First Reading
Hebrews 9:2-3, 11-14
- 2
For there was a tabernacle made the first, wherein were the candlesticks, and the table, and the setting forth of loaves, which is called the holy.
- 3
And after the second veil, the tabernacle, which is called the holy of holies:
- 11
But Christ, being come an high priest of the good things to come, by a greater and more perfect tabernacle not made with hand, that is, not of this creation:
- 12
Neither by the blood of goats, or of calves, but by his own blood, entered once into the holies, having obtained eternal redemption.
- 13
For if the blood of goats and of oxen, and the ashes of an heifer being sprinkled, sanctify such as are defiled, to the cleansing of the flesh:
- 14
How much more shall the blood of Christ, who by the Holy Ghost offered himself unspotted unto God, cleanse our conscience from dead works, to serve the living God?
Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition · public domain · 73 books. Psalm numbers follow the Roman lectionary.