Reading for the Day
Hebrews 3:7-14
- 7 Therefore, as the Holy Spirit says, "Today, when you hear his voice,
- 8 do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion, on the day of testing in the wilderness,
- 9 where your fathers put me to the test and saw my works for forty years.
- 10 Therefore I was provoked with that generation, and said, `They always go astray in their hearts; they have not known my ways.'
- 11 As I swore in my wrath, `They shall never enter my rest.'"
- 12 Take care, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil, unbelieving heart, leading you to fall away from the living God.
- 13 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.
- 14 For we share in Christ, if only we hold our first confidence firm to the end,
Responsorial Psalm
Psalms 95:6-11
Response: If today you hear his voice, harden not your hearts.
- 6 O come, let us worship and bow down, let us kneel before the LORD, our Maker!
- 7 For he is our God, and we are the people of his pasture, and the sheep of his hand. O that today you would hearken to his voice! R
- 8 Harden not your hearts, as at Mer'ibah, as on the day at Massah in the wilderness,
- 9 when your fathers tested me, and put me to the proof, though they had seen my work. R
- 10 For forty years I loathed that generation and said, "They are a people who err in heart, and they do not regard my ways."
- 11 Therefore I swore in my anger that they should not enter my rest. R
Gospel for the Day
Mark 1:40-45
- 40 And a leper came to him beseeching him, and kneeling said to him, "If you will, you can make me clean."
- 41 Moved with pity, he stretched out his hand and touched him, and said to him, "I will; be clean."
- 42 And immediately the leprosy left him, and he was made clean.
- 43 And he sternly charged him, and sent him away at once,
- 44 and said to him, "See that you say nothing to any one; but go, show yourself to the priest, and offer for your cleansing what Moses commanded, for a proof to the people."
- 45 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 the country; and people came to him from every quarter.
