Daily Reading for Tuesday, January 7th, 2025

Daily Reading for Tuesday January 7, 2025

Reading 1, First John 4:7-10
Responsorial Psalm, Psalms 86:1-2, 3-4, 5-6
Gospel, Mark 6:34-44
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Gospel, Mark 6:34-44

³⁴ So as he stepped ashore he saw a large crowd; and he took pity on them because they were like sheep without a shepherd, and he set himself to teach them at some length.

³⁵ By now it was getting very late, and his disciples came up to him and said, 'This is a lonely place and it is getting very late,

³⁶ so send them away, and they can go to the farms and villages round about, to buy themselves something to eat.'

³⁷ He replied, 'Give them something to eat yourselves.' They answered, 'Are we to go and spend two hundred denarii on bread for them to eat?'

³⁸ He asked, 'How many loaves have you? Go and see.' And when they had found out they said, 'Five, and two fish.'

³⁹ Then he ordered them to get all the people to sit down in groups on the green grass,

⁴⁰ and they sat down on the ground in squares of hundreds and fifties.

⁴¹ Then he took the five loaves and the two fish, raised his eyes to heaven and said the blessing; then he broke the loaves and began handing them to his disciples to distribute among the people. He also shared out the two fish among them all.

⁴² They all ate as much as they wanted.

⁴³ They collected twelve basketfuls of scraps of bread and pieces of fish.

⁴⁴ Those who had eaten the loaves numbered five thousand men.

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