Mass Readings for January 28, 2025

Hebrews 10:1-10
Psalms 40:2,4,7-8,10-11
Mark 3:31-35

Hebrews 10:1-10
(1) For the law, having a shadow of the good to come, not the very image of the things, can never with the same sacrifices year by year, which they offer continually, make perfect those who draw near. (2) Or else wouldn’t they have ceased to be offered, because the worshipers, having been once cleansed, would have had no more consciousness of sins? (3) But in those sacrifices there is a yearly reminder of sins. (4) For it is impossible that the blood of bulls and goats should take away sins. (5) Therefore when he comes into the world, he says, “Sacrifice and offering you didn’t desire, but you prepared a body for me. (6) You had no pleasure in whole burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin. (7) Then I said, ‘Behold, I have come (in the scroll of the book it is written of me) to do your will, O God.’” (8) Previously saying, “Sacrifices and offerings and whole burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin you didn’t desire, neither had pleasure in them” (those which are offered according to the law), (9) then he has said, “Behold, I have come to do your will.” He takes away the first, that he may establish the second, (10) by which will we have been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.

Psalms 40:2,4,7-8,10-11
(2) He brought me up also out of a horrible pit, out of the miry clay. He set my feet on a rock, and gave me a firm place to stand. (4) Blessed is the man who makes Yahweh his trust, and doesn’t respect the proud, nor such as turn away to lies. (7) Then I said, “Behold, I have come. It is written about me in the book in the scroll. (8) I delight to do your will, my God. Yes, your law is within my heart.” (10) I have not hidden your righteousness within my heart. I have declared your faithfulness and your salvation. I have not concealed your loving kindness and your truth from the great assembly. (11) Don’t withhold your tender mercies from me, Yahweh. Let your loving kindness and your truth continually preserve me.

Mark 3:31-35
(31) His mother and his brothers came, and standing outside, they sent to him, calling him. (32) A multitude was sitting around him, and they told him, “Behold, your mother, your brothers, and your sisters are outside looking for you.” (33) He answered them, “Who are my mother and my brothers?” (34) Looking around at those who sat around him, he said, “Behold, my mother and my brothers! (35) For whoever does the will of God, the same is my brother, and my sister, and mother.”