The 29th of January, 2021 is Friday in the Third Week of Ordinary Time. The Bible scriptures for the holy mass readings for this day came from the 2021 Liturgical Calendar.
Reading 1: HEB 10:32-39
The first reading from The Letter to the Hebrews.
But remember the former days, in which, after you were enlightened, you endured a great struggle with sufferings: partly, being exposed to both reproaches and oppressions, and partly, becoming partakers with those who were treated so.
For you both had compassion on me in my chains and joyfully accepted the plundering of your possessions, knowing that you have for yourselves a better possession and an enduring one in the heavens.
Therefore don’t throw away your boldness, which has a great reward.
For you need endurance so that, having done the will of God, you may receive the promise.
“In a very little while, he who comes will come and will not wait.
But the righteous one will live by faith. If he shrinks back, my soul has no pleasure in him.”
But we are not of those who shrink back to destruction, but of those who have faith to the saving of the soul.
Responsorial Psalm: PS 37:3-4, 5-6, 23-24, 39-40
Response: But the salvation of the righteous is from Yahweh.
Trust in Yahweh, and do good. Dwell in the land, and enjoy safe pasture.
Also delight yourself in Yahweh, and he will give you the desires of your heart.
R: But the salvation of the righteous is from Yahweh.
Commit your way to Yahweh. Trust also in him, and he will do this: he will make your righteousness shine out like light, and your justice as the noon day sun.
R: But the salvation of the righteous is from Yahweh.
A man’s steps are established by Yahweh. He delights in his way.
Though he stumble, he shall not fall, for Yahweh holds him up with his hand.
R: But the salvation of the righteous is from Yahweh.
But the salvation of the righteous is from Yahweh. He is their stronghold in the time of trouble.
Yahweh helps them and rescues them. He rescues them from the wicked and saves them, because they have taken refuge in him.
R: But the salvation of the righteous is from Yahweh.
Gospel of the Day: MK 4:26-34
From the gospel verse according to Mark.
Jesus said, “God’s Kingdom is as if a man should cast seed on the earth, and should sleep and rise night and day, and the seed should spring up and grow, though he doesn’t know how.
For the earth bears fruit by itself: first the blade, then the ear, then the full grain in the ear.
But when the fruit is ripe, immediately he puts in the sickle, because the harvest has come.”
He said, “How will we liken God’s Kingdom? Or with what parable will we illustrate it?
It’s like a grain of mustard seed, which, when it is sown in the earth, though it is less than all the seeds that are on the earth, yet when it is sown, grows up and becomes greater than all the herbs, and puts out great branches, so that the birds of the sky can lodge under its shadow.”
With many such parables he spoke the word to them, as they were able to hear it.
Without a parable he didn’t speak to them; but privately to his own disciples he explained everything.
