First Reading
2 Kings 5:1-15ab
Naaman, the army commander of the king of Aram, was highly esteemed and respected by his master, for through him the LORD had brought victory to Aram. But valiant as he was, the man was a leper. Now the Arameans had captured in a raid on the land of Israel a little girl, who became the servant of Naaman's wife. "If only my master would present himself to the prophet in Samaria," she said to her mistress, "he would cure him of his leprosy." Naaman went and told his lord just what the slave girl from the land of Israel had said. "Go," said the king of Aram. "I will send along a letter to the king of Israel."
When the king of Israel read the letter, he tore his garments and exclaimed: "Am I a god with power over life and death, that this man should send someone to me to be cured of leprosy?" When Elisha, the man of God, heard this, he sent word to the king: "Why have you torn your garments? Let him come to me and find out that there is a prophet in Israel."
Naaman came and stopped at the door of Elisha's house. The prophet sent him the message: "Go and wash seven times in the Jordan, and your flesh will heal, and you will be clean." But Naaman went away angry, saying, "I thought that he would surely come out and stand there to invoke the LORD his God. Are not the rivers of Damascus better than all the waters of Israel?"
But his servants reasoned with him: "If the prophet had told you to do something extraordinary, would you not have done it? All the more now, since he said to you, 'Wash and be clean.'" So Naaman went down and plunged into the Jordan seven times at the word of the man of God. His flesh became again like the flesh of a little child, and he was clean. He returned to the man of God and said, "Now I know that there is no God in all the earth, except in Israel."
This is the word of the Lord.
R. Thanks be to God.
Responsorial Psalm
Psalm 42:2, 3; 43:3, 4 R. (see 42:3)
R. Athirst is my soul for the living God. When shall I go and behold the face of God?
1. As the hind longs for the running waters,
so my soul longs for you, O God.
R. Athirst is my soul for the living God. When shall I go and behold the face of God?
2. Athirst is my soul for God, the living God.
When shall I go and behold the face of God?
R. Athirst is my soul for the living God. When shall I go and behold the face of God?
3. Send forth your light and your fidelity;
they shall lead me on
And bring me to your holy mountain,
to your dwelling-place.
R. Athirst is my soul for the living God. When shall I go and behold the face of God?
4. Then will I go in to the altar of God,
the God of my gladness and joy;
Then will I give you thanks upon the harp,
O God, my God!
R. Athirst is my soul for the living God. When shall I go and behold the face of God?
Verse Before the Gospel
See Psalm 130:5, 7 I hope in the LORD, I trust in his word; with him there is kindness and plenteous redemption.
Gospel
Luke 4:24-30
Jesus said to the people in the synagogue at Nazareth: “Amen, I say to you, no prophet is accepted in his own native place. Indeed, I tell you, there were many widows in Israel in the days of Elijah when the sky was closed for three and a half years and a severe famine spread over the entire land. It was to none of these that Elijah was sent, but only to a widow in Zarephath in the land of Sidon. Again, there were many lepers in Israel during the time of Elisha the prophet; yet not one of them was cleansed, but only Naaman the Syrian.”
When the people in the synagogue heard this, they were all filled with fury. They rose up, drove him out of the town, and led him to the brow of the hill on which their town had been built, to hurl him down headlong. But he passed through the midst of them and went away.
This is the Gospel of the Lord.
R. Praise to you, Lord Jesus Christ