Monday of the First Week in Ordinary Time (II)

Official Translation

Monday of the First Week in Ordinary Time

Reading 1 - 1 Samuel 1.1-8

There was a certain man of Ramathaim-zophim, of the hill country of Ephraim,
whose name was Elkanah, the son of Jeroham, the son of Elihu,
the son of Tohu, the son of Zuph, an Ephraimite.
He had two wives; the name of the one was Hannah, and the name of other Peninnah,
and Peninnah had children, but Hannah had no children.
Every year, this man went up from his city to worship and to sacrifice to the Lord of Hosts in Shiloh.
The two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phinehas, priests to the Lord, were there.
When the day came that Elkanah sacrificed,
he gave to Peninnah his wife, and to all her sons and her daughters, portions,
but to Hannah he gave a double portion, for he loved Hannah though the Lord had shut up her womb.
Her rival seriously provoked her, to make her fret, because the Lord had shut up her womb.
Thus she did, year by year, when she went up to the house of the Lord, she provoked her;
therefore she wept, and did not eat.
Elkanah her husband said to her,
“Hannah, why do you weep? And why do not you eat? And why is your heart grieved?
Am I not more to you than ten sons?”

Responsorial - Psalm 116.12-13, 14-17, 18-19 Resp. 17a

R. I will offer to you Lord the sacrifice of thanksgiving. or R. Alleluia.

What will I give to the Lord
for all his benefits toward me?
I will take the cup of salvation,
and call on the name of the Lord.

R. I will offer to you Lord the sacrifice of thanksgiving. or R. Alleluia.

I will pay my vows to the Lord,
yes, in the presence of all his people.
Precious in the sight of the Lord
is the death of his saints.
O Lord, truly I am your servant.
I am your servant, the son of your handmaid.
You have freed me from my chains.

R. I will offer to you Lord the sacrifice of thanksgiving. or R. Alleluia.

I will pay my vows to the Lord,
yes, in the presence of all his people,
in the courts of the Lord’s house,
in your midst Jerusalem.

R. I will offer to you Lord the sacrifice of thanksgiving. or R. Alleluia.

Gospel - Mark 1.14-20

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! Change your mind, and believe in the Gospel.”
Passing along by the Sea of Galilee, he saw Simon and Andrew, the brother of Simon,
casting a net into the sea, for they were fishermen.
Jesus said to them, “Come follow me, and I will make you to become fishers of humans.”
Immediately they left their nets, and followed him.
Going on a little further from there, he saw James, the son of Zebedee, and John, his brother,
who were also in the boat mending the nets.
Immediately he called them, and they left their father, Zebedee, in the boat with the hired servants,
and went and followed him.