Daily Mass Readings

First Reading

Tobit 12:1, 5-15, 20

¹Then Tobias called to him his son, and said to him: What can we give to this holy man, that is come with thee?

⁵So the father and the son, calling him, took him aside: and began to desire him that he would vouchsafe to accept of half of all things that they had brought.

⁶Then he said to them secretly: Bless ye the God of heaven, give glory to him in the sight of all that live, because he hath shewn his mercy to you.

⁷For it is good to hide the secret of a king: but honourable to reveal and confess the works of God.

⁸Prayer is good with fasting and alms more than to lay up treasures of gold:

⁹For alms delivereth from death, and the same is that which purgeth away sins, and maketh to find mercy and life everlasting.

¹⁰But they that commit sin and iniquity, are enemies to their own soul.

¹¹I discover then the truth unto you, and I will not hide the secret from you.

¹²When thou didst pray with tears, and didst bury the dead, and didst leave thy dinner, and hide the dead by day in thy house, and bury them by night, I offered thy prayer to the Lord.

¹³And because thou wast acceptable to God, it was necessary that temptation should prove thee.

¹⁴And now the Lord hath sent me to heal thee, and to deliver Sara thy son’s wife from the devil.

¹⁵For I am the angel Raphael, one of the seven, who stand before the Lord.

²⁰It is time therefore that I return to him that sent me: but bless ye God, and publish all his wonderful works.

Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition (Catholic canon)

Responsorial Psalm

Tobit 13:2, 6efgh, 7, 8

²For thou scourgest, and thou savest: thou leadest down to hell, and bringest up again: and there is none that can escape thy hand.

⁶See then what he hath done with us, and with fear and trembling give ye glory to him: and extol the eternal King of worlds in your works.

⁷As for me, I will praise him in the land of my captivity: because he hath shewn his majesty toward a sinful nation.

⁸Be converted therefore, ye sinners, and do justice before God, believing that he will shew his mercy to you.

Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition (Catholic canon)

Gospel

Mark 12:38-44

³⁸And he said unto them in his doctrine,Beware of the scribes, which love to go in long clothing, and love salutations in the marketplaces,

³⁹And the chief seats in the synagogues, and the uppermost rooms at feasts:

⁴⁰Which devour widows’ houses, and for a pretence make long prayers: these shall receive greater damnation.

⁴¹And Jesus sat over against the treasury, and beheld how the people cast money into the treasury: and many that were rich cast in much.

⁴²And there came a certain poor widow, and she threw in two mites, which make a farthing.

⁴³And he called unto him his disciples, and saith unto them,Verily I say unto you, That this poor widow hath cast more in, than all they which have cast into the treasury:

⁴⁴For all they did cast in of their abundance; but she of her want did cast in all that she had, even all her living.

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.