Daily Mass Readings

First Reading

Tobit 3:1-11a, 16-17a

¹Then Tobias sighed, and began to pray with tears,

²Saying: Thou art just, O Lord, and all thy judgments are just, and all thy ways mercy, and truth, and judgment:

³And now, O Lord, think of me, and take not revenge of my sins, neither remember my offenses, nor those of my parents.

⁴For we have not obeyed thy commandments, therefore are we delivered to spoil and to captivity, and death, and are made a fable, and a reproach to all nations, amongst which thou hast scattered us.

⁵And now, O Lord, great are thy judgments, because we have not done according to thy precepts, and have not walked sincerely before thee:

⁶And now, O Lord, do with me according to thy will, and command my spirit to be received in peace: for it is better for me to die, than to live.

⁷Now it happened on the same day, that Sara daughter of Raguel, in Rages a city of the Medes, received a reproach from one of her father’s servant maids,

⁸Because she had been given to seven husbands, and a devil named Asmodeus had killed them, at their first going in unto her.

⁹So when she reproved the maid for her fault, she answered her, saying: May we never see son, or daughter of thee upon the earth, thou murderer of thy husbands.

¹⁰Wilt thou kill me also, as thou hast already killed seven husbands? At these words she went into an upper chamber of her house: and for three days and three nights did neither eat nor drink:

¹¹But continuing in prayer with tears besought God, that he would deliver her from this reproach.

¹⁶Thou knowest, O Lord, that I never coveted a husband, and have kept my soul clean from all lust.

¹⁷Never have I joined myself with them that play: neither have I made myself partaker with them that walk in lightness.

Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition (Catholic canon)

Responsorial Psalm

Psalm 25:2-3, 4-5ab, 6 and 7bc, 8-9

²O my God, I trust in thee: let me not be ashamed, let not mine enemies triumph over me.

³Yea, let none that wait on thee be ashamed: let them be ashamed which transgress without cause.

⁴Shew me thy ways, O LORD; teach me thy paths.

⁵Lead me in thy truth, and teach me: for thou art the God of my salvation; on thee do I wait all the day.

⁶Remember, O LORD, thy tender mercies and thy lovingkindnesses; for they have been ever of old.

⁷Remember not the sins of my youth, nor my transgressions: according to thy mercy remember thou me for thy goodness’ sake, O LORD.

⁸Good and upright is the LORD: therefore will he teach sinners in the way.

⁹The meek will he guide in judgment: and the meek will he teach his way.

Text shown in KJV (public domain).

Gospel

Mark 12:18-27

¹⁸Then come unto him the Sadducees, which say there is no resurrection; and they asked him, saying,

¹⁹Master, Moses wrote unto us, If a man’s brother die, and leave his wife behind him, and leave no children, that his brother should take his wife, and raise up seed unto his brother.

²⁰Now there were seven brethren: and the first took a wife, and dying left no seed.

²¹And the second took her, and died, neither left he any seed: and the third likewise.

²²And the seven had her, and left no seed: last of all the woman died also.

²³In the resurrection therefore, when they shall rise, whose wife shall she be of them? for the seven had her to wife.

²⁴And Jesus answering said unto them,Do ye not therefore err, because ye know not the scriptures, neither the power of God?

²⁵For when they shall rise from the dead, they neither marry, nor are given in marriage; but are as the angels which are in heaven.

²⁶And as touching the dead, that they rise: have ye not read in the book of Moses, how in the bush God spake unto him, saying, I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob?

²⁷He is not the God of the dead, but the God of the living: ye therefore do greatly err.

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.