Catholic Mass Readings for February 4 2026, Wednesday of Fourth Week in Ordinary Time

Catholic Mass Readings for February 4 2026, Wednesday of Fourth Week in Ordinary Time

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First Reading: 2 Samuel 24:2, 9-17

² King David said to Joab and the leaders of the army who were with him, “Tour all the tribes in Israel from Dan to Beer-sheba and register the people, that I may know their number.” ⁹Joab then reported to the king the number of people registered: in Israel, eight hundred thousand men fit for military service; in Judah, five hundred thousand.

¹⁰Afterward, however, David regretted having numbered the people, and said to the LORD: “I have sinned grievously in what I have done. But now, LORD, forgive the guilt of your servant, for I have been very foolish.”

¹¹When David rose in the morning, the LORD had spoken to the prophet Gad, David’s seer, saying: ¹²“Go and say to David, ‘This is what the LORD says: I offer you three alternatives; choose one of them, and I will inflict it on you.’”

¹³Gad then went to David to inform him. He asked:  “Do you want a three years’ famine to come upon your land, or to flee from your enemy three months while he pursues you, or to have a three days’ pestilence in your land? Now consider and decide what I must reply to him who sent me.”

¹⁴David answered Gad: “I am in very serious difficulty. Let us fall by the hand of God, for he is most merciful; but let me not fall by the hand of man.” ¹⁵Thus David chose the pestilence. Now it was the time of the wheat harvest when the plague broke out among the people. The LORD then sent a pestilence over Israel from morning until the time appointed, and seventy thousand of the people from Dan to Beer-sheba died.

¹⁶But when the angel stretched forth his hand toward Jerusalem to destroy it, the LORD regretted the calamity and said to the angel causing the destruction among the people, “Enough now! Stay your hand.” The angel of the LORD was then standing at the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite.

¹⁷When David saw the angel who was striking the people, he said to the LORD: “It is I who have sinned; it is I, the shepherd, who have done wrong. But these are sheep; what have they done? Punish me and my kindred.”

Responsorial Psalm: Psalms 32:1-2, 5, 6, 7

R. ^{(see 5c)} Lord, forgive the wrong I have done.

¹ Blessed is he whose fault is taken away,

whose sin is covered.

² Blessed the man to whom the LORD imputes not guilt,

in whose spirit there is no guile.

R. Lord, forgive the wrong I have done.

⁵ Then I acknowledged my sin to you,

my guilt I covered not.

I said, “I confess my faults to the LORD,”

and you took away the guilt of my sin.

R. Lord, forgive the wrong I have done.

⁶ For this shall every faithful man pray to you

in time of stress.

Though deep waters overflow,

they shall not reach him.

R. Lord, forgive the wrong I have done.

⁷You are my shelter; from distress you will

preserve me;

with glad cries of freedom you will ring

me round.

R. Lord, forgive the wrong I have done.

Alleluia: John 10:27

R. Alleluia, alleluia.

²⁷My sheep hear my voice, says the Lord;

I know them, and they follow me.

R. Alleluia, alleluia.

Gospel Reading for February 4 2026: Mark 6:1-6

¹Jesus departed from there and came to his native place, accompanied by his disciples. ²When the sabbath came he began to teach in the synagogue, and many who heard him were astonished. They said, “Where did this man get all this? What kind of wisdom has been given him? What mighty deeds are wrought by his hands!

³Is he not the carpenter, the son of Mary, and the brother of James and Joseph and Judas and Simon? And are not his sisters here with us?” And they took offense at him. ⁴Jesus said to them, “A prophet is not without honor except in his native place and among his own kin and in his own house.” 

⁵So he was not able to perform any mighty deed there, apart from curing a few sick people by laying his hands on them. ⁶ He was amazed at their lack of faith.

Tomorrow’s Catholic Mass Readings for February 5 2026, Thursday of Fourth Week in Ordinary Time