Readings of the day

First Reading: James 1:19-27
Psalm: 14 (15):2-3ab,3cd-4ab,5

Gospel: Mark 8:22-26

When Jesus and His disciples arrived at Bethsaida, people brought to Him a blind man and begged Jesus to touch him. He took the blind man by the hand and led him outside the village. Putting spittle on his eyes He laid His hands on him and asked, “Do you see anything?” Looking up he replied, “I see people looking like trees and walking.” Then He laid hands on his eyes a second time and he saw clearly; his sight was restored and he could see everything distinctly… Read more »

Readings of the day

First Reading: James 1:12-18
Psalm: 93 (94):12-13a,14-15,18-19

Gospel: Mark 8:14-21

The disciples had forgotten to bring bread, and they had only one loaf with them in the boat.
He enjoined them, “Watch out, guard against the leaven of the Pharisees and the leaven of Herod.” They concluded among themselves that it was because they had no bread… Read more »

Readings of the day

First Reading: Acts 13:46-69
Psalm: 116:1,2

Gospel: Luke 10:1-9

After this the Lord appointed seventy others and sent them on ahead of Him in pairs to every town and place where He Himself intended to go. He said to them, “The harvest is plentiful, but the labourers are few; therefore ask the Lord of the harvest to send out labourers into His harvest. Go on your way… Read more »

Readings of the day

First Reading: 1 kings 12:26-32; 13:33-34
Psalm: 105 (106):6-7a,19-20,21-22

Gospel: Mark 8:1-10

In those days when there again was a great crowd without anything to eat, Jesus summoned the disciples and said, “My heart is moved with pity for the crowd, because they have been with me now for three days and have nothing to eat… Read more »

Readings of the day

First Reading: 1 Kings 11:29-32; 12:19
Psalm: 80 (81):10-11ab,12-13,14-15

Gospel: Mark 7:31-37

Jesus left the district of Tyre and went by way of Sidon to the Sea of Galilee, into the district of the Decapolis. And people brought to Him a deaf man who had a speech impediment and begged him to lay His hand on him… Read more »

Readings of the day

First Reading: 1 Kings 10:1-10
Psalm: 36 (37):5-6,30-31,39-40

Gospel: Mark 7:4-23

Jesus summoned the crowd again and said to them, “Hear me, all of you, and understand.
Nothing that enters one from outside can defile that person; but the things that come out from within are what defile.”

When he got home away from the crowd his disciples questioned him about the parable… Read more »

Readings of the day

First Reading: 1 Kings 8:22-23,27-30
Psalm: 83 (84):3,4,5 and 10,11

Gospel: Mark 7:1-13

When the Pharisees with some scribes who had come from Jerusalem gathered around Jesus,
they observed that some of his disciples ate their meals with unclean, that is, unwashed, hands. (For the Pharisees and, in fact, all Jews, do not eat without carefully washing their hands, keeping the tradition of the elders… Read more »

Readings of the day

First Reading: 1 Kings 8:1-7,9-13
Psalm: 131 (132):6-7,8-10

Gospel: Mark 6:53-56

After making the crossing to the other side of the sea, Jesus and his disciples came to land at Gennesaret and tied up there. As they were leaving the boat, people immediately recognized him. They scurried about the surrounding country and began to bring in the sick on mats to wherever they heard he was… Read more »