Readings of the day

Mass readings

1. First reading Isaiah 38:1-6, 21-22, 7-8

   ¹In those days Hezekiah was sick and near death. Isaiah the prophet, the son of Amoz, came to him, and said to him, “The LORD says, ‘Set your house in order, for you will die, and not live.’” ²Then Hezekiah turned his face to the wall and prayed to the LORD, ³and said, “Remember now, LORD, I beg you, how I have walked before you in truth and with a perfect heart, and have done that which is good in your sight.” Then Hezekiah wept bitterly. ⁴Then the LORD’s word came to Isaiah, saying, ⁵“Go, and tell Hezekiah, ‘The LORD, the God of David your father, says, “I have heard your prayer. I have seen your tears. Behold, I will add fifteen years to your life. ⁶I will deliver you and this city out of the hand of the king of Assyria, and I will defend this city. ²¹Now Isaiah had said, “Let them take a cake of figs, and lay it for a poultice on the boil, and he shall recover.” ²²Hezekiah also had said, “What is the sign that I will go up to the LORD’s house?” ⁷This shall be the sign to you from the LORD, that the LORD will do this thing that he has spoken. ⁸Behold, I will cause the shadow on the sundial, which has gone down on the sundial of Ahaz with the sun, to return backward ten steps.”’” So the sun returned ten steps on the sundial on which it had gone down.

   WEB-C · World English Bible (Catholic). Public Domain. Source: eBible.org. Read in context: Isaiah 38:1-6, 21-22, 7-8

2. Responsorial Psalm Isaiah 38:10, 11, 12abcd, 16

   ¹⁰I said, “In the middle of my life I go into the gates of Sheol. I am deprived of the residue of my years.” ¹¹I said, “I won’t see the LORD, the LORD in the land of the living. I will see man no more with the inhabitants of the world. ¹²My dwelling is removed, and is carried away from me like a shepherd’s tent. I have rolled up my life like a weaver. He will cut me off from the loom. From day even to night you will make an end of me. ¹⁶Lord, men live by these things; and my spirit finds life in all of them. You restore me, and cause me to live.

   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: Isaiah 38:10, 11, 12abcd, 16

3. Gospel acclamation John 10:27

4. Gospel Matthew 12:1-8

   ¹At that time, Jesus went on the Sabbath day through the grain fields. His disciples were hungry and began to pluck heads of grain and to eat. ²But the Pharisees, when they saw it, said to him, “Behold, your disciples do what is not lawful to do on the Sabbath.” ³But he said to them, “Haven’t you read what David did when he was hungry, and those who were with him: ⁴how he entered into God’s house and ate the show bread, which was not lawful for him to eat, nor for those who were with him, but only for the priests? ⁵Or have you not read in the law that on the Sabbath day the priests in the temple profane the Sabbath and are guiltless? ⁶But I tell you that one greater than the temple is here. ⁷But if you had known what this means, ‘I desire mercy, and not sacrifice,’ you wouldn’t have condemned the guiltless. ⁸For the Son of Man is Lord of the Sabbath.”

   WEB-C · World English Bible (Catholic). Public Domain. Source: eBible.org. Read in context: Matthew 12:1-8