Daily Gospel

The Gospel of the day: 22nd August

  • Readings of the day
  • First Reading: Judges 11, 29-39a
    Psalm: 39 (40), 5.7-8a.8b-9.10

    Gospel: Mt 22, 1-14

  • Jesus again in reply spoke to the chief priests and the elders of the people in parables saying, “The kingdom of heaven may be likened to a king who gave a wedding feast for his son…

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The Gospel of the day: 20th August

  • Readings of the day
  • First Reading: Judges 6, 11-24a
    Psalm: 84 (85), 9.11-12.13-14

    Gospel: Mt 19, 23-30

  • Jesus said to his disciples: “Amen, I say to you, it will be hard for one who is rich to enter the kingdom of heaven. Again I say to you, it is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for one who is rich to enter the kingdom of God.”

    When the disciples heard this, they were greatly astonished and said, “Who then can be saved?” Jesus looked at them and said, “For human beings this is impossible, but for God all things are possible.”

    Then Peter said to him in reply, “We have given up everything and followed you…

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The Gospel of the day: 19th August

  • Readings of the day
  • First Reading: Judges 2, 11-19
    Psalm: 105 (106), 34-35.36-37.39-40.43ab & 44

    Gospel: Mt 19, 16-22

  • A young man approached Jesus and said, “Teacher, what good must I do to gain eternal life?” He answered him, “Why do you ask me about the good? There is only One who is good…

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The Sunday Gospel: 18th August

  • Twentieth Sunday in Ordinary Time
    Readings of the day
  • First Reading: Jer 38, 4-6. 8-10
    Psalm: 39 (40), 2.3.4.18
    Second Reading: Heb 12, 1-4

    Gospel: Lk 12, 49-53

  • Jesus said to his disciples: “I have come to set the earth on fire, and how I wish it were already blazing! …

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The Gospel of the day: 17th August

  • Readings of the day
  • First Reading: Joshua 24, 14-29
    Psalm: 15 (16), 1-2a & 5.7-8.11

    Gospel: Mt 19, 13-15

  • Children were brought to Jesus that he might lay his hands on them and pray.

    The disciples rebuked them, but Jesus said, “Let the children come to me, and do not prevent them; for the kingdom of heaven belongs to such as these.”

    After he placed his hands on them, he went away…

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The Gospel of the day: 16th August

  • Readings of the day
  • First Reading: Joshua 24, 1-13
    Psalm: 135 (136), 1-3.16-18.21-22 & 24

    Gospel: Mt 19, 3-12

  • Some Pharisees approached Jesus, and tested him, saying, “Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife for any cause whatever?” He said in reply, “Have you not read that from the beginning the Creator ‘made them male and female’ and said, ‘For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh’? …

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The Gospel of the day: 15th August

  • Assumption of the Virgin Mary into Heaven – Solemnity
    Readings of the day
  • First Reading: Rev 11, 19a; 12, 1-6a. 10ab
    Psalm: 44, 10bc.11-12ab.16
    Second Reading: 1 Cor 15, 20-26

    Gospel: Lk 1, 39-56

  • Mary set out in those days and travelled to the hill country in haste to a town of Judah, where she entered the house of Zechariah and greeted Elizabeth…

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The Gospel of the day: 14th August

  • Readings of the day
  • First Reading: Deut 34, 1-12
    Psalm: 65 (66), 1-3a.5 & 16-17

    Gospel: Mt 18, 15-20

  • Jesus said to his disciples: “If your brother sins against you, go and tell him his fault between you and him alone. If he listens to you, you have won over your brother…

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The Gospel of the day: 13th August

  • Readings of the day
  • First Reading: Deut 31, 1-8
    Psalm: Deut 32, 3-4a.7.8.9 & 12

    Gospel: Mt 18, 1-5.10.12-14

  • The disciples approached Jesus and said, “Who is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven?” He called a child over, placed it in their midst, and said, “Amen, I say to you, unless you turn and become like children, you will not enter the kingdom of heaven…

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The Gospel of the day: 12th August

  • Readings of the day
  • First Reading: Deut 10, 12-22
    Psalm: 147, 12-13.14-15.19-20

    Gospel: Mt 17, 22-27

  • As Jesus and his disciples were gathering in Galilee, Jesus said to them, “The Son of Man is to be handed over to men, and they will kill him, and he will be raised on the third day.” And they were overwhelmed with grief…

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