Basilica Livestream 21 February 2021 Solemn Vespers on the First Sunday of Lent

Basilica Livestream 21 February 2021 Solemn Vespers on the First Sunday of Lent

Join us live from the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception on Sunday, February 21st at 4:00 PM ET for the Solemn Vespers on the First Sunday of Lent. Followed by our Catholic Mass livestream featuring sacred liturgical music by the Choir of the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception.

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Basilica Livestream 21 February 2021 Solemn Vespers on the First Sunday of Lent

Daily Reading for Sunday February 21, 2021
Reading 1, Genesis 9:8-15
Responsorial Psalm, Psalms 25:4-5, 6-7, 8-9
Gospel, Mark 1:12-15
Reading 2, First Peter 3:18-22

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Reading 1, Genesis 9:8-15
8 God spoke as follows to Noah and his sons,

9 ‘I am now establishing my covenant with you and with your descendants to come,

10 and with every living creature that was with you: birds, cattle and every wild animal with you; everything that came out of the ark, every living thing on earth.

11 And I shall maintain my covenant with you: that never again shall all living things be destroyed by the waters of a flood, nor shall there ever again be a flood to devastate the earth.’

12 ‘And this’, God said, ‘is the sign of the covenant which I now make between myself and you and every living creature with you for all ages to come:

13 I now set my bow in the clouds and it will be the sign of the covenant between me and the earth.

14 When I gather the clouds over the earth and the bow appears in the clouds,

15 I shall recall the covenant between myself and you and every living creature, in a word all living things, and never again will the waters become a flood to destroy all living things.