Daily Mass Readings for March 09, 2025: Gospel — Lc 4,1-13

⁴ The priest will then take the basket from you and set it before the altar of the Lord your God. ⁵ Then you must affirm before the Lord your God, “A wandering Aramean was my ancestor, and he went down to Egypt and lived there as a foreigner with a household few in number, but there he became a great, powerful, and numerous people. ⁶ But the Egyptians mistreated and oppressed us, forcing us to do burdensome labor. ⁷ So we cried out to the Lord, the God of our ancestors, and he heard us and saw our humiliation, toil, and oppression. ⁸ Therefore the Lord brought us out of Egypt with tremendous strength and power, as well as with great awe-inspiring signs and wonders. ⁹ Then he brought us to this place and gave us this land, a land flowing with milk and honey. 1 ⁰ So now, look! I have brought the first of the ground’s produce that you, Lord, have given me.” Then you must set it down before the Lord your God and worship before him.

⁸ But what does it say? “The word is near you, in your mouth and in your heart” (that is, the word of faith that we preach), ⁹ because if you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. 1 ⁰ For with the heart one believes and thus has righteousness and with the mouth one confesses and thus has salvation. 1 ¹ For the scripture says, “Everyone who believes in him will not be put to shame.” 1 ² For there is no distinction between the Jew and the Greek, for the same Lord is Lord of all, who richly blesses all who call on him. 1 ³ For everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.