Daily Gospel

The Gospel of the day: 19th July

19/07/2019

Readings of the day
First Reading: Exodus 11, 10 – 12, 14
Psalm: 115 (116), 12-13.15-16bc.17-18

Gospel: Mt 12, 1-8
Jesus was going through a field of grain on the sabbath. His disciples were hungry and began to pick the heads of grain and eat them. When the Pharisees saw this, they said to him, “See, your disciples are doing what is unlawful to do on the sabbath.”

He said to them, “Have you not read what David did when he and his companions were hungry, how he went into the house of God and ate the bread of offering, which neither he nor his companions but only the priests could lawfully eat? …

18/07/2019

Readings of the day
First Reading: Exodus 3, 13-20
Psalm: 104 (105) 1 & 5. 8-9.24-25.26-27

Gospel: Mt 11, 28-30
Jesus said to the crowds: “Come to me, all you who labour and are burdened, and I will give you rest.

Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am meek and humble of heart; and you will find rest for yourselves…

17/07/2019

Readings of the day
First Reading: Exodus 3, 1-6.9-12
Psalm: 102 (103), 1-2.3-4.6-7

Gospel: Mt 11, 25-27
At that time Jesus exclaimed, “I give praise to you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, for although you have hidden these things from the wise and the learned you have revealed them to the childlike…

16/07/2019

Our Lady of Mount Carmel Readings of the day
First Reading: 1 Kings 18: 42b-45a
Psalm: 14, 1-4

Gospel: Jn 19:25-27
Standing by the cross of Jesus were his mother, and his mother’s sister, Mary the wife of Clopas, and Mary Magdalene.

When Jesus saw his mother, and the disciple whom he loved standing near, he said to his mother, “Woman, behold, your son!” Then he said to the disciple, “Behold, your mother!” And from that hour the disciple took her to his own home.

…

15/07/2019

Readings of the day
First Reading: Exodus 1, 8-14. 22
Psalm: 123 (124): 1-3.4-6.7-8

Gospel: Mt 10, 34 – 11, 1
Jesus said to his Apostles: “Do not think that I have come to bring peace upon the earth. I have come to bring not peace but the sword. For I have come to set a man ‘against his father, a daughter against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law; and one’s enemies will be those of his household.’

Whoever loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me, and whoever loves son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me; and whoever does not take up his cross and follow after me is not worthy of me…

14/07/2019

The Fifteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time
Readings of the day
First Reading: Deut 30, 10-14
Psalm: 68 (69), 14 & 17. 30-31. 33-34. 36ab & 37
Second Reading: Col 1, 15-20

Gospel: Lk 10, 25-37
There was a scholar of the law who stood up to test Jesus and said, “Teacher, what must I do to inherit eternal life?” Jesus said to him, “What is written in the law? …

13/07/2019

Readings of the day
First Reading: Gen 49, 29-33; 50, 15-26a
Psalm: 104 (105), 1-2.3-4.6-7

Gospel: Mt 10, 24-33
Jesus said to his Apostles: “Behold, I am sending you like sheep in the midst of wolves; so be shrewd as serpents and simple as doves. But beware of men, for they will hand you over to courts and scourge you in their synagogues, and you will be led before governors and kings for my sake as a witness before them and the pagans…

12/07/2019

Readings of the day
First Reading: Gen 46, 1-7. 28-30
Psalm: 36 (37), 3-4.18-19.27-28.39-40

Gospel: Mt 10, 16-23
Jesus said to his Apostles: “Behold, I am sending you like sheep in the midst of wolves; so be shrewd as serpents and simple as doves. But beware of men, for they will hand you over to courts and scourge you in their synagogues, and you will be led before governors and kings for my sake as a witness before them and the pagans…

11/07/2019

Saint Benedict, Abbot & Patron of Europe – Feast Readings of the day
First Reading: Prov 2, 1-19
Psalm: 33, 2-4.6.9.12.14-15

Gospel: Mt 19, 27-29
In those days, Peter said in reply, “Look, we have left everything and followed you. What then shall we have?” Jesus said to them, “Truly, I say to you, in the new world, when the Son of man shall sit on his glorious throne, you who have followed me will also sit on twelve thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel. And every one who has left houses or brothers or sisters or father or mother or children or lands, for my name’s sake, will receive a hundredfold, and inherit eternal life.

…

10/07/2019

Readings of the day
First Reading: Gen 41, 55-57; 42, 5-7a. 17-24a
Psalm: 32 (33), 2-3.10-11.18-19

Gospel: Mt 10, 1-7
Jesus summoned his Twelve disciples and gave them authority over unclean spirits to drive them out and to cure every disease and every illness.

The names of the twelve apostles are these: first, Simon called Peter, and his brother Andrew; James, the son of Zebedee, and his brother John; Philip and Bartholomew, Thomas and Matthew the tax collector; James, the son of Alphaeus, and Thaddeus; Simon the Cananean, and Judas Iscariot who betrayed him…