Holy Gospel, prayer of February 7

Today's Gospel
From the Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Mark 7,14-23.
Calling the crowd again, he said to them: "Listen to me all and understand well:
there is nothing outside of man that, by entering into him, can defile him; instead, it is the things that come out of man to contaminate him ».
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When he entered a house away from the crowd, the disciples asked him about the meaning of that parable.
And he said to them, "Are you also so devoid of intellect? You don't understand that anything that enters man from outside cannot contaminate him,
why doesn't it enter his heart but his belly and end up in the sewer? ». Thus declared all food worlds.
Then he added: «What comes out of man, this yes contaminates man.
In fact, from within, that is, from the heart of men, bad intentions come out: fornications, thefts, murders,
adultèri, greed, wickedness, deception, shamelessness, envy, slander, pride, foolishness.
All these bad things come out from within and contaminate man ».

Saint of today - PIUS IX POPE
Blessed Pius IX, in the storm of a difficult century

you have kept peace of heart

and you have guarded the joy of the Magnificat in your soul.

Help us to be happy in the tests

to bless our persecutors today,

revealing for them the face of God.

You loved the Immaculate Conception

and you enlightened with true happiness when you declared

that the Holy Virgin never knew sin,

but it has always been in the Heart of God.

Help us to love Mary to follow Jesus with her

to the extreme sign of Love.

Ejaculatory of the day

O merciful Lord Jesus gives them rest and peace.