Readings Week Consecration of the Church

Hebrews 10:11-18 Christ’s Sacrifice Once for All
A Reading from the Letter to the Hebrews. Father, give your blessing.
Pause for the blessing, then read:
Brothers and Sisters:
Every priest stands day after day at his service, offering again and again
the same sacrifices that can never take away sins. But when Christ
had offered for all time a single sacrifice for sins, “he sat down at the
right hand of God,” and since then has been waiting “until his enemies
would be made a footstool for his feet.” For by a single offering he has
perfected for all time those who are sanctified. And the Holy Spirit
also testifies to us, for after saying, “This is the covenant that I will
make with them after those days, says the Lord: I will put my laws in
their hearts, and I will write them on their minds,” he also adds, “I will
remember their sins and their lawless deeds no more.” Where there is
forgiveness of these, there is no longer any offering for sin.
Praise be to God always!

John 17:1-8 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 Apostle John writes:
After Jesus had spoken these words, he looked up to heaven and said,
“Father, the hour has come; glorify your Son so that the Son may glorify
you, since you have given him authority over all people, to give
eternal life to all whom you have given him. And this is eternal life,
that they may know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom
you have sent. I glorified you on earth by finishing the work that you
gave me to do. So now, Father, glorify me in your own presence with
the glory that I had in your presence before the world existed. “I have
made your name known to those whom you gave me from the world.
They were yours, and you gave them to me, and they have kept your
word. Now they know that everything you have given me is from you;
for the words that you gave to me I have given to them, and they have
received them and know in truth that I came from you; and they have
believed that you sent me.
This is the truth. Peace be with you.