Liturgical Readings for the Week of January 7th, 2024

January 2, 2024

Sunday: The Epiphany of the Lord

Is 60:1-6/Eph 3:2-3a, 5-6/Mt 2:1-12

]Arise! Shine, for your light has come,
    the glory of the Lord has dawned upon you.
Though darkness covers the earth,
    and thick clouds, the peoples,
Upon you the Lord will dawn,
    and over you his glory will be seen.”

Isaiah 60:1-2, NABRE

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Monday

Is 42:1-4, 6-7 or Acts 10:34-38/Mk 1:7-11

Here is my servant[a] whom I uphold,
    my chosen one with whom I am pleased.
Upon him I have put my spirit;
    he shall bring forth justice to the nations.”

Isaiah 42:1, NABRE

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Tuesday

1 Sm 1:9-20/Mk 1:21-28

“All were amazed and asked one another, “What is this? A new teaching with authority. He commands even the unclean spirits and they obey him.””

Mark 1:27, NABRE

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Wednesday

1 Sm 3:1-10, 19-20/Mk 1:29-39

“the Lord came and stood there, calling out as before: Samuel, Samuel! Samuel answered, “Speak, for your servant is listening.”

1 Samuel 3:10, NABRE

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Thursday

1 Sm 4:1-11/Mk 1:40-45

A leper came to him begging him, and kneeling[b] he said to him, “If you choose, you can make me clean.” Moved with pity, Jesus stretched out his hand and touched him, and said to him, “I do choose. Be made clean!””

Mark 1:40-41, NRSVCE

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Friday

1 Sm 8:4-7, 10-22a/Mk 2:1-12

But the thing displeased Samuel when they said, “Give us a king to govern us.” Samuel prayed to the Lord, and the Lord said to Samuel, “Listen to the voice of the people in all that they say to you; for they have not rejected you, but they have rejected me from being king over them.”

1 Samuel 8:6-7, NSRVCE

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Saturday

1 Sm 9:1-4, 17-19; 10:1a/Mk 2:13-17

“When Jesus heard this, he said to them, “Those who are well have no need of a physician, but those who are sick; I have come to call not the righteous but sinners.””

Mark 2:17, NRSVCE

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