Reading 1, Hebrews 12:18-19, 21-24

¹⁸ What you have come to is nothing known to the senses: not a blazing fire, or gloom or total darkness, or a storm;

¹⁹ or trumpet-blast or the sound of a voice speaking which made everyone that heard it beg that no more should be said to them.

²¹ The whole scene was so terrible that Moses said, 'I am afraid and trembling.'

²² But what you have come to is Mount Zion and the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem where the millions of angels have gathered for the festival,

²³ with the whole Church of first-born sons, enrolled as citizens of heaven. You have come to God himself, the supreme Judge, and to the spirits of the upright who have been made perfect;

²⁴ and to Jesus, the mediator of a new covenant, and to purifying blood which pleads more insistently than Abel's.

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Responsorial Psalm, Psalms 48:2-3, 3-4, 9, 10-11

² towering in beauty, the joy of the whole world: Mount Zion in the heart of the north, the settlement of the great king;

³ God himself among its palaces has proved himself its bulwark.

⁴ For look, kings made alliance, together they advanced;

⁹ We reflect on your faithful love, God, in your temple!

¹⁰ Both your name and your praise, God, are over the whole wide world. Your right hand is full of saving justice,

¹¹ Mount Zion rejoices, the daughters of Judah delight because of your saving justice.

Gospel, Mark 6:7-13

⁷ Then he summoned the Twelve and began to send them out in pairs, giving them authority over unclean spirits.

⁸ And he instructed them to take nothing for the journey except a staff -- no bread, no haversack, no coppers for their purses.

⁹ They were to wear sandals but, he added, 'Don't take a spare tunic.'

¹⁰ And he said to them, 'If you enter a house anywhere, stay there until you leave the district.

¹¹ And if any place does not welcome you and people refuse to listen to you, as you walk away shake off the dust under your feet as evidence to them.'

¹² So they set off to proclaim repentance;

¹³ and they cast out many devils, and anointed many sick people with oil and cured them.

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