Daily Mass Readings for January 27 2024, Saturday of Third Week Ordinary Time

Catholic Mass Readings for January 27 2024, Saturday of the Third Week in Ordinary Time

You have here Catholic Daily Mass Readings for January 27 2024, Saturday of the Third Week in Ordinary Time (2).

First Reading: 2 Samuel 12:1-7A, 10-17

¹The LORD sent Nathan to David, and when he came to him, Nathan said: “Judge this case for me! In a certain town there were two men, one rich, the other poor. ²The rich man had flocks and herds in great numbers. 

³But the poor man had nothing at all except one little ewe lamb that he had bought. He nourished her, and she grew up with him and his children. She shared the little food he had and drank from his cup and slept in his bosom. She was like a daughter to him.

⁴Now, the rich man received a visitor, but he would not take from his own flocks and herds to prepare a meal for the wayfarer who had come to him. Instead he took the poor man’s ewe lamb and made a meal of it for his visitor.”

⁵David grew very angry with that man and said to him: “As the LORD lives, the man who has done this merits death! ⁶He shall restore the ewe lamb fourfold because he has done this and has had no pity.”

⁷Then Nathan said to David:  “You are the man! Thus says the LORD God of Israel: ¹⁰‘The sword shall never depart from your house, because you have despised me and have taken the wife of Uriah to be your wife.’

¹¹Thus says the LORD: ‘I will bring evil upon you out of your own house. I will take your wives while you live to see it, and will give them to your neighbor. He shall lie with your wives in broad daylight.

¹²You have done this deed in secret, but I will bring it about in the presence of all Israel, and with the sun looking down.’”

¹³Then David said to Nathan, “I have sinned against the LORD.” Nathan answered David: “The LORD on his part has forgiven your sin: you shall not die. ¹⁴But since you have utterly spurned the LORD by this deed, the child born to you must surely die.” ¹⁵Then Nathan returned to his house.

The LORD struck the child that the wife of Uriah had borne to David, and it became desperately ill. ¹⁶David besought God for the child. He kept a fast, retiring for the night to lie on the ground clothed in sackcloth. ¹⁷The elders of his house stood beside him urging him to rise from the ground; but he would not, nor would he take food with them.

Responsorial Psalm: Psalms 51:12-13, 14-15, 16-17

R. ^(12a) Create a clean heart in me, O God.

¹²A clean heart create for me, O God,

and a steadfast spirit renew within me.

¹³Cast me not out from your presence,

and your Holy Spirit take not from me.

R. Create a clean heart in me, O God.

¹⁴Give me back the joy of your salvation,

and a willing spirit sustain in me.

¹⁵I will teach transgressors your ways,

and sinners shall return to you.

R. Create a clean heart in me, O God.

¹⁶Free me from blood guilt, O God, my saving God;

then my tongue shall revel in your justice.

¹⁷O Lord, open my lips,

and my mouth shall proclaim your praise.

R. Create a clean heart in me, O God.

Alleluia: John 3:16

R. Alleluia, alleluia.

¹⁶God so loved the world that he gave his only-

begotten Son,

so that everyone who believes in him might

have eternal life.

R. Alleluia, alleluia.

Gospel: Mark 4:35-41

³⁵On that day, as evening drew on, Jesus said to his disciples: “Let us cross to the other side.” ³⁶Leaving the crowd, they took Jesus with them in the boat just as he was. And other boats were with him.

³⁷A violent squall came up and waves were breaking over the boat, so that it was already filling up. ³⁸Jesus was in the stern, asleep on a cushion. They woke him and said to him, “Teacher, do you not care that we are perishing?”

³⁹He woke up, rebuked the wind, and said to the sea, “Quiet!  Be still!” The wind ceased and there was great calm. ⁴⁰Then he asked them, “Why are you terrified? Do you not yet have faith?”

⁴¹They were filled with great awe and said to one another, “Who then is this whom even wind and sea obey?”

Tomorrow’s Catholic Mass Readings for January 28 2024, Fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time Year B.