Reading
Colossians 1: 24- 2: 3
1:24 | For now I rejoice in my passion on your behalf, and I complete in my flesh the things that are lacking in the Passion of Christ, for the sake of his body, which is the Church. |
1:25 | For I have become a minister of the Church, according to the dispensation of God that has been given to me among you, so that I may fulfill the Word of God, |
1:26 | the mystery which had remained hidden to past ages and generations, but which now is manifested to his saints. |
1:27 | To them, God willed to made known the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles, which is Christ and the hope of his glory within you. |
1:28 | We are announcing him, correcting every man and teaching every man, with all wisdom, so that we may offer every man perfect in Christ Jesus. |
1:29 | In him, too, I labor, striving according to his action within me, which he works in virtue. |
Colossians 2
2:1 | For I want you to know the kind of solicitude that I have for you, and for those who are at Laodicea, as well as for those who have not seen my face in the flesh. |
2:2 | May their hearts be consoled and instructed in charity, with all the riches of a plenitude of understanding, with knowledge of the mystery of God the Father and of Christ Jesus. |
2:3 | For in him are hidden all treasures of wisdom and knowledge. |
Gospel
Mark 6: 6- 11
6:6 | And he wondered, because of their unbelief, and he traveled around in the villages, teaching. |
6:7 | And he called the twelve. And he began to send them out in twos, and he gave them authority over unclean spirits. |
6:8 | And he instructed them not to take anything for the journey, except a staff: no traveling bag, no bread, and no money belt, |
6:9 | but to wear sandals, and not to wear two tunics. |
6:10 | And he said to them: “Whenever you have entered into a house, stay there until you depart from that place. |
6:11 | And whoever will neither receive you, nor listen to you, as you go away from there, shake off the dust from your feet as a testimony against them.” |