Sunday of the 2nd Week in Ordinary Time
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Mass Readings
First Reading – Is 49:3, 5-6
The LORD said to me: You are My servant, Israel, through whom I show My glory. Now the LORD has spoken who formed me as His servant from the womb, that Jacob may be brought back to Him and Israel gathered to Him; and I am made glorious in the sight of the LORD, and my God is now my strength! It is too little, the LORD says, for you to be My servant, to raise up the tribes of Jacob, and restore the survivors of Israel; I will make you a light to the nations, that My salvation may reach to the ends of the earth.
Responsorial Psalm – Ps 40:2, 4, 7-8, 8-9, 10 (R. 8a and 9a)
R. Here am I, Lord; I come to do Your will.
I have waited, waited for the LORD,
and He stooped toward me and heard my cry.
And He put a new song into my mouth,
a hymn to our God. R.
Sacrifice or offering you wished not,
but ears open to obedience You gave me.
Holocausts or sin-offerings You sought not;
then said I, “Behold I come.” R.
“In the written scroll it is prescribed for me,
to do Your will, O my God, is my delight,
and Your law is within my heart!” R.
I announced Your justice in the vast assembly;
I did not restrain my lips, as you, O LORD, know. R.
Second Reading – 1 Cor 1:1-3
Paul, called to be an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, and Sosthenes our brother, to the church of God that is in Corinth, to you who have been sanctified in Christ Jesus, called to be holy, with all those everywhere who call upon the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, their Lord and ours. Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
Gospel – Jn 1:29-34
John the Baptist saw Jesus coming toward him and said, “Behold, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world. He is the one of whom I said, ‘A man is coming after me who ranks ahead of me because He existed before me.’ I did not know Him, but the reason why I came baptizing with water was that He might be made known to Israel.” John testified further, saying, “I saw the Spirit come down like a dove from heaven and remain upon Him. I did not know Him, but the one who sent me to baptize with water told me, ‘On whomever you see the Spirit come down and remain, He is the one who will baptize with the Holy Spirit.’ Now I have seen and testified that He is the Son of God.”
Featured Saints
Blessed Peter of Castelnau, priest and martyr (†1208). Monk from the Cistercian Abbey of Fontfroide (France), commissioned by Pope Innocent III to preach against the Albigensians. He was killed with lances by heretics in Saint-Gilles-les Boucheries, Provence.
St. Bonitus of Clermont, bishop (†cerca de 710). Prefect of Marseilles, France, elected Bishop of Clermont-Ferrand, to replace his brother St. Avitus. Ten years later, he renounced this post and became a hermit of the abbey of Mangleiu.
St. Arnald Janssen, priest (†1909). In his native Germany, he founded the clerical Society of the Divine Word, the Missionary Sisters, Servants of the Holy Spirit, as well as the Sister Servants of the Holy Spirit of Perpetual Adoration.
St. Francis Fernández de Capillas, priest and martyr (†1648). Spanish Dominican; he brought the name of Christ to the Philippines and then to Fujian, China, where he was imprisoned and beheaded.
St. John Calybites, ascetic (†fifth century). According to tradition, he abandoned his family home, while still quite young, and went to live in a hut in Constantinople, Turkey, dedicating himself to contemplation and penance.
St. Ida (Ita), virgin (†570). Memorial in Ireland. Foundress of a community of nuns in a monastery in Cluain Credhail, now called Killeedy (meaning “Chuch of St. Ida”), in the county of Limerick.
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