Daily Mass Readings

First Reading

Sirach 2:1-11

¹Son, when thou comest to the service of God, stand in justice and in fear, and prepare thy soul for temptation.

²Humble thy heart, and endure: incline thy ear, and receive the words of understanding: and make not haste in the time of clouds.

³Wait on God with patience: join thyself to God, and endure, that thy life may be increased in the latter end.

⁴Take all that shall be brought upon thee: and in thy sorrow endure, and in thy humiliation keep patience.

⁵For gold and silver are tried in the fire, but acceptable men in the furnace of humiliation.

⁶Believe God, and he will recover thee: and direct thy way, and trust in him. Keep his fear, and grow old therein.

⁷Ye that fear the Lord, wait for his mercy: and go not aside from him, lest ye fall.

⁸Ye that fear the Lord, believe him: and your reward shall not be made void.

⁹Ye that fear the Lord, hope in him: and mercy shall come to you for your delight.

¹⁰Ye that fear the Lord, love him, and your hearts shall be enlightened.

¹¹My children behold the generations of men: and know ye that no one hath hoped in the Lord, and hath been confounded.

Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition (Catholic canon)

Responsorial Psalm

Psalm 37:3-4, 18-19, 27-28, 39-40

³Trust in the LORD, and do good; so shalt thou dwell in the land, and verily thou shalt be fed.

⁴Delight thyself also in the LORD; and he shall give thee the desires of thine heart.

¹⁸The LORD knoweth the days of the upright: and their inheritance shall be for ever.

¹⁹They shall not be ashamed in the evil time: and in the days of famine they shall be satisfied.

²⁷Depart from evil, and do good; and dwell for evermore.

²⁸For the LORD loveth judgment, and forsaketh not his saints; they are preserved for ever: but the seed of the wicked shall be cut off.

³⁹But the salvation of the righteous is of the LORD: he is their strength in the time of trouble.

⁴⁰And the LORD shall help them, and deliver them: he shall deliver them from the wicked, and save them, because they trust in him.

Text shown in KJV (public domain).

Gospel

Mark 9:30-37

³⁰And they departed thence, and passed through Galilee; and he would not that any man should know it.

³¹For he taught his disciples, and said unto them,The Son of man is delivered into the hands of men, and they shall kill him; and after that he is killed, he shall rise the third day.

³²But they understood not that saying, and were afraid to ask him.

³³And he came to Capernaum: and being in the house he asked them,What was it that ye disputed among yourselves by the way?

³⁴But they held their peace: for by the way they had disputed among themselves, who should be the greatest.

³⁵And he sat down, and called the twelve, and saith unto them,If any man desire to be first, the same shall be last of all, and servant of all.

³⁶And he took a child, and set him in the midst of them: and when he had taken him in his arms, he said unto them,

³⁷Whosoever shall receive one of such children in my name, receiveth me: and whosoever shall receive me, receiveth not me, but him that sent me.

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.