First ReadingHebrews 10:1-10*
From the Letter to the Hebrews
1For the law, having a shadow of the good to come,not the very image of the things,can never with the same sacrifices year by year,which they offer continually,make perfect those who draw near.2Or else wouldn’t they have ceased to be offered,because the worshipers,having been once cleansed,would have had no more consciousness of sins?3But in those sacrifices there is a yearly reminder of sins.4For it is impossible that the blood of bullsand goats should take away sins.5Therefore when he comes into the world, he says,
“You didn’t desire sacrifice and offering,but you prepared a body for me.6You had no pleasure in whole burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin.7Then I said, ‘Behold, I have come (in the scroll of the book it is written of me)to do your will, O God.’”
8Previously saying,“Sacrifices and offerings and whole burnt offeringsand sacrifices for sin you didn’t desire,neither had pleasure in them” (thosewhich are offered according to the law),9then he has said, “Behold, I have come to do your will.”He takes away the first, that he may establish the second,10by which will we have been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.