Tuesday of the Third week in Ordinary Time

Letter to the Hebrews

10,1-10.

Brothers and sisters, since the law has only a shadow of the good things to come, and not the very image of them, it can never make perfect those who come to worship by the same sacrifices that they offer continually each year.
Otherwise, would not the sacrifices have ceased to be offered, since the worshipers, once cleansed, would no longer have had any consciousness of sins?
But in those sacrifices there is only a yearly remembrance of sins,
for it is impossible that the blood of bulls and goats take away sins.
For this reason, when he came into the world, he said: "Sacrifice and offering you did not desire, but a body you prepared for me;
holocausts and sin offerings you took no delight in.
Then I said, 'As is written of me in the scroll, Behold, I come to do your will, O God.'"
First he says, "Sacrifices and offerings, holocausts and sin offerings, you neither desired nor delighted in." These are offered according to the law.
Then he says, "Behold, I come to do your will." He takes away the first to establish the second.
By this "will," we have been consecrated through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.

Psalms

40(39),2.4ab.7-8a.10.11.

I have waited, waited for the LORD,
and he stooped toward me and heard my cry.
And he put a new song into my mouth,
a hymn to our God.
Sacrifice or oblation you wished not,
but ears open to obedience you gave me.
Burnt offerings or sin-offerings you sought not;
then said I, “Behold I come.”
I announced your justice in the vast assembly;
I did not restrain my lips, as you, O LORD, know.
Your justice I kept not hid within my heart;
your faithfulness and your salvation I have spoken of;
I have made no secret of your kindness and your truth
in the vast assembly.

Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint Mark

3,31-35.

The mother of Jesus and his brothers arrived at the house. Standing outside, they sent word to Jesus and called him.
A crowd seated around him told him, "Your mother and your brothers (and your sisters) are outside asking for you."
But he said to them in reply, "Who are my mother and (my) brothers?"
And looking around at those seated in the circle he said, "Here are my mother and my brothers.
(For) whoever does the will of God is my brother and sister and mother."

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St. Francis of Sales(Doctor of the Church (+ 1622))

SAINT FRANCIS OF SALES Bishop and Doctor of the Church (1566-1622) St. Francis of Sales was born of noble and pious parents near Annecy, and studied with brilliant success at Paris and Padua. On his return from Italy, he gave up the grand career his father had marked out for him in public service and became a priest. When the Duke of Savoy resolved to restore the Church in the Chablais, St. Francis offered himself for the work and set out on foot with his Bible and breviary, and one companion: his cousin, Louis of Sales. It was a work of toil, privation and danger. Every door and every heart was closed to him. He was rejected with insult and threatened with death. But nothing could daunt him, and ere long the Church burst forth into a second spring. It is stated that he converted 72,000 Calvinists. St. Francis was then compelled by the Pope to become Coadjutor Bishop of Geneva, and succeeded to the see in 1602. At times, the exceeding gentleness with which he received heretics and sinners almost scandalized his friends, and one of them said to him, "Francis of Sales will go to Paradise, of course; but I am not so sure of the Bishop of Geneva. I am almost afraid his gentleness will play him a shrewd turn." "Ah," said the Saint, "I would rather account to God for too great gentleness than for too great severity. Is not God all love? God the Father is the Father of mercy; God the Son is a Lamb; God the Holy Spirit is a Dove - that is, gentleness itself." Together with St. Jane Frances of Chantal, he founded at Annecy the Order of the Visitation, which soon spread over Europe. Though poor, he was loyal to God and his vocation; refusing excess provisions, dignities and the great see of Paris. He passed away at Avignon in 1622. "Goodness and love will follow me all the days of my life, and I will dwell in the house of the Lord forever" (Ps. 23:6).

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