Monday of the Second Week in Ordinary Time – Year I

Send us Fan MailMonday, 20 January 2025Monday of the Second Week in Ordinary Time – Year I Antiphons on p. 724 and Readings on p. 730 of the Daily Missal.First Reading: Hebrews 5:1-10A reading from the Letter to the Hebrews.Every high priest chosen from among men  is appointed to act on behalf of people in relation to God,  to offer gifts and sacrifices for sins.  He can deal gently with the ignorant and wayward  since he himself is beset with weakness.  Because of this, he is bound to offer sacrifice for his own sins  as well as for those of the people.  And one does not take the honour upon himself,  but he is called by God, just as Aaron was. So also Christ did not exalt himself to be made a high priest,  but was appointed by him who said to him,  “You are my Son,  today I have begotten you”;  as he says also in another place,  “You are a priest forever,  after the order of Melchizedek.” In the days of his flesh,  Jesus offered up prayers and supplications,  with loud cries and tears,  to him who was able to save him from death,  and he was heard for his godly fear.  Although he was a Son,  he learned obedience through what he suffered;  and being made perfect  he became the source of eternal salvation to all who obey him,  being designated by God a high priest  according to the order of Melchizedek.The Word of the Lord.Responsorial Psalm: Psalm 110:1.2.3.4 (R. 4cd)R/. You are a priest forever, in the line of Melchizedek.The Lord’s revelation to my lord: “Sit at my right hand, until I make your foes your footstool.”The Lord will send from Sion your sceptre of power: rule in the midst of your foes.With you is princely rule on the day of your power. In holy splendour, from the womb before the dawn, I have begotten you.The Lord has sworn an oath he will not change: “You are a priest forever, in the line of Melchizedek.”R/. You are a priest forever, in the line of Melchizedek.Gospel: Mark 2:18-22A reading from the Holy Gospel according to Mark.At that time:  John’s disciples and the Pharisees were fasting;  and people came and said to him,  “Why do John’s disciples and the disciples of the Pharisees fast,  but your disciples do not fast?” And Jesus said to them,  “Can the wedding guests fast  while the bridegroom is with them?  As long as they have the bridegroom with them,  they cannot fast.  The days will come,  when the bridegroom is taken away from them,  and then they will fast in that day.  No one sews a piece of unshrunk cloth on an old garment;  if he does, the patch tears away from it,  the new from the old,  and a worse tear is made.  And no one puts new wine into old wineskins;  if he does, the wine will burst the skins,  and the wine is lost, and so are the skins;  but new wine is for fresh skins.”The Gospel of the Lord.