Feast of the Dedication of the Cathedral of Mallorca

Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth. The first heaven and the first earth

disappeared, and the sea vanished. And I saw the Holy City, the new Jerusalem, coming

down out of heaven from God, prepared and ready, like a bride dressed to meet her

husband. I heard a loud voice speaking from the throne: “Now God's home is with

people! He will live with them, and they shall be his people. God himself will be with

them, and he will be their God. He will wipe away all tears from their eyes. There will

be no more death, no more grief or crying or pain. The old things have disappeared.”

Then the one who sits on the throne said, “And now I make all things new!”

The Word of the Lord

You are also God's building. Using the gift that God gave me, I did the work of an

expert builder and laid the foundation, and someone else is building on it. But each of

you must be careful how you build. For God has already placed Jesus Christ as the one

and only foundation, and no other foundation can be laid. Surely you know that you are

God's temple and that God's Spirit lives in you! God will destroy anyone who destroys

God's temple. For God's temple is holy, and you yourselves are his temple.

The Word of the Lord

Jesus went on into Jericho and was passing through. There was a chief tax collector

there named Zacchaeus, who was rich. He was trying to see who Jesus was, but he was

a little man and could not see Jesus because of the crowd. So he ran ahead of the crowd

and climbed a sycamore tree to see Jesus, who was going to pass that way. When Jesus

came to that place, he looked up and said to Zacchaeus, “Hurry down, Zacchaeus,

because I must stay in your house today.”

Zacchaeus hurried down and welcomed him with great joy. All the people who saw it

started grumbling, “This man has gone as a guest to the home of a sinner!” Zacchaeus

stood up and said to the Lord, “Listen, sir! I will give half my belongings to the poor,

and if I have cheated anyone, I will pay back four times as much.”

Jesus said to him, “Salvation has come to this house today, for this man, also, is a

descendant of Abraham. The Son of Man came to seek and to save the lost.”

The Gospel of the Lord