First Sunday of Lent (B)

Official Translation

Reading 1 – Genesis 9.8-15

God spoke to Noah
and to his sons with him, saying,
“As for me, behold,
I establish my covenant with you,
with your offspring after you,
and with every living creature
that is with you:
the birds, the livestock,
and every animal of the earth with you,
of all that go out of the ark,
every animal on the earth.

I will establish my covenant with you:
All flesh will never again be cut off
by the waters of the flood,
nor will there ever again be
a flood to destroy the earth.”
God said,
“This is the token of the covenant
which I make between me and you
and every living creature that is with you,
for perpetual generations:
I set my rainbow in the cloud,
and it will be a sign of a covenant
between me and the earth.
When I bring a cloud over the earth,
the rainbow will be seen in the cloud,
and I will remember my covenant,
which is between me and you
and every living creature of all flesh,
and the waters will no more
become a flood to destroy all flesh.

Responsorial – Psalm 25:4-5, 6-7, 8-9 Resp. 10

R. Your ways, O Lord, are love and truth to those who keep your covenant.

Show me your ways, O Lord.
Teach me your paths.
Guide me in your truth, and teach me,
For you are the God of my salvation,

R. Your ways, O Lord, are love and truth to those who keep your covenant.

Lord, remember your tender mercies
and your loving kindness,
they are from of old.
Remember me according to your loving kindness,
for your goodness’ sake, O Lord.

R. Your ways, O Lord, are love and truth to those who keep your covenant.

Good and upright is the Lord,
therefore he will instruct sinners in the way.
He will guide the humble in justice.
He will teach the humble his way.

R. Your ways, O Lord, are love and truth to those who keep your covenant.

Reading 2 – 1 Peter 3.18-22

Beloved:
Christ suffered for sins once,
the righteous for the unrighteous,
that he might bring you to God.
Being put to death in the flesh,
he was made alive in the Spirit.
In which he also went
and preached to the spirits in prison,
who before were disobedient,
when God waited patiently in the days of Noah,
while the ark was being built.
In it, a few, that is, eight souls,
were saved through water.
This is a symbol of baptism,
which now saves you,
not by the removal of filth from the flesh,
but through a good sharing of knowledge,
a sacrament to God
through the resurrection of Jesus Christ,
who is at the right hand of God,
having gone into heaven,
angels and authorities and powers
being made subject to him.

Gospel – Mark 1.12-15

Immediately the Spirit drove Jesus
out into the wilderness.
He was there in the wilderness
for forty days,
tempted by Satan.
He was with the wild animals,
and the angels were serving him.

After John was taken into custody,
Jesus came into Galilee,
preaching the Gospel of the Kingdom of God,
and saying,
“The time is fulfilled,
and the Kingdom of God is at hand!
Repent, and believe in the Gospel.”