Daily Mass Readings

First Reading

1 Maccabees 1:10-15, 41-43, 54-57, 62-63

¹⁰And they all put crowns upon themselves after his death, and their sons after them many years, and evils were multiplied in the earth.

¹¹And there came out of them a wicked root, Antiochus the Illustrious, the son of king Antiochus, who had been a hostage at Rome: and he reigned in the hundred and thirty-seventh year of the kingdom of the Greeks.

¹²In those days there went out of Israel wicked men, and they persuaded many, saying: Let us go, and make a covenant with the heathens that are round about us: for since we departed from them, many evils have befallen us.

¹³And the word seemed good in their eyes.

¹⁴And some of the people determined to do this, and went to the king: and he gave them license to do after the ordinances of the heathens.

¹⁵And they built a place of exercise in Jerusalem, according to the laws of the nations:

⁴¹Her sanctuary was desolate like a wilderness, her festival days were turned into mourning, her sabbaths into reproach, her honours were brought to nothing.

⁴²Her dishonour was increased according to her glory, and her excellency was turned into mourning.

⁴³And king Antiochus wrote to all his kingdom, that all the people should be one: and every one should leave his own law.

⁵⁴And they commanded the cities of Juda to sacrifice.

⁵⁵Then many of the people were gathered to them that had forsaken the law of the Lord: and they committed evils in the land:

⁵⁶And they drove away the people of Israel into lurking holes, and into the secret places of fugitives.

⁵⁷On the fifteenth day of the month Casleu, in the hundred and forty-fifth year, king Antiochus set up the abominable idol of desolation upon the altar of God, and they built altars throughout all the cities of Juda round about:

⁶²And on the five and twentieth day of the month they sacrificed upon the altar of the idol that was over against the altar of God.

⁶³Now the women that circumcised their children, were slain according to the commandment of king Antiochus.

Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition (Catholic canon)

Responsorial Psalm

Psalm 119:53, 61, 134, 150, 155, 158

⁵³Horror hath taken hold upon me because of the wicked that forsake thy law.

⁶¹The bands of the wicked have robbed me: but I have not forgotten thy law.

¹³⁴Deliver me from the oppression of man: so will I keep thy precepts.

¹⁵⁰They draw nigh that follow after mischief: they are far from thy law.

¹⁵⁵Salvation is far from the wicked: for they seek not thy statutes.

¹⁵⁸I beheld the transgressors, and was grieved; because they kept not thy word.

Text shown in KJV (public domain).

Gospel

Luke 18:35-43

³⁵And it came to pass, that as he was come nigh unto Jericho, a certain blind man sat by the way side begging:

³⁶And hearing the multitude pass by, he asked what it meant.

³⁷And they told him, that Jesus of Nazareth passeth by.

³⁸And he cried, saying, Jesus, thou Son of David, have mercy on me.

³⁹And they which went before rebuked him, that he should hold his peace: but he cried so much the more, Thou Son of David, have mercy on me.

⁴⁰And Jesus stood, and commanded him to be brought unto him: and when he was come near, he asked him,

⁴¹Saying,What wilt thou that I shall do unto thee?And he said, Lord, that I may receive my sight.

⁴²And Jesus said unto him,Receive thy sight: thy faith hath saved thee.

⁴³And immediately he received his sight, and followed him, glorifying God: and all the people, when they saw it, gave praise unto God.

Text shown in KJV (public domain).

The readings proclaimed at Mass in the United States follow the NABRE Lectionary. Read today's official text at USCCB →

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.