Daily Mass Readings for January 25, 2026: Gospel — Mt 4,12-23 ou 12-17

¹ The Lord told me, “Take a large tablet and inscribe these words on it with an ordinary stylus: ‘Maher Shalal Hash Baz.’ ² Then I will summon as my reliable witnesses Uriah the priest and Zechariah son of Jeberekiah.” ³ I then approached the prophetess for marital relations; she conceived and gave birth to a son. The Lord told me, “Name him Maher Shalal Hash Baz, ⁴ for before the child knows how to cry out ‘My father’ or ‘My mother,’ the wealth of Damascus and the plunder of Samaria will be carried off by the king of Assyria.” ⁵ The Lord spoke to me again: ⁶ “These people have rejected the gently flowing waters of Shiloah and melt in fear over Rezin and the son of Remaliah. ⁷ So look, the Lord is bringing up against them the turbulent and mighty waters of the Euphrates River—the king of Assyria and all his majestic power. It will reach flood stage and overflow its banks. ⁸ It will spill into Judah, flooding and engulfing, as it reaches to the necks of its victims. He will spread his wings out over your entire land, O Immanuel.” ⁹ You will be broken, O nations; you will be shattered! Pay attention, all you distant lands of the earth. Get ready for battle, and you will be shattered! Get ready for battle, and you will be shattered! 1 ⁰ Devise your strategy, but it will be thwarted. Issue your orders, but they will not be executed! For God is with us! 1 ¹ Indeed this is what the Lord told me quite forcefully. He warned me not to act like these people: 1 ² “Do not say, ‘Conspiracy,’ every time these people say the word. Don’t be afraid of what scares them; don’t be terrified. 1 ³ You must recognize the authority of the Lord of Heaven’s Armies. He is the one you must respect; he is the one you must fear. 1 ⁴ He will become a sanctuary, but a stone that makes a person trip and a rock that makes one stumble— to the two houses of Israel. He will become a trap and a snare to the residents of Jerusalem. 1 ⁵ Many will stumble over the stone and the rock, and will fall and be seriously injured, and will be ensnared and captured.” 1 ⁶ Tie up the scroll as legal evidence, seal the official record of God’s instructions, and give it to my followers. 1 ⁷ I will wait patiently for the Lord, who has rejected the family of Jacob; I will wait for him. 1 ⁸ Look, I and the sons whom the Lord has given me are reminders and object lessons in Israel, sent from the Lord of Heaven’s Armies, who lives on Mount Zion. 1 ⁹ They will say to you, “Seek oracles at the pits used to conjure up underworld spirits, from the magicians who chirp and mutter incantations. Should people not seek oracles from their gods, by asking the dead about the destiny of the living?” 2 ⁰ Then you must recall the Lord’s instructions and the prophetic testimony of what would happen. Certainly they say such things because their minds are spiritually darkened. 2 ¹ They will pass through the land destitute and starving. Their hunger will make them angry, and they will curse their king and their God as they look upward. 2 ² When one looks out over the land, he sees distress and darkness, gloom and anxiety, darkness and people forced from the land. 9 :1 (8:2 3 ) The gloom will be dispelled for those who were anxious. In earlier times he humiliated the land of Zebulun, and the land of Naphtali; but now he brings honor to the way of the sea, the region beyond the Jordan, and Galilee of the nations. 2 (9:1 ) The people walking in darkness see a bright light; light shines on those who live in a land of deep darkness. ³ You have enlarged the nation; you give them great joy. They rejoice in your presence as harvesters rejoice; as warriors celebrate when they divide up the plunder.

1 ⁰ I urge you, brothers and sisters, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, to agree together, to end your divisions, and to be united by the same mind and purpose. 1 ¹ For members of Chloe’s household have made it clear to me, my brothers and sisters, that there are quarrels among you. 1 ² Now I mean this, that each of you is saying, “I am with Paul,” or “I am with Apollos,” or “I am with Cephas,” or “I am with Christ.” 1 ³ Is Christ divided? Paul wasn’t crucified for you, was he? Or were you in fact baptized in the name of Paul? ¹ From Paul, called to be an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, and Sosthenes, our brother, ² to the church of God that is in Corinth, to those who are sanctified in Christ Jesus, and called to be saints, with all those in every place who call on the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, their Lord and ours. ³ Grace and peace to you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ! ⁴ I always thank my God for you because of the grace of God that was given to you in Christ Jesus. ⁵ For you were made rich in every way in him, in all your speech and in every kind of knowledge— ⁶ just as the testimony about Christ has been confirmed among you— ⁷ so that you do not lack any spiritual gift as you wait for the revelation of our Lord Jesus Christ. ⁸ He will also strengthen you to the end, so that you will be blameless on the day of our Lord Jesus Christ. ⁹ God is faithful, by whom you were called into fellowship with his son, Jesus Christ our Lord. 1 ⁴ I thank God that I did not baptize any of you except Crispus and Gaius, 1 ⁵ so that no one can say that you were baptized in my name! 1 ⁶ (I also baptized the household of Stephanus. Otherwise, I do not remember whether I baptized anyone else.) 1 ⁷ For Christ did not send me to baptize, but to preach the gospel—and not with clever speech, so that the cross of Christ would not become useless. 1 ⁸ For the message about the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God. 1 ⁹ For it is written, “I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and I will thwart the cleverness of the intelligent.” 2 ⁰ Where is the wise man? Where is the expert in the Mosaic law? Where is the debater of this age? Has God not made the wisdom of the world foolish? 2 ¹ For since in the wisdom of God the world by its wisdom did not know God, God was pleased to save those who believe by the foolishness of preaching. 2 ² For Jews demand miraculous signs and Greeks ask for wisdom, 2 ³ but we preach about a crucified Christ, a stumbling block to Jews and foolishness to Gentiles. 2 ⁴ But to those who are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ is the power of God and the wisdom of God. 2 ⁵ For the foolishness of God is wiser than human wisdom, and the weakness of God is stronger than human strength. 2 ⁶ Think about the circumstances of your call, brothers and sisters. Not many were wise by human standards, not many were powerful, not many were born to a privileged position. 2 ⁷ But God chose what the world thinks foolish to shame the wise, and God chose what the world thinks weak to shame the strong. 2 ⁸ God chose what is low and despised in the world, what is regarded as nothing, to set aside what is regarded as something, 2 ⁹ so that no one can boast in his presence. 3 ⁰ He is the reason you have a relationship with Christ Jesus, who became for us wisdom from God, and righteousness and sanctification and redemption, 3 ¹ so that, as it is written, “Let the one who boasts, boast in the Lord.”