Wednesday of 6th Week in Ordinary Time – Year 1

Send us Fan MailWednesday, 19 February 2025Wednesday of 6th Week in Ordinary Time – Year 1 Antiphons on p. 823 and Readings on p. 835 of the Daily Missal.First Reading: Genesis 8:6-13.20-22At the end of forty days,  Noah opened the window of the ark which he had made,  and sent forth a raven;  and it went to and fro  until the waters were dried up from the earth.  Then he sent forth a dove from him,  to see if the waters had subsided from the face of the ground;  but the dove found no place to set her foot,  and she returned to him to the ark,  for the waters were still on the face of the whole earth.  So he put forth his hand and took her  and brought her into the ark with him.  He waited another seven days,  and again he sent forth the dove out of the ark,  and the dove came back to him in the evening,  and behold, in her mouth a freshly plucked olive leaf;  so Noah knew that the waters had subsided from the earth.  Then he waited another seven days  and sent forth the dove;  and she did not return to him anymore.  In the six hundred and first year,  in the first month, the first day of the month,  the waters were dried from off the earth;  and Noah removed the covering of the ark, and looked,  and behold, the face of the ground was dry. Then Noah built an altar to the Lord,  and took of every clean animal and of every clean bird,  and offered burnt offerings on the altar.  And when the Lord smelled the pleasing odour,  the Lord said in his heart,  “I will never again curse the ground because of man,  for the imagination of man’s heart is evil from his youth;  neither will I ever again  destroy every living creature as I have done.  While the earth remains,  seedtime and harvest,  cold and heat,  summer and winter,  day and night, shall not cease.”Responsorial Psalm: Psalm 116:12-15.18-19 (R. cf. 17a)R/. A thanksgiving sacrifice I make to you, O Lord.How can I repay the Lord for all his goodness to me? The cup of salvation I will raise; I will call on the name of the Lord.My vows to the Lord I will fulfil before all his people. How precious in the eyes of the Lord is the death of his faithful.My vows to the Lord I will fulfil before all his people, in the courts of the house of the Lord, in your midst, O Jerusalem.R/. A thanksgiving sacrifice I make to you, O Lord.Gospel: Mark 8:22-26At that time:  Jesus and the disciples came to Bethsaida.  And some people brought to him a blind man  and begged him to touch him.  And he took the blind man by the hand,  and led him out of the village;  and when he had spit on his eyes and laid his hands upon him,  he asked him, “Do you see anything?” And he looked up and said, “I see men;  but they look like trees, walking.” Then again he laid his hands upon his eyes,  and he looked intently and was restored,  and saw everything clearly.  And he sent him away to his home, saying,  “Do not even enter the village.”