Daily Mass Readings

First Reading

Wisdom 6:1-11

¹Wisdom is better than strength, and a wise man is better than a strong man.

²Hear therefore, ye kings, and understand: learn, ye that are judges of the ends of the earth.

³Give ear, you that rule the people, and that please yourselves in multitudes of nations:

⁴For power is given you by the Lord, and strength by the most High, who will examine your works, and search out your thoughts:

⁵Because being ministers of his kingdom, you have not judged rightly, nor kept the law of justice, nor walked according to the will of God.

⁶Horribly and speedily will he appear to you: for a most severe judgment shall be for them that bear rule.

⁷For to him that is little, mercy is granted: but the mighty shall be mightily tormented.

⁸For God will not except any man’s person, neither will he stand in awe of any man’s greatness: for he made the little and the great, and he hath equally care of all.

⁹But a greater punishment is ready for the more mighty.

¹⁰To you, therefore, O kings, are these my words, that you may learn wisdom, and not fall from it.

¹¹For they that have kept just things justly, shall be justified: and they that have learned these things, shall find what to answer.

Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition (Catholic canon)

Responsorial Psalm

Psalm 82:3-4, 6-7

³Defend the poor and fatherless: do justice to the afflicted and needy.

⁴Deliver the poor and needy: rid them out of the hand of the wicked.

⁶I have said, Ye are gods; and all of you are children of the most High.

⁷But ye shall die like men, and fall like one of the princes.

Text shown in KJV (public domain).

Gospel

Luke 17:11-19

¹¹And it came to pass, as he went to Jerusalem, that he passed through the midst of Samaria and Galilee.

¹²And as he entered into a certain village, there met him ten men that were lepers, which stood afar off:

¹³And they lifted up their voices, and said, Jesus, Master, have mercy on us.

¹⁴And when he saw them, he said unto them,Go shew yourselves unto the priests.And it came to pass, that, as they went, they were cleansed.

¹⁵And one of them, when he saw that he was healed, turned back, and with a loud voice glorified God,

¹⁶And fell down on his face at his feet, giving him thanks: and he was a Samaritan.

¹⁷And Jesus answering said,Were there not ten cleansed? but where are the nine?

¹⁸There are not found that returned to give glory to God, save this stranger.

¹⁹And he said unto him,Arise, go thy way: thy faith hath made thee whole.

Text shown in KJV (public domain).

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Verse text shown from public-domain translations (KJV; Douay-Rheims chain for deuterocanonical books). The text proclaimed at Mass in the United States is the NABRE Lectionary — read it at the USCCB link.