FOURTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME Lectionary #71
Where do you find a prophet? Some people might look for someone like Moses, but others might find a prophet preaching in the local synagogue.

Deuteronomy 18:15–20. The figure of Moses was so important in Jewish history and belief that the author of Deuteronomy consoled the people with the divine promise that they would never be without a prophet like Moses.

Psalm of the Day: Ps (94) 95
The God of Israel is celebrated as the supreme deity and the shepherd of the people. In Christian practice, this psalm is used as the “invitatory” that begins the daily liturgy of the hours.

Harden Not Your Hearts (Cooney)  PCY4 43
If Today You Hear God’s Voice (Farrell)   JS 73
If Today You Hear God's Voice (Haas)  PCY1 70/RS 129/GC 89/GC2 51
If Today You Hear God’s Voice (Honoré)    SO 32/WC 404/WS
If Today You Hear God’s Voice (Smith) GP 233
If Today You Hear God's Voice (Willcock)  PFS 50
If Today You Hear His Voice (Colgan) GP 235
If Today You Hear His Voice (Guimont)  RS 127/GC2 960/LPMG 71
If Today You Hear His Voice (Harbor)  LMGM 532
If Today You Hear His Voice (Honoré)   PMB 160/PRM B74/WS
If Today You Hear His Voice (Isele)  LMGM 533
If Today You Hear His Voice (Kreutz)    JS 72/PSC 49
If Today You Hear His Voice/Ojalá Escuchen Hoy la Voz del Señor (Krisman)   SS
If Today You Hear His Voice (Proulx/Gelineau)  WOR 931/LPGG 797
If Today You Hear His Voice (Schiavone)   JS 958/LP 102
If Today You Hear His Voice (Smith)   MI-BB
If Today You Hear His Voice (Stewart)  PCY5 23/RS 128
If You Hear the Voice of God (McAleer)  GP 234/MI-BB/SP1 58
Let Not Your Hearts Be Hardened (Warner)  PST 27

Listen! Listen!   PSL 37/SS
Listen Today to God’s Voice/Escuchen Hoy la Voz del Señor (Cortés)   JS 71
O That Today You Would Listen to His Voice (Young/Black)  CBW 122
Ojalá Escuchen Hoy la Voz del Señor (Grajeda) GP 236
Ojalá Escuchen Hoy la Voz/If Today You Hear His Voice (Reza) FYC 235
Ojalá Escuchen Hoy Su Voz (Montgomery) FYC 234

1 Corinthians 7:32–35. Paul is trying to communicate the sort of wholehearted devotion that the Gospel calls for. Though unmarried himself, he uses marriage as an example of the way people can become involved with things other than the faith. This passage has often been used to defend a dedicated life of virginity.

Mark 1:21–28. Though many people thought of Jesus as a rabbi—a teacher of the Torah—he demonstrates in the synagogue at Capernaum that he is an interpreter as well as an expert in current thought about the Torah, in other words, a powerful teacher who offers “a new teaching with authority.”

Songs for the Liturgy