January 14, 2016
Thursday of the First Week of Ordinary Time
Thursday of the First Week of Ordinary Time
Saints of the Day: Blessed Peter Donders, Priest (1809-1887), Saint Sava, Abbot and Patron of Serbia (1255)
Reading 1
1The
Philistines gathered for an attack on Israel. Israel went out to engage them in
battle and camped at Ebenezer, while the Philistines camped at Aphek.[1] 2The
Philistines then drew up in battle formation against Israel. After a fierce
struggle Israel was defeated by the Philistines, who slew about four thousand men
on the battlefield.
3When
the troops retired to the camp, the elders of Israel said, “Why has the LORD
permitted us to be defeated today by the Philistines? Let us fetch the ark of
the LORD from Shiloh that it may go into battle among us and save us from the
grasp of our enemies.”
4So
the people sent to Shiloh and brought from there the ark of the LORD of hosts,
who is enthroned upon the cherubim. The two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phinehas,
were with the ark of God.[2]
5When
the ark of the LORD arrived in the camp, all Israel shouted so loudly that the
earth resounded. 6The Philistines, hearing the noise of shouting, asked, “What
can this loud shouting in the camp of the Hebrews mean?”
7On
learning that the ark of the LORD had come into the camp, the Philistines were
frightened. They said, “Gods have come to their camp.” They said also, “Woe to
us! This has never happened before. 8Woe to us! Who can deliver us from the
power of these mighty gods? These are the gods that struck the Egyptians with
various plagues and with pestilence.[3]
9Take courage and be manly, Philistines; otherwise you will become slaves to
the Hebrews, as they were your slaves. So fight manfully!”
10The
Philistines fought and Israel was defeated; every man fled to his own tent. It
was a disastrous defeat, in which Israel lost thirty thousand foot soldiers. 11The
ark of God was captured, and Eli’s two sons, Hophni and Phinehas, were among
the dead.
Responsorial Psalm
10Yet
now you have cast us off and put us in disgrace, and you go not forth with our
armies. 11You have let us be driven back by our foes; those who hated us
plundered us at will.
R.
Redeem us, Lord, because of your mercy.
14You
made us the reproach of our neighbors, the
mockery and the scorn of those around us. 15You
made us a byword among the nations, a
laughingstock among the peoples.
R.
Redeem us, Lord, because of your mercy.
25Why
do you hide your face, forgetting
our woe and our oppression? 26For
our souls are bowed down to the dust, our
bodies are pressed to the earth.
R.
Redeem us, Lord, because of your mercy.
Alleluia see Matthew 4:23
R.
Alleluia, alleluia.
Jesus
preached the Gospel of the Kingdom and
cured every disease among the people.
R.
Alleluia, alleluia.
Gospel
40A
leper came to Him and kneeling down begged Him and said, “If you wish, you can
make me clean.”[4]
41Moved
with pity, He stretched out His hand, touched the leper, and said to him, “I do
will it. Be made clean.”
42The
leprosy left him immediately, and he was made clean. 43Then, warning him
sternly, He dismissed him at once. 44Then he said to him, “See that you tell no
one anything, but go, show yourself to the priest and offer for your cleansing
what Moses prescribed; that will be proof for them.”
45The
man went away and began to publicize the whole matter. He spread the report
abroad so that it was impossible for Jesus to enter a town openly. He remained outside
in deserted places, and people kept coming to Him from everywhere.[5]
[2] 1 Samuel 4:4 - Enthroned upon the cherubim: this
title of the Lord seems to have originated in the sanctuary at Shiloh; it
represents the divine Majesty as seated upon a throne on which He can be borne
through the heaven by winged creatures somewhat as in the visions of Ezekiel 1 and 10.
[3] 1 Samuel 4:8 - These mighty gods: the
Philistines, who were polytheists, are represented as supposing the Israelites
honored several gods.
[4] Mark 1:40 - A leper: for the various forms of
skin disease, see Leviticus 13:1-50 and the footnote on Leviticus 13:2-4. There are only two instances in the Old Testament in which God is shown to
have cured a leper (Numbers 12:10-15; 2 Kings 5:1-14). The law of Moses provided for the ritual purification of a leper. In curing
the leper, Jesus assumes that the priests will reinstate the cured man into the
religious community. See also the footnote on Luke 5:14.
[5] Mark 1:21-45 - The account of a single day's
ministry of Jesus on a sabbath in and outside the synagogue of Capernaum (Mark 1:21-31) combines teaching and miracles of exorcism and healing. Mention is not made of
the content of the teaching but of the effect of astonishment and alarm on the
people. Jesus' teaching with authority, making an absolute claim on the hearer,
was in the best tradition of the ancient prophets, not of the scribes. The
narrative continues with events that evening (Mark 1:32-34;
see the footnotes on Matthew 8:14-17) and the next day (Mark 1:40-45). The cleansing in Mark 1:40-45 stands as an isolated story.
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