01 February 2025 Catholic Mass Bible Reading

01 February 2025 Catholic Mass Bible Reading
• 01 February 2025 Catho...
Saturday 1 February 2025
First reading
Hebrews 11:1-2, 8-19
Brothers and Sisters: Faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen. For by it the people of old received their commendation.
By faith Abraham obeyed when he was called to go out to a place that he was to receive as an inheritance. And he went out, not knowing where he was going. By faith he went to live in the land of promise, as in a foreign land, living in tents with Isaac and Jacob, heirs with him of the same promise. For he was looking forward to the city that has foundations, whose designer and builder is God. By faith Sarah herself received power to conceive, even when she was past the age, since she considered him faithful who had promised. Therefore from one man, and him as good as dead, were born descendants as many as the stars of heaven and as many as the innumerable grains of sand by the seashore.
These all died in faith, not having received the things promised, but having seen them and greeted them from afar, and having acknowledged that they were strangers and exiles on the earth. For people who speak thus make it clear that they are seeking a homeland. If they had been thinking of that land from which they had gone out, they would have had opportunity to return. But as it is, they desire a better country, that is, a heavenly one. Therefore God is not ashamed to be called their God, for he has prepared for them a city.
By faith Abraham, when he was tested, offered up Isaac, and he who had received the promises was in the act of offering up his only son, of whom it was said, ‘Through Isaac shall your offspring be named.’ He considered that God was able even to raise him from the dead, from which, figuratively speaking, he did receive him back.
Responsorial Psalm
Lk 1:69-70. 71-72. 73-75. ℟ cf. 68
Blessed be the Lord God of Israel, for he has visited his people.
He has raised up for us a horn of salvation
in the House of David his servant,
as he spoke through the mouth of his holy ones,
his prophets from ages past.
Blessed be the Lord God of Israel, for he has visited his people.
To grant salvation from our foes,
and from the hand of all who hate us,
showing mercy to our fathers,
remembering his holy covenant.
Blessed be the Lord God of Israel, for he has visited his people.
The oath he swore to Abraham our father,
to grant that freed from the hand of our foes,
we may serve him without fear
in holiness and righteousness
all the days of our life.
Blessed be the Lord God of Israel, for he has visited his people.
Gospel Acclamation
John 3:16
Alleluia, alleluia.
For God so loved the world,
that he gave his Only Begotten Son,
that whoever believes in him should have eternal life.
Alleluia.
Gospel
Mark 4:35-41
On that day, when evening had come, Jesus said to his disciples, ‘Let us go across to the other side.’ And leaving the crowd, they took him with them in the boat, just as he was. And other boats were with him. And a great windstorm arose, and the waves were breaking into the boat, so that the boat was already filling. But he was in the stern, asleep on the cushion. And they woke him and said to him, ‘Teacher, do you not care that we are perishing?’ And he awoke and rebuked the wind and said to the sea, ‘Peace! Be still!’ And the wind ceased, and there was a great calm. He said to them, ‘Why are you so afraid? Have you still no faith?’ And they were filled with great fear and said to one another, ‘Who then is this, that even the wind and the sea obey him?’
Gospel of the Lord

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