Thursday 4th week in Ordinary Time, Year I Sts. Paul Miki and Companions

Send us Fan MailThursday 6 February 2025Thursday 4th week in Ordinary Time, Year ISts. Paul Miki and Companions, Martyrs Antiphons on page 1889 and readings on page 789 Daily Missal Entrance AntiphonThe souls of the Saints are rejoicing in heaven, the Saints who followed the footsteps of Christ, and since for love of him they shed their blood, they now exult with Christ for ever.First Reading: Hebrews 12:18-19.21-24A reading from the Letter to the HebrewsBrothers and sisters: You have not come to what may be touched, a blazing fire, and darkness, and gloom, and a tempest, and the sound of a trumpet, and a voice whose words made the hearers entreat that no further messages be spoken to themIndeed, so terrifying was the sight that Moses said, “I tremble with fear.” But you have come to Mount Sion and to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to innumerable angels in festal gathering, and to the assembly of the first-born who are enrolled in heaven, and to a judge who is God of all, and to the spirits of just people made perfect, and to Jesus, the mediator of a new covenant, and to the sprinkled blood that speaks more graciously than the blood of Abel.The Word of the LordResponsorial Psalm: Psalm 48:2-3ab.3cd-4.9-10-11 (R. 10)R/. We have received Your mercy, O Lord, in the midst of Your temple.Great is the Lord and highly to be praised  in the city of our God.  His holy mountain rises in beauty,  the joy of all the earth.Mount Sion, in the heart of the North,  the city of the Mighty King!  God, in the midst of its citadels,  has shown himself its stronghold.As we have heard, so we have seen  in the city of our God,  in the city of the Lord of hosts,  which God establishes forever. Your merciful love, O God,  we ponder in your temple.  Your praise, O God, like your name,  reaches the ends of the earth. Your right hand is filled with saving justice.R/. We have received Your mercy, O Lord, in the midst of Your temple. Alleluia, Alleluia.The Kingdom of God is at hand; repent, and believe in the Gospel. Alleluia.Gospel: Mark 6:7-13A reading from the holy Gospel according to MarkAt that time: Jesus called to him the Twelve, and began to send them out two by two, and gave them authority over the unclean spirits. He charged them to take nothing for their journey except a staff; no bread, no bag, no money in their belts; but to wear sandals and not put on two tunics. And he said to them, “Where you enter a house, stay there until you leave the place. And if any place will not receive you and they refuse to hear you, when you leave, shake off the dust that is on your feet for a testimony against them.” So they went out and preached that all people should repent. And they cast out many demons, and anointed with oil many that were sick and healed them.The Gospel of the LordCommunion AntiphonIt is you who have stood by me in my trials; and I confer a kingdom on you, says the Lord, that you may eat and drink at my table in my kingdom.