17 February 2026 (Tuesday) / Tuesday of week 6 in Ordinary Time or The Seven Holy Founders of the Servite Order / Tuesday of the Sixth Week in Ordinary Time. Ordinary Weekday/ Seven Founders of the Order of Servites, Religious

17 February 2026 (Tuesday)

Tuesday of week 6 in Ordinary Time or The Seven Holy Founders of the Servite Order.

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

Happy the man who stands firm when trials come. He has proved himself, and will win the prize of life, the crown that the Lord has promised to those who love him.
  Never, when you have been tempted, say, ‘God sent the temptation’; God cannot be tempted to do anything wrong, and he does not tempt anybody. Everyone who is tempted is attracted and seduced by his own wrong desire. Then the desire conceives and gives birth to sin, and when sin is fully grown, it too has a child, and the child is death.
  Make no mistake about this, my dear brothers: it is all that is good, everything that is perfect, which is given us from above; it comes down from the Father of all light; with him there is no such thing as alteration, no shadow of a change. By his own choice he made us his children by the message of the truth so that we should be a sort of first‐fruits of all that he had created.

Responsive Psalm : Psalm 93(94):12‐15,18‐19

Happy the man whom you teach, O Lord.
Happy the man whom you teach, O Lord,
  whom you train by means of your law;
to him you give peace in evil days
  while the pit is being dug for the wicked.
Happy the man whom you teach, O Lord.
The Lord will not abandon his people
  nor forsake those who are his own;
for judgement shall again be just
  and all true hearts shall uphold it.
Happy the man whom you teach, O Lord.
When I think: ‘I have lost my foothold’;
  your mercy, Lord, holds me up.
When cares increase in my heart
  your consolation calms my soul.
Happy the man whom you teach, 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

The disciples had forgotten to take any food and they had only one loaf with them in the boat. Then he gave them this warning, ‘Keep your eyes open; be on your guard against the yeast of the Pharisees and the yeast of Herod.’ And they said to one another, ‘It is because we have no bread.’ And Jesus knew it, and he said to them, ‘Why are you talking about having no bread? Do you not yet understand? Have you no perception? Are your minds closed? Have you eyes that do not see, ears that do not hear? Or do you not remember? When I broke the five loaves among the five thousand, how many baskets full of scraps did you collect?’ They answered, ‘Twelve.’ ‘And when I broke the seven loaves for the four thousand, how many baskets full of scraps did you collect?’ And they answered, ‘Seven.’ Then he said to them, ‘Are you still without perception?’ 

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)