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Tuesday, February 7, 2012
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Second Option
First Reading
1 Kings 8:22-23, 27-30
22Then Solomon stood before the altar of the LORD in the presence of all the assembly of Israel, and spread forth his hands toward heaven;
23and said, “O LORD, God of Israel, there is no God like thee, in heaven above or on earth beneath, keeping covenant and showing steadfast love to thy servants who walk before thee with all their heart;
27“But will God indeed dwell on the earth? Behold, heaven and the highest heaven cannot contain thee; how much less this house which I have built!
28Yet have regard to the prayer of thy servant and to his supplication, O LORD my God, hearkening to the cry and to the prayer which thy servant prays before thee this day;
29that thy eyes may be open night and day toward this house, the place of which thou hast said, ‘My name shall be there,’ that thou mayest hearken to the prayer which thy servant offers toward this place.
30And hearken thou to the supplication of thy servant and of thy people Israel, when they pray toward this place; yea, hear thou in heaven thy dwelling place; and when thou hearest, forgive.
Responsorial Psalm
Psalms 84:3-5, 10-11
2My soul longs, yea, faints for the courts of the LORD; my heart and flesh sing for joy to the living God.
3Even the sparrow finds a home, and the swallow a nest for herself, where she may lay her young, at thy altars, O LORD of hosts, my King and my God.
4Blessed are those who dwell in thy house, ever singing thy praise! Selah
9Behold our shield, O God; look upon the face of thine anointed!
10For a day in thy courts is better than a thousand elsewhere. I would rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God than dwell in the tents of wickedness.
Gospel
Mark 7:1-13
1Now when the Pharisees gathered together to him, with some of the scribes, who had come from Jerusalem,
2they saw that some of his disciples ate with hands defiled, that is, unwashed.
3(For the Pharisees, and all the Jews, do not eat unless they wash their hands, observing the tradition of the elders;
4and when they come from the market place, they do not eat unless they purify themselves; and there are many other traditions which they observe, the washing of cups and pots and vessels of bronze.)
5And the Pharisees and the scribes asked him, “Why do your disciples not live according to the tradition of the elders, but eat with hands defiled?”
6And he said to them, “Well did Isaiah prophesy of you hypocrites, as it is written, ‘This people honors me with their lips, but their heart is far from me;
7in vain do they worship me, teaching as doctrines the precepts of men.’
8You leave the commandment of God, and hold fast the tradition of men.”
9And he said to them, “You have a fine way of rejecting the commandment of God, in order to keep your tradition!
10For Moses said, ‘Honor your father and your mother’; and, ‘He who speaks evil of father or mother, let him surely die’;
11but you say, ‘If a man tells his father or his mother, What you would have gained from me is Corban’ (that is, given to God)—
12then you no longer permit him to do anything for his father or mother,
13thus making void the word of God through your tradition which you hand on. And many such things you do.”
From the Franciscan Lectionary
First Reading
Hosea 2:16, 17, 21-22
16“And in that day, says the LORD, you will call me, ‘My husband,’ and no longer will you call me, ‘My Baʹal.’
17For I will remove the names of the Baʹals from her mouth, and they shall be mentioned by name no more.
21“And in that day, says the LORD, I will answer the heavens and they shall answer the earth;
22and the earth shall answer the grain, the wine, and the oil, and they shall answer Jezreel;
Responsorial Psalm
Psalms 45:11-12, 14-17
10Hear, O daughter, consider, and incline your ear; forget your people and your father’s house;
11and the king will desire your beauty. Since he is your lord, bow to him;
13with all kinds of wealth. The princess is decked in her chamber with gold-woven robes;
14in many-colored robes she is led to the king, with her virgin companions, her escort, in her train.
15With joy and gladness they are led along as they enter the palace of the king.
16Instead of your fathers shall be your sons; you will make them princes in all the earth.
Gospel
Luke 10:38-42
38Now as they went on their way, he entered a village; and a woman named Martha received him into her house.
39And she had a sister called Mary, who sat at the Lord’s feet and listened to his teaching.
40But Martha was distracted with much serving; and she went to him and said, “Lord, do you not care that my sister has left me to serve alone? Tell her then to help me.”
41But the Lord answered her, “Martha, Martha, you are anxious and troubled about many things;
42one thing is needful. Mary has chosen the good portion, which shall not be taken away from her.”