Memorial – St Francis de Sales, Bishop and Doctor - Year I

Send us Fan MailFriday, 24 January 2025Friday of the Second Week in Ordinary Time - Year I Memorial – St Francis de Sales, Bishop and Doctor Antiphons on page 1918 and Readings on page 742 Daily MissalFirst Reading: Hebrews 8:6-13Brothers and sisters: 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.  For if that first covenant had been faultless,  there would have been no occasion for a second. 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;  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.  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.  And they shall not teach everyone his fellow  or everyone his brother, saying, ‘Know the Lord,’  for all shall know me,  from the least of them to the greatest.  For I will be merciful toward their iniquities,  and I will remember their sins no more.”  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.Responsorial Psalm: Psalm 85: 8 & 10.11-12.13-14 (R. 11a)R/. Merciful love and faithfulness have met.Let us see, O Lord, your mercy, and grant us your salvation. His salvation is near for those who fear him, and his glory will dwell in our land.Merciful love and faithfulness have met; justice and peace have kissed. Faithfulness shall spring from the earth, and justice look down from heaven.Also, the Lord will bestow his bounty, and our earth shall yield its increase. Justice will march before him, and guide his steps on the way.R/. Merciful love and faithfulness have met.Gospel: Mark 3:13-19At that time:  Jesus went up on the mountain,  and called to him those whom he desired;  and they came to him.  And he appointed twelve, to be with him,  and to be sent out to preach  and have authority to cast out demons:  Simon whom he surnamed Peter;  James the son of Zebedee and John the brother of James,  whom he surnamed Boanerges, that is, sons of thunder;  Andrew, and Philip, and Bartholomew,  and Matthew, and Thomas,  and James the son of Alphaeus,  and Thaddaeus, and Simon the Cananaean,  and Judas Iscariot, who betrayed him.