Category: Daily Readings

  • September 3, 2025

    Reading

    Colossians 1: 1- 8

    1:1 Paul, an Apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, and Timothy, a brother,

    1:2 to the saints and faithful brothers in Christ Jesus who are at Colossae.

    1:3 Grace and peace to you, from God our Father and from the Lord Jesus Christ. We give thanks to God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, praying for you always.

    1:4 For we have heard of your faith in Christ Jesus, and of the love that you have toward all the saints,

    1:5 because of the hope that has been stored up for you in heaven, which you have heard through the Word of Truth in the Gospel.

    1:6 This has reached you, just as it is present in the whole world, where it grows and bears fruit, as it has also done in you, since the day when you first heard and knew the grace of God in truth,

    1:7 just as you learned it from Epaphras, our most beloved fellow servant, who is for you a faithful minister of Christ Jesus.

    1:8 And he has also manifested to us your love in the Spirit.

    Gospel

    The Holy Gospel According to Luke    4: 38-44

    4:38 Then Jesus, rising up from the synagogue, entered into the house of Simon. Now Simon’s mother-in-law was in the grip of a severe fever. And they petitioned him on her behalf.
    4:39 And standing over her, he commanded the fever, and it left her. And promptly rising up, she ministered to them.
    4:40 Then, when the sun had set, all those who had anyone afflicted with various diseases brought them to him. Then, laying his hands on each one of them, he cured them.
    4:41 Now demons departed from many of them, crying out and saying, “You are the son of God.” And rebuking them, he would not permit them to speak. For they knew him to be the Christ.
    4:42 Then, when it was daytime, going out, he went to a deserted place. And the crowds sought him, and they went all the way to him. And they detained him, so that he would not depart from them.
    4:43 And he said to them, “I must also preach the kingdom of God to other cities, because it was for this reason that I was sent.”
    4:44 And he was preaching in the synagogues of Galilee.

  • September 2, 2025

    Reading

    First Letter to Thessalonians 5: 1- 6, 9- 11

    5:1 But concerning dates and times, brothers, you do not need us to write to you.

    5:2 For you yourselves thoroughly understand that the day of the Lord shall arrive much like a thief in the night.

    5:3 For when they will say, “Peace and security!” then destruction will suddenly overwhelm them, like the labor pains of a woman with child, and they will not escape.

    5:4 But you, brothers, are not in darkness, so that you would be overtaken by that day as by a thief.

    5:5 For all of you are sons of light and sons of daytime; we are not of nighttime, nor of darkness.

    5:6 Therefore, let us not sleep, as the rest do. Instead, we should be vigilant and sober.

    5:9 For God has not appointed us for wrath, but for the acquisition of salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ,

    5:10 who died for us, so that, whether we watch, or whether we sleep, we may live in union with him.

    5:11 Because of this, console one another and build up one another, just as you are doing.

    Gospel

    The Holy Gospel According to Luke   4: 31-37

    4:31 And he descended to Capernaum, a city of Galilee. And there he taught them on the Sabbaths.
    4:32 And they were astonished at his doctrine, for his word was spoken with authority.
    4:33 And in the synagogue, there was a man who had an unclean demon, and he cried out with a loud voice,
    4:34 saying: “Let us alone. What are we to you, Jesus of Nazareth? Have you come to destroy us? I know you who you are: the Holy One of God.”
    4:35 And Jesus rebuked him, saying, “Be silent and depart from him.” And when the demon had thrown him into their midst, he departed from him, and he no longer harmed him.
    4:36 And fear fell over them all. And they discussed this among themselves, saying: “What is this word? For with authority and power he commands the unclean spirits, and they depart.”
    4:37 And his fame spread to every place in the region.

  • September 1, 2025

    Reading

    First Letter to Thessalonians 4: 13- 18

    4:13 And we do not want you to be ignorant, brothers, concerning those who are sleeping, so as not to be sorrowful, like these others who do not have hope.

    4:14 For if we believe that Jesus has died and risen again, so also will God bring back with Jesus those who sleep in him.

    4:15 For we say this to you, in the Word of the Lord: that we who are alive, who remain until the return of the Lord, will not precede those who have fallen asleep.

    4:16 For the Lord himself, with a command and with the voice of an Archangel and with a trumpet of God, shall descend from heaven. And the dead, who are in Christ, shall rise up first.

