Daily Mass Readings

First Reading

Baruch 4:5-12, 27-29

⁵Be of good comfort, O people of God, the memorial of Israel:

⁶You have been sold to the Gentiles, not for your destruction: but because you provoked God to wrath, you are delivered to your adversaries.

⁷For you have provoked him who made you, the eternal God, offering sacrifice to devils, and not to God.

⁸For you have forgotten God, who brought you up, and you have grieved Jerusalem that nursed you.

⁹For she saw the wrath of God coming upon you, and she said: Give ear, all you that dwell near Sion, for God hath brought upon me great mourning:

¹⁰For I have seen the captivity of my people, of my sons, and my daughters, which the Eternal hath brought upon them.

¹¹For I nourished them with joy: but I sent them away with weeping and mourning.

¹²Let no man rejoice over me, a widow, and desolate: I am forsaken of many for the sins of my children, because they departed from the law of God.

²⁷Be of good comfort, my children, and cry to the Lord: for you shall be remembered by him that hath led you away.

²⁸For as it was your mind to go astray from God; so when you return again you shall seek him ten times as much.

²⁹For he that hath brought evils upon you, shall bring you everlasting joy again with your salvation.

Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition (Catholic canon)

Responsorial Psalm

Psalm 69:33-35, 36-37

³³For the LORD heareth the poor, and despiseth not his prisoners.

³⁴Let the heaven and earth praise him, the seas, and every thing that moveth therein.

³⁵For God will save Zion, and will build the cities of Judah: that they may dwell there, and have it in possession.

³⁶The seed also of his servants shall inherit it: and they that love his name shall dwell therein.

Text shown in KJV (public domain).

Gospel

Matthew 18:1-5, 10

¹At the same time came the disciples unto Jesus, saying, Who is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven?

²And Jesus called a little child unto him, and set him in the midst of them,

³And said,Verily I say unto you, Except ye be converted, and become as little children, ye shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven.

⁴Whosoever therefore shall humble himself as this little child, the same is greatest in the kingdom of heaven.

⁵And whoso shall receive one such little child in my name receiveth me.

¹⁰Take heed that ye despise not one of these little ones; for I say unto you, That in heaven their angels do always behold the face of my Father which is in heaven.

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.