Mass Readings for March 24, 2025

2 Kings 5:1-5
Psalms 42:2-3,43:3-4
Luke 4:24-30

2 Kings 5:1-5
(1) Now Naaman, captain of the army of the king of Syria, was a great man with his master, and honorable, because by him Yahweh had given victory to Syria: he was also a mighty man of valor, but he was a leper. (2) The Syrians had gone out in bands, and had brought away captive out of the land of Israel a little maiden; and she waited on Naaman’s wife. (3) She said to her mistress, “I wish that my lord were with the prophet who is in Samaria! Then he would heal him of his leprosy.” (4) Someone went in, and told his lord, saying, “The maiden who is from the land of Israel said this.” (5) The king of Syria said, “Go now, and I will send a letter to the king of Israel.” He departed, and took with him ten talents of silver, and six thousand pieces of gold, and ten changes of clothing.

Psalms 42:2-3,43:3-4
(2) My soul thirsts for God, for the living God. When shall I come and appear before God? (3) My tears have been my food day and night, while they continually ask me, “Where is your God?” (3) Oh, send out your light and your truth. Let them lead me. Let them bring me to your holy hill, To your tents. (4) Then I will go to the altar of God, to God, my exceeding joy. I will praise you on the harp, God, my God.

Luke 4:24-30
(24) He said, “Most certainly I tell you, no prophet is acceptable in his hometown. (25) But truly I tell you, there were many widows in Israel in the days of Elijah, when the sky was shut up three years and six months, when a great famine came over all the land. (26) Elijah was sent to none of them, except to Zarephath, in the land of Sidon, to a woman who was a widow. (27) There were many lepers in Israel in the time of Elisha the prophet, yet not one of them was cleansed, except Naaman, the Syrian.” (28) They were all filled with wrath in the synagogue, as they heard these things. (29) They rose up, threw him out of the city, and led him to the brow of the hill that their city was built on, that they might throw him off the cliff. (30) But he, passing through the middle of them, went his way.