    4:17 Next, we who are alive, who are remaining, shall be taken up quickly together with them into the clouds to meet Christ in the air. And in this way, we shall be with the Lord always.

    4:18 Therefore, console one another with these words.

    Gospel

    The Holy Gospel  According to Luke    4: 16-30

    4:16 And he went to Nazareth, where he had been raised. And he entered into the synagogue, according to his custom, on the Sabbath day. And he rose up to read.
    4:17 And the book of the prophet Isaiah was handed to him. And as he unrolled the book, he found the place where it was written:
    4:18 “The Spirit of the Lord is upon me; because of this, he has anointed me. He has sent me to evangelize the poor, to heal the contrite of heart,
    4:19 to preach forgiveness to captives and sight to the blind, to release the broken into forgiveness, to preach the acceptable year of the Lord and the day of retribution.”
    4:20 And when he had rolled up the book, he returned it to the minister, and he sat down. And the eyes of everyone in the synagogue were fixed on him.
    4:21 Then he began to say to them, “On this day, this scripture has been fulfilled in your hearing.”
    4:22 And everyone gave testimony to him. And they wondered at the words of grace that proceeded from his mouth. And they said, “Is this not the son of Joseph?”
    4:23 And he said to them: “Certainly, you will recite to me this saying, ‘Physician, heal yourself.’ The many great things that we have heard were done in Capernaum, do here also in your own country.”
    4:24 Then he said: “Amen I say to you, that no prophet is accepted in his own country.
    4:25 In truth, I say to you, there were many widows in the days of Elijah in Israel, when the heavens were closed for three years and six months, when a great famine had occurred throughout the entire land.
    4:26 And to none of these was Elijah sent, except to Zarephath of Sidon, to a woman who was a widow.
    4:27 And there were many lepers in Israel under the prophet Elisha. And none of these was cleansed, except Naaman the Syrian.”
    4:28 And all those in the synagogue, upon hearing these things, were filled with anger.
    4:29 And they rose up and drove him beyond the city. And they brought him all the way to the edge of the mount, upon which their city had been built, so that they might thrown him down violently.
    4:30 But passing through their midst, he went away.

  • August 31, 2025

    First Reading

    Sirach 3: 17-18, 20, 28- 29

    3:17 And you will be built up in justice, and you will be remembered in the day of tribulation. And your sins will dissolve like ice in warm weather.
    3:18 What an evil form has he who forsakes his father! And whoever exasperates his mother is accursed by God.

    3:20 However great you may be, humble yourself in all things, and you will find grace in the presence of God.

    3:28 A heart advancing in two directions will not have success, and the depraved heart will be scandalized in this way.
    3:29 A wicked heart will be burdened with sorrows, and a sinner will add further sins.

    Second Reading

    Hebrews 12: 18-19, 22- 24

    12:18 But you have not drawn near to a tangible mountain, or a burning fire, or a whirlwind, or a mist, or a storm,
    12:19 or the sound of a trumpet, or a voice of words. Those who had experienced these things excused themselves, lest the Word be spoken to them.

    12:22 But you have drawn near to mount Zion, and to the city of the living God, to the heavenly Jerusalem, and to the company of many thousands of Angels,
    12:23 and to the Church of the first-born, those who have been inscribed in the heavens, and to God, the judge of all, and to the spirits of the just made perfect,
    12:24 and to Jesus, the Mediator of the New Testament, and to a sprinkling of blood, which speaks better than the blood of Abel.

    Gospel

    Luke 14: 1, 7- 14

    14:1 And it happened that, when Jesus entered the house of a certain leader of the Pharisees on the Sabbath to eat bread, they were observing him.

    14:7 Then he also told a parable, to those who were invited, noticing how they chose the first seats at the table, saying to them:
    14:8 “When you are invited to a wedding, do not sit down in the first place, lest perhaps someone more honored than yourself may have been invited by him.
    14:9 And then he who called both you and him, approaching, may say to you, ‘Give this place to him.’ And then you would begin, with shame, to take the last place.
    14:10 But when you are invited, go, sit down in the lowest place, so that, when he who invited you arrives, he may say to you, ‘Friend, go up higher.’ Then you will have glory in the sight of those who sit at table together with you.
    14:11 For everyone who exalts himself shall be humbled, and whoever humbles himself shall be exalted.”
    14:12 Then he also said to the one who had invited him: “When you prepare a lunch or dinner, do not choose to call your friends, or your brothers, or your relatives, or your wealthy neighbors, lest perhaps they might then invite you in return and repayment would made to you.
    14:13 But when you prepare a feast, call the poor, the disabled, the lame, and the blind.
    14:14 And you will be blessed because they do not have a way to repay you. So then, your recompense will be in the resurrection of the just.”

