Readings of the day

Mass during the Day

1. First reading Ezekiel 9:1-7; 10:18-22

   ¹Then he cried in my ears with a loud voice, saying, “Cause those who are in charge of the city to draw near, each man with his destroying weapon in his hand.” ²Behold, six men came from the way of the upper gate, which lies toward the north, every man with his slaughter weapon in his hand. One man in the middle of them was clothed in linen, with a writer’s inkhorn by his side. They went in, and stood beside the bronze altar. ³The glory of the God of Israel went up from the cherub, whereupon it was, to the threshold of the house; and he called to the man clothed in linen, who had the writer’s inkhorn by his side. ⁴The LORD said to him, “Go through the middle of the city, through the middle of Jerusalem, and set a mark on the foreheads of the men that sigh and that cry over all the abominations that are done within it.” ⁵To the others he said in my hearing, “Go through the city after him, and strike. Don’t let your eye spare, neither have pity. ⁶Kill utterly the old man, the young man, the virgin, little children and women; but don’t come near any man on whom is the mark. Begin at my sanctuary.” Then they began at the old men who were before the house. ⁷He said to them, “Defile the house, and fill the courts with the slain. Go out!” They went out, and struck in the city. ¹⁸The LORD’s glory went out from over the threshold of the house and stood over the cherubim. ¹⁹The cherubim lifted up their wings and mounted up from the earth in my sight when they went out, with the wheels beside them. Then they stood at the door of the east gate of the LORD’s house; and the glory of the God of Israel was over them above. ²⁰This is the living creature that I saw under the God of Israel by the river Chebar; and I knew that they were cherubim. ²¹Every one had four faces, and every one four wings. The likeness of the hands of a man was under their wings. ²²As for the likeness of their faces, they were the faces which I saw by the river Chebar, their appearances and themselves. They each went straight forward.

   WEB-C · World English Bible (Catholic). Public Domain. Source: eBible.org. Read in context: Ezekiel 9:1-7; 10:18-22

2. Responsorial Psalm Psalms 113:1-2, 3-4, 5-6

   ¹Praise the LORD! Praise, you servants of the LORD, praise the LORD’s name. ²Blessed be the LORD’s name, from this time forward and forever more. ³From the rising of the sun to its going down, the LORD’s name is to be praised. ⁴The LORD is high above all nations, his glory above the heavens. ⁵Who is like the LORD, our God, who has his seat on high, ⁶who stoops down to see in heaven and on the earth?

   WEB-C · World English Bible (Catholic). Public Domain. Source: eBible.org. Read in context: Psalms 113:1-2, 3-4, 5-6

3. Gospel acclamation 2 Corinthians 5:19

4. Gospel Matthew 18:15-20

   ¹⁵“If your brother sins against you, go, show him his fault between you and him alone. If he listens to you, you have gained back your brother. ¹⁶But if he doesn’t listen, take one or two more with you, that at the mouth of two or three witnesses every word may be established. ¹⁷If he refuses to listen to them, tell it to the assembly. If he refuses to hear the assembly also, let him be to you as a Gentile or a tax collector. ¹⁸Most certainly I tell you, whatever things you bind on earth will have been bound in heaven, and whatever things you release on earth will have been released in heaven. ¹⁹Again, assuredly I tell you, that if two of you will agree on earth concerning anything that they will ask, it will be done for them by my Father who is in heaven. ²⁰For where two or three are gathered together in my name, there I am in the middle of them.”

   WEB-C · World English Bible (Catholic). Public Domain. Source: eBible.org. Read in context: Matthew 18:15-20

Proper readings of the memorial (optional)