A reading from the letter to the Hebrews.

Brothers and sisters, since the law has only a shadow of the good things to come,

and not the very image of them, it can never make perfect those who come to worship by the same sacrifices

that they offer continually each year.

Otherwise, would not the sacrifices have ceased to be offered

since the worshippers once cleansed would no longer have any consciousness of sins.

But in those sacrifices, there is only a yearly remembrance of sins.

For it is impossible that the blood of bulls and goats take away sins. For this reason, when he came

into the world, he said, sacrifice and offering you did not desire, but a body you prepared for me.

In burnt offerings and sin offerings, you took no delight. Then I said, as is written of me in the scroll,

behold, I come to do your will

O God

first he says sacrifices and offerings

burnt offerings and sin offerings

you neither desired nor delighted in

these are offered according to the law

then he says,

Behold, I come to do your will. He takes away the first to establish the second. By this will,

we have been consecrated through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.

The word of the Lord.

Thanks to God.

Here am I, Lord, I come to do your will.

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