February 20 - Thursday of the 6th Week in Ordinary Time, Year I
(Gn.9:1-13; Ps.102:16-23,29; Mk.8:27-33) “The children of your servants shall abide, and their posterity shall continue in your presence.” In our first reading from Genesis, God remakes the world. As once He sent forth Adam and Eve upon their creation, so now He blesses Noah and his sons with the same words: “Be fertile and multiply and fill the earth.” Here we are reminded that “in the image of God has man been made,” and once again God calls man to “abound on the earth and subdue it,” giving him power over all its living creatures. And now a promise is added, a covenant is made “between…
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