First Reading - Jer 1:4-5.17-19
The word of the Lord came
to me, saying: “Before I formed
you in the womb I knew you,
before you were born I dedicated you. A prophet to the nations I appointed you.
But do you gird your loins:
stand up and tell them all that I
command you. Be not crushed
on their account, as though I
would leave you crushed before them; for it is I this day
who have made you a fortified
city, a pillar of iron, a wall of
brass, against the whole land:
against Judah’s kings and
princes, against its priests and
people. They will fight against
you, but not prevail over you,
for I am with you to deliver
you,” says the Lord.
Responsorial Psalm - Ps 71
R –I will sing of your salvation!
* In you, O Lord, I take refuge; let me never be put to
shame. In your justice rescue
me, and deliver me. Incline
your ear to me, and save me.
R.
* Be my rock of refuge, a
stronghold to give me safety,
for you are my rock and my
fortress. O my God, rescue me
from the hand of the wicked.
R.
* For you are my hope, O
Lord; my trust, O God, from
my youth. On you I depend
from birth; from my mother’s
womb you are my strength. R.
* My mouth shall declare
your justice, day by day your
salvation. O God, you have
taught me from my youth, and
till the present I proclaim your
wondrous deeds. R.
Second Reading - 1 Cor 12:31–
13:13
Brothers and sisters:
Strive eagerly for the greatest spiritual gifts. But I shall
show you a still more excellent
way. If I speak in human and
angelic tongues, but do not
have love, I am a resounding
gong or a clashing cymbal.
And if I have the gift of
prophecy, and comprehend all
mysteries and all knowledge;
if I have all faith so as to move
mountains, but do not have
love, I am nothing. If I give
away everything I own, and
if I hand my body over so that
I may boast, but do not have
love, I gain nothing.
Love is patient, love is kind.
It is not jealous, it is not pompous, it is not inflated, it is not
rude, it does not seek its own interests, it is not quick-tempered, it does not brood over
injury, it does not rejoice over
wrongdoing but rejoices with
the truth. It bears all things,
believes all things, hopes all
things, endures all things.
Love never fails.
If there are prophecies,
they will be brought to nothing; if tongues, they will
cease; if knowledge, it will be
brought to nothing. For we
know partially and we prophesy partially, but when the
perfect comes, the partial will
pass away. When I was a child,
I used to talk as a child, think
as a child, reason as a child;
when I became a man, I put
aside childish things. At present we see indistinctly, as in a
mirror, but then face to face.
At present I know partially;
then I shall know fully, as I am
fully known.
So faith, hope, love remain,
these three; but the greatest of
these is love.
Gospel Acclamation - Lk 4:18
Alleluia! Alleluia!
“The Lord sent me to
bring glad tidings to the
poor, to proclaim liberty
to captives.”
Alleluia! Alleluia!
Gospel - Lk 4:21-30
Jesus began speaking in the
synagogue, saying: “Today
this Scripture passage is fulfilled in your hearing.” Some
asked, “Isn’t this the son of Joseph?”
He said to them, “Surely
you will quote me this proverb,
‘Physician, cure yourself,’ and say, ‘Do here in your native
place the things that we heard
were done in Capernaum.’ ”
And he said, “Amen, I say to
you, no prophet is accepted in
his own native place.
Indeed, I tell you, there
were many widows in Israel
in the days of Elijah when the
sky was closed for three and a
half years and a severe famine
spread over the entire land.It
was to none of these that Elijah
was sent, but only to a widow
in Zarephath in the land of
Sidon.Again, there were many
lepers in Israel during the time
of Elisha the prophet; yet not
one of them was cleansed, but
only Naaman the Syrian.”
When the people in the synagogue heard this, they were
all filled with fury. They rose
up, drove him out of the town,
and led him to the brow of the
hill on which their town had
been built, to hurl him down
headlong.
But Jesus passed through
the midst of them and went
away.
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