17 February 2026 (Tuesday) / Tuesday of the Sixth Week in Ordinary Time. Ordinary Weekday/ Seven Founders of the Order of Servites, Religious

17 February 2026 (Tuesday)

Tuesday of the Sixth Week in Ordinary Time.
Ordinary Weekday/ Seven Founders of the Order of Servites, Religious.

Readings from the Bible of the Roman Catholic Church:

First Reading: James 1: 12-18
Responsorial Psalm: Psalms 94: 12-13a, 14-15, 18-19
Alleluia: John 14: 23
Gospel: Mark 8: 14-21

First Reading: James 1: 12-18

12 Blessed is the man that endureth temptation; for when he hath been proved, he shall receive a crown of life, which God hath promised to them that love him.
13 Let no man, when he is tempted, say that he is tempted by God. For God is not a tempter of evils, and he tempteth no man.
14 But every man is tempted by his own concupiscence, being drawn away and allured.
15 Then when concupiscence hath conceived, it bringeth forth sin. But sin, when it is completed, begetteth death.
16 Do not err, therefore, my dearest brethren.
17 Every best gift, and every perfect gift, is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no change, nor shadow of alteration.
18 For of his own will hath he begotten us by the word of truth, that we might be some beginning of his creatures.

Responsorial Psalm: Psalms 94: 12-13a, 14-15, 18-19

R. (12a) Blessed the man you instruct, O Lord.
12 Blessed is the man whom thou shalt instruct, O Lord: and shalt teach him out of thy law.
13a That thou mayst give him rest from the evil days.
R. Blessed the man you instruct, O Lord.
14 For the Lord will not cast off his people: neither will he forsake his own inheritance.
15 Until justice be turned into judgment: and they that are near it are all the upright in heart.
R. Blessed the man you instruct, O Lord.
18 If I said: My foot is moved: thy mercy, O Lord, assisted me.
19 According to the multitude of my sorrows in my heart, thy comforts have given joy to my soul.
R. Blessed the man you instruct, O Lord.

Alleluia: John 14: 23
R. Alleluia, alleluia.
23 Whoever loves me will keep my word, says the Lord; and my Father will love him and we will come to him.
R. Alleluia, alleluia.

Gospel: Mark 8: 14-21

14 And they forgot to take bread; and they had but one loaf with them in the ship.
15 And he charged them, saying: Take heed and beware of the leaven of the Pharisees, and of the leaven of Herod.
16 And they reasoned among themselves, saying: Because we have no bread.
17 Which Jesus knowing, saith to them: Why do you reason, because you have no bread? do you not yet know nor understand? have you still your heart blinded?
18 Having eyes, see you not? and having ears, hear you not? neither do you remember.
19 When I broke the five loaves among five thousand, how many baskets full of fragments took you up? They say to him, Twelve.
20 When also the seven loaves among four thousand, how many baskets of fragments took you up? And they say to him, Seven.
21 And he said to them: How do you not yet understand?

For our reflection today:

Let us think about the four ideological groups of Jesus’ time: the Pharisees, the Sadducees, the Essenes, and the Zealots. Four groups that had hardened their hearts to carry out a plan that was not God’s; there was no place for God’s plan, no place for compassion. When the heart becomes hard, when the heart hardens, one forgets… One forgets about the grace of salvation, one forgets its gratuitousness. A hard heart leads to arguments, it leads to wars, it leads to selfishness, it leads to the destruction of one’s brother, because there is no compassion. And the greatest message of salvation is that God had compassion for us. That refrain in the Gospel, when Jesus sees a person, a painful situation: “he had compassion”. Jesus is the Father’s compassion; Jesus is the rebuke to any hardness of heart. Each one of us has something that has hardened in our hearts. Let us remember this, and may the Lord give us a righteous and sincere heart where the Lord dwells. The Lord cannot enter hard hearts; the Lord cannot enter ideological hearts. The Lord only enters hearts that are like his heart: compassionate hearts, hearts that have compassion, open hearts. (Pope Francis, Homily at Santa Marta, 18 February 2020)

Jonathan Fabian Ginunggil,
Pelayan Atasan Tertinggi / Most High Servant,
Yesus, Maria, Yusuf Pelayanan Kasih / Jesus, Mary, Joseph Ministry of Love 
(Blessed and Saints and the Nine Choirs of Angels)

My vocation is Blessed and Saints.

"I am the most humble of all the Saints in Heaven" Mary, Mother of God.

"I am the handmaid of the Lord, said Mary ‘let what you have said be done to me."

Mother Mary is the most humble Saint in Heaven and she is also the Mother of God for us all
(Luke 1:38)