Readings of the day

Mass readings

1. First reading Job 3:1-3, 11-17, 20-23

   ¹After this Job opened his mouth, and cursed the day of his birth. ²Job answered: ³“Let the day perish in which I was born, the night which said, ‘There is a boy conceived.’ ¹¹“Why didn’t I die from the womb? Why didn’t I give up the spirit when my mother bore me? ¹²Why did the knees receive me? Or why the breast, that I should nurse? ¹³For now I should have lain down and been quiet. I should have slept, then I would have been at rest, ¹⁴with kings and counselors of the earth, who built up waste places for themselves; ¹⁵or with princes who had gold, who filled their houses with silver; ¹⁶or as a hidden untimely birth I had not been, as infants who never saw light. ¹⁷There the wicked cease from troubling. There the weary are at rest. ²⁰“Why is light given to him who is in misery, life to the bitter in soul, ²¹who long for death, but it doesn’t come; and dig for it more than for hidden treasures, ²²who rejoice exceedingly, and are glad, when they can find the grave? ²³Why is light given to a man whose way is hidden, whom God has hedged in?

   WEB-C · World English Bible (Catholic). Public Domain. Source: eBible.org. Read in context: Job 3:1-3, 11-17, 20-23

2. Responsorial Psalm Psalms 88:2-3, 4-5, 6, 7-8

   ¹A Song. A Psalm by the sons of Korah. For the Chief Musician. To the tune of “The Suffering of Affliction.” A contemplation by Heman, the Ezrahite. LORD, the God of my salvation, I have cried day and night before you. ²Let my prayer enter into your presence. Turn your ear to my cry. ³For my soul is full of troubles. My life draws near to Sheol. ⁴I am counted among those who go down into the pit. I am like a man who has no help, ⁵set apart among the dead, like the slain who lie in the grave, whom you remember no more. They are cut off from your hand. ⁶You have laid me in the lowest pit, in the darkest depths. ⁷Your wrath lies heavily on me. You have afflicted me with all your waves. Selah.

   WEB-C · World English Bible (Catholic). Public Domain. Source: eBible.org. Read in context: Psalms 88:2-3, 4-5, 6, 7-8

3. Gospel acclamation Mark 10:45

4. Gospel Luke 9:51-56

   ⁵¹It came to pass, when the days were near that he should be taken up, he intently set his face to go to Jerusalem ⁵²and sent messengers before his face. They went and entered into a village of the Samaritans, so as to prepare for him. ⁵³They didn’t receive him, because he was traveling with his face set toward Jerusalem. ⁵⁴When his disciples, James and John, saw this, they said, “Lord, do you want us to command fire to come down from the sky and destroy them, just as Elijah did?” ⁵⁵But he turned and rebuked them, “You don’t know of what kind of spirit you are. ⁵⁶For the Son of Man didn’t come to destroy men’s lives, but to save them.” They went to another village.

   WEB-C · World English Bible (Catholic). Public Domain. Source: eBible.org. Read in context: Luke 9:51-56