Readings for
January 31, 2027
Fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time
Mass of the Day
First Reading
Deuteronomy 18: 15-20
15A prophet like me will the LORD, your God, raise up for you from among your own kindred; that is the one to whom you shall listen.
16This is exactly what you requested of the LORD, your God, at Horeb on the day of the assembly, when you said, “Let me not again hear the voice of the LORD, my God, nor see this great fire any more, or I will die.”
17And the LORD said to me, What they have said is good.
18I will raise up for them a prophet like you from among their kindred, and will put my words into the mouth of the prophet; the prophet shall tell them all that I command.
19Anyone who will not listen to my words which the prophet speaks in my name, I myself will hold accountable for it.
20But if a prophet presumes to speak a word in my name that I have not commanded, or speaks in the name of other gods, that prophet shall die.
Responsorial Psalm
Psalms 95: 1-2, 6-7, 8-9
1Psalm 95 A Call to Praise and Obedience I - Come, let us sing joyfully to the LORD; cry out to the rock of our salvation.
2Let us come before him with a song of praise, joyfully sing out our psalms.
6II - Enter, let us bow down in worship; let us kneel before the LORD who made us.
7For he is our God, we are the people he shepherds, the sheep in his hands. III - Oh, that today you would hear his voice:
8Do not harden your hearts as at Meribah, as on the day of Massah in the desert.
9There your ancestors tested me; they tried me though they had seen my works.
Second Reading
First Corinthians 7: 32-35
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Alleluia
Matthew 4: 16
16the people who sit in darkness have seen a great light, on those dwelling in a land overshadowed by death light has arisen.”
Gospel
Mark 1: 21-28
21The Cure of a Demoniac. Then they came to Capernaum, and on the sabbath he entered the synagogue and taught.
22The people were astonished at his teaching, for he taught them as one having authority and not as the scribes.
23In their synagogue was a man with an unclean spirit;
24he cried out, “What have you to do with us, Jesus of Nazareth? Have you come to destroy us? I know who you are—the Holy One of God!”
25Jesus rebuked him and said, “Quiet! Come out of him!”
26The unclean spirit convulsed him and with a loud cry came out of him.
27All were amazed and asked one another, “What is this? A new teaching with authority. He commands even the unclean spirits and they obey him.”
28His fame spread everywhere throughout the whole region of Galilee.