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Today's Readings
- Thursday of the Sixth Week in Ordinary Time
  
  Reading 1 Gn 9:1-13
  Responsorial Psalm Ps 102:16-18, 19-21, 29 and 22-23
  Gospel Mk 8:27-33
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