Friday, March 15, 2024
Liturgical Season: 
VII The Season of Sleebo

Hos 6:1-6

1“Come, let us return to the LORD,a

For it is he who has torn, but he will heal us;

he has struck down, but he will bind our wounds.

2He will revive us after two days;

on the third day* he will raise us up,b

to live in his presence.

3Let us know, let us strive to know the LORD;

as certain as the dawn is his coming.

He will come to us like the rain,

like spring rain that waters the earth.”c

4What can I do with you, Ephraim?

What can I do with you, Judah?

Your loyalty is like morning mist,

like the dew that disappears early.

5For this reason I struck them down through the prophets,

I killed them by the words of my mouth;* d

my judgment shines forth like the light.

6For it is loyalty that I desire, not sacrifice,

and knowledge of God rather than burnt offerings.e

1 Tm 1:3-11

Warning Against False Doctrine. 3* I repeat the request I made of you when I was on my way to Macedonia,c that you stay in Ephesus to instruct certain people not to teach false doctrines 4* or to concern themselves with myths and endless genealogies, which promote speculations rather than the plan of God that is to be received by faith.d 5The aim of this instruction is love from a pure heart, a good conscience, and a sincere faith.e 6Some people have deviated from these and turned to meaningless talk,f 7wanting to be teachers of the law, but without understanding either what they are saying or what they assert with such assurance.

8* We know that the law is good, provided that one uses it as law,g 9with the understanding that law is meant not for a righteous person but for the lawless and unruly, the godless and sinful, the unholy and profane, those who kill their fathers or mothers, murderers, 10the unchaste, sodomites,* kidnappers, liars, perjurers, and whatever else is opposed to sound teaching,h 11according to the glorious gospel of the blessed God, with which I have been entrusted.i

Mk 10:13-16

Blessing of the Children. 13f And people were bringing children to him that he might touch them, but the disciples rebuked them.g 14When Jesus saw this he became indignant and said to them, “Let the children come to me; do not prevent them, for the kingdom of God belongs to such as these. 15Amen, I say to you, whoever does not accept the kingdom of God like a child* will not enter it.”h 16Then he embraced them and blessed them, placing his hands on them.