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| "Ordaining of the Twelve Apostles" -- by James Tissot |
FIRST
READING: Hebrews
12: 18 - 19, 21 - 24
18
For you have not come to what may be touched, a blazing fire, and
darkness, and gloom, and a tempest,
19
and the sound of a trumpet, and a voice whose words made the hearers
entreat that no further messages be spoken to them.
21
Indeed, so terrifying was the sight that Moses said, "I tremble
with fear."
22
But you have come to Mount Zion and to the city of the living God,
the heavenly Jerusalem, and to innumerable angels in festal
gathering,
23
and to the assembly of the first-born who are enrolled in heaven, and
to a judge who is God of all, and to the spirits of just men made
perfect,
24
and to Jesus, the mediator of a new covenant, and to the sprinkled
blood that speaks more graciously than the blood of Abel.
PSALM:
Psalms 48:
2 - 4, 9 - 11
2
beautiful in elevation, is the joy of all the earth, Mount Zion, in
the far north, the city of the great King.
3
Within her citadels God has shown himself a sure defense.
4
For lo, the kings assembled, they came on together.
9
We have thought on thy steadfast love, O God, in the midst of thy
temple.
10
As thy name, O God, so thy praise reaches to the ends of the earth.
Thy right hand is filled with victory;
11
let Mount Zion be glad! Let the daughters of Judah rejoice because of
thy judgments!
GOSPEL:
Mark 6:
7 - 13
7
And he called to him the twelve, and began to send them out two by
two, and gave them authority over the unclean spirits.
8
He charged them to take nothing for their journey except a staff; no
bread, no bag, no money in their belts;
9
but to wear sandals and not put on two tunics.
10
And he said to them, "Where you enter a house, stay there until
you leave the place.
11
And if any place will not receive you and they refuse to hear you,
when you leave, shake off the dust that is on your feet for a
testimony against them."
12
So they went out and preached that men should repent.
13
And they cast out many demons, and anointed with oil many that were
sick and healed them.
