Readings of the day

Mass readings

1. First reading Isaiah 43:18-19, 21-22, 24b-25

   ¹⁸“Don’t remember the former things, and don’t consider the things of old. ¹⁹Behold, I will do a new thing. It springs out now. Don’t you know it? I will even make a way in the wilderness, and rivers in the desert. ²¹the people which I formed for myself, that they might declare my praise. ²²Yet you have not called on me, Jacob; but you have been weary of me, Israel. ²⁴You have bought me no sweet cane with money, nor have you filled me with the fat of your sacrifices, but you have burdened me with your sins. You have wearied me with your iniquities. ²⁵I, even I, am he who blots out your transgressions for my own sake; and I will not remember your sins.

   Some verses are read only in part; the whole verse is shown.

   WEB-C · World English Bible (Catholic). Public Domain. Source: eBible.org. Read in context: Isaiah 43:18-19, 21-22, 24b-25

2. Responsorial Psalm Psalms 41:2-3, 4-5, 13-14

   ¹For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by David. Blessed is he who considers the poor. The LORD will deliver him in the day of evil. ²The LORD will preserve him, and keep him alive. He shall be blessed on the earth, and he will not surrender him to the will of his enemies. ³The LORD will sustain him on his sickbed, and restore him from his bed of illness. ⁴I said, “LORD, have mercy on me! Heal me, for I have sinned against you.” ¹²As for me, you uphold me in my integrity, and set me in your presence forever. ¹³Blessed be the LORD, the God of Israel, from everlasting and to everlasting! Amen and amen.

   WEB-C · World English Bible (Catholic). Public Domain. Source: eBible.org. Read in context: Psalms 41:2-3, 4-5, 13-14

3. Second reading 2 Corinthians 1:18-22

   ¹⁸But as God is faithful, our word toward you was not “Yes and no.” ¹⁹For the Son of God, Jesus Christ, who was preached among you by us—by me, Silvanus, and Timothy—was not “Yes and no,” but in him is “Yes.” ²⁰For however many are the promises of God, in him is the “Yes.” Therefore also through him is the “Amen”, to the glory of God through us. ²¹Now he who establishes us with you in Christ and anointed us is God, ²²who also sealed us and gave us the down payment of the Spirit in our hearts.

   WEB-C · World English Bible (Catholic). Public Domain. Source: eBible.org. Read in context: 2 Corinthians 1:18-22

4. Gospel acclamation Luke 4:18

5. Gospel Mark 2:1-12

   ¹When he entered again into Capernaum after some days, it was heard that he was at home. ²Immediately many were gathered together, so that there was no more room, not even around the door; and he spoke the word to them. ³Four people came, carrying a paralytic to him. ⁴When they could not come near to him for the crowd, they removed the roof where he was. When they had broken it up, they let down the mat that the paralytic was lying on. ⁵Jesus, seeing their faith, said to the paralytic, “Son, your sins are forgiven you.” ⁶But there were some of the scribes sitting there and reasoning in their hearts, ⁷“Why does this man speak blasphemies like that? Who can forgive sins but God alone?” ⁸Immediately Jesus, perceiving in his spirit that they so reasoned within themselves, said to them, “Why do you reason these things in your hearts? ⁹Which is easier, to tell the paralytic, ‘Your sins are forgiven;’ or to say, ‘Arise, and take up your bed, and walk’? ¹⁰But that you may know that the Son of Man has authority on earth to forgive sins”—he said to the paralytic— ¹¹“I tell you, arise, take up your mat, and go to your house.” ¹²He arose, and immediately took up the mat and went out in front of them all, so that they were all amazed and glorified God, saying, “We never saw anything like this!”

   WEB-C · World English Bible (Catholic). Public Domain. Source: eBible.org. Read in context: Mark 2:1-12