Daily Reading for Thursday, February 4th, 2021

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.

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.

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