1ST READING
We live in a world that frowns upon external discipline. It has no problem with individuals who discipline themselves. But it will prosecute someone who tries to impose discipline upon another, particularly of a corporal nature. How then do you discipline a child? I can remember the times I was punished as a child and each time I asked the question, “Was the pain worth it?” Sometimes, the answer was “yes,” and at other times, “no.” What I did learn through the law of consequences was that anything that is worth having is going to require a lot of discipline to attain it.
Hebrews 12:4-7, 11-15
4Brothers and sisters: In your struggle against sin you have not yet resisted to the point of shedding blood. 5You have also forgotten the exhortation addressed to you as children: My son, do not disdain the discipline of the Lord or lose heart when reproved by him; 6for whom the Lord loves, he disciplines; he scourges every son he acknowledges.” 7Endure your trials as “discipline”; God treats you as his sons. For what “son” is there whom his father does not discipline? 11At the time, all discipline seems a cause not for joy but for pain, yet later it brings the peaceful fruit of righteousness to those who are trained by it. 12So strengthen your drooping hands and your weak knees. 13Make straight paths for your feet, that what is lame may not be dislocated but healed. 14Strive for peace with everyone, and for that holiness without which no one will see the Lord. 15See to it that no one be deprived of the grace of God, that no bitter root spring up and cause trouble, through which many may become defiled.
P S A L M
Psalm 103:1-2, 13-14, 17-18
R: The Lord’s kindness is everlasting to those who fear him.
1Bless the Lord, O my soul; and all my being, bless his holy name. 2Bless the Lord, O my soul, and forget not all his benefits. (R) 13As a father has compassion on his children, so the Lord has compassion on those who fear him, 14For he knows how we are formed; he remembers that we are dust. (R) 17But the kindness of the Lord is from eternity to eternity toward those who fear him, and his justice toward children’s children 18among those who keep his covenant. (R)
GOSPEL
Shifting from mere man to Messiah was most difficult for those who knew Jesus while He was growing up. After all, they had known Him for years and they walked, ate and played with Him. For them, Jesus was just an ordinary man. They had difficulty accepting that this guy they have known for years was presenting Himself as the Son of God, our Redeemer and Savior.
GOSPEL ACCLAMATION
My sheep hear my voice, says the Lord; I know them, and they follow me.
Mark 6:1-6
1Jesus departed from there and came to his native place, accompanied by his disciples. 2When the sabbath came he began to teach in the synagogue, and many who heard him were astonished. They said, “Where did this man get all this? What kind of wisdom has been given him? What mighty deeds are wrought by his hands! 3 Is he not the carpenter, the son of Mary, and the brother of James and Joseph and Judas and Simon? And are not his sisters here with us?” And they took offense at him. 4 Jesus said to them, “A prophet is not without honor except in his native place and among his own kin and in his own house.” 5 So he was not able to perform any mighty deed there, apart from curing a few sick people by laying his hands on them. 6 He was amazed at their lack of faith.
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