February 21st, 2025, Friday of the sixth week in ordinary time.

A reading from the book of Genesis.

The whole world spoke the same language, using the same words.

While the people were migrating in the east, they came upon a valley in the land of Shinar

and settled there. They said to one another,

Come, let us mold bricks and harden them with fire.

They used bricks for stone and bitumen for mortar.

Then they said, come, let us build ourselves a city and a tower with its top in the sky,

and so make a name for ourselves.

Otherwise we shall be scattered all over the earth.

The Lord came down to see the city and the tower that they had built.

Then the Lord said, if now, while they are one people, all speaking the same language, they have started to do this.

Nothing will later stop them from doing whatever they presume to do.

Let us then go down, and there confuse their language, so that one will not understand what another says.

Thus the Lord scattered them from there, all over the earth, and they stopped building the city.

That is why it was called Babel, because there the Lord confused the speech of all the world.

It was from that place that he scattered them all over the earth.

The Word of the Lord.

Responsorial Psalm.

The response is,

Blessed the people the Lord has chosen to be his own.

The Lord brings to naught the plans of nations.

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