• St. Ildephonsus

• First Reading: Hebrews 8:6-13

  6: But as it is, Christ has obtained a ministry which is as much more excellent than the old as the covenant he mediates is better, since it is enacted on better promises.
  7: For if that first covenant had been faultless, there would have been no occasion for a second.
  8: For he finds fault with them when he says: "The days will come, says the Lord, when I will establish a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah;
  9: not like the covenant that I made with their fathers on the day when I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt; for they did not continue in my covenant, and so I paid no heed to them, says the Lord.
  10: This is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, says the Lord: I will put my laws into their minds, and write them on their hearts, and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.
  11: And they shall not teach every one his fellow or every one his brother, saying, `Know the Lord,' for all shall know me, from the least of them to the greatest.
  12: For I will be merciful toward their iniquities, and I will remember their sins no more."
  13: In speaking of a new covenant he treats the first as obsolete. And what is becoming obsolete and growing old is ready to vanish away.

• Psalm: Psalms 85:8, 10-14

  8 show us, O Lord, thy mercy; and grant us thy salvation.
  10 Surely his salvation is near to them that fear him: that glory may dwell in our land.
  11 Mercy and truth have met each other: justice and peace have kissed.
  12 Truth is sprung out of the earth: and justice hath looked down from heaven.
  13 For the Lord will give goodness: and our earth shall yield her fruit.
  14 Justice shall walk before him: and shall set his steps in the way.

   

• Gospel: Mark 3:13-19

  13: And he went up on the mountain, and called to him those whom he desired; and they came to him.
  14: And he appointed twelve, to be with him, and to be sent out to preach
  15: and have authority to cast out demons:
  16: Simon whom he surnamed Peter;
  17: James the son of Zeb'edee and John the brother of James, whom he surnamed Bo-aner'ges, that is, sons of thunder;
  18: Andrew, and Philip, and Bartholomew, and Matthew, and Thomas, and James the son of Alphaeus, and Thaddaeus, and Simon the Cananaean,
  19: and Judas Iscariot, who betrayed him. Then he went home;

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