Today's Reading
Monday, February 06, 2012
Memorial of Saint Paul Miki and Companions, Martyrs
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READING 1: First Book of Kings (1 Kgs 8:1-7, 9-13)
The elders of Israel and all the leaders of the tribes, the princes in the
ancestral houses of the children of Israel, came to King Solomon in Jerusalem,
to bring up the ark of the LORD's covenant from the City of David, which is
Zion. All the people of Israel assembled before King Solomon during the festival
in the month of Ethanim (the seventh month). When all the elders of Israel had
arrived, the priests took up the ark; they carried the ark of the LORD and the
meeting tent with all the sacred vessels that were in the tent. (The priests
and Levites carried them.)
King Solomon and the entire community of Israel present for the occasion sacrificed
before the ark sheep and oxen too many to number or count. The priests brought
the ark of the covenant of the LORD to its place beneath the wings of the cherubim
in the sanctuary, the holy of holies of the temple. The cherubim had their wings
spread out over the place of the ark, sheltering the ark and its poles from
above. There was nothing in the ark but the two stone tablets which Moses had
put there at Horeb, when the LORD made a covenant with the children of Israel
at their departure from the land of Egypt.
When the priests left the holy place, the cloud filled the temple of the LORD
so that the priests could no longer minister because of the cloud, since the
LORD's glory had filled the temple of the LORD. Then Solomon said, "The
LORD intends to dwell in the dark cloud; I have truly built you a princely house,
a dwelling where you may abide forever."
RESPONSORIAL PSALM: Ps 132:6-7, 8-10
R. (8a) Lord, go up to the place of your rest!
Behold, we heard of it in Ephrathah;
we found it in the fields of Jaar.
Let us enter into his dwelling,
let us worship at his footstool.
R. Lord, go up to the place of your rest!
Advance, O LORD, to your resting place,
you and the ark of your majesty.
May your priests be clothed with justice;
let your faithful ones shout merrily for joy.
For the sake of David your servant,
reject not the plea of your anointed.
R. Lord, go up to the place of your rest!
READING 2: (No Second Reading)
GOSPEL: Mark (Mk 6:53-56)
After making the crossing to the other side of the sea, Jesus and his disciples came to land at Gennesaret and tied up there. As they were leaving the boat, people immediately recognized him. They scurried about the surrounding country and began to bring in the sick on mats to wherever they heard he was. Whatever villages or towns or countryside he entered, they laid the sick in the marketplaces and begged him that they might touch only the tassel on his cloak; and as many as touched it were healed.