Monday of the Second Week in Ordinary Time (I)

Official Translation

Reading 1 – Hebrews 5.1-10

Brothers and sisters:
Every high priest, being taken from among humans,
is appointed for humans in things pertaining to God,
that he may offer both gifts and sacrifices for sins.
The high priest can deal gently with those who are ignorant and going astray,
because he himself is also beset by weakness.
Because of this, he must make sin offerings for the people,
as well as for himself.
Nobody takes this honor on himself,
but he is called by God, just like Aaron was.
So also Christ did not glorify himself to be made a high priest,
but it was he who said to him,
“You are my Son. Today I have begotten you.”
As he says also in another place,
“You are a priest forever, according to the order of Melchizedek.”

In the days of his flesh,
having offered up prayers and petitions with strong crying and tears
to him who was able to save him from death,
and having been heard for his godly fear,
Son though he was, still he learned obedience by what he suffered.
Having been made perfect,
he became to all of those who obey him the author of eternal salvation.

Responsorial – Psalm 110.1, 2, 3, 4 Resp. 4b

R. You are a priest forever in the order of Melchizedek.

The Lord says to my Lord, “Sit at my right hand,
until I make your enemies your footstool for your feet.”

R. You are a priest forever in the order of Melchizedek.

The Lord will send out the scepter of your strength out of Zion.
Rule among your enemies.

R. You are a priest forever in the order of Melchizedek.

Your people offer themselves willingly in the day of your power, in holy array.
From the womb before the day star, I have begotten you.

R. You are a priest forever in the order of Melchizedek.

The Lord has sworn, and will not change his mind:
“You are a priest forever in the order of Melchizedek.”

R. You are a priest forever in the order of Melchizedek.

Gospel – Mark 2.18-22

John’s disciples and the Pharisees were fasting,
and they came and asked him,
“Why do John’s disciples
and the disciples of the Pharisees fast,
but your disciples do not fast?”
Jesus said to them,
“Can the groomsmen fast
while the bridegroom is with them?
As long as they have the bridegroom with them,
they cannot fast.
But the days will come when the bridegroom
will be taken away from them,
and then will they fast in that day.

No one sews a piece of unshrunken cloth
on an old garment, else the patch shrinks
and the new tears away from the old,
and a worse hole is made.
No one puts new wine into old wineskins,
or else the new wine will burst the skins,
and the wine and the skins will be destroyed;
so they put new wine into fresh wineskins.”