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Daily Mass Reading – 19 March 2015 – Thursday

Feast of Saint Joseph
Reading 1: 2 Samuel 7:4-6, 12-14, 16

4 But that night the LORD spoke to Nathan and said:

5 “Go, tell my servant David, ‘Thus says the LORD: Should you build me a house to dwell in?

6 I have not dwelt in a house from the day on which I led the Israelites out of Egypt to the present, but I have been going about in a tent under cloth.

12 And when your time comes and you rest with your ancestors, I will raise up your heir after you, sprung from your loins, and I will make his kingdom firm.

13 It is he who shall build a house for my name. And I will make his royal throne firm forever.

14 I will be a father to him, and he shall be a son to me. And if he does wrong, I will correct him with the rod of men and with human chastisements;

16 Your house and your kingdom shall endure forever before me; your throne shall stand firm forever.'”

Second Reading: Romans 4:13, 16-18, 20-22

13 It was not through the law that the promise was made to Abraham and his descendants that he would inherit the world, but through the righteousness that comes from faith.

16 For this reason, it depends on faith, so that it may be a gift, and the promise may be guaranteed to all his descendants, not to those who only adhere to the law but to those who follow the faith of Abraham, who is the father of all of us,

17 as it is written, “I have made you father of many nations.” He is our father in the sight of God, in whom he believed, who gives life to the dead and calls into being what does not exist.

18 He believed, hoping against hope, that he would become “the father of many nations,” according to what was said, “Thus shall your descendants be.”

20 He did not doubt God’s promise in unbelief; rather, he was empowered by faith and gave glory to God

21 and was fully convinced that what he had promised he was also able to do.

22 That is why “it was credited to him as righteousness.”

Gospel: Matthew 1:16, 18-21, 24

16 Jacob the father of Joseph, the husband of Mary. Of her was born Jesus who is called the Messiah.

18 Now this is how the birth of Jesus Christ came about. When his mother Mary was betrothed to Joseph, but before they lived together, she was found with child through the holy Spirit.

19 Joseph her husband, since he was a righteous man, yet unwilling to expose her to shame, decided to divorce her quietly.

20 Such was his intention when, behold, the angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream and said, “Joseph, son of David, do not be afraid to take Mary your wife into your home. For it is through the holy Spirit that this child has been conceived in her.

21 She will bear a son and you are to name him Jesus, because he will save his people from their sins.”

24 When Joseph awoke, he did as the angel of the Lord had commanded him and took his wife into his home.

March
SUN 1 8 15 22 29
MON 2 9 16 23 30
TUE 3 10 17 24 31
WED 4 11 18 25
THU 5 12 19 26
FRI 6 13 20 27
SAT 7 14 21 28
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