• St. Marcellus, Pope 

• First Reading: Hebrews 4:1-5, 11

  1: Therefore, while the promise of entering his rest remains, let us fear lest any of you be judged to have failed to reach it.
  2: For good news came to us just as to them; but the message which they heard did not benefit them, because it did not meet with faith in the hearers.
  3: For we who have believed enter that rest, as he has said, "As I swore in my wrath, `They shall never enter my rest,'" although his works were finished from the foundation of the world.
  4: For he has somewhere spoken of the seventh day in this way, "And God rested on the seventh day from all his works."
  5: And again in this place he said, "They shall never enter my rest."
  11: Let us therefore strive to enter that rest, that no one fall by the same sort of disobedience.

• Psalm: Psalms 78:3 and 4bc, 6c-7, 8

  3: things that we have heard and known, that our fathers have told us.
  4: but tell to the coming generation the glorious deeds of the LORD, and his might, and the wonders which he has wrought.
  6: and arise and tell them to their children,
  7: so that they should set their hope in God, and not forget the works of God, but keep his commandments;
  8: and that they should not be like their fathers, a stubborn and rebellious generation, a generation whose heart was not steadfast, whose spirit was not faithful to God.
  

• Gospel: Mark 2:1-12

  1: And when he returned to Caper'na-um after some days, it was reported that he was at home.
  2: And many were gathered together, so that there was no longer room for them, not even about the door; and he was preaching the word to them.
  3: And they came, bringing to him a paralytic carried by four men.
  4: And when they could not get near him because of the crowd, they removed the roof above him; and when they had made an opening, they let down the pallet on which the paralytic lay.
  5: And when Jesus saw their faith, he said to the paralytic, "My son, your sins are forgiven."
  6: Now some of the scribes were sitting there, questioning in their hearts,
  7: "Why does this man speak thus? It is blasphemy! Who can forgive sins but God alone?"
  8: And immediately Jesus, perceiving in his spirit that they thus questioned within themselves, said to them, "Why do you question thus in your hearts?
  9: Which is easier, to say to the paralytic, `Your sins are forgiven,' or to say, `Rise, take up your pallet and walk'?
  10: But that you may know that the Son of man has authority on earth to forgive sins" -- he said to the paralytic --
  11: "I say to you, rise, take up your pallet and go home."
  12: And he rose, and immediately took up the pallet and went out before them all; so that they were all amazed and glorified God, saying, "We never saw anything like this!"

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