Readings of the day

Mass readings

1. First reading Acts 20:28-38

   ²⁸Take heed, therefore, to yourselves and to all the flock, in which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers, to shepherd the assembly of the Lord and God which he purchased with his own blood. ²⁹For I know that after my departure, vicious wolves will enter in among you, not sparing the flock. ³⁰Men will arise from among your own selves, speaking perverse things, to draw away the disciples after them. ³¹Therefore watch, remembering that for a period of three years I didn’t cease to admonish everyone night and day with tears. ³²Now, brothers, I entrust you to God and to the word of his grace, which is able to build up and to give you the inheritance among all those who are sanctified. ³³I coveted no one’s silver, gold, or clothing. ³⁴You yourselves know that these hands served my necessities, and those who were with me. ³⁵In all things I gave you an example, that so laboring you ought to help the weak, and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, that he himself said, ‘It is more blessed to give than to receive.’ ” ³⁶When he had spoken these things, he knelt down and prayed with them all. ³⁷They all wept freely, and fell on Paul’s neck and kissed him, ³⁸sorrowing most of all because of the word which he had spoken, that they should see his face no more. Then they accompanied him to the ship.

   WEB-C · World English Bible (Catholic). Public Domain. Source: eBible.org. Read in context: Acts 20:28-38

2. Responsorial Psalm Psalms 68:29-30, 33-35a, 35b-36c

   ²⁸Your God has commanded your strength. Strengthen, God, that which you have done for us. ²⁹Because of your temple at Jerusalem, kings will bring presents to you. ³²Sing to God, you kingdoms of the earth! Sing praises to the Lord— Selah— ³³to him who rides on the heaven of heavens, which are of old; behold, he utters his voice, a mighty voice. ³⁴Ascribe strength to God! His excellency is over Israel, his strength is in the skies. ³⁵You are awesome, God, in your sanctuaries. The God of Israel gives strength and power to his people. Praise be to God!

   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 68:29-30, 33-35a, 35b-36c

3. Gospel acclamation John 17:17b, 17a

4. Gospel John 17:11b-19

   ¹¹I am no more in the world, but these are in the world, and I am coming to you. Holy Father, keep them through your name which you have given me, that they may be one, even as we are. ¹²While I was with them in the world, I kept them in your name. I have kept those whom you have given me. None of them is lost except the son of destruction, that the Scripture might be fulfilled. ¹³But now I come to you, and I say these things in the world, that they may have my joy made full in themselves. ¹⁴I have given them your word. The world hated them because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world. ¹⁵I pray not that you would take them from the world, but that you would keep them from the evil one. ¹⁶They are not of the world, even as I am not of the world. ¹⁷Sanctify them in your truth. Your word is truth. ¹⁸As you sent me into the world, even so I have sent them into the world. ¹⁹For their sakes I sanctify myself, that they themselves also may be sanctified in truth.

   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: John 17:11b-19