Thursday, 13 February 2025
Thursday of the Fifth Week in Ordinary Time – Year 1
First Reading: Genesis 2:18-25
Then the Lord God said,
“It is not good that the man should be alone;
I will make him a helper fit for him.”
So out of the ground,
the Lord God formed every beast of the field
and every bird of the air,
and brought them to the man to see what he would call them;
and whatever the man called every living creature,
that was its name.
The man gave names to all cattle,
and to the birds of the air,
and to every beast of the field;
but for the man, there was not found a helper fit for him.
So the Lord God caused a deep sleep to fall upon the man,
and while he slept took one of his ribs
and closed up its place with flesh;
and the rib which the Lord God had taken from the man
he made into a woman and brought her to the man.
Then the man said,
“This, at last, is bone of my bones
and flesh of my flesh;
she shall be called Woman,
because she was taken out of Man.”
Therefore a man leaves his father and his mother
and clings to his wife, and they become one flesh.
And the man and his wife were both naked,
and were not ashamed.
Responsorial Psalm: Psalm 128:1-2-3.4-5 (R. see 1a)
R/. Blessed are all who fear the Lord.
Blessed are all who fear the Lord,
and walk in his ways!
By the labour of your hands you shall eat.
You will be blessed and prosper.
Your wife like a fruitful vine
in the heart of your house;
your children like shoots of the olive
around your table.
Indeed thus shall be blessed
the man who fears the Lord.
May the Lord bless you from Sion.
May you see Jerusalem prosper
all the days of your life!
R/. Blessed are all who fear the Lord.
Gospel: Mark 7:24-30
At that time:
Jesus arose and went away to the region of Tyre and Sidon.
And he entered a house, and would not have anyone know it;
yet he could not be hidden.
But immediately a woman,
whose little daughter was possessed by an unclean spirit,
heard of him, and came and fell down at his feet.
Now the woman was a Greek, a Syrophoenician by birth.
And she begged him to cast the demon out of her daughter.
And he said to her,
“Let the children first be fed,
for it is not right to take the children’s bread
and throw it to the dogs.”
But she answered him, “Yes, Lord;
yet even the dogs under the table eat the children’s crumbs.”
And he said to her, “For this saying, you may go your way;
the demon has left your daughter.”
And she went home
and found the child lying in bed, and the demon gone.
The Gospel of the Lord.
