Readings for
January 24, 2028
Francis De Sales, Bishop, Religious Founder, Doctor Obligatory Memorial
Mass of the Day
First Reading
Second Samuel 5: 1-7, 10
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Responsorial Psalm
Psalms 89: 20, 21-22, 25-26
20III - Then you spoke in vision; to your faithful ones you said: “I have set a leader over the warriors; I have raised up a chosen one from the people.
21I have chosen David, my servant; with my holy oil I have anointed him.
22My hand will be with him; my arm will make him strong.
25My faithfulness and mercy will be with him; through my name his horn will be exalted.
26I will set his hand upon the sea, his right hand upon the rivers.
Alleluia
Second Timothy 1: 10
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Gospel
Mark 3: 22-30
22The scribes who had come from Jerusalem said, “He is possessed by Beelzebul,” and “By the prince of demons he drives out demons.”
23Jesus and Beelzebul. Summoning them, he began to speak to them in parables, “How can Satan drive out Satan?
24If a kingdom is divided against itself, that kingdom cannot stand.
25And if a house is divided against itself, that house will not be able to stand.
26And if Satan has risen up against himself and is divided, he cannot stand; that is the end of him.
27But no one can enter a strong man’s house to plunder his property unless he first ties up the strong man. Then he can plunder his house.
28Amen, I say to you, all sins and all blasphemies that people utter will be forgiven them.
29But whoever blasphemes against the holy Spirit will never have forgiveness, but is guilty of an everlasting sin.”
30For they had said, “He has an unclean spirit.”