JANUARY 23, 2019 (WEDNESDAY OF THE SECOND WEEK IN ORDINARY TIME) GREEN
COLLECT
GOD OF HOSTS, FROM WHOM EVERY GOOD
GIFT PROCEEDS, IMPLANT IN OUR HEARTS
THE LOVE OF YOUR NAME. NURTURE
WITHIN US WHATEVER IS GOOD BY
BINDING US MORE CLOSELY TO YOU, AND
IN YOUR WATCHFUL CARE TEND THE GOOD
FRUIT YOU HAVE NURTURED.
WE ASK THIS THROUGH OUR LORD JESUS
CHRIST, YOUR SON, WHO LIVES AND
REIGNS WITH YOU IN THE UNITY OF THE
HOLY SPIRIT, GOD FOR EVER AND EVER.
FIRST READING (A READING FROM THE
BOOK OF HEBREWS)
THIS MELCHIZEDEK WAS KING OF SALEM AND
PRIEST OF GOD MOST HIGH. HE MET ABRAHAM
RETURNING FROM THE DEFEAT OF THE KINGS
AND BLESSED HIM, 2 AND ABRAHAM GAVE HIM
A TENTH OF EVERYTHING. FIRST, THE NAME
MELCHIZEDEK MEANS “KING OF
RIGHTEOUSNESS”; THEN ALSO, “KING OF
SALEM” MEANS “KING OF PEACE.” 3 WITHOUT
FATHER OR MOTHER, WITHOUT GENEALOGY,
WITHOUT BEGINNING OF DAYS OR END OF
LIFE, RESEMBLING THE SON OF GOD, HE
REMAINS A PRIEST FOREVER.
AND WHAT WE HAVE SAID IS EVEN MORE
CLEAR IF ANOTHER PRIEST LIKE MELCHIZEDEK
APPEARS, 16 ONE WHO HAS BECOME A PRIEST
NOT ON THE BASIS OF A REGULATION AS TO
HIS ANCESTRY BUT ON THE BASIS OF THE
POWER OF AN INDESTRUCTIBLE LIFE. 17 FOR IT
IS DECLARED: “YOU ARE A PRIEST FOREVER, IN
THE ORDER OF MELCHIZEDEK.”
RESPONSORIAL PSALM
R. (4b) You are a priest for ever, in the line of
Melchizedek.
The LORD said to my Lord: "Sit at my right hand
till I make your enemies your footstool."
R. You are a priest for ever, in the line of
Melchizedek.
The scepter of your power the LORD will stretch
forth from Zion: "Rule in the midst of your
enemies.”
R. You are a priest for ever, in the line of
Melchizedek.
"Yours is princely power in the day of your birth,
in holy splendor; before the daystar, like the
dew, I have begotten you."
R. You are a priest for ever, in the line of
Melchizedek.
The LORD has sworn, and he will not repent:
"You are a priest forever, according to the order
of Melchizedek.”
R. You are a priest for ever, in the line of
Melchizedek.
ALLELUIA
Jesus preached the Gospel of the Kingdom
and cured every disease among the people.
GOSPEL (MARK)
ANOTHER TIME JESUS WENT INTO THE
SYNAGOGUE, AND A MAN WITH A SHRIVELED
HAND WAS THERE. 2 SOME OF THEM WERE
LOOKING FOR A REASON TO ACCUSE JESUS, SO
THEY WATCHED HIM CLOSELY TO SEE IF HE
WOULD HEAL HIM ON THE SABBATH. 3 JESUS
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SAID TO THE MAN WITH THE SHRIVELED HAND,
“STAND UP IN FRONT OF EVERYONE.”
4
THEN JESUS ASKED THEM, “WHICH IS LAWFUL
ON THE SABBATH: TO DO GOOD OR TO DO
EVIL, TO SAVE LIFE OR TO KILL?” BUT THEY
REMAINED SILENT.
5
HE LOOKED AROUND AT THEM IN ANGER
AND, DEEPLY DISTRESSED AT THEIR STUBBORN
HEARTS, SAID TO THE MAN, “STRETCH OUT
YOUR HAND.” HE STRETCHED IT OUT, AND HIS
HAND WAS COMPLETELY RESTORED. 6 THEN
THE PHARISEES WENT OUT AND BEGAN TO
PLOT WITH THE HERODIANS HOW THEY MIGHT
KILL JESUS.

PRAYER OVER THE OFFERINGS

LORD GOD, IN THIS WONDERFUL EXCHANGE

OF GIFTS ACCEPT THE OFFERINGS YOU HAVE
GIVEN US, THAT WE IN TURN MAY RECEIVE THE
GIFT OF YOURSELF.

WE MAKE OUR PRAYER THROUGH JESUS

CHRIST OUR LORD.

PRAYER AFTER COMMUNION

GRANT IN YOUR MERCY, LORD, THAT YOUR

HEALING POWER IN THE EUCHARIST MAY RID
US OF WAYWARDNESS AND SIN AND LEAD US
TO ALL THAT IS RIGHT AND GOOD.

WE ASK THIS THROUGH JESUS CHRIST OUR

LORD.