Tuesday of the 1st Week in Ordinary Time
Mass Readings
First Reading – Hebrews 2:5-12
It was not to angels that God subjected the world to come, of which we are speaking. Instead, someone has testified somewhere: What is man that you are mindful of him, or the son of man that you care for him? You made him for a little while lower than the angels; you crowned him with glory and honor, subjecting all things under his feet. In “subjecting” all things to him, he left nothing not “subject to him.” Yet at present we do not see “all things subject to him,” but we do see Jesus “crowned with glory and honor” because he suffered death, he who “for a little while” was made “lower than the angels,” that by the grace of God he might taste death for everyone. For it was fitting that he, for whom and through whom all things exist, in bringing many children to glory, should make the leader to their salvation perfect through suffering. He who consecrates and those who are being consecrated all have one origin. Therefore, he is not ashamed to call them “brothers” saying: I will proclaim your name to my brethren, in the midst of the assembly I will praise you.
Responsorial Psalm – Ps 8:2ab and 5, 6-7, 8-9 (R. see 7)
R. You have given your Son rule over the works of your hands.
O LORD, our Lord,
how glorious is your name over all the earth!
What is man that you should be mindful of him,
or the son of man that you should care for him? R.
You have made him little less than the angels,
and crowned him with glory and honor.
You have given him rule over the works of your hands,
putting all things under his feet. R.
All sheep and oxen,
yes, and the beasts of the field,
The birds of the air, the fishes of the sea,
and whatever swims the paths of the seas. R.
Gospel – Mk 1:21-28
Jesus came to Capernaum with his followers, and on the sabbath he entered the synagogue and taught. The people were astonished at his teaching, for he taught them as one having authority and not as the scribes. In their synagogue was a man with an unclean spirit; he cried out, “What have you to do with us, Jesus of Nazareth? Have you come to destroy us? I know who you are–the Holy One of God!” Jesus rebuked him and said, “Quiet! Come out of him!” The unclean spirit convulsed him and with a loud cry came out of him. 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.” His fame spread everywhere throughout the whole region of Galilee.
Featured Saints
Blessed Alfonsa Clerici, virgin (†1930). Religious from the Congregation of the Sisters of the Most Precious Blood, she dedicated her life to the formation of youth in Vercelli, near Milan, Italy.
St. Felix of Nola, priest (†third/ fourth century). After undergoing toruture in prison, he returned to Nola, Italy, dying as an invincible confessor of the Faith.
St. Fulgentius of Écija, bishop (†circa 632). Brother of St. Leander, St. Isidore and St. Florentina. He governed the Diocese of Écija, Spain for close to twenty years.
St. Nino (†fourth century). Taken as a slave to present-day Georgia, she won the respect of the pagans through her holiness. She brought the king, queen and several members of the court to the Faith of Christ.
Blessed Odo of Novara, priest (†1200). Prior of the Carthusianmonastery of Geyrach, Slavonia, he led his community with wisdom and piety. Because of the envy of his enemies he renounced his priorship and served as chaplain of the Benedictine religious of Tagliacozzo, Italy.
Blessed Odoric Mattiuzzi of Pordenone, priest (†1331). Franciscan missionary, he traversed several countries of the Far East for thirty-three years, winning innumerable souls for Christ.
Blessed Peter Donders, priest (†1887). Dutch Redemptorist religious who evangelized among lepers in Dutch Guiana (Suriname) for 45 years.
Blessed Devasahayam (Lazarus) Pillai, father of family and martyr (†1752). He was killed in Aral Kurusady, India, for having converted to the Catholic Faith.
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