Readings of the day

First Reading: Ezek 47, 1-9.12
Psalm: 45 (46), 2-3.5-6.8-9

Gospel: Jn 5, 1-3a.5-16

There was a feast of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. Now there is in Jerusalem at the Sheep Gate a pool called in Hebrew Bethesda, with five porticoes. In these lay a large number of ill, blind, lame, and crippled… Read more »

Readings of the day

First Reading: Is 65, 17-21
Psalm: 29 (30), 2 & 4.5-6.11-12a & 13b

Gospel: Jn 4, 43-54

At that time Jesus left Samaria for Galilee. For Jesus himself testified that a prophet has no honour in his native place. When he came into Galilee, the Galileans welcomed him, since they had seen all he had done in Jerusalem at the feast; for they themselves had gone to the feast… Read more »

Readings of the day

First Reading: Hos 6, 1-6
Psalm: 50 (51), 3-4.18-19.20-21ab

Gospel: Lk 18, 9-14

Jesus addressed this parable to those who were convinced of their own righteousness and despised everyone else. “Two people went up to the temple area to pray; one was a Pharisee and the other was a tax collector.

The Pharisee took up his position and spoke this prayer to himself, ‘O God, I thank you that I am not like the rest of humanity – greedy, dishonest, adulterous – or even like this tax collector… Read more »

Readings of the day

First Reading: Hos 14, 2-10
Psalm: 80 (81), 6c-8a.8bc-9.10-11ab.14 & 17

Gospel: Mk 12, 28b-34

In those days, one of the scribes came to Jesus and asked him, “Which is the first of all the commandments?” Jesus replied, “The first is this: ‘Hear, O Israel! The Lord our God is Lord alone! You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your mind, and with all your strength.’ The second is this: ‘You shall love your neighbour as yourself.’ There is no other commandment greater than these.”

The scribe said to him, “Well said, teacher… Read more »

Readings of the day

First Reading: Jer 7, 23-28
Psalm: 94 (95), 1-2.6-7.8-9

Gospel: Lk 11, 14-23

Jesus was driving out a demon that was mute, and when the demon had gone out, the mute man spoke and the crowds were amazed. Some of them said, “By the power of Beelzebul, the prince of demons, he drives out demons.” Others, to test him, asked him for a sign from heaven… Read more »

Readings of the day

First Reading: Deut 4, 1.5-9
Psalm: 147, 12-13.15-16.19-20

Gospel: Mt 5, 17-19

Jesus said to his disciples: “Do not think that I have come to abolish the law or the prophets. I have come not to abolish but to fulfill. Amen, I say to you, until heaven and earth pass away, not the smallest letter or the smallest part of a letter will pass from the law, until all things have taken place… Read more »

Readings of the day

First Reading: Dan 3, 25.34-43
Psalm: 24 (25), 4bc-5ab.6-7bc.8-9

Gospel: Mt 18, 21-35

Peter approached Jesus and asked him, “Lord, if my brother sins against me, how often must I forgive him? As many as seven times?” Jesus answered, “I say to you, not seven times but seventy-seven times.

That is why the kingdom of heaven may be likened to a king who decided to settle accounts with his servants… Read more »

Readings of the day

First Reading: 2 Kings 5, 1-15a
Psalm:  41 (42), 2.3; 42 (43), 3.4

Gospel: Lk 4, 24-30

Jesus said to the people in the synagogue at Nazareth: “Amen, I say to you, no prophet is accepted in his own native place. Indeed, I tell you, there were many widows in Israel in the days of Elijah when the sky was closed for three and a half years and a severe famine spread over the entire land… Read more »