Daily Mass Readings for October 27, 2024: Gospel — Mc 10, 46-52

⁷ Moreover, the Lord says: “Sing for joy for the descendants of Jacob. Utter glad shouts for that foremost of the nations. Make your praises heard. Then say, ‘Lord, rescue your people. Deliver those of Israel who remain alive.’ ⁸ Then I will reply, ‘I will bring them back from the land of the north. I will gather them in from the distant parts of the earth. Blind and lame people will come with them, so will pregnant women and women about to give birth. A vast throng of people will come back here. ⁹ They will come back shedding tears of contrition. I will bring them back praying prayers of repentance. I will lead them besides streams of water, along smooth paths where they will never stumble. I will do this because I am Israel’s father; Ephraim is my firstborn son.’

¹ For every high priest is taken from among the people and appointed to represent them before God, to offer both gifts and sacrifices for sins. ² He is able to deal compassionately with those who are ignorant and erring, since he also is subject to weakness, ³ and for this reason he is obligated to make sin offerings for himself as well as for the people. ⁴ And no one assumes this honor on his own initiative, but only when called to it by God, as in fact Aaron was. ⁵ So also Christ did not glorify himself in becoming high priest, but the one who glorified him was God, who said to him, “You are my Son! Today I have fathered you,” ⁶ as also in another place God says, “You are a priest forever in the order of Melchizedek.”