First ReadingHebrews 9:2-3, 11-14
From the Letter to the Hebrews
2For a tabernacle was prepared.In the first part were the lamp stand,the table, and the show bread,which is called the Holy Place.3After the second veil was the tabernaclewhich is called the Holy of Holies,
verses 4–10 are not read11But Christ having come as a high priest of the coming good things,through the greater and more perfect tabernacle,not made with hands,that is to say, not of this creation,12nor yet through the blood of goats and calves,but through his own blood,entered in once for all into the Holy Place,having obtained eternal redemption.13For if the blood of goats and bulls,and the ashes of a heifer sprinkling thosewho have been defiled,sanctify to the cleanness of the flesh,14how much more will the blood of Christ,who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without defect to God,cleanse your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?