Thursday, 27 February 2025
Thursday in Seventh Week of Ordinary Time – Year I
Antiphons on p. 846 and Readings on p. 861 of the Daily Missal.
First Reading: Sirach 5: 1-8
Do not set your heart on your wealth,
nor say, “I have enough.”
Do not follow your inclination and strength,
walking according to the desires of your heart.
Do not say, “Who will have power over me?” or
“Who will bring me down because of my deeds?”
for God will surely punish you.
Do not say, “I sinned, and what happened to me?”
for the Most High is slow to anger.
Do not be so confident of atonement
that you add sin to sin.
Do not say, “His mercy is great,
he will forgive the multitude of my sins,”
for both mercy and wrath are with him,
and his anger rests on sinners.
Do not delay to turn to the Lord,
nor postpone it from day to day;
for suddenly the wrath of the Lord will go forth,
and at the time of punishment you will perish.
Do not depend on dishonest wealth,
for it will not benefit you in the day of calamity.
Responsorial psalm: Ps 1: 1-2, 3-4 and 6 (R. Ps 40:5ab)
R./ Blessed the man who has placed his trust in the Lord.
Blessed indeed is the man
who follows not the counsel of the wicked,
nor stands in the path with sinners,
nor abides in the company of scorners,
but whose delight is the law of the law of the Lord,
and who ponders his law day and night.
He is like a tree that is planted
beside the flowing waters,
that yields its fruit in due season,
and whose leaves shall never fade;
and all that he does shall prosper.
Not so are the wicked, not so!
For they, like winnowed chaff,
shall be driven away by the wind.
For the Lord knows the way of the just,
but the way of the wicked will perish.
R./ Blessed the man who has placed his trust in the Lord.
Gospel: Mark 9:41-50
At that time:
Jesus said to his disciples,
“Whoever gives you a cup of water to drink
because you bear the name of Christ,
will by no means lose his reward.
Whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in me to sin,
it would be better for him
if a great millstone were hung around his neck
and he were thrown into the sea.
And if your hand causes you to sin, cut it off;
it is better for you to enter life maimed
than with two hands to go to hell, to the unquenchable fire.
And if your foot causes you to sin, cut it off;
it is better for you to enter life lame
than with two feet to be thrown into hell.
And if your eye causes you to sin, pluck it out;
it is better for you to enter the kingdom of God with one eye
than with two eyes to be thrown into hell,
where their worm does not die,
and the fire is not quenched.
For everyone will be salted with fire.
Salt is good;
but if the salt has lost its saltness,
how will you season it?
Have salt in yourselves,
and be at peace with one another.”
The Gospel of the Lord.
