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Readings at Mass

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

First readingHebrews 3:7-14

‘Exhort one another, as long as it is called “today”.’

Brothers and Sisters: As the Holy Spirit says, ‘Today, if you hear his voice, do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion, on the day of testing in the wilderness, where your fathers put me to the test and saw my works for forty years. Therefore I was provoked with that generation, and said, “They always go astray in their heart; they have not known my ways.” As I swore in my wrath, “They shall not enter my rest.” ’
  Take care, brothers and sisters, lest there be in any of you an evil, unbelieving heart, leading you to fall away from the living God. But exhort one another every day, as long as it is called ‘today’, that none of you may be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin. For we have come to share in Christ, if indeed we hold our original confidence firm to the end.
Responsorial Psalm
Ps 95(94):6-7ab. 7c-9. 10-11. ℟7c, 8a
O that today you would listen to his voice!
‘Harden not your hearts.’
O come; let us bow and bend low.
Let us kneel before the Lord who made us,
for he is our God, and we the people,
the people of his pasture, the flock of his hand.
O that today you would listen to his voice!
‘Harden not your hearts.’
O that today you would listen to his voice!
‘Harden not your hearts as at Meribah,
as on that day at Massah in the desert
when your forebears put me to the test;
when they tried me, though they saw my work.’
O that today you would listen to his voice!
‘Harden not your hearts.’
‘For forty years I abhorred that generation,
and I said, “Their heart goes astray;
this people does not know my ways.”
Then I took an oath in my anger,
“Never shall they enter my rest.” ’
O that today you would listen to his voice!
‘Harden not your hearts.’
Gospel Acclamation
Cf. Matthew 4:23
Alleluia, alleluia.
Jesus proclaimed the gospel of the kingdom
and healed every affliction among the people.
Alleluia.
GospelMark 1:40-45

‘The leprosy left him, and he was made clean.’

At that time: A leper came to Jesus, imploring him, and kneeling said to him, ‘If you will, you can make me clean.’ Moved with pity, he stretched out his hand and touched him and said to him, ‘I will; be clean.’ And immediately the leprosy left him, and he was made clean. And Jesus sternly charged him and sent him away at once, and said to him, ‘See that you say nothing to anyone, but go, show yourself to the priest and offer for your cleansing what Moses commanded, for a proof to them.’ But he went out and began to talk freely about it, and to spread the news, so that Jesus could no longer openly enter a town, but was out in desolate places, and people were coming to him from every quarter.

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