  • August 30, 2025

    First Thessalonians 4: 9- 11

    4:9 But concerning the charity of brotherhood, we have no need to write to you. For you yourselves have learned from God that you should love one another.
    4:10 For indeed, you act in this way with all the brothers in all of Macedonia. But we petition you, brothers, so that you may abound all the more,
    4:11 to choose work that allows you to be tranquil, and to carry out your business and to do your work with your own hands, just as we have instructed you,

    Matthew 25: 14- 30

    25:14 For it is like a man setting out on a long journey, who called his servants and delivered to them his goods.
    25:15 And to one he gave five talents, and to another two, yet to another he gave one, to each according to his own ability. And promptly, he set out.
    25:16 Then he who had received five talents went out, and he made use of these, and he gained another five.
    25:17 And similarly, he who had received two gained another two.
    25:18 But he who had received one, going out, dug into the earth, and he hid the money of his lord.
    25:19 Yet truly, after a long time, the lord of those servants returned and he settled accounts with them.
    25:20 And when he who had received five talents approached, he brought another five talents, saying: ‘Lord, you delivered five talents to me. Behold, I have increased it by another five.’
    25:21 His lord said to him: ‘Well done, good and faithful servant. Since you have been faithful over a few things, I will appoint you over many things. Enter into the gladness of your lord.’
    25:22 Then he who had received two talents also approached, and he said: ‘Lord, you delivered two talents to me. Behold, I have gained another two.’
    25:23 His lord said to him: ‘Well done, good and faithful servant. Since you have been faithful over a few things, I will appoint you over many things. Enter into the gladness of your lord.’
    25:24 Then he who had received one talent, approaching, said: ‘Lord, I know that you are a hard man. You reap where you have not sown, and gather where you have not scattered.
    25:25 And so, being afraid, I went out and hid your talent in the earth. Behold, you have what is yours.’
    25:26 But his lord said to him in response: ‘You evil and lazy servant! You knew that I reap where I have not sown, and gather where I have not scattered.
    25:27 Therefore, you should have deposited my money with the bankers, and then, at my arrival, at least I would have received what is mine with interest.
    25:28 And so, take the talent away from him and give it the one who has ten talents.
    25:29 For to everyone who has, more shall be given, and he shall have in abundance. But from him who has not, even what he seems to have, shall be taken away.
    25:30 And cast that useless servant into the outer darkness, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.’

  • August 29, 2025

    The Passion of St. John the Baptist

    Reading

    Jeremiah 1: 17- 19

    1:17Therefore, you should gird your waist, and rise up, and speak to them everything that I instruct you. You should not have dread before their face. For I will cause you to be unafraid of their countenance.

    1:18For certainly, this day, I have made you like a fortified city, and an iron pillar, and a brass wall, over all the land, to the kings of Judah, to its leaders, and to the priests, and to the people of the land.

    1:19And they will make war against you, but they will not prevail. For I am with you, says the Lord, so that I may free you.”

    or,

    First Thessalonians  4: 1- 8

    4:1 Therefore, concerning other things, brothers, we ask and beg you, in the Lord Jesus, that, just as you have received from us the way in which you ought to walk and to please God, so also may you walk, in order that you may abound all the more.
    4:2 For you know what precepts I have given to you through the Lord Jesus.
    4:3 For this is the will of God, your sanctification: that you should abstain from fornication,
    4:4 that each one of you should know how to possess his vessel in sanctification and honor,
    4:5 not in passions of lust, like the Gentiles who do not know God,
    4:6 and that no one should overwhelm or circumvent his brother in business. For the Lord is the vindicator of all these things, just as we have preached and testified to you.
    4:7 For God has not called us to impurity, but to sanctification.
    4:8 And so, whoever despises these teachings, does not despise man, but God, who has even provided his Holy Spirit within us.

