Readings Week Consecration of the Church

Hebrews 10:26-31 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:
If we willfully persist in sin after having received the knowledge of the
truth, there no longer remains a sacrifice for sins, but a fearful prospect
of judgment, and a fury of fire that will consume the adversaries.
Anyone who has violated the law of Moses dies without mercy “on the
testimony of two or three witnesses.” How much worse punishment do
you think will be deserved by those who have spurned the Son of God,
profaned the blood of the covenant by which they were sanctified, and
outraged the Spirit of grace? For we know the one who said, “Vengeance
is mine, I will repay.” And again, “The Lord will judge his people.” It
is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.
Praise be to God always!

John 17:14-19 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 have given them your word, and the world has hated them because
they do not belong to the world, just as I do not belong to the world. I
am not asking you to take them out of the world, but I ask you to protect
them from the evil one. They do not belong to the world, just as
I do not belong to the world. Sanctify them in the truth; your word is
truth. As you have sent me into the world, so I have sent them into the
world. And for their sakes I sanctify myself, so that they also may be
sanctified in truth.”
This is the truth. Peace be with you.