January 28, 2024 – Fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time

+ From the Gospel according to Mark (1, 21 – 28)

At that time, Jesus entered the synagogue on a Saturday [in Capernaum] and was teaching. And they were amazed at his teaching: in fact he taught them as someone who has authority, and not as scribes.
And behold, in their synagogue there was a man possessed by an impure spirit and he began to cry out, saying: «What do you want from us, Jesus of Nazareth? Have you come to ruin us? I know who you are: the saint of God! And Jesus ordered him sternly: «Shut up! Get out of him! And the impure spirit, tormenting him and crying out loudly, came out of him.
Everyone was filled with fear, so much so that they asked each other: «What is this? A new teaching, given with authority. He even commands the impure spirits and they obey him!
His fame immediately spread everywhere, throughout the region of Galilee.

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