    Gospel

    Mark 6: 17- 29

    6:17 For Herod himself had sent to capture John, and had chained him in prison, because of Herodias, the wife of his brother Philip; for he had married her.
    6:18 For John was saying to Herod, “It is not lawful for you to have your brother’s wife.”
    6:19 Now Herodias was devising treachery against him; and she wanted to kill him, but she was unable.
    6:20 For Herod was apprehensive of John, knowing him to be a just and holy man, and so he guarded him. And he heard that he was accomplishing many things, and so he listened to him willingly.
    6:21 And when an opportune time had arrived, Herod held a feast on his birthday, with the leaders, and the tribunes, and the first rulers of Galilee.
    6:22 And when the daughter of the same Herodias had entered, and danced, and pleased Herod, along with those who were at table with him, the king said to the girl, “Request from me whatever you want, and I will give it to you.”
    6:23 And he swore to her, “Anything that you request, I will give to you, even up to half my kingdom.”
    6:24 And when she had gone out, she said to her mother, “What shall I request?” But her mother said, “The head of John the Baptist.”
    6:25 And immediately, when she had entered with haste to the king, she petitioned him, saying: “I want you to give me at once the head of John the Baptist on a platter.”
    6:26 And the king was greatly saddened. But because of his oath, and because of those who were sitting with him at table, he was not willing to disappoint her.
    6:27 So, having sent an executioner, he instructed that his head be brought on a platter.
    6:28 And he beheaded him in prison, and he brought his head on a platter. And he gave it to the girl, and the girl gave it her mother.
    6:29 When his disciples heard about it, they came and took his body, and they placed it in a tomb.

  • August 28, 2025

    First Letter to Thessalonians 3: 7- 13

    3:7 As a result, we were consoled in you, brothers, in the midst of all our difficulties and tribulations, through your faith.

    3:8 For we now live so that you may stand firm in the Lord.

    3:9 For what thanks would we be able to repay to God because of you, for all the joy with which we rejoice over you before our God?

    3:10 For night and day, ever more abundantly, we are praying that we may see your face, and that we may complete those things that are lacking in your faith.

    3:11 But may God our Father himself, and our Lord Jesus Christ, direct our way to you.

    3:12 And may the Lord multiply you, and make you abound in your charity toward one another and toward all, just as we also do toward you,

    3:13 in order to confirm your hearts without blame, in sanctity, before God our Father, unto the return of our Lord Jesus Christ, with all his saints. Amen.

    Gospel

    The Holy Gospel According to Matthew    24: 42-51

    24:42 Therefore, be vigilant. For you do not know at what hour your Lord will return.
    24:43 But know this: if only the father of the family knew at what hour the thief would arrive, he would certainly keep vigil and not permit his house to be broken into.
    24:44 For this reason, you also must be prepared, for you do not know at what hour the Son of man will return.
    24:45 Consider this: who is a faithful and prudent servant, who has been appointed by his lord over his family, to give them their portion in due time?
    24:46 Blessed is that servant, if, when his lord has arrived, he shall find him doing so.
    24:47 Amen I say to you, he shall appoint him over all of his goods.
    24:48 But if that evil servant has said in his heart, ‘My lord has been delayed in returning,’
    24:49 and so, he begins to strike his fellow servants, and he eats and drinks with the inebriated:
    24:50 then the lord of that servant will arrive on a day that he does not expect, and at an hour that he does not know.
    24:51 And he shall separate him, and he shall place his portion with the hypocrites, where there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.”

  • August 27, 2025

    Reading

    First Letter to Thessalonians 2: 9- 13

    2:9 For you remember, brothers, our hardship and weariness. We preached the Gospel of God among you, working night and day, so that we would not be burdensome to any of you.

    2:10 You are witnesses, as is God, of how holy and just and blameless we were with you who have believed.

    2:11 And you know the manner, with each one of you, like a father with his sons,

    2:12 in which we were pleading with you and consoling you, bearing witness, so that you would walk in a manner worthy of God, who has called you into his kingdom and glory.

    2:13 For this reason also, we give thanks to God without ceasing: because, when you had accepted from us the Word of the hearing of God, you accepted it not as the word of men, but (as it truly is) as the Word of God, who is working in you who have believed.

    Gospel

    Matthew 23: 27- 32

    23:27 Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites! For you are like whitewashed sepulchers, which outwardly appear brilliant to men, yet truly, inside, they are filled with the bones of the dead and with all filth.

