Daily Mass Readings

First Reading

Sirach 48:1-4, 9-11

¹And Elias the prophet stood up, as a fire, and his word burnt like a torch.

²He brought a famine upon them, and they that provoked him in their envy, were reduced to a small number, for they could not endure the commandments of the Lord.

³By the word of the Lord he shut up the heaven, and he brought down fire from heaven thrice.

⁴Thus was Elias magnified in his wondrous works. And who can glory like to thee?

⁹Who wast taken up in a whirlwind of fire, in a chariot of fiery horses.

¹⁰Who art registered in the judgments of times to appease the wrath of the Lord, to reconcile the heart of the father to the son, and to restore the tribes of Jacob.

¹¹Blessed are they that saw thee, and were honoured with thy friendship.

Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition (Catholic canon)

Responsorial Psalm

Psalm 80:2ac and 3b, 15-16, 18-19

²Before Ephraim and Benjamin and Manasseh stir up thy strength, and come and save us.

³Turn us again, O God, and cause thy face to shine; and we shall be saved.

¹⁵And the vineyard which thy right hand hath planted, and the branch that thou madest strong for thyself.

¹⁶It is burned with fire, it is cut down: they perish at the rebuke of thy countenance.

¹⁸So will not we go back from thee: quicken us, and we will call upon thy name.

¹⁹Turn us again, O LORD God of hosts, cause thy face to shine; and we shall be saved.

Text shown in KJV (public domain).

Gospel

Matthew 17:9a, 10-13

⁹And as they came down from the mountain, Jesus charged them, saying,Tell the vision to no man, until the Son of man be risen again from the dead.

¹⁰And his disciples asked him, saying, Why then say the scribes that Elias must first come?

¹¹And Jesus answered and said unto them,Elias truly shall first come, and restore all things.

¹²But I say unto you, That Elias is come already, and they knew him not, but have done unto him whatsoever they listed. Likewise shall also the Son of man suffer of them.

¹³Then the disciples understood that he spake unto them of John the Baptist.

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.