Readings of the day

Mass readings

1. First reading Deuteronomy 31:1-8

   ¹Moses went and spoke these words to all Israel. ²He said to them, “I am one hundred twenty years old today. I can no more go out and come in. The LORD has said to me, ‘You shall not go over this Jordan.’ ³The LORD your God himself will go over before you. He will destroy these nations from before you, and you shall dispossess them. Joshua will go over before you, as the LORD has spoken. ⁴The LORD will do to them as he did to Sihon and to Og, the kings of the Amorites, and to their land, when he destroyed them. ⁵The LORD will deliver them up before you, and you shall do to them according to all the commandment which I have commanded you. ⁶Be strong and courageous. Don’t be afraid or scared of them, for the LORD your God himself is who goes with you. He will not fail you nor forsake you.” ⁷Moses called to Joshua, and said to him in the sight of all Israel, “Be strong and courageous, for you shall go with this people into the land which the LORD has sworn to their fathers to give them; and you shall cause them to inherit it. ⁸The LORD himself is who goes before you. He will be with you. He will not fail you nor forsake you. Don’t be afraid. Don’t be discouraged.”

   WEB-C · World English Bible (Catholic). Public Domain. Source: eBible.org. Read in context: Deuteronomy 31:1-8

2. Responsorial Psalm Deuteronomy 32:3-4a, 7, 8, 9, 12

   ³For I will proclaim the LORD’s name. Ascribe greatness to our God! ⁴The Rock: his work is perfect, for all his ways are just. A God of faithfulness who does no wrong, just and right is he. ⁷Remember the days of old. Consider the years of many generations. Ask your father, and he will show you; your elders, and they will tell you. ⁸When the Most High gave to the nations their inheritance, when he separated the children of men, he set the bounds of the peoples according to the number of the children of Israel. ⁹For the LORD’s portion is his people. Jacob is the lot of his inheritance. ¹²The LORD alone led him. There was no foreign god with him.

   Some verses are read only in part; the whole verse is shown.

   WEB-C · World English Bible (Catholic). Public Domain. Source: eBible.org. Read in context: Deuteronomy 32:3-4a, 7, 8, 9, 12

3. Gospel acclamation Matthew 11:29ab

4. Gospel Matthew 18:1-5, 10, 12-14

   ¹In that hour the disciples came to Jesus, saying, “Who then is greatest in the Kingdom of Heaven?” ²Jesus called a little child to himself, and set him in the middle of them ³and said, “Most certainly I tell you, unless you turn and become as little children, you will in no way enter into the Kingdom of Heaven. ⁴Whoever therefore humbles himself as this little child is the greatest in the Kingdom of Heaven. ⁵Whoever receives one such little child in my name receives me, ¹⁰See that you don’t despise one of these little ones, for I tell you that in heaven their angels always see the face of my Father who is in heaven. ¹²“What do you think? If a man has one hundred sheep, and one of them goes astray, doesn’t he leave the ninety-nine, go to the mountains, and seek that which has gone astray? ¹³If he finds it, most certainly I tell you, he rejoices over it more than over the ninety-nine which have not gone astray. ¹⁴Even so it is not the will of your Father who is in heaven that one of these little ones should perish.

   WEB-C · World English Bible (Catholic). Public Domain. Source: eBible.org. Read in context: Matthew 18:1-5, 10, 12-14