The Gospel of January 22, 2021 with the comment of Pope Francis

READING OF THE DAY
From the letter to the Jews
Heb 8,6-13

Brothers, [Jesus, our high priest] has had a ministry that is all the more excellent the better the covenant he mediates, because it is founded on better promises. If the first alliance had been perfect, it would not have been the case to establish another one.

For God, blaming his people, says:
"Behold: days are coming, says the Lord,
when I make a new covenant
with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah.
It will not be like the covenant I made with their fathers,
on the day I took them by the hand
to bring them out of the land of Egypt;
for they did not remain faithful to my covenant,
I also didn't care for them anymore, says the Lord.
And this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel
after those days, says the Lord:
I'll put my laws in their minds
and imprint them in their hearts;
I will be their God
and they will be my people.
Nor will anyone have any more to instruct his fellow citizen,
nor his own brother, saying:
“Know the Lord!”.
In fact everyone will know me,
from the smallest to the largest of them.
Because I will forgive their iniquities
and I will no longer remember their sins. "
In speaking of a new covenant, God declared the first old:
but what becomes ancient and ages is close to disappearing.

GOSPEL OF THE DAY
From the Gospel according to Mark
Mc 3,13-19

At that time, Jesus went up the mountain, called those he wanted to him, and they went to him. He appointed Twelve - whom he called apostles - to be with him and to send them out to preach with the power to cast out demons.
He therefore constituted the Twelve: Simon, to whom he imposed the name of Peter, then James, son of Zebedee, and John the brother of James, to whom he gave the name of Boanèrghes, that is "sons of thunder"; and Andrea, Filippo, Bartolomeo, Matteo, Tommaso, Giacomo, son of Alfeo, Taddeo, Simone the Canaanite and Giuda Iscariota, who then betrayed him.

WORDS OF THE HOLY FATHER
We bishops have this responsibility to be witnesses: witnesses that the Lord Jesus is alive, that the Lord Jesus is risen, that the Lord Jesus walks with us, that the Lord Jesus saves us, that the Lord Jesus gave his life for us. , that the Lord Jesus is our hope, that the Lord Jesus always welcomes us and forgives us. Our life must be this: a true testimony of the Resurrection of Christ. For this reason, today I would like to invite you to pray for us bishops. Because we too are sinners, we too have weaknesses, we too have the danger of Judas: because he too had been elected as a column. Pray, so that the bishops are what Jesus wanted, that all of us bear witness to the Resurrection of Jesus. (Santa Marta - January 22, 2016