{"id":30972,"date":"2023-01-21 06:00:00","modified":"2023-01-20 23:19:01","title":"Daily Reading for Saturday, January 21st, 2023","excerpt":"","thumbnail":"https:\/\/catholiccambodia.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/210123.png","link":"https:\/\/catholiccambodia.org\/?p=30972&lang=en","content":"<!-- wp:heading {\"level\":4} --><br\/><h4>Daily Reading for Saturday January 21, 2023<\/h4><br\/><!-- \/wp:heading --><br\/><br\/><!-- wp:paragraph --><br\/><p>Reading 1,\u00a0<em>Hebrews 9:2-3, 11-14<\/em><br>Responsorial Psalm,\u00a0<em>Psalms 47:2-3, 6-7, 8-9<\/em><br>Gospel,\u00a0<em>Mark 3:20-21<\/em><\/p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><br\/><br\/><!-- wp:heading {\"level\":3} --><br\/><h3>Reading 1,&nbsp;<em>Hebrews 9:2-3, 11-14<\/em><\/h3><br\/><!-- \/wp:heading --><br\/><br\/><!-- wp:paragraph --><br\/><p><sup>2<\/sup>&nbsp;There was a tent which comprised two compartments: the first, in which the lamp-stand, the table and the loaves of permanent offering were kept, was called the Holy Place;<\/p><p><sup>3<\/sup>&nbsp;then beyond the second veil, a second compartment which was called the Holy of Holies<\/p><p><sup>11<\/sup>&nbsp;But now&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.catholic.org\/clife\/jesus\">Christ<\/a>&nbsp;has come, as the high&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.catholic.org\/encyclopedia\/view.php?id=9622\">priest<\/a>&nbsp;of all the blessings which were to come. He has passed through the greater, the more perfect tent, not made by human hands, that is, not of this created order;<\/p><p><sup>12<\/sup>&nbsp;and he has entered the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.catholic.org\/encyclopedia\/view.php?id=10430\">sanctuary<\/a>&nbsp;once and for all, taking with him not the blood of goats and bull calves, but his own blood, having won an eternal redemption.<\/p><p><sup>13<\/sup>&nbsp;The blood of goats and bulls and the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.catholic.org\/encyclopedia\/view.php?id=1143\">ashes<\/a>&nbsp;of a heifer, sprinkled on those who have incurred defilement, may restore their bodily purity.<\/p><p><sup>14<\/sup>&nbsp;How much more&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.catholic.org\/encyclopedia\/view.php?id=12332\">will<\/a>&nbsp;the blood of Christ, who offered himself, blameless as he was, to&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.catholic.org\/encyclopedia\/view.php?id=5217\">God<\/a>&nbsp;through the eternal Spirit, purify our&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.catholic.org\/encyclopedia\/view.php?id=3278\">conscience<\/a>&nbsp;from dead actions so that we can worship the living God.<\/p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><br\/><br\/><!-- wp:heading {\"level\":3} --><br\/><h3>Responsorial Psalm,&nbsp;<em>Psalms 47:2-3, 6-7, 8-9<\/em><\/h3><br\/><!-- \/wp:heading --><br\/><br\/><!-- wp:paragraph --><br\/><p><sup>2<\/sup>&nbsp;For Yahweh, the Most High, is glorious, the great king over all the earth.<\/p><p><sup>3<\/sup>&nbsp;He brings peoples under our yoke and nations under our feet.<\/p><p><sup>6<\/sup>&nbsp;Let the music sound for our God, let it sound, let the music sound for our king, let it sound.<\/p><p><sup>7<\/sup>&nbsp;For he is king of the whole world; learn the music, let it sound for God!<\/p><p><sup>8<\/sup>&nbsp;God reigns over the nations, seated on his holy throne.<\/p><p><sup>9<\/sup>\u00a0The leaders of the nations rally to the people of the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.catholic.org\/encyclopedia\/view.php?id=5217\">God<\/a>\u00a0of Abraham. The shields of the earth belong to God, who is exalted on high.<\/p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><br\/><br\/><!-- wp:heading {\"level\":3} --><br\/><h3>Gospel,&nbsp;<em>Mark 3:20-21<\/em><\/h3><br\/><!-- \/wp:heading --><br\/><br\/><!-- wp:paragraph --><br\/><p><sup>20<\/sup>&nbsp;He went home again, and once more such a crowd collected that they could not even have a meal.<\/p><p><sup>21<\/sup>&nbsp;When his relations heard of this, they set out to take charge of him; they said, 'He is out of his mind.'<\/p><!-- \/wp:paragraph -->","categories":[{"id":160,"name":"Daily Bible"}],"tags":[]}