January 10, 2023

Reading

The Letter to the Hebrews   2: 5-12

2:5	For God did not subject the future world, about which we are speaking, to the Angels.
2:6	But someone, in a certain place, has testified, saying: “What is man, that you are mindful of him, or the Son of man, that you visit him?
2:7	You have reduced him to a little less than the Angels. You have crowned him with glory and honor, and you have set him over the works of your hands.
2:8	You have subjected all things under his feet.” For in as much as he has subjected all things to him, he has left nothing not subject to him. But in the present time, we do not yet perceive that all things have been made subject to him.
2:9	Yet we understand that Jesus, who was reduced to a little less than the Angels, was crowned with glory and honor because of his Passion and death, in order that, by the grace of God, he might taste death for all.
2:10	For it was fitting for him, because of whom and through whom all things exist, who had led many children into glory, to complete the authorship of their salvation through his Passion.
2:11	For he who sanctifies, and those who are sanctified, are all from One. For this reason, he is not ashamed to call them brothers, saying:
2:12	“I will announce your name to my brothers. In the midst of the Church, I will praise you.”

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The Letter to the Hebrews   1: 1-6

1:1	In many places and in many ways, in past times, God spoke to the fathers through the Prophets;
1:2	lastly, in these days, he has spoken to us through the Son, whom he appointed as the heir of all things, and through whom he made the world.
1:3	And since the Son is the brightness of his glory, and the figure of his substance, and is carrying all things by the Word of his virtue, thereby accomplishing a purging of sins, he sits at the right hand of Majesty on high.
1:4	And having been made so much better than the Angels, he has inherited a name so much greater than theirs.
1:5	For to which of the Angels has he ever said: “You are my Son; today have I begotten you?” Or again: “I will be a Father to him, and he shall be a Son to me?”
1:6	And again, when he brings the only-begotten Son into the world, he says: “And let all the Angels of God adore him.”

Gospel

The Holy Gospel According to Mark   1: 21-28

1:21	And they entered into Capernaum. And entering into the synagogue promptly on the Sabbaths, he taught them.
1:22	And they were astonished over his doctrine. For he was teaching them as one who has authority, and not like the scribes.
1:23	And in their synagogue, there was a man with an unclean spirit; and he cried out,
1:24	saying: “What are we to you, Jesus of Nazareth? Have you come to destroy us? I know who you are: the Holy One of God.”
1:25	And Jesus admonished him, saying, “Be silent, and depart from the man.”
1:26	And the unclean spirit, convulsing him and crying out with a loud voice, departed from him.
1:27	And they were all so amazed that they inquired among themselves, saying: “What is this? And what is this new doctrine? For with authority he commands even the unclean spirits, and they obey him.”
1:28	And his fame went out quickly, throughout the entire region of Galilee.

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The Holy Gospel According to Mark   1: 14-20

1:14	Then, after John was handed over, Jesus went into Galilee, preaching the Gospel of the kingdom of God,
1:15	and saying: “For the time has been fulfilled and the kingdom of God has drawn near. Repent and believe in the Gospel.”
1:16	And passing by the shore of the Sea of Galilee, he saw Simon and his brother Andrew, casting nets into the sea, for they were fishermen.
1:17	And Jesus said to them, “Come after me, and I will make you fishers of men.”
1:18	And at once abandoning their nets, they followed him.
1:19	And continuing on a little ways from there, he saw James of Zebedee and his brother John, and they were mending their nets in a boat.
1:20	And immediately he called them. And leaving behind their father Zebedee in the boat with his hired hands, they followed him.