Thursday of the First week in Ordinary Time

Letter to the Hebrews

The holy Spirit says: "Oh, that today you would hear his voice,
'Harden not your hearts as at the rebellion in the day of testing in the desert,
where your ancestors tested and tried me and saw my works
for forty years. Because of this I was provoked with that generation and I said, "They have always been of erring heart, and they do not know my ways."
As I swore in my wrath, "They shall not enter into my rest."'"
Take care, brothers, that none of you may have an evil and unfaithful heart, so as to forsake the living God.
Encourage yourselves daily while it is still "today," so that none of you may grow hardened by the deceit of sin.
We have become partners of Christ if only we hold the beginning of the reality firm until the end.

Psalms

Come, let us bow down in worship;
let us kneel before the LORD who made us.
For he is our God,
and we are the people he shepherds, the flock he guides.
Oh, that today you would hear his voice:
“Harden not your hearts as at Meribah,
as in the day of Massah in the desert,
Where your fathers tempted me;
they tested me though they had seen my works.”
Forty years I was wearied of that generation;
I said: “This people's heart goes astray,
they do not know my ways.”
Therefore I swore in my anger:
“They shall never enter my rest.”

Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint Mark

A leper came to him and kneeling down begged him and said, "If you wish, you can make me clean."
Moved with pity, he stretched out his hand, touched him, and said to him, "I do will it. Be made clean."
The leprosy left him immediately, and he was made clean.
Then, warning him sternly, he dismissed him at once.
Then he said to him, "See that you tell no one anything, but go, show yourself to the priest and offer for your cleansing what Moses prescribed; that will be proof for them."
The man went away and began to publicize the whole matter. He spread the report abroad so that it was impossible for Jesus to enter a town openly. He remained outside in deserted places, and people kept coming to him from everywhere.

St. Honoratus(Archbishop († 429))

SAINT HONORATUSArchbishop( 429) St. Honoratus was from a Roman consular family that settled in Gaul. In his youth, he renounced the worship of idols and gained his elder brother, Venantius, to Christ. Convinced that materialism, human errors and vanity lead to interior hollowness and emptiness, Honoratus and Venantius sought to become religious. However, they were prevented by their pagan father. At length, they sailed from Marseilles to Greece with St. Caprais, their guide and spiritual director. Venantius passed away happily in Methone. Honoratus returned to France with St. Caprais after recovering from an illness. Honoratus then lived in the mountains near Frejus. He eventually settled on a small island that is now known as St. Honoré. Around the year 400, Honoratus founded the famous monastery of Lerins. Some of his followers lived in community while others lived in separate cells as anchorets. His rule was chiefly borrowed from St. Pachomius. St. Hilary's description of the community showed its charity, concord, humility, compunction and devotion. Honoratus was consecrated archbishop of Arles in 426. He passed away in 429 while performing his apostolic duties.

St. Marcellus(Pope and Martyr († 309))

SAINT MARCELLUS I Pope and Martyr ( 309) St. Marcellus was consecrated pope in 307 during the last years of Diocletian's persecution. He undertook the reorganization of the Church and pardoned apostates. In 309, he was banished by Rome's tyrannical emperor, Maxentius, and passed away in exile.

St. Fursey()

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