Readings of the day

First Reading: Jeremiah 30:1-2,12-15,18-22
Psalm: 101 (102):16-18,19-21,29 & 22-23

Gospel: Matthew 14:22-36

Some Pharisees and scribes came to Jesus from Jerusalem and said, Why do your disciples break the tradition of the elders? They do not wash their hands when they eat a meal. He summoned the crowd and said to them, “Hear and understand. It is not what enters one’s mouth that defiles that person; but what comes out of the mouth is what defiles one.”

Then his disciples approached and said to him, “Do you know that the Pharisees took offense when they heard what you said?” He said in reply, “Every plant that my heavenly Father has not planted will be uprooted… Read more »

Readings of the day

First Reading: Jeremiah 28:1-17
Psalm: 118 (119):29,43,79,80,95,102

Gospel: Matthew 14:22-36

After he had fed the people, Jesus made the disciples get into the boat and precede him to the other side of the sea, while he dismissed the crowds. After doing so, he went up on the mountain by himself to pray. When it was evening he was there alone… Read more »

Readings of the day

First Reading: Jeremiah 26:11-16,24
Psalm: 68 (69):15-16,30-31,33-34

Gospel: Matthew 14:1-12

Herod the tetrarch heard of the reputation of Jesus and said to his servants, “This man is John the Baptist. He has been raised from the dead; that is why mighty powers are at work in him.”

Now Herod had arrested John, bound him, and put him in prison on account of Herodias, the wife of his brother Philip, for John had said to him, “It is not lawful for you to have her.” Although he wanted to kill him, he feared the people, for they regarded him as a prophet… Read more »

Readings of the day

First Reading: Jeremiah 26:1-9
Psalm: 68 (69):5,8-10,14

Gospel: Matthew 13:54-58

Jesus came to his native place and taught the people in their synagogue. They were astonished and said, “Where did this man get such wisdom and mighty deeds? Is he not the carpenter’s son? Is not his mother named Mary and his brothers James, Joseph, Simon, and Judas? Are not his sisters all with us? … Read more »

Readings of the day

First Reading: Jeremiah 18:1-6
Psalm: 145 (146):2abc,2d-4,5-6

Gospel: Matthew 13:47-53

Jesus said to the disciples: “The Kingdom of heaven is like a net thrown into the sea, which collects fish of every kind. When it is full they haul it ashore and sit down to put what is good into buckets. What is bad they throw away.

Thus it will be at the end of the age… Read more »

Readings of the day

First Reading: 1 John 4:7-16
Psalm: 33: 2-11

Gospel: John 11: 19-27

Many of the Jews had come to Martha and Mary to comfort them about their brother Lazarus, who had died. When Martha heard that Jesus was coming, she went to meet him; but Mary sat at home. Martha said to Jesus, “Lord, if you had been here, my brother would not have died… Read more »

Readings of the day

First Reading: Jeremiah 14:17-22
Psalm: 78 (79):8,9,11 & 13

Gospel: Matthew 13:36-43

Jesus dismissed the crowds and went into the house. His disciples approached him and said, “Explain to us the parable of the weeds in the field.”

He said in reply, “He who sows good seed is the Son of Man, the field is the world, the good seed the children of the kingdom… Read more »

Readings of the day

First Reading: Jeremiah 13:1-11
Psalm: Deuteronomy 32:18-19,20,21

Gospel: Matthew 13:31-35

Jesus proposed a parable to the crowds. “The kingdom of heaven is like a mustard seed that a person took and sowed in a field. It is the smallest of all the seeds, yet when full-grown it is the largest of plants. It becomes a large bush, and the ‘birds of the sky come and dwell in its branches.’”

He spoke to them another parable… Read more »