THURSDAY OF WEEK 3 IN ORDINARY TIME - 2025

DAILY HOLY MASS READINGS

Your word is a lamp for my steps
and a light for my path. PS 108:105

HEBREWS 10:19-25

My Soul's Beloved,

Through Your pierced side, the gates of heaven have been thrown wide open, and through this gate, which is Your Body, all who so choose may enter. You, my Beloved, died for all, whether they know it or not, whether they believe it or not, whether they deliberately choose to reject the truth or gladly welcome the invitation and accept it with a glad heart. Lord God, to choose You over the world and our concupiscence is not easy for we love comfort, ease, and self-indulgence. But we were created for God and for Him alone and He sent You into the world to show us that there is no other way to eternal joy than through suffering, the cross, self-denial, self-emptying, sacrifice, and service.

You O Lord are the Way. Your Blood is poured over us, the curtain that separated us from the Holy of Holies has been torn in two, and every one of us is invited to enter and worship God in spirit and in truth. Through Baptism, we are washed clean from original sin, we are born again and we become children of God. The Church, our mother nourishes us through the Sacraments that You instituted. You consecrated and anointed the Apostles and their successors to minister to us, the members of Your Body, so we can sojourn safely from this life to the next. 

Lord God, grant that Your faithful remnant may pray unceasingly, suffer gladly, and witness joyfully so that many fallen away Catholics may return home and our non-Catholic brothers and sisters may also cross the Tiber and take their place in Your Body, the Church. 

Through the blood of Jesus we have the right to enter the sanctuary, by a new way which he has opened for us, a living opening through the curtain, that is to say, his body. And we have the supreme high priest over all the house of God. So as we go in, let us be sincere in heart and filled with faith, our minds sprinkled and free from any trace of bad conscience and our bodies washed with pure water. Let us keep firm in the hope we profess, because the one who made the promise is faithful. Let us be concerned for each other, to stir a response in love and good works. Do not stay away from the meetings of the community, as some do, but encourage each other to go; the more so as you see the Day drawing near.

PSALM 23(24):1-6

Such are the men who seek your face, O Lord.

The Lord’s is the earth and its fullness,
the world and all its peoples.
It is he who set it on the seas;
on the waters he made it firm.

Who shall climb the mountain of the Lord?

Who shall stand in his holy place?
The man with clean hands and pure heart,
who desires not worthless things.

He shall receive blessings from the Lord

and reward from the God who saves him.
Such are the men who seek him,
seek the face of the God of Jacob.

Such are the men who seek your face, O Lord.

MARK 4:21-25