Readings of the day

Mass readings

1. First reading Isaiah 26:7-9, 12, 16-19

   ⁷The way of the just is uprightness. You who are upright make the path of the righteous level. ⁸Yes, in the way of your judgments, LORD, we have waited for you. Your name and your renown are the desire of our soul. ⁹With my soul I have desired you in the night. Yes, with my spirit within me I will seek you earnestly; for when your judgments are on the earth, the inhabitants of the world learn righteousness. ¹²LORD, you will ordain peace for us, for you have also done all our work for us. ¹⁶LORD, in trouble they have visited you. They poured out a prayer when your chastening was on them. ¹⁷Just as a woman with child, who draws near the time of her delivery, is in pain and cries out in her pangs, so we have been before you, LORD. ¹⁸We have been with child. We have been in pain. We gave birth, it seems, only to wind. We have not worked any deliverance on the earth; neither have the inhabitants of the world fallen. ¹⁹Your dead shall live. Their dead bodies shall arise. Awake and sing, you who dwell in the dust; for your dew is like the dew of herbs, and the earth will cast out the departed spirits.

   WEB-C · World English Bible (Catholic). Public Domain. Source: eBible.org. Read in context: Isaiah 26:7-9, 12, 16-19

2. Responsorial Psalm Psalms 102:13-14ab, 15, 16-18, 19-21

   ¹²But you, LORD, will remain forever; your renown endures to all generations. ¹³You will arise and have mercy on Zion, for it is time to have pity on her. Yes, the set time has come. ¹⁴For your servants take pleasure in her stones, and have pity on her dust. ¹⁵So the nations will fear the LORD’s name, all the kings of the earth your glory. ¹⁶For the LORD has built up Zion. He has appeared in his glory. ¹⁷He has responded to the prayer of the destitute, and has not despised their prayer. ¹⁸This will be written for the generation to come. A people which will be created will praise the LORD, ¹⁹for he has looked down from the height of his sanctuary. From heaven, the LORD saw the earth, ²⁰to hear the groans of the prisoner, to free those who are condemned to death,

   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: Psalms 102:13-14ab, 15, 16-18, 19-21

3. Gospel acclamation Matthew 11:28

4. Gospel Matthew 11:28-30

   ²⁸“Come to me, all you who labor and are heavily burdened, and I will give you rest. ²⁹Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart; and you will find rest for your souls. ³⁰For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.”

   WEB-C · World English Bible (Catholic). Public Domain. Source: eBible.org. Read in context: Matthew 11:28-30