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Thursday, February 20, 2025
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Total Consecration – Day 1
First Reading
Genesis 9:1-13
1And God blessed Noah and his sons, and said to them, "Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth.
2The fear of you and the dread of you shall be upon every beast of the earth, and upon every bird of the air, upon everything that creeps on the ground and all the fish of the sea; into your hand they are delivered.
3Every moving thing that lives shall be food for you; and as I gave you the green plants, I give you everything.
4Only you shall not eat flesh with its life, that is, its blood.
5For your lifeblood I will surely require a reckoning; of every beast I will require it and of man; of every man's brother I will require the life of man.
6Whoever sheds the blood of man, by man shall his blood be shed; for God made man in his own image.
7And you, be fruitful and multiply, bring forth abundantly on the earth and multiply in it."
8Then God said to Noah and to his sons with him,
9"Behold, I establish my covenant with you and your descendants after you,
10and with every living creature that is with you, the birds, the cattle, and every beast of the earth with you, as many as came out of the ark.
11I establish my covenant with you, that never again shall all flesh be cut off by the waters of a flood, and never again shall there be a flood to destroy the earth."
12And God said, "This is the sign of the covenant which I make between me and you and every living creature that is with you, for all future generations:
13I set my bow in the cloud, and it shall be a sign of the covenant between me and the earth.
Responsorial Psalm
Psalms 102:16-21, 29, 22-23
15The nations will fear the name of the LORD, and all the kings of the earth thy glory.
16For the LORD will build up Zion, he will appear in his glory;
17he will regard the prayer of the destitute, and will not despise their supplication.
18Let this be recorded for a generation to come, so that a people yet unborn may praise the LORD:
19that he looked down from his holy height, from heaven the LORD looked at the earth,
20to hear the groans of the prisoners, to set free those who were doomed to die;
21that men may declare in Zion the name of the LORD, and in Jerusalem his praise,
22when peoples gather together, and kingdoms, to worship the LORD.
28The children of thy servants shall dwell secure; their posterity shall be established before thee.
Gospel
Mark 8:27-33
27And Jesus went on with his disciples, to the villages of Caesare'a Philip'pi; and on the way he asked his disciples, "Who do men say that I am?"
28And they told him, "John the Baptist; and others say, Eli'jah; and others one of the prophets."
29And he asked them, "But who do you say that I am?" Peter answered him, "You are the Christ."
30And he charged them to tell no one about him.
31And he began to teach them that the Son of man must suffer many things, and be rejected by the elders and the chief priests and the scribes, and be killed, and after three days rise again.
32And he said this plainly. And Peter took him, and began to rebuke him.
33But turning and seeing his disciples, he rebuked Peter, and said, "Get behind me, Satan! For you are not on the side of God, but of men."
