Thursday of the First Week in Ordinary Time (I)

Official Translation

Reading 1 – Hebrews 3.7-14

As the Holy Spirit says:
“If you hear his voice today, harden not your hearts,
as in the rebellion, as on the day of the trial in the wilderness,
when your fathers examined by testing and saw my deeds for forty years.
Therefore I was displeased with that kind,
and said, ‘They always err in their heart, though they do not know my ways;’
as I swore in my wrath, ‘They will not enter into my rest.’”

Beware, brothers, lest perhaps there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief,
in falling away from the living God;
but exhort one another day by day, so long as it is called “today”;
lest any of you be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin.
For we have come to share in Christ,
if we hold fast the beginning of our confidence firm to the end.

Responsorial – Psalm 95.6-7c, 8-9, 10-11 Resp. 8

R. Today, if you would hear his voice, harden not your heart.

Come, let us worship and bow down.
Let us kneel before the Lord, our Maker,
for he is our God,
and we are the people of his pasture, and the sheep in his care.

R. Today, if you would hear his voice, harden not your heart.

O that you would hear his voice!
Do not harden your heart, as at Meribah,
as in the day of Massah in the wilderness,
when your fathers tempted me,
they tested me though they saw my works.

R. Today, if you would hear his voice, harden not your heart.

Forty long years I was grieved with that generation.
I said, “It is a people that errs in their heart.
They have not known my ways.”
Therefore I swore in my wrath,
“They shall not enter into my rest.”

R. Today, if you would hear his voice, harden not your heart.

Gospel - Mark 1.40-45

A leper came to him, begging him,
kneeling down to him, and saying to him,
“If you want to, you can make me clean.”
Being moved with compassion,
he stretched out his hand,
and touched him, and said to him,
“I want to. Be made clean.”
When he had said this,
immediately the leprosy departed from him,
and he was made clean.
He strictly warned him,
and immediately sent him out,
and said to him, “See that you say nothing to anybody,
but go show yourself to the priest,
and offer for your cleansing
the things which Moses commanded,
for a testimony to them.”
But that man went out, and began to proclaim it a lot,
and to spread the report of it,
so that Jesus could no longer openly enter into a city,
but was outside in desert places,
and they came to him from everywhere.