Today’s
Readings

First Reading

Nahum 2:1, 3; 3:1-3, 6-7

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Responsorial Psalm

Deuteronomy 32:35cd-36ab, 39abcd, 41

1. 35

   Revenge is mine, and I will repay them in due time, that their foot may slide: the day of destruction is at hand, and the time makes haste to come.

2. 36

   The Lord will judge his people, and will have mercy on his servants: he shall see that their hand is weakened, and that they who were shut up have also failed, and they that remained are consumed.

3. 39

   See ye that I alone am, and there is no other God besides me: I will kill and I will make to live: I will strike, and I will heal, and there is none that can deliver out of my hand.

4. 41

   If I shall whet my sword as the lightning, and my hand take hold on judgment: I will render vengeance to my enemies, and repay them that hate me.

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

Gospel

Matthew 16:24-28

1. 24

   Then Jesