The 28th of February, 2025 is Friday in the Seventh Week of Ordinary Time. The Holy Bible verses for the mass readings for this day came from the Liturgical Calendar of the Year 2025.
Reading 1: SIR 6:5-17
The first reading from The Wisdom of Jesus the Son of Sirach or Ecclesiasticus.
Sweet words will multiply a man’s friends. A gracious tongue will multiply courtesies.
Let those that are at peace with you be many, but your advisers one of a thousand.
If you want to gain a friend, get him in a time of testing, and don’t be in a hurry to trust him.
For there is a friend just for an occasion. He won’t continue in the day of your affliction.
And there is a friend who turns into an enemy. He will discover strife to your reproach.
And there is a friend who is a companion at the table, but he won’t continue in the day of your affliction.
In your prosperity he will be as yourself, and will be bold over your servants.
If you are brought low, he will be against you, and will hide himself from your face.
Separate yourself from your enemies, and beware of your friends.
A faithful friend is a strong defense. He who has found him has found a treasure.
There is nothing that can be taken in exchange for a faithful friend. His excellency is beyond price.
A faithful friend is a life-saving medicine. Those who fear the Lord will find him.
He who fears the Lord directs his friendship properly; for as he is, so is his neighbor also.
Responsorial Psalm: PS 119:12, 16, 18, 27, 34, 35
Response: Direct me in the path of your commandments.
Blessed are you, Yahweh. Teach me your statutes.
R: Direct me in the path of your commandments.
I will delight myself in your statutes. I will not forget your word.
R: Direct me in the path of your commandments.
Open my eyes, that I may see wondrous things out of your law.
R: Direct me in the path of your commandments.
Let me understand the teaching of your precepts! Then I will meditate on your wondrous works.
R: Direct me in the path of your commandments.
Give me understanding, and I will keep your law. Yes, I will obey it with my whole heart.
R: Direct me in the path of your commandments.
Direct me in the path of your commandments, for I delight in them.
R: Direct me in the path of your commandments.
Gospel of the Day: MK 10:1-12
From the gospel scripture according to Mark.
He arose from there and came into the borders of Judea and beyond the Jordan. Multitudes came together to him again. As he usually did, he was again teaching them.
Pharisees came to him testing him, and asked him, “Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife?”
He answered, “What did Moses command you?”
They said, “Moses allowed a certificate of divorce to be written, and to divorce her.”
But Jesus said to them, “For your hardness of heart, he wrote you this commandment.
But from the beginning of the creation, God made them male and female.
For this cause a man will leave his father and mother, and will join to his wife, and the two will become one flesh, so that they are no longer two, but one flesh.
What therefore God has joined together, let no man separate.”
In the house, his disciples asked him again about the same matter.
He said to them, “Whoever divorces his wife and marries another commits adultery against her.
If a woman herself divorces her husband and marries another, she commits adultery.”
