Readings of the day

Mass readings

1. First reading 1 Kings 19:4-8

   ⁴But he himself went a day’s journey into the wilderness, and came and sat down under a juniper tree. Then he requested for himself that he might die, and said, “It is enough. Now, O LORD, take away my life; for I am not better than my fathers.” ⁵He lay down and slept under a juniper tree; and behold, an angel touched him, and said to him, “Arise and eat!” ⁶He looked, and behold, there was at his head a cake baked on the coals, and a jar of water. He ate and drank, and lay down again. ⁷The LORD’s angel came again the second time, and touched him, and said, “Arise and eat, because the journey is too great for you.” ⁸He arose, and ate and drank, and went in the strength of that food forty days and forty nights to Horeb, God’s Mountain.

   WEB-C · World English Bible (Catholic). Public Domain. Source: eBible.org. Read in context: 1 Kings 19:4-8

2. Responsorial Psalm Psalms 34:2-3, 4-5, 6-7, 8-9

   ¹By David; when he pretended to be insane before Abimelech, who drove him away, and he departed. I will bless the LORD at all times. His praise will always be in my mouth. ²My soul shall boast in the LORD. The humble shall hear of it and be glad. ³Oh magnify the LORD with me. Let’s exalt his name together. ⁴I sought the LORD, and he answered me, and delivered me from all my fears. ⁵They looked to him, and were radiant. Their faces shall never be covered with shame. ⁶This poor man cried, and the LORD heard him, and saved him out of all his troubles. ⁷The LORD’s angel encamps around those who fear him, and delivers them. ⁸Oh taste and see that the LORD is good. Blessed is the man who takes refuge in him.

   WEB-C · World English Bible (Catholic). Public Domain. Source: eBible.org. Read in context: Psalms 34:2-3, 4-5, 6-7, 8-9

3. Second reading Ephesians 4:30-5:2

   ³⁰Don’t grieve the Holy Spirit of God, in whom you were sealed for the day of redemption. ³¹Let all bitterness, wrath, anger, outcry, and slander be put away from you, with all malice. ³²And be kind to one another, tender hearted, forgiving each other, just as God also in Christ forgave you. ¹Be therefore imitators of God, as beloved children. ²Walk in love, even as Christ also loved us and gave himself up for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet-smelling fragrance.

   WEB-C · World English Bible (Catholic). Public Domain. Source: eBible.org. Read in context: Ephesians 4:30-5:2

4. Gospel acclamation John 6:51

5. Gospel John 6:41-51

   ⁴¹The Jews therefore murmured concerning him, because he said, “I am the bread which came down out of heaven.” ⁴²They said, “Isn’t this Jesus, the son of Joseph, whose father and mother we know? How then does he say, ‘I have come down out of heaven’?” ⁴³Therefore Jesus answered them, “Don’t murmur among yourselves. ⁴⁴No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him; and I will raise him up in the last day. ⁴⁵It is written in the prophets, ‘They will all be taught by God.’ Therefore everyone who hears from the Father and has learned, comes to me. ⁴⁶Not that anyone has seen the Father, except he who is from God. He has seen the Father. ⁴⁷Most certainly, I tell you, he who believes in me has eternal life. ⁴⁸I am the bread of life. ⁴⁹Your fathers ate the manna in the wilderness and they died. ⁵⁰This is the bread which comes down out of heaven, that anyone may eat of it and not die. ⁵¹I am the living bread which came down out of heaven. If anyone eats of this bread, he will live forever. Yes, the bread which I will give for the life of the world is my flesh.”

   WEB-C · World English Bible (Catholic). Public Domain. Source: eBible.org. Read in context: John 6:41-51