    23:28 So also, you certainly appear to men outwardly to be just. But inwardly you are filled with hypocrisy and iniquity.

    23:29 Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites, who build the sepulchers of the prophets and adorn the monuments of the just.

    23:30 And then you say, ‘If we had been there in the days of our fathers, we would not have joined with them in the blood of the prophets.’

    23:31 And so you are witnesses against yourselves, that you are the sons of those who killed the prophets.

    23:32 Complete, then, the measure of your fathers.

  • August 26, 2025

    Reading

    First Letter to Thessalonians 2: 1- 8

    2:1 For you yourselves know, brothers, that our acceptance among you was not empty.

    2:2 Instead, having previously suffered and been treated shamefully, as you know, at Philippi, we had confidence in our God, so as to speak the Gospel of God to you with much solicitude.

    2:3 For our exhortation was not in error, nor from impurity, nor with deception.

    2:4 But, just as we have been tested by God, so that the Gospel would be entrusted to us, so also did we speak, not so as to please men, but rather to please God, who tests our hearts.

    2:5 And neither did we, at any time, become flattering in speech, as you know, nor did we seek an opportunity for avarice, as God is witness.

    2:6 Nor did we seek the glory of men, neither from you, nor from others.

    2:7 And although we could have been a burden to you, as Apostles of Christ, instead we became like little ones in your midst, like a nurse cherishing her children.

    2:8 So desirous were we for you that we were willing to hand over to you, not only the Gospel of God, but even our own souls. For you have become most beloved to us.

    Gospel

    The Holy Gospel According to Matthew   23: 23-26

    23:23 Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites! For you collect tithes on mint and dill and cumin, but you have abandoned the weightier things of the law: judgment and mercy and faith. These you ought to have done, while not omitting the others.
    23:24 You blind guides, straining out a gnat, while swallowing a camel!
    23:25 Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites! For you clean what is outside the cup and the dish, but on the inside you are full of avarice and impurity.
    23:26 You blind Pharisee! First clean the inside of the cup and the dish, and then what is outside becomes clean.

  • August 25, 2025

    The Second Letter from Saint Paul to the Thessalonians    1: 1-5, 11-12

    1:1 Paul and Sylvanus and Timothy, to the church of the Thessalonians, in God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
    1:2 Grace and peace to you, from God our Father and from the Lord Jesus Christ.
    1:3 We ought to give thanks always to God for you, brothers, in a fitting manner, because your faith is increasing greatly, and because the charity of each of you toward one another is abundant,
    1:4 so much so that we ourselves even glory in you among the churches of God, because of your patience and faith in all of your persecutions and tribulations that you endure,
    1:5 which are a sign of the just judgment of God, so that you may be held worthy of the kingdom of God, for which you also suffer.
    1:11 Because of this, too, we pray always for you, so that our God may make you worthy of his calling and may complete every act of his goodness, as well as his work of faith in virtue,
    1:12 in order that the name of our Lord Jesus may be glorified in you, and you in him, in accord with the grace of our God and of the Lord Jesus Christ.

    Gospel

    Matthew 23: 13- 22

    23:13 So then: Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites! For you close the kingdom of heaven before men. For you yourselves do not enter, and those who are entering, you would not permit to enter.
    23:14 Woe to you scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites! For you consume the houses of widows, praying long prayers. Because of this, you shall receive the greater judgment.
    23:15 Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites! For you travel around by sea and by land, in order to make one convert. And when he has been converted, you make him twice the son of Hell that you are yourselves.
    23:16 Woe to you, blind guides, who say: ‘Whoever will have sworn by the temple, it is nothing. But whoever will have sworn by the gold of the temple is obligated.’
    23:17 You are foolish and blind! For which is greater: the gold, or the temple that sanctifies the gold?
    23:18 And you say: ‘Whoever will have sworn by the altar, it is nothing. But whoever will have sworn by the gift that is on the altar is obligated.’
    23:19 How blind you are! For which is greater: the gift, or the altar that sanctifies the gift?
    23:20 Therefore, whoever swears by the altar, swears by it, and by all that is on it.
    23:21 And whoever will have sworn by the temple, swears by it, and by him who dwells in it.
    23:22 And whoever swears by heaven, swears by the throne of God, and by him who sits upon it.