Responsorial Psalm
Teach me your ways, O Lord;
make known to me your paths.
Remember your compassion, O Lord,
your unfailing love from of old.
Remember not the sins of my youth,
but in your love remember me.
Good and upright,
the Lord teaches sinners his way.
He teaches the humble of heart
and guides them in what is right.
2nd. READING (1P 3,18-22)
Remember how Christ died, once and for all, for our sins. He, the just one, died for the
unjust in order to lead us to God. He died as humans do, but was raised to life by the
Spirit, and it was then that he went to preach to the imprisoned spirits. They were the
generation who did not believe when God, in his great patience, delayed punishing the
world while Noah was building the ark in which a small group of eight persons
escaped through water. That was a type of the baptism which now saves you; this
baptism is not a matter of physical cleansing but of asking God to reconcile us through
the resurrection of Christ Jesus. He has ascended to heaven and is at the right hand of
God, having subjected the angels, Dominations and Powers.
Gospel
Then the Spirit drove him into the desert. Jesus stayed in the desert forty days and was
tempted by Satan. He was with the wild animals, but angels ministered to him. After
John was arrested, Jesus went into Galilee and began preaching the Good News of
God. He said, "The time has come; the kingdom of God is at hand. Change your ways
and believe the Good News."
