Daily Gospel

The Gospel of the day: 2nd January

02/01/2019

Readings of the day
First Reading: 1 Jn 2, 22-28
Psalm: 97 (98), 1.2-3ab.3cd-4

Gospel: John 1, 19-28
This is the testimony of John. When the Jews from Jerusalem sent priests and Levites to him to ask him, “Who are you?” he admitted and did not deny it, but admitted, “I am not the Messiah.” So they asked him, “What are you then? …

01/01/2019

Mary, Mother of God – Solemnity Readings of the day
First Reading: Num 6, 22-27
Psalm: 66 (67), 2-3.5.6.8
Second Reading: Gal 4, 4-7

Gospel: Luke 2, 16-21
The shepherds went in haste to Bethlehem and found Mary and Joseph, and the infant lying in the manger. When they saw this, they made known the message that had been told them about this child…

31/12/2018

Readings of the day
First Reading: 1 Jn 2, 18-21
Psalm: 95 (96), 1-2.11-12.13

Gospel: John 1, 1-18
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God. All things came to be through him, and without him nothing came to be…

30/12/2018

The Holy Family – Feast Readings of the day
First Reading: 1 Sam 1, 20-22.24-28
Psalm:83 (84), 2-3. 5-6. 9-10
Second Reading: 1 John 3, 1-2, 21-24

Gospel: Luke 2, 41-52
Each year Jesus’ parents went to Jerusalem for the feast of Passover, and when he was twelve years old, they went up according to festival custom…

29/12/2018

Readings of the day
First Reading: 1 John 2, 3-11
Psalm: 95 (96), 1-2a.2b-3.5b-6

Gospel: Luke 2, 22-35
When the days were completed for their purification according to the law of Moses, Mary and Joseph took Jesus up to Jerusalem to present him to the Lord, just as it is written in the law of the Lord, “Every male that opens the womb shall be consecrated to the Lord,” and to offer the sacrifice of “a pair of turtledoves or two young pigeons,” in accordance with the dictate in the law of the Lord…

28/12/2018

The Holy Innocents, martyrs – Feast Readings of the day
First Reading: 1 John 1, 5; 2: 2
Psalm: 123, 2-5.7b-8

Gospel: Matthew 2, 13-18
When the Magi had departed, behold, the angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream and said, “Rise, take the child and his mother, flee to Egypt, and stay there until I tell you…

27/12/2018

Saint John, Apostle and Evangelist – Feast Readings of the day
First Reading: 1 John 1, 1-4
Psalm: 96, 1-2.5-6.11-12

Gospel: John 20, 2-8
On the first day of the week, Mary Magdalene ran and went to Simon Peter and to the other disciple whom Jesus loved, and told them, “They have taken the Lord from the tomb, and we don’t know where they put him.” So Peter and the other disciple went out and came to the tomb…

26/12/2018

Saint Stephen, first martyr – Feast Readings of the day
First Reading: Acts 6, 8-10; 7,54-59
Psalm 30

Gospel: Matthew 10, 17-22
Jesus said to His disciples: “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…

25/12/2018

The Birth of Our Lord Jesus Christ – Solemnity Readings of the day
First Reading: Is 52, 7-10
Psalm: 97 (98), 1.2-3ab.3cd-4.5-6
Second Reading: Hebrews 1, 1-6

Gospel: John 1, 1-18
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God…

24/12/2018

Readings of the day
First Reading: 2 Sam 7, 1-5.8b-12.14a.16
Psalm: 88 (89), 2-3.4-5.27 u 29

Gospel: Luke 1, 67-79
Zechariah was filled with the Holy Spirit, and prophesied, saying, “Blessed be the Lord God of Israel, for he has visited and redeemed his people, and has raised up a horn of salvation for us in the house of his servant David, as he spoke by the mouth of his holy prophets from of old, that we should be saved from our enemies, and from the hand of all who hate us; to perform the mercy promised to our fathers, and to remember his holy covenant, the oath which he swore to our father Abraham, to grant us that we, being delivered from the hand of our enemies, might serve him without fear, in holiness and righteousness before him all the days of our life. And you, child, will be called the prophet of the Most High; for you will go before the Lord to prepare his ways, to give knowledge of salvation to his people in the forgiveness of their sins, through the tender mercy of our God, when the day shall dawn upon us from on high to give light to those who sit in darkness and in the shadow of death, to guide our feet into the way of peace.”

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