Gospel of January 17, 2019

Letter to the Hebrews 3,7-14.
Brothers, as the Holy Spirit says: "Today, if you hear his voice,
do not harden your hearts as in the day of rebellion, the day of temptation in the desert,
where your fathers tempted me, testing me, despite having seen my works for forty years.
So I disgusted myself with that generation and said: They always have their hearts turned aside. They have not known my ways.
So I swore in my anger: They will not enter into my rest ”.
Therefore, brothers, do not find in any of you a perverse and faithless heart that turns away from the living God.
Rather exhort each other every day, as long as this "today" lasts, so that none of you become hardened by sin.
In fact, we have become partakers of Christ, on condition that we keep the trust we had from the beginning firmly to the end.

Salmi 95(94),6-7.8-9.10-11.
Come, prostrati we adore,
kneeling before the Lord who created us.
He is our God, and we are the people of his pasture,
the flock he leads.

Listen to his voice today:
"Do not harden your heart, as in Meriba,
as on the day of Massa in the desert,
where your fathers tempted me:
they put me to the test despite having seen my works. "

For forty years I was disgusted with that generation
and I said: I am a people with a false heart,
they don't know my ways;
therefore I swore in my indignation:
They will not enter the place of my rest ”.

From the Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Mark 1,40-45.
At that time, a leper came to Jesus: he begged him on his knees and said to him: «If you want, you can heal me!».
Moved with compassion, he stretched out his hand, touched him and said, "I want it, heal!"
Soon the leprosy disappeared and he recovered.
And, admonishing him severely, sent him back and said to him:
«Be careful not to say anything to anyone, but go, introduce yourself to the priest, and offer for your purification what Moses ordered, as a testimony for them».
But those who left, began to proclaim and divulge the fact, to the point that Jesus could no longer enter publicly in a city, but he was outside, in deserted places, and they came to him from all sides.