Monday after Epiphany
Mass Readings
First Reading – 1 Jn 3:22– 4:6
Beloved: This is the message you have heard from the beginning: we should love one another, unlike Cain who belonged to the Evil One and slaughtered his brother. Why did he slaughter him? Because his own works were evil, and those of his brother righteous. Do not be amazed, then, brothers and sisters, if the world hates you. We know that we have passed from death to life because we love our brothers. Whoever does not love remains in death. Everyone who hates his brother is a murderer, and you know that no murderer has eternal life remaining in him. The way we came to know love was that He laid down his life for us; so we ought to lay down our lives for our brothers. If someone who has worldly means sees a brother in need and refuses him compassion, how can the love of God remain in him? Children, let us love not in word or speech but in deed and truth. Now this is how we shall know that we belong to the truth and reassure our hearts before Him in whatever our hearts condemn, for God is greater than our hearts and knows everything. Beloved, if our hearts do not condemn us, we have confidence in God.
Responsorial Psalm – Ps 2:7bc-8, 10-12a (R. 8ab)
I will give you all the nations for an inheritance.
The LORD said to me, “you are my Son;
this day I have begotten you.
Ask of me and I will give you
the nations for an inheritance
and the ends of the earth for your possession.”R.
And now, O kings, give heed;
take warning, you rulers of the earth.
Serve the LORD with fear, and rejoice before him;
with trembling rejoice.R.
Gospel – Mt 4:12-17, 23-25
When Jesus heard that John had been arrested, he withdrew to Galilee. He left Nazareth and went to live in Capernaum by the sea, in the region of Zebulun and Naphtali, that what had been said through Isaiah the prophet might be fulfilled: Land of Zebulun and land of Naphtali, the way to the sea, beyond the Jordan, Galilee of the Gentiles, the people who sit in darkness have seen a great light, on those dwelling in a land overshadowed by death light has arisen. From that time on, Jesus began to preach and say, “Repent, for the Kingdom of heaven is at hand.” He went around all of Galilee, teaching in their synagogues, proclaiming the Gospel of the Kingdom, and curing every disease and illness among the people. His fame spread to all of Syria, and they brought to him all who were sick with various diseases and racked with pain, those who were possessed, lunatics, and paralytics, and he cured them. And great crowds from Galilee, the Decapolis, Jerusalem, and Judea, and from beyond the Jordan followed him.
Featured Saints
St. John Neumann, bishop (†1860). Memorial in the USA. Redemptorist religious, Bishop of Philadelphia. He provided aid to poor immigrants, and a Christian education to children.
St. Edward the Confessor, king, († 1066). An able ruler, he maintained relative peace in a turbulent era. He promoted the building of Churches throughout his kingdom, and his eminent piety earned for him the title “Confessor”. (Celebrated in England on October 13 as an Optional Memorial.)
St. Charles of St. Andrew Houben, priest (†1893). Dutch Passionist religious, missionary in Ireland; zealous minister of the Sacrament of Confession.
St. Emiliana, virgin (†sixth century). Paternal aunt of St. Gregory the Great; she died in Rome.
St. Genoveva Torres Morales, virgin (†1956). Foundress of the Institute of the Sisters of the Sacred Heart of Jesus and the Holy Angels in Zaragoza, Spain.
Blessed Maria Repetto, virgin (†1890). Religious of the Sisters of Our Lady of the Refuge on Mount Calvary in Genoa, Italy, she was outstanding in comforting the afflicted, particularly remembered for her devoted care of epidemic victims.
Blessed Marcelina Darowska, religious (†1911). After the death of her husband and firstborn son, she consecrated herself to God and founded the Congregation of the Sisters of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Jazlowice, Ukraine, for the education of youth.
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