First ReadingHebrews 12:18-19, 21-24
From the Letter to the Hebrews
18For you have not come to a mountainthat might be touched and that burned with fire,and to blackness, darkness, storm,19the sound of a trumpet, and the voice of words;which those who heard it beggedthat not one more word should be spoken to them, verse 20 is not read21So fearful was the appearance that Moses said,“I am terrified and trembling.”
22But you have come to Mount Zionand to the city of the living God,the heavenly Jerusalem,and to innumerable multitudes of angels,23to the festal gathering and assembly of the firstbornwho are enrolled in heaven,to God the Judge of all,to the spirits of just men made perfect,24to Jesus, the mediator of a new covenant,and to the blood of sprinklingthat speaks better than that of Abel.