Thursday 23 January 2025 (other days)
Thursday of week 2 in Ordinary Time
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Liturgical Colour: Green. Year: C(I).
| First reading |
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| Hebrews 7:25-8:6 |
‘He offered sacrifices for all when he offered up himself.’
Brothers and Sisters: Jesus is able to save to the uttermost those who draw near to God through him, since he always lives to make intercession for them.
For it was indeed fitting that we should have such a high priest, holy, innocent, unstained, separated from sinners, and exalted above the heavens. He has no need, like those high priests, to offer sacrifices daily, first for his own sins and then for those of the people, since he did this once for all when he offered up himself. For the law appoints men in their weakness as high priests, but the word of the oath, which came later than the law, appoints a Son who has been made perfect for ever.
Now the point in what we are saying is this: we have such a high priest, one who is seated at the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in heaven, a minister in the holy places, in the true tent that the Lord set up, not man. For every high priest is appointed to offer gifts and sacrifices; thus it is necessary for this priest also to have something to offer. Now if he were on earth, he would not be a priest at all, since there are priests who offer gifts according to the law. They serve a copy and shadow of the heavenly things. For when Moses was about to erect the tent, he was instructed by God, saying, ‘See that you make everything according to the pattern that was shown you on the mountain.’ But as it is, Christ has obtained a ministry that is as much more excellent than the old as the covenant he mediates is better, since it is enacted on better promises.
| Responsorial Psalm |
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| Ps 40(39):7-8a. 8b-9. 10. 17. ℟8a, 9a |
Behold, I have come, Lord, to do your will.
You delight not in sacrifice and offering,
but in an open ear.
You do not ask for holocaust and sin offering.
Then I said, ‘Behold, I have come.’
Behold, I have come, Lord, to do your will.
In the scroll of the book it stands written of me:
‘I delight to do your will, O my God;
your instruction lies deep within me.’
Behold, I have come, Lord, to do your will.
Your uprightness I have proclaimed
in the great assembly.
My lips I have not sealed;
you know it, O Lord.
Behold, I have come, Lord, to do your will.
O let there be rejoicing and gladness
for all who seek you.
Let them ever say, ‘The Lord is great,’
who long for your salvation.
Behold, I have come, Lord, to do your will.
| Gospel Acclamation |
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| Cf. 2 Timothy 1:10 |
Alleluia, alleluia.
Our Saviour Christ Jesus abolished death
and brought life to light through the gospel.
Alleluia.
| Gospel | Mark 3:7-12 |
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‘The unclean spirits cried out, “You are the Son of God.” And he ordered them not to make him known.’
At that time: Jesus withdrew with his disciples to the sea, and a great crowd followed, from Galilee and Judea and Jerusalem and Idumea and from beyond the Jordan and from around Tyre and Sidon. When the great crowd heard all that he was doing, they came to him. And he told his disciples to have a boat ready for him because of the crowd, lest they crush him, for he had healed many, so that all who had diseases pressed around him to touch him. And whenever the unclean spirits saw him, they fell down before him and cried out, ‘You are the Son of God.’ And he strictly ordered them not to make him known.
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