22 WEDNESSDAY JANUARY 2025
Day of prayer for the legal protection of unborn Children (memorial)
Liturgical colour: White
Today’s Rosary: The Glorious Mysteries
FIRST READING
Hebrews 7:1-3.15-17
A reading from the Letter to the Hebrews
You are a priest for ever, according to the order of Melchizedek
Brethren: Melchizedek, king of Salem, priest of the Most High God, met Abraham returning from the slaughter of the kings and blessed him; and to him Abraham apportioned a tenth part of everything. He is first, by translation of his name, king of righteousness, and then he is also king of Salem, that is, king of peace. He is without father or mother or genealogy, and has neither beginning of days nor end of life, but resembling the Son of God he continues a priest for ever. This becomes even more evident when another priest arises in the likeness of Melchizedek, who has become a priest, not according to a legal requirement concerning bodily descent but by the power of an indestructible life. For it is witnessed of him, “You are a priest for ever, according to the order of Melchizedek.”
V/ The word of the Lord.
R/ Thanks be to God.
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