Readings of the day

Mass readings

1. First reading Isaiah 63:16b-17, 19b; 64:2b-7

   ¹⁶For you are our Father, though Abraham doesn’t know us, and Israel does not acknowledge us. You, LORD, are our Father. Our Redeemer from everlasting is your name. ¹⁷O LORD, why do you make us wander from your ways, and harden our heart from your fear? Return for your servants’ sake, the tribes of your inheritance. ¹Oh that you would tear the heavens, that you would come down, that the mountains might quake at your presence— ³When you did awesome things which we didn’t look for, you came down, and the mountains quaked at your presence. ⁴For from of old men have not heard, nor perceived by the ear, nor has the eye seen a God besides you, who works for him who waits for him. ⁵You meet him who rejoices and does righteousness, those who remember you in your ways. Behold, you were angry, and we sinned. We have been in sin for a long time. Shall we be saved? ⁶For we have all become like one who is unclean, and all our righteousness is like a polluted garment. We all fade like a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, take us away. ⁷There is no one who calls on your name, who stirs himself up to take hold of you; for you have hidden your face from us, and have consumed us by means of our iniquities. ⁸But now, LORD, you are our Father. We are the clay and you our potter. We all are the work of your hand.

   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 63:16b-17, 19b; 64:2b-7

2. Responsorial Psalm Psalms 80:2ac, 3b, 15-16, 18-19

   ¹For the Chief Musician. To the tune of “The Lilies of the Covenant.” A Psalm by Asaph. Hear us, Shepherd of Israel, you who lead Joseph like a flock, you who sit above the cherubim, shine out. ²Before Ephraim, Benjamin, and Manasseh, stir up your might! Come to save us! ¹⁴Turn again, we beg you, God of Armies. Look down from heaven, and see, and visit this vine, ¹⁵the stock which your right hand planted, the branch that you made strong for yourself. ¹⁷Let your hand be on the man of your right hand, on the son of man whom you made strong for yourself. ¹⁸So we will not turn away from you. Revive us, and we will call on your name.

   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 80:2ac, 3b, 15-16, 18-19

3. Second reading 1 Corinthians 1:3-9

   ³Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. ⁴I always thank my God concerning you for the grace of God which was given you in Christ Jesus, ⁵that in everything you were enriched in him, in all speech and all knowledge— ⁶even as the testimony of Christ was confirmed in you— ⁷so that you come behind in no gift, waiting for the revelation of our Lord Jesus Christ, ⁸who will also confirm you until the end, blameless in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ. ⁹God is faithful, through whom you were called into the fellowship of his Son, Jesus Christ our Lord.

   WEB-C · World English Bible (Catholic). Public Domain. Source: eBible.org. Read in context: 1 Corinthians 1:3-9

4. Gospel acclamation Psalms 85:8

5. Gospel Mark 13:33-37

   ³³Watch, keep alert, and pray; for you don’t know when the time is. ³⁴“It is like a man traveling to another country, having left his house and given authority to his servants, and to each one his work, and also commanded the doorkeeper to keep watch. ³⁵Watch therefore, for you don’t know when the lord of the house is coming—whether at evening, or at midnight, or when the rooster crows, or in the morning; ³⁶lest, coming suddenly, he might find you sleeping. ³⁷What I tell you, I tell all: Watch!”

   WEB-C · World English Bible (Catholic). Public Domain. Source: eBible.org. Read in context: Mark 13:33-37