Reading for the Day
Hebrews 4:1-5, 11

• ¹ Therefore, while the promise of entering his rest remains, let us fear lest any of you be judged to have failed to reach it.
• ² For good news came to us just as to them; but the message which they heard did not benefit them, because it did not meet with faith in the hearers.
• ³ For we who have believed enter that rest, as he has said, "As I swore in my wrath, `They shall never enter my rest, '"although his works were finished from the foundation of the world.
• ⁴ For he has somewhere spoken of the seventh day in this way, "And God rested on the seventh day from all his works."
• ⁵ And again in this place he said, "They shall never enter my rest."
• ¹¹ Let us therefore strive to enter that rest, that no one fall by the same sort of disobedience.
  
  

Responsorial Psalm
Psalms 78:3, 4, 6-8

Response: Do not forget the works of the Lord!

• ³ things that we have heard and known, that our fathers have told us.
• ⁴ We will not hide them from their children, but tell to the coming generation the glorious deeds of the LORD, and his might, and the wonders which he has wrought. R
• ⁶ that the next generation might know them, the children yet unborn, and arise and tell them to their children,
• ⁷ so that they should set their hope in God, and not forget the works of God, but keep his commandments; R
• ⁸ and that they should not be like their fathers, a stubborn and rebellious generation, a generation whose heart was not steadfast, whose spirit was not faithful to God. R

Gospel for the Day
Mark 2:1-12

• ¹ And when he returned to Caper'na-um after some days, it was reported that he was at home.
• ² And many were gathered together, so that there was no longer room for them, not even about the door; and he was preaching the word to them.
• ³ And they came, bringing to him a paralytic carried by four men.
• ⁴ And when they could not get near him because of the crowd, they removed the roof above him; and when they had made an opening, they let down the pallet on which the paralytic lay.
• ⁵ And when Jesus saw their faith, he said to the paralytic, "My son, your sins are forgiven."
• ⁶ Now some of the scribes were sitting there, questioning in their hearts,
• ⁷ "Why does this man speak thus? It is blasphemy! Who can forgive sins but God alone?"
• ⁸ And immediately Jesus, perceiving in his spirit that they thus questioned within themselves, said to them, "Why do you question thus in your hearts?
• ⁹ Which is easier, to say to the paralytic, `Your sins are forgiven,' or to say, `Rise, take up your pallet and walk'?
• ¹⁰ But that you may know that the Son of man has authority on earth to forgive sins" -- he said to the paralytic --
• ¹¹ "I say to you, rise, take up your pallet and go home."
• ¹² And he rose, and immediately took up the pallet and went out before them all; so that they were all amazed and glorified God, saying, "We never saw anything like this!"