Readings Week Consecration of the Church

Hebrews 10:19-25 A Call to Persevere
A Reading from the Letter to the Hebrews. Father, give your blessing.
Pause for the blessing, then read:
Brothers and Sisters:
Since we have confidence to enter the sanctuary by the blood of Jesus,
by the new and living way that he opened for us through the curtain
(that is, through his flesh), and since we have a great priest over the
house of God, let us approach with a true heart in full assurance of
faith, with our hearts sprinkled clean from an evil conscience and our
bodies washed with pure water. Let us hold fast to the confession of our
hope without wavering, for he who has promised is faithful. And let
us consider how to provoke one another to love and good deeds, not
neglecting to meet together, as is the habit of some, but encouraging
one another, and all the more as you see the Day approaching.
Praise be to God always!

John 17:9-13 Jesus Prays for his Disciples
Let us be attentive to the Gospel of Life and Salvation of our Lord Jesus
Christ as recorded by the apostle John.
The Lord Jesus says:
“I am asking on their behalf; I am not asking on behalf of the world,
but on behalf of those whom you gave me, because they are yours. All
mine are yours, and yours are mine; and I have been glorified in them.
And now I am no longer in the world, but they are in the world, and
I am coming to you. Holy Father, protect them in your name that you
have given me, so that they may be one, as we are one. While I was
with them, I protected them in your name that you have given me. I
guarded them, and not one of them was lost except the one destined to
be lost, so that the scripture might be fulfilled. But now I am coming
to you, and I speak these things in the world so that they may have my
joy made complete in themselves.”
This is the truth. Peace be with you.