Readings of the day

Mass readings

1. First reading Hebrews 10:32-39

   ³²But remember the former days, in which, after you were enlightened, you endured a great struggle with sufferings: ³³partly, being exposed to both reproaches and oppressions, and partly, becoming partakers with those who were treated so. ³⁴For you both had compassion on me in my chains and joyfully accepted the plundering of your possessions, knowing that you have for yourselves a better possession and an enduring one in the heavens. ³⁵Therefore don’t throw away your boldness, which has a great reward. ³⁶For you need endurance so that, having done the will of God, you may receive the promise. ³⁷“In a very little while, he who comes will come and will not wait. ³⁸But the righteous one will live by faith. If he shrinks back, my soul has no pleasure in him.” ³⁹But we are not of those who shrink back to destruction, but of those who have faith to the saving of the soul.

   WEB-C · World English Bible (Catholic). Public Domain. Source: eBible.org. Read in context: Hebrews 10:32-39

2. Responsorial Psalm Psalms 37:3-4, 5-6, 23-34, 39-40

   ³Trust in the LORD, and do good. Dwell in the land, and enjoy safe pasture. ⁴Also delight yourself in the LORD, and he will give you the desires of your heart. ⁵Commit your way to the LORD. Trust also in him, and he will do this: ⁶he will make your righteousness shine out like light, and your justice as the noon day sun. ²³A man’s steps are established by the LORD. He delights in his way. ²⁴Though he stumble, he shall not fall, for the LORD holds him up with his hand. ²⁵I have been young, and now am old, yet I have not seen the righteous forsaken, nor his children begging for bread. ²⁶All day long he deals graciously, and lends. His offspring is blessed. ²⁷Depart from evil, and do good. Live securely forever. ²⁸For the LORD loves justice, and doesn’t forsake his saints. They are preserved forever, but the children of the wicked shall be cut off. ²⁹The righteous shall inherit the land, and live in it forever. ³⁰The mouth of the righteous talks of wisdom. His tongue speaks justice. ³¹The law of his God is in his heart. None of his steps shall slide. ³²The wicked watch the righteous, and seek to kill him. ³³The LORD will not leave him in his hand, nor condemn him when he is judged. ³⁴Wait for the LORD, and keep his way, and he will exalt you to inherit the land. When the wicked are cut off, you shall see it. ³⁹But the salvation of the righteous is from the LORD. He is their stronghold in the time of trouble. ⁴⁰The LORD helps them and rescues them. He rescues them from the wicked and saves them, because they have taken refuge in him.

   WEB-C · World English Bible (Catholic). Public Domain. Source: eBible.org. Read in context: Psalms 37:3-4, 5-6, 23-34, 39-40

3. Gospel acclamation Matthew 11:25

4. Gospel Mark 4:26-34

   ²⁶He said, “God’s Kingdom is as if a man should cast seed on the earth, ²⁷and should sleep and rise night and day, and the seed should spring up and grow, though he doesn’t know how. ²⁸For the earth bears fruit by itself: first the blade, then the ear, then the full grain in the ear. ²⁹But when the fruit is ripe, immediately he puts in the sickle, because the harvest has come.” ³⁰He said, “How will we liken God’s Kingdom? Or with what parable will we illustrate it? ³¹It’s like a grain of mustard seed, which, when it is sown in the earth, though it is less than all the seeds that are on the earth, ³²yet when it is sown, grows up and becomes greater than all the herbs, and puts out great branches, so that the birds of the sky can lodge under its shadow.” ³³With many such parables he spoke the word to them, as they were able to hear it. ³⁴Without a parable he didn’t speak to them; but privately to his own disciples he explained everything.

   WEB-C · World English Bible (Catholic). Public Domain. Source: eBible.org. Read in context: Mark 4:26-34