The 27th of February, 2025 is Thursday 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 5:1-8
The first reading from The Wisdom of Jesus the Son of Sirach or Ecclesiasticus.
Don’t set your heart upon your goods. Don’t say, “They are sufficient for me.”
Don’t follow your own mind and your strength to walk in the desires of your heart.
Don’t say, “Who will have dominion over me?” for the Lord will surely take vengeance on you.
Don’t say, “I sinned, and what happened to me?” for the Lord is patient.
Don’t be so confident of atonement that you add sin upon sins.
Don’t say, “His compassion is great. He will be pacified for the multitude of my sins,” for mercy and wrath are with him, and his indignation will rest on sinners.
Don’t wait to turn to the Lord. Don’t put off from day to day; for suddenly the wrath of the Lord will come on you, and you will perish in the time of vengeance.
Don’t set your heart upon unrighteous gains, for you will profit nothing in the day of calamity.
Responsorial Psalm: PS 1:1-2, 3, 4 & 6
Response: Blessed is the man who makes Yahweh his trust.
Blessed is the man who doesn’t walk in the counsel of the wicked, nor stand on the path of sinners, nor sit in the seat of scoffers; but his delight is in Yahweh’s law. On his law he meditates day and night.
R: Blessed is the man who makes Yahweh his trust.
He will be like a tree planted by the streams of water, that produces its fruit in its season, whose leaf also does not wither. Whatever he does shall prosper.
R: Blessed is the man who makes Yahweh his trust.
The wicked are not so, but are like the chaff which the wind drives away.
For Yahweh knows the way of the righteous, but the way of the wicked shall perish.
R: Blessed is the man who makes Yahweh his trust.
Gospel of the Day: MK 9:41-50
From the gospel verse according to Mark.
“For whoever will give you a cup of water to drink in my name because you are Christ’s, most certainly I tell you, he will in no way lose his reward.”
“Whoever will cause one of these little ones who believe in me to stumble, it would be better for him if he were thrown into the sea with a millstone hung around his neck.
If your hand causes you to stumble, cut it off. It is better for you to enter into life maimed, rather than having your two hands to go into Gehenna, into the unquenchable fire, ‘where their worm doesn’t die, and the fire is not quenched.’
If your foot causes you to stumble, cut it off. It is better for you to enter into life lame, rather than having your two feet to be cast into Gehenna, into the fire that will never be quenched- ‘where their worm doesn’t die, and the fire is not quenched.’
If your eye causes you to stumble, throw it out. It is better for you to enter into God’s Kingdom with one eye, rather than having two eyes to be cast into the Gehenna of fire, ‘where their worm doesn’t die, and the fire is not quenched.’
For everyone will be salted with fire, and every sacrifice will be seasoned with salt.
Salt is good, but if the salt has lost its saltiness, with what will you season it? Have salt in yourselves, and be at peace with one another.”
Other Celebration
An optional celebration on this day is the Commemoration of Saint Gregory of Narek, Abbot and Doctor of the Church.
