1ST READING
Today,
many will celebrate the Feast of St. Francis de Sales, a great
spiritual director, bishop and writer of the Church. In many ways, he
was instrumental in the Church’s response to the Protestant Reformation,
writing many apologetic works and doing much in persuading many who had
left the Church to return. Let us pray that, like St. Francis, we will
be true witnesses to the fullness of the Christian life, and so be
living lights of the Gospel to all whom we meet.
Hebrews 7:25-8:6
25 Jesus is always able to save those who approach God through him, since he lives forever to make intercession for them. 26 It was fitting that we should have such a high priest: holy, innocent, undefiled, separated from sinners, higher than the heavens. 27 He has
no need, as did the high priests, to offer sacrifice day after day, first for his own sins and then for those of the people; he did that once for all when he offered himself. 28 For
the law appoints men subject to weakness to be high priests, but the
word of the oath, which was taken after the law, appoints a son, who has
been made perfect forever. 8: 1 The
main point of what has been said is this: we have such a high priest,
who has taken his seat at the right hand of the throne of the majesty in
heaven, 2 a minister of the sanctuary and of the true tabernacle that the Lord, not man, set up. 3 Now every high priest is appointed to offer gifts and sacrifices; thus the necessity for this one also to have something to offer. 4 If then he were on earth, he would not be a priest, since there are those who offer gifts according to the law. 5 They
worship in a copy and shadow of the heavenly sanctuary, as Moses was
warned when he was about to erect the tabernacle. For God says, “See
that you make everything according to the pattern shown you on the
mountain.” 6 Now he has obtained so much more excellent a ministry as he is mediator of a better covenant, enacted on better promises.
P S A L M
Psalm 40: 7-8, 8-9, 10, 17
R: Here am I, Lord; I come to do your will.
6 [7] Sacrifice or oblation you wished not, but ears open to obedience you gave me. Burnt offering or sin-offerings you sought not; 7 [8] then said I, “Behold I come.” (R) “In the written scroll it is prescribed for me, 8 [9] to do your will, O my God, is my delight, and your law is within my heart!” (R) 9 [10] I announced your justice in the vast assembly; I did not restrain my lips, as you, O Lord, know. (R) 16 [17] May all who seek you exult
and be glad in you, and may those who love your salvation say ever, “The Lord be glorified.” (R)
GOSPEL
It
is the uncompromising holiness of Jesus — the witness of His life —
that is a powerful attraction to the crowds. Yes, they want to see Him
work miracles, but there is more to it than just that, as we see that
many became His disciples. The same will happen through the witness of
our own lives if we are faithful to all that the Gospel calls us to live
out.
GOSPEL ACCLAMATION
Our Savior Jesus Christ has destroyed death and brought life to light through the Gospel.
Mark 3:7-12
7 Jesus withdrew toward the sea with his disciples. A large number of people followed from Galilee and from Judea. 8 Hearing
what he was doing, a large number of people came to him also from
Jerusalem, from Idumea, from beyond the Jordan, and from the
neighborhood of Tyre and Sidon. 9 He told his
disciples to have a boat ready for him because of the crowd, so that they would not crush him. 10 He had cured many and, as a result, those who had diseases were pressing upon him to touch him. 11 And whenever
unclean spirits saw him they would fall down before him and shout, “You are the Son of God.” 12 He warned them sternly not to make him known.
Luke 10-12
TODAY’S
BLESSING
LIST
think: Let us pray that we will be true witnesses to the fullness of the Christian life.
T O D A Y’S BLESSING LIST
Thank You Lord for: ___________________________
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God’s special verse/thought for me today_________
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READ THE BIBLE IN ONE YEAR Luke 10-12
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