Friday 24 January 2025 (other days)
Saint Francis de Sales, Bishop, Doctor
on Friday of week 2 in Ordinary Time
on Friday of week 2 in Ordinary Time
Using calendar: Wales. You can pick a diocese or region.
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Liturgical Colour: White. Year: C(I).
These are the readings for the feria
| First reading | Hebrews 8:6-13 |
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‘The covenant he mediates is better.’
Brothers and Sisters: Christ has obtained a ministry that 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 to look for a second.
For he finds fault with them when he says: ‘Behold, the days are coming, declares 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 bring them out of the land of Egypt. For they did not continue in my covenant, and so I showed no concern for them, declares the Lord. For this is the covenant that I will make with the House of Israel after those days, declares 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, each one his neighbour and each one his brother, saying, “Know the Lord,” for they shall all know me, from the least of them to the greatest. For I will be merciful towards their iniquities, and I will remember their sins no more.’
In speaking of a new covenant, he makes the first one obsolete. And what is becoming obsolete and growing old is ready to vanish away.
| Responsorial Psalm |
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| Ps 85(84):8, 10. 11-12. 13-14. ℟11a |
Mercy and faithfulness have met.
Show us, 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.
Mercy and faithfulness have met.
Mercy and faithfulness have met;
justice and peace have kissed.
Faithfulness shall spring from the earth,
and justice look down from heaven.
Mercy and faithfulness have met.
The Lord will bestow his bounty,
and our earth shall yield its increase.
Righteousness will march before him,
and guide his steps on the way.
Mercy and faithfulness have met.
| Gospel Acclamation |
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| 2 Corinthians 5:19 |
Alleluia, alleluia.
God was in Christ reconciling the world to himself,
and entrusting to us the message of reconciliation.
Alleluia.
| Gospel | Mark 3:13-19 |
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‘He called to him those whom he desired that they might be with him.’
At 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, whom he also named Apostles, so that they might be with him, and he might send them out to preach, and have authority to cast out demons. He appointed the Twelve: Simon, to whom he gave the name Peter; James the son of Zebedee and John the brother of James, to whom he gave the name 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 Zealot, and Judas Iscariot, who betrayed him.
These are the readings for the memorial
| First reading |
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| Ephesians 3:8-12 |
‘To preach to the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ.’
Brothers and Sisters: To me, though I am the very least of all the saints, this grace was given, to preach to the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ, and to bring to light for everyone what is the plan of the mystery hidden for ages in God, who created all things, so that through the Church the manifold wisdom of God might now be made known to the rulers and authorities in the heavenly places. This was according to the eternal purpose that he has realised in Christ Jesus our Lord, in whom we have boldness and access with confidence through our faith in him.
| Responsorial Psalm |
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| Ps 37(36):3-4. 5-6. 30-31. ℟30a |
The mouth of the upright utters wisdom.
Trust in the Lord and do good;
then you will dwell in the land and find safe pasture.
Find your delight in the Lord,
who grants your heart’s desire.
The mouth of the upright utters wisdom.
Commit your way to the Lord;
trust in him, and he will act,
and make your uprightness shine like the light,
the justice of your cause like the noonday sun.
The mouth of the upright utters wisdom.
The mouth of the upright utters wisdom,
and his tongue tells forth what is just.
The law of his God is in his heart;
his steps shall be saved from stumbling.
The mouth of the upright utters wisdom.
| Gospel Acclamation | Jn13:34 |
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Alleluia, alleluia!
I give you a new commandment:
love one another just as I have loved you,
says the Lord.
Alleluia!
| Gospel | John 15:9-17 |
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‘Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends.’
At that time: Jesus said to his disciples, ‘As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you. Abide in my love. If you keep my commandments, you will abide in my love, just as I have kept my Father’s commandments and abide in his love. These things I have spoken to you, that my joy may be in you, and that your joy may be full.
‘This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you. Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends. You are my friends if you do what I command you. No longer do I call you servants, for the servant does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, for all that I have heard from my Father I have made known to you. You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you that you should go and bear fruit and that your fruit should abide, so that whatever you ask the Father in my name, he may give it to you. These things I command you, so that you will love one another.’
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