SAINT PAUL MIKI and Companions, Martyrs (MEMORIAL)

FIRST READING
“You have come to Mount Zion and to the city of the living God.”
A reading from the Letter to the Hebrews (Hebrews 12:18-19.21-24)

Brethren: You have not come to what may be touched, a blazing fire,
and darkness, and gloom, and a tempest, and the sound of a trumpet,
and a voice whose words made the hearers entreat that
no further messages be spoken to them. Indeed so terrifying was the sight
that Moses said, “I tremble with fear.” But you have come to Mount Zion
and to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem,
and to innumerable angels in festal gathering, and to the assembly of the first-born
who are enrolled in heaven, and to a judge who is God of all,
and to the spirits of just men made perfect, and to Jesus,
the mediator of a new covenant, and to the sprinkled blood
that speaks more graciously than the blood of Abel.

The word of the Lord.

 

RESPONSORIAL PSALM Psalm 48:2-3ab.3cd-4.9-10-11 (R. see 10)
R/. We have received your mercy, O Lord,
in the midst of your temple.

Great is the Lord and highly to be praised
in the city of our God.
His holy mountain rises in beauty,
the joy of all the earth. R/.

Mount Sion, in the heart of the North,
the city of the Mighty King!
God, in the midst of its citadels,
has shown himself its stronghold. R/.

R/. We have received your mercy, O Lord,
in the midst of your temple.

As we have heard, so we have seen
in the city of our God,
in the city of the Lord Of hosts,
which God establishes forever. R/.

Your merciful love, O God,
we ponder in your temple.
Your praise, O God, like your name,
reaches the ends of the earth.
Your right hand is filled with saving justice. R/.

 

ALLELUIA Mark 1:15
Alleluia.

The kingdom of God is at hand; repent, and believe in the Gospel.

Alleluia.

 

GOSPEL
“He began to send them out.”
A reading from the holy Gospel according to Mark (Mark 6:7- 13)

At that time: Jesus called to him the Twelve, and began to send them out two by two,
and gave them authority over the unclean spirits. He charged them to take nothing
for their journey except a staff; no bread, no bag, no money in their belts;
but to wear sandals and not put on two tunics. And he said to them,
“Where you enter a house, stay there until you leave the place.
And if any place will not receive you and they refuse to hear you, when you leave,
shake off the dust that is on your feet for a testimony against them.”
So they went out and preached that men should repent. And they cast out many demons,
and anointed with oil many that were sick and healed them.

The Gospel of the Lord.