The 4th of February, 2021 is Thursday in the Fourth Week of Ordinary Time. The Bible scriptures for the holy mass readings for this day came from the Year 2021 of Liturgical Calendar.
Reading 1: HEB 12:18-19, 21-24
The first reading from The Letter to the Hebrews.
For you have not come to a mountain that might be touched and that burned with fire, and to blackness, darkness, storm, the sound of a trumpet, and the voice of words; which those who heard it begged that not one more word should be spoken to them.
So fearful was the appearance that Moses said, “I am terrified and trembling.”
But you have come to Mount Zion and to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to innumerable multitudes of angels, to the festal gathering and assembly of the firstborn who are enrolled in heaven, to God the Judge of all, to the spirits of just men made perfect, to Jesus, the mediator of a new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling that speaks better than that of Abel.
Responsorial Psalm: PS 48:1-2AB, 2CD-3, 8, 9-10
Response: We have thought about your loving kindness, God, in the middle of your temple.
Great is Yahweh, and greatly to be praised, in the city of our God, in his holy mountain.
Beautiful in elevation, the joy of the whole earth.
R: We have thought about your loving kindness, God, in the middle of your temple.
Mount Zion, on the north sides, the city of the great King.
God has shown himself in her citadels as a refuge.
R: We have thought about your loving kindness, God, in the middle of your temple.
As we have heard, so we have seen, in the city of Yahweh of Armies, in the city of our God. God will establish it forever.
R: We have thought about your loving kindness, God, in the middle of your temple.
We have thought about your loving kindness, God, in the middle of your temple.
As is your name, God, so is your praise to the ends of the earth. Your right hand is full of righteousness.
R: We have thought about your loving kindness, God, in the middle of your temple.
Gospel of the Day: MK 6:7-13
From the gospel verse according to Mark.
Jesus called to himself the twelve, and began to send them out two by two; and he gave them authority over the unclean spirits.
He commanded them that they should take nothing for their journey, except a staff only: no bread, no wallet, no money in their purse, but to wear sandals, and not put on two tunics.
He said to them, “Wherever you enter into a house, stay there until you depart from there.
Whoever will not receive you nor hear you, as you depart from there, shake off the dust that is under your feet for a testimony against them. Assuredly, I tell you, it will be more tolerable for Sodom and Gomorrah in the day of judgment than for that city!”
They went out and preached that people should repent.
They cast out many demons, and anointed many with oil who were sick and healed them.
