Daily Mass Readings

First Reading

Sirach 6:5-17

⁵A sweet word multiplieth friends, and appeaseth enemies, and a gracious tongue in a good man aboundeth.

⁶Be in peace with many, but let one of a thousand be thy counsellor.

⁷If thou wouldst get a friend, try him before thou takest him, and do not credit him easily.

⁸For there is a friend for his own occasion, and he will not abide in the day of thy trouble.

⁹And there is a friend that turneth to enmity; and there is a friend that will disclose hatred and strife and reproaches.

¹⁰And there is a friend a companion at the table, and he will not abide in the day of distress.

¹¹A friend if he continue steadfast, shall be to thee as thyself, and shall act with confidence among them of thy household.

¹²If he humble himself before thee, and hide himself from thy face, thou shalt have unanimous friendship for good.

¹³Separate thyself from thy enemies, and take heed of thy friends.

¹⁴A faithful friend is a strong defence: and he that hath found him, hath found a treasure.

¹⁵Nothing can be compared to a faithful friend, and no weight of gold and silver is able to countervail the goodness of his fidelity.

¹⁶A faithful friend is the medicine of life and immortality: and they that fear the Lord, shall find him.

¹⁷He that feareth God, shall likewise have good friendship: because according to him shall his friend be.

Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition (Catholic canon)

Responsorial Psalm

Psalm 119:12, 16, 18, 27, 34, 35

¹²Blessed art thou, O LORD: teach me thy statutes.

¹⁶I will delight myself in thy statutes: I will not forget thy word.

¹⁸Open thou mine eyes, that I may behold wondrous things out of thy law.

²⁷Make me to understand the way of thy precepts: so shall I talk of thy wondrous works.

³⁴Give me understanding, and I shall keep thy law; yea, I shall observe it with my whole heart.

³⁵Make me to go in the path of thy commandments; for therein do I delight.

Text shown in KJV (public domain).

Gospel

Mark 10:1-12

¹And he arose from thence, and cometh into the coasts of Judæa by the farther side of Jordan: and the people resort unto him again; and, as he was wont, he taught them again.

²And the Pharisees came to him, and asked him, Is it lawful for a man to put away his wife? tempting him.

³And he answered and said unto them,What did Moses command you?

⁴And they said, Moses suffered to write a bill of divorcement, and to put her away.

⁵And Jesus answered and said unto them,For the hardness of your heart he wrote you this precept.

⁶But from the beginning of the creation God made them male and female.

⁷For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and cleave to his wife;

⁸And they twain shall be one flesh: so then they are no more twain, but one flesh.

⁹What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.

¹⁰And in the house his disciples asked him again of the same matter.

¹¹And he saith unto them,Whosoever shall put away his wife, and marry another, committeth adultery against her.

¹²And if a woman shall put away her husband, and be married to another, she committeth adultery.

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.