Today’s
Readings

First Reading

1 Samuel 18:6-9; 19:1-7

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Responsorial Psalm

Psalm 56:2-3, 9-10a, 10b-11, 12-13

1. 2

   Have mercy on me, O God, for man hath trodden me under foot; all the day long he hath afflicted me fighting against me.

2. 3

   My enemies have trodden on me all the day long; for they are many that make war against me.

3. 9

   I have declared to thee my life: thou hast set my tears in thy sight, As also in thy promise.

4. 10

   Then shall my enemies be turned back. In what day soever I shall call upon thee, behold I know thou art my God.

5. 11

   In God will I praise the word, in the Lord will I praise his speech. In God have I hoped, I will not fear what man can do to me.

6. 12

   In me, O God, are vows to thee, which I will pay, praises to thee:

7. 13

   Because thou hast delivered my soul from death, my feet from falling: that I may please in the sight of God, in the light of the living.

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Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition · public domain · 73 books. Psalm numbers follow the Roman lectionary.

Gospel

Mark 3:7-12

1. 7

   But Jesus retired with his disciples to the sea; and a great multitude followed him from Galilee and Judea,

2. 8

   And from Jerusalem, and from Idumea, and from beyond the Jordan. And they about Tyre and Sidon, a great multitude, hearing the things which he did, came to him.

3. 9

   And he spoke to his disciples that a small ship should wait on him because of the multitude, lest they should throng him.

4. 10

   For he healed many, so that they pressed upon him for to touch him, as many as had evils.

5. 11

   And the unclean spirits, when they saw him, fell down before him: and they cried, saying:

6. 12

   Thou art the Son of God. And he strictly charged them that they should not make him known.

Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition · public domain · 73 books. Psalm numbers follow the Roman lectionary.