28 January 2025 Catholic Mass Bible Reading

28 January 2025 Catholic Mass Bible Reading    • 28 January 2025 Catholic Mass Bible R...   Tuesday 28 January 2025 First reading Hebrews 10:1-10 Brothers and Sisters: Since the Law has but a shadow of the good things to come instead of the true form of these realities, it can never, by the same sacrifices that are continually offered every year, make perfect those who draw near. Otherwise, would they not have ceased to be offered, since the worshippers, having once been cleansed, would no longer have any consciousness of sins? But in these sacrifices there is a reminder of sins every year. For it is impossible for the blood of bulls and goats to take away sins. Consequently, when Christ came into the world, he said, ‘Sacrifices and offerings you have not desired, but a body have you prepared for me; in burnt offerings and sin offerings you have taken no pleasure. Then I said, “Behold, I have come to do your will, O God, as it is written of me in the scroll of the book.” ’ When he said above, ‘You have neither desired nor taken pleasure in sacrifices and offerings and burnt offerings and sin offerings’ (these are offered according to the Law), then he added, ‘Behold, I have come to do your will.’ He does away with the first in order to establish the second. And by that will we have been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all. Responsorial Psalm Ps 40(39):2, 4ab. 7-8a. 10. 11.℟8a, 9a Behold, I have come, Lord, to do your will. I waited, I waited for the Lord, and he stooped down to me; he heard my cry. He put a new song into my mouth, praise of our God. 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. 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. Your saving help I have not hidden in my heart; of your faithfulness and salvation I have spoken. I made no secret of your merciful love and your faithfulness to the great assembly. Behold, I have come, Lord, to do your will. Gospel Acclamation Cf. Matthew 11:25 Alleluia, alleluia. I thank you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, you have revealed the secrets of the kingdom to little children. Alleluia. Gospel Mark 3:31-35 At that time: The mother of Jesus and his brothers came, and standing outside they sent to him and called him. And a crowd was sitting around him, and they said to him, ‘Your mother and your brothers are outside, seeking you.’ And he answered them, ‘Who are my mother and my brothers?’ And looking about at those who sat around him, he said, ‘Here are my mother and my brothers! For whoever does the will of God, he is my brother and sister and mother.’ Gospel of the Lord