• St. Francis de Sales

• First Reading: Hebrews 9:2-3, 11-14

  2 For there was a tabernacle made the first, wherein were the candlesticks, and the table, and the setting forth of loaves, which is called the holy.
  3 And after the second veil, the tabernacle, which is called the holy of holies:
  11 But Christ, being come an high priest of the good things to come, by a greater and more perfect tabernacle not made with hand, that is, not of this creation:
  12 Neither by the blood of goats, or of calves, but by his own blood, entered once into the holies, having obtained eternal redemption.
  13 For if the blood of goats and of oxen, and the ashes of an heifer being sprinkled, sanctify such as are defiled, to the cleansing of the flesh:
  14 How much more shall the blood of Christ, who by the Holy Ghost offered himself unspotted unto God, cleanse our conscience from dead works, to serve the living God?

• Psalm: Psalms 47:2-3, 6-7, 8-9

  2: For the LORD, the Most High, is terrible, a great king over all the earth.
  3: He subdued peoples under us, and nations under our feet.
  6: Sing praises to God, sing praises! Sing praises to our King, sing praises!
  7: For God is the king of all the earth; sing praises with a psalm!
  8: God reigns over the nations; God sits on his holy throne.
  9: The princes of the peoples gather as the people of the God of Abraham. For the shields of the earth belong to God; he is highly exalted!

• Gospel: Mark 3:20-21

  20 And they come to a house, and the multitude cometh together again, so that they could not so much as eat bread.
  21 And when his friends had heard of it, they went out to lay hold on him. For they said: He is become mad.
  22 And the scribes who were come down from Jerusalem, said: He hath Beelzebub, and by the prince of devils he casteth out devils.
  

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