Daily Reading for Friday, January 17th, 2025

Reading 1, Hebrews 4:1-5, 11

¹ Let us beware, then: since the promise never lapses, none of you must think that he has come too late for the promise of entering his place of rest.

² We received the gospel exactly as they did; but hearing the message did them no good because they did not share the faith of those who did listen.

³ We, however, who have faith, are entering a place of rest, as in the text: And then in my anger I swore that they would never enter my place of rest. Now God's work was all finished at the beginning of the world;

⁴ as one text says, referring to the seventh day: And God rested on the seventh day after all the work he had been doing.

⁵ And, again, the passage above says: They will never reach my place of rest.

¹¹ Let us, then, press forward to enter this place of rest, or some of you might copy this example of refusal to believe and be lost.

Responsorial Psalm, Psalms 78:3, 4, 6-7, 8

³ What we have heard and know, what our ancestors have told us

⁴ we shall not conceal from their descendants, but will tell to a generation still to come: the praises of Yahweh, his power, the wonderful deeds he has done.

⁶ that a generation still to come might know it, children yet to be born. They should be sure to tell their own children,

⁷ and should put their trust in God, never forgetting God's great deeds, always keeping his commands,

⁸ and not, like their ancestors, be a stubborn and rebellious generation, a generation weak of purpose, their spirit fickle towards God.

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