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Thursday 6 February 2025    (other days)
Saints Paul Miki and his Companions, Martyrs 
 on Thursday of week 4 in Ordinary Time

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Readings at Mass

Liturgical Colour: Red. Year: C(I).

Readings for the feria

Readings for the memorial

These are the readings for the feria


First reading
Hebrews 12:18-19, 21-24

‘You have come to Mount Sion and to the city of the living God.’

Brothers 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 beg that no further messages be spoken to them. Indeed, 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 firstborn who are enrolled in heaven, and to God, the judge of all, and to the spirits of the righteous made perfect, and to Jesus, the mediator of a new covenant, and to the sprinkled blood that speaks a better word than the blood of Abel.

Responsorial Psalm
Ps 48(47):2-3a. 3b-4. 9. 10-11. ℟ cf. 10
We have received your merciful love in your Temple, O God.
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.
We have received your merciful love in your Temple, O God.
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.
We have received your merciful love in your Temple, O God.
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 for ever.
We have received your merciful love in your Temple, O God.
Your merciful love, O God,
we ponder in your Temple.
Your praise, O God, like your name,
reaches the ends of the earth.
We have received your merciful love in your Temple, O God.

Gospel AcclamationMark 1:15
Alleluia, alleluia.
The kingdom of God is at hand;
repent and believe in the gospel.
Alleluia.

GospelMark 6:7-13

‘He began to send them out.’

At that time: Jesus called 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, ‘Whenever you enter a house, stay there until you depart from there. And if any place will not receive you and they will not listen to you, when you leave, shake off the dust that is on your feet as a testimony against them.’ So they went out and proclaimed that people should repent. And they cast out many demons and anointed with oil many who were sick and healed them.

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These are the readings for the memorial


First reading
Galatians 2:19-20

‘It is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me.’

Brothers and Sisters: Through the law I died to the law, so that I might live to God. I have been crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me. And the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.

Responsorial Psalm
Ps 126(125):1-2b. 2c-3. 4-5. 6. ℟3
What great deeds the Lord worked for us!
Indeed, we were glad.
When the Lord brought back the exiles of Sion,
we thought we were dreaming.
Then was our mouth filled with laughter;
on our tongues, songs of joy.
What great deeds the Lord worked for us!
Indeed, we were glad.
Then they said among the nations,
‘What great deeds the Lord worked for them!’
What great deeds the Lord worked for us!
Indeed, we were glad.
What great deeds the Lord worked for us!
Indeed, we were glad.
Bring back our exiles, O Lord,
as streams in the Negeb.
Those who are sowing in tears
will sing when they reap.
What great deeds the Lord worked for us!
Indeed, we were glad.
They go out, they go out, full of tears,
bearing seed for the sowing;
they come back, they come back with a song,
bearing their sheaves.
What great deeds the Lord worked for us!
Indeed, we were glad.

Gospel AcclamationMt28:19,20
Alleluia, alleluia!
Go, make disciples of all the nations.
I am with you always; yes, to the end of time.
Alleluia!

Gospel
Matthew 28:16-20

‘All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me.’

At that time: The eleven disciples went to Galilee, to the mountain to which Jesus had directed them. And when they saw him they worshipped him, but some doubted. And Jesus came and said to them, ‘All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. Go, therefore, and make disciples of all nations, baptising them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you. And behold, I am with you always, to the end of the age.’

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