Reading I
Heb 7:1-3, 15-17
For this Melchisedech was king of Salem, priest of the most high God, who met Abraham returning from the slaughter of the kings and blessed him:
To whom also Abraham divided the tithes of all: who first indeed by interpretation is king of justice: and then also king of Salem, that is, king of peace:
Without father, without mother, without genealogy, having neither beginning of days nor end of life, but likened unto the Son of God, continueth a priest for ever.
And it is yet far more evident: if according to the similitude of Melchisedech there ariseth another priest,
Who is made, not according to the law of a law of a carnal commandment, but according to the power of an indissoluble life.
For he testifieth: Thou art a priest for ever according to the order of Melchisedech.
