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Daily Reading for Sunday, January 17th, 2021

Daily Reading for Sunday January 17, 2021

Reading 1, First Samuel 3:3-10, 19
Responsorial Psalm, Psalms 40:2, 4, 7-8, 8-9, 10
Gospel, John 1:35-42
Reading 2, First Corinthians 6:13-15, 17-20
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Reading 1, First Samuel 3:3-10, 19

³ The lamp of God had not yet gone out, and Samuel was lying in Yahweh's sanctuary, where the ark of God was,

⁴ when Yahweh called, 'Samuel! Samuel!' He answered, 'Here I am,'

⁵ and, running to Eli, he said, 'Here I am, as you called me.' Eli said, 'I did not call. Go back and lie down.' So he went and lay down.

⁶ And again Yahweh called, 'Samuel! Samuel!' He got up and went to Eli and said, 'Here I am, as you called me.' He replied, 'I did not call, my son; go back and lie down.'

⁷ As yet, Samuel had no knowledge of Yahweh and the word of Yahweh had not yet been revealed to him.

⁸ Again Yahweh called, the third time. He got up and went to Eli and said, 'Here I am, as you called me.' Eli then understood that Yahweh was calling the child,

⁹ and he said to Samuel, 'Go and lie down, and if someone calls say, "Speak, Yahweh; for your servant is listening." ' So Samuel went and lay down in his place.

¹⁰ Yahweh then came and stood by, calling as he had done before, 'Samuel! Samuel!' Samuel answered, 'Speak, Yahweh; for your servant is listening.'

¹⁹ Samuel grew up. Yahweh was with him and did not let a single word fall to the ground of all that he had told him.

Responsorial Psalm, Psalms 40:2, 4, 7-8, 8-9, 10

² He pulled me up from the seething chasm, from the mud of the mire. He set my feet on rock, and made my footsteps firm.

⁴ How blessed are those who put their trust in Yahweh, who have not sided with rebels and those who have gone astray in falsehood.

⁷ then I said, 'Here I am, I am coming.' In the scroll of the book it is written of me,

⁸ my delight is to do your will; your law, my God, is deep in my heart.

⁹ I proclaimed the saving justice of Yahweh in the great assembly. See, I will not hold my tongue, as you well know.

¹⁰ I have not kept your saving justice locked in the depths of my heart, but have spoken of your constancy and saving help. I have made no secret of your faithful and steadfast love, in the great assembly.

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Gospel, John 1:35-42

³⁵ The next day as John stood there again with two of his disciples, Jesus went past,

³⁶ and John looked towards him and said, 'Look, there is the lamb of God.'

³⁷ And the two disciples heard what he said and followed Jesus.

³⁸ Jesus turned round, saw them following and said, 'What do you want?' They answered, 'Rabbi' -- which means Teacher -- 'where do you live?'

³⁹ He replied, 'Come and see'; so they went and saw where he lived, and stayed with him that day. It was about the tenth hour.

⁴⁰ One of these two who became followers of Jesus after hearing what John had said was Andrew, the brother of Simon Peter.

⁴¹ The first thing Andrew did was to find his brother and say to him, 'We have found the Messiah' -- which means the Christ-

⁴² and he took Simon to Jesus. Jesus looked at him and said, 'You are Simon son of John; you are to be called Cephas' -- which means Rock.

Reading 2, First Corinthians 6:13-15, 17-20

¹³ Foods are for the stomach, and the stomach is for foods; and God will destroy them both. But the body is not for sexual immorality;

¹⁴ it is for the Lord, and the Lord is for the body. God raised up the Lord and he will raise us up too by his power.

¹⁵ Do you not realise that your bodies are members of Christ's body; do you think one can take parts of Christ's body and join them to the body of a prostitute? Out of the question!

¹⁷ But anyone who attaches himself to the Lord is one spirit with him.

¹⁸ Keep away from sexual immorality. All other sins that people may commit are done outside the body; but the sexually immoral person sins against his own body.

¹⁹ Do you not realize that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit, who is in you and whom you received from God?

²⁰ You are not your own property, then; you have been bought at a price. So use your body for the glory of God.

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