they desire a better country,  that is, a heavenly one.  Therefore God is not ashamed to be called their God,  for he has prepared for them a city.By faith Abraham, when he was tested, offered up Isaac,  and he who had received the promises  was ready to offer up his only son,  of whom it was said,  “Through Isaac shall your descendants be named.”  He considered that God was able to raise men  even from the dead;  hence he did receive him back,  and this was a symbol.Responsorial Psalm: Luke 1:69-70.71-72.76-75 (R. see 68)R/. Blessed be the Lord God of Israel, for he has visited his people.He has raised up a horn of salvation for us in the house of his servant David, as he spoke through the mouth of his  holy prophets from of old.That we would be saved from our enemies  and from the hand of all who hate us.  To perform the mercy promised to our fathers and has remembered his holy covenant.The oath that he swore to our ancestor Abraham, to grant us  that we, being delivered from the hand of our enemies, might serve him without fear,  in holiness and righteousness before him all the days of our life.R/Gospel: Mark 4:35-41On that day, when evening had come,  Jesus said to his disciples,  “Let us go across to the other side.”  And leaving the crowd, they took him with them,  just as he was, in the boat.  And other boats were with him. And a great storm of wind arose,  and the waves beat into the boat,  so that the boat was already filling.  But he was in the stern, asleep on the cushion;  and they woke him and said to him,  “Teacher, do you not care&n