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Wednesday, February 3, 2016
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St. Blaise, Bishop and Martyr (Optional Memorial)
First Option
Second Option
First Reading
2 Samuel 24:2, 9-17
2So the king said to Joʹab and the commanders of the army, who were with him, “Go through all the tribes of Israel, from Dan to Beer-sheba, and number the people, that I may know the number of the people.”
9And Joʹab gave the sum of the numbering of the people to the king: in Israel there were eight hundred thousand valiant men who drew the sword, and the men of Judah were five hundred thousand.
10But David’s heart smote him after he had numbered the people. And David said to the LORD, “I have sinned greatly in what I have done. But now, O LORD, I pray thee, take away the iniquity of thy servant; for I have done very foolishly.”
11And when David arose in the morning, the word of the LORD came to the prophet Gad, David’s seer, saying,
12“Go and say to David, ‘Thus says the LORD, Three things I offer you; choose one of them, that I may do it to you.’ ”
13So Gad came to David and told him, and said to him, “Shall three years of famine come to you in your land? Or will you flee three months before your foes while they pursue you? Or shall there be three days’ pestilence in your land? Now consider, and decide what answer I shall return to him who sent me.”
14Then David said to Gad, “I am in great distress; let us fall into the hand of the LORD, for his mercy is great; but let me not fall into the hand of man.”
15So the LORD sent a pestilence upon Israel from the morning until the appointed time; and there died of the people from Dan to Beer-sheba seventy thousand men.
16And when the angel stretched forth his hand toward Jerusalem to destroy it, the LORD repented of the evil, and said to the angel who was working destruction among the people, “It is enough; now stay your hand.” And the angel of the LORD was by the threshing floor of Arauʹnah the Jebʹusite.
17Then David spoke to the LORD when he saw the angel who was smiting the people, and said, “Lo, I have sinned, and I have done wickedly; but these sheep, what have they done? Let thy hand, I pray thee, be against me and against my father’s house.”
Responsorial Psalm
Psalms 32:1-2, 5-7
1Blessed is he whose transgression is forgiven, whose sin is covered.
2Blessed is the man to whom the LORD imputes no iniquity, and in whose spirit there is no deceit.
5I acknowledged my sin to thee, and I did not hide my iniquity; I said, “I will confess my trangressions to the LORD”; then thou didst forgive the guilt of my sin. Selah
6Therefore let every one who is godly offer prayer to thee; at a time of distress, in the rush of great waters, they shall not reach him.
7Thou art a hiding place for me, thou preservest me from trouble; thou dost encompass me with deliverance. Selah
Gospel
Mark 6:1-6
1He went away from there and came to his own country; and his disciples followed him.
2And on the sabbath he began to teach in the synagogue; and many who heard him were astonished, saying, “Where did this man get all this? What is the wisdom given to him? What mighty works are wrought by his hands!
3Is not this the carpenter, the son of Mary and brother of James and Joses and Judas and Simon, and are not his sisters here with us?” And they took offense at him.
4And Jesus said to them, “A prophet is not without honor, except in his own country, and among his own kin, and in his own house.”
5And he could do no mighty work there, except that he laid his hands upon a few sick people and healed them.
6And he marveled because of their unbelief. And he went about among the villages teaching.
First Reading
Romans 5:1-5
1Therefore, since we are justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ.
2Through him we have obtained access to this grace in which we stand, and we rejoice in our hope of sharing the glory of God.
3More than that, we rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance,
4and endurance produces character, and character produces hope,
5and hope does not disappoint us, because God’s love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who has been given to us.
Responsorial Psalm
Psalms 117:1-2
1Praise the LORD, all nations! Extol him, all peoples!
2For great is his steadfast love toward us; and the faithfulness of the LORD endures for ever. Praise the LORD!
Gospel
Mark 16:15-20
15And he said to them, “Go into all the world and preach the gospel to the whole creation.
16He who believes and is baptized will be saved; but he who does not believe will be condemned.
17And these signs will accompany those who believe: in my name they will cast out demons; they will speak in new tongues;
18they will pick up serpents, and if they drink any deadly thing, it will not hurt them; they will lay their hands on the sick, and they will recover.”
19So then the Lord Jesus, after he had spoken to them, was taken up into heaven, and sat down at the right hand of God.
20And they went forth and preached everywhere, while the Lord worked with them and confirmed the message by the signs that attended it. Amen.