The 24th of January, 2023, Tuesday is the Memorial of Saint Francis de Sales, Bishop and Doctor of the Church. The Holy Bible verses for the mass readings for this day came from the Liturgical Calendar Year 2023.
Reading 1: HEB 10:1-10
The first reading from The Letter to the Hebrews.
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.
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?
But in those sacrifices there is a yearly reminder of sins.
For it is impossible that the blood of bulls and goats should take away sins.
Therefore when he comes into the world, he says, “You didn’t desire sacrifice and offering, but you prepared a body for me.
You had no pleasure in whole burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin.
Then I said, ‘Behold, I have come (in the scroll of the book it is written of me) to do your will, O God.’_”
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), then he has said, “Behold, I have come to do your will.” He takes away the first, that he may establish the second, by which will we have been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.
Responsorial Psalm: PS 40:1 and 3AB, 6-7A, 9, 10
Response: “Behold, I have come.”; “I delight to do your will, my God.”
I waited patiently for Yahweh. He turned to me, and heard my cry.
He has put a new song in my mouth, even praise to our God.
R: “Behold, I have come.”; “I delight to do your will, my God.”
Sacrifice and offering you didn’t desire. You have opened my ears. You have not required burnt offering and sin offering.
Then I said, “Behold, I have come.”
R: “Behold, I have come.”; “I delight to do your will, my God.”
I have proclaimed glad news of righteousness in the great assembly. Behold, I will not seal my lips, Yahweh, you know.
R: “Behold, I have come.”; “I delight to do your will, my God.”
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.
R: “Behold, I have come.”; “I delight to do your will, my God.”
Gospel of the Day: MK 3:31-35
From the gospel scripture according to Mark.
His mother and his brothers came, and standing outside, they sent to him, calling him.
A multitude was sitting around him, and they told him, “Behold, your mother, your brothers, and your sisters are outside looking for you.”
He answered them, “Who are my mother and my brothers?”
Looking around at those who sat around him, he said, “Behold, my mother and my brothers!
For whoever does the will of God is my brother, my sister, and mother.”
