Gospel of the day of January 14, 2021 with the comment of Pope Francis

READING OF THE DAY
From the letter to the Jews
Heb 3,7-14

Brothers, as the Holy Spirit says: "Today, if you hear his voice, do not harden your hearts as on the day of rebellion, the day of temptation in the desert, where your fathers tempted me by testing me, despite having seen for years my works. So I was disgusted with that generation and said: they always have a misguided heart. They have not known my ways. Thus I have sworn in my anger: they will not enter in my rest ». Take care, brothers, that none of you find a perverse and faithless heart that strays from the living God. Rather exhort each other every day, while this lasts today, so that none of you persist, seduced by sin. In fact, we have become sharers in Christ, on condition that we keep firm to the end the trust we have had from the beginning.

GOSPEL OF THE DAY
From the Gospel according to Mark
Mc 1,40-45

At that time, a leper came to Jesus, begging him on his knees and saying to him: "If you want, you can purify me!" He took pity on him, stretched out his hand, touched him and said to him: "I want it, be purified!" And immediately, the leprosy disappeared from him and he was purified. And, admonishing him severely, he chased him away at once and said to him: «Be careful not to tell anyone anything; instead go and show yourself to the priest and offer for your purification what Moses prescribed, as a testimony for them ». But he went away and began to proclaim and divulge the fact, so much so that Jesus could no longer publicly enter a city, but remained outside, in deserted places; and they came to him from everywhere.

WORDS OF THE HOLY FATHER
Community cannot be created without closeness. You cannot make peace without closeness. You cannot do good without getting close. Jesus could well have said to him: 'Be healed!'. No: he came over and touched it. More! The moment Jesus touched the unclean, he became unclean. And this is the mystery of Jesus: he takes upon himself our filth, our impure things. Paul says it well: 'Being equal to God, he did not consider this divinity an indispensable good; annihilated himself '. And then, Paul goes further: 'He made himself sin'. Jesus made himself sin. Jesus excluded himself, he took impurity upon himself to get closer to us. (Santa Marta, June 26, 2015