February 7 - Friday of the 4th Week in Ordinary Time, Year I
(Heb.13:1-8; Ps.27:1,3,5,8-9; Mk.6:14-29) “I will never desert you, nor will I forsake you.” A series of parallels we have today between our first reading and our gospel. Paul instructs us in his letter to the Hebrews not to “neglect to show hospitality” to our “fellow Christians,” since we may be “entertain[ing] angels” thereby; but it is not angels Herod entertains at his birthday banquet, and a false sense of hospitality leads him to grave sin, as when Herodias’ daughter requests the Baptist’s head on a platter, “because of his oath and the presence of his guests,” he “dispatch[es] an…
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