Today’s
Readings

First Reading

Jeremiah 20:10-13

1. 10

   For I heard the reproaches of many, and terror on every side: Persecute him, and let us persecute him: from all the men that were my familiars, and continued at my side: if by any means he may be deceived, and we may prevail against him, and be revenged on him.

2. 11

   But the Lord is with me as a strong warrior: therefore they that persecute me shall fall, and shall be weak: they shall be greatly confounded, because they have not understood the everlasting reproach, which never shall be effaced.

3. 12

   And thou, O Lord of hosts, prover of the just, who seest the reins and the heart: let me see, I beseech thee, thy vengeance on them: for to thee I have laid open my cause.

4. 13

   Sing ye to the Lord, praise the Lord: because he hath delivered the soul of the poor out of the hand of the wicked.

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

Responsorial Psalm

Psalm 18:2-3a, 3bc-4, 5-6, 7

1. 2

   I will love thee, O Lord, my strength:

2. 3

   The Lord is my firmament, my refuge, and my deliverer. My God is my helper, and in him will I put my trust. My protector and the horn of my salvation, and my support.

3. 4

   Praising I will call upon the Lord: and I shall be saved from my enemies.

4. 5

   The sorrows of death surrounded me: and the torrents of iniquity troubled me.

5. 6

   The sorrows of hell encompassed me: and the snares of death prevented me.

6. 7

   In my affliction I called upon the Lord, and I cried to my God: And he heard my voice from his holy temple: and my cry before him came into his ears.

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

Gospel

John 10:31-42

1. 31

   The Jews then took up stones to stone him.

2. 32

   Jesus answered them: Many good works I have shewed you from my Father; for which of these works do you stone me?

3. 33

   The Jews answered him: For a good work we stone thee not, but for blasphemy; and because that thou, being a man, maketh thyself God.

4. 34

   Jesus answered them: Is it not written in your law: I said you are gods?

5. 35

   If he called them gods, to whom to word of God was spoken, and the scripture cannot be broken;

6. 36

   Do you say of him whom the Father hath sanctified and sent into the world: Thou blasphemest, because I said, I am the Son of God?

7. 37

   If I do not the works of my Father, believe me not.

8. 38

   But if I do, though you will not believe me, believe the works: that you may know and believe that the Father is in me, and I in the Father.

9. 39

   They sought therefore to take him; and he escaped out of their hands.

10. 40

    And he went again beyond the Jordan, into that place where John was baptizing first; and there he abode.

11. 41

    And many resorted to him, and they said: John indeed did no sign.

12. 42

    But all things whatsoever John said of this man, were true. And many believed in him.

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