Reading Hebrew
2:5-12
The one who sanctifies and the ones who are sanctified
are of the same
stock
God did not
appoint angels to be rulers of the world to come, and that world is what we are
talking about. Somewhere there is a passage that shows us this. It runs: What
is man that you should spare a thought for him, the son of man that you should
care for him? For a short while you made him lower than the angels; you crowned
him with glory and splendour. You have put him in command of everything. Well
then, if he has put him in command of everything, he has left
nothing which is not under his command. At present, it is true, we are not able
to see that everything has been put under his command, but we
do see in Jesus one who was for a short while made lower than the angels and
is now crowned with glory and splendour because he submitted
to death; by God’s grace he had to experience death for all mankind. Universalis (welcome to the first week in Ordinary Time Year A our Altar liturgical color is green)
As
it was his purpose to bring a great many of his sons into glory, it was
appropriate that God, for whom everything exists and through whom everything
exists, should make perfect, through suffering, the leader who would take them
to their salvation. For the one who sanctifies, and the ones who are
sanctified, are of the same stock; that is why he openly calls them brothers in
the text: I shall announce your name to my brothers, praise you in full
assembly.
Gospel Mark 1:21-28 Unlike the scribes, he
taught them with authority
Jesus and his
disciples went as far as Capernaum, and as soon as the sabbath came he went to
the synagogue and began to teach. And his teaching made a deep impression on
them because, unlike the scribes, he taught them with authority. CDR
In
their synagogue just then there was a man possessed by an unclean spirit and it
shouted, ‘What do you want with us, Jesus of Nazareth? Have you come to destroy
us? I know who you are: the Holy One of God.’ But Jesus said sharply, ‘Be
quiet! Come out of him!’ And the unclean spirit threw the man into convulsions
and with a loud cry went out of him. The people were so astonished that they
started asking each other what it all meant. ‘Here is a teaching that is new’
they said ‘and with authority behind it: he gives orders even to unclean
spirits and they obey him.’ And his reputation rapidly spread everywhere,
through all the surrounding Galilean countryside.
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