FIRST
READING:
Hebrews 10
1-10
1
For the law having a shadow of the good things to come, not the very
image of the things; by the selfsame sacrifices which they offer
continually every year, can never make the comers thereunto perfect:
2
For then they would have ceased to be offered: because the
worshippers once cleansed should have no conscience of sin any
longer:
3
But in them there is made a commemoration of sins every year.
4
For it is impossible that with the blood of oxen and goats sin should
be taken away.
5
Wherefore when he cometh into the world, he saith: Sacrifice and
oblation thou wouldest not: but a body thou hast fitted to me:
6
Holocausts for sin did not please thee.
7
Then said I: Behold I come: in the head of the book it is written of
me: that I should do thy will, O God.
8
In saying before, Sacrifices, and oblations, and holocausts for sin
thou wouldest not, neither are they pleasing to thee, which are
offered according to the law.
9
Then said I: Behold, I come to do thy will, O God: he taketh away the
first, that he may establish that which followeth.
10
In the which will, we are sanctified by the oblation of the body of
Jesus Christ once.
PSALM:
Psalms 40:
2, 4, 7-8, 10-11
2
With expectation I have waited for the Lord, and he was attentive to
me.
4
And he put a new canticle into my mouth, a song to our God. Many
shall see, and shall fear: and they shall hope in the Lord.
7
Sacrifice and oblation thou didst not desire; but thou hast pierced
ears for me. Burnt offering and sin offering thou didst not require:
8
Then said I, Behold I come. In the head of the book it is written of
me
10
I have declared thy justice in a great church, lo, I will not
restrain my lips: O Lord, thou knowest it.
11
I have not hid thy justice within my heart: I have declared thy truth
and thy salvation. I have not concealed thy mercy and thy truth from
a great council.
ALLELUIA:
See Matthew
11: 25
R.
Alleluia, alleluia.
Blessed
art thou, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth;
thou
hast revealed to the little ones the mysteries of thy Kingdom.
R.
Alleluia, alleluia.
GOSPEL:
Mark 3:
31-35
31
And his mother and his brethren came; and standing without, sent unto
him, calling him.
32
And the multitude sat about him; and they say to him: Behold thy
mother and thy brethren without seek for thee.
33
And answering them, he said: Who is my mother and my brethren?
34
And looking round about on them who sat about him, he saith: Behold
my mother and my brethren.
35
For whosoever shall do the will of God, he is my brother, and my
sister, and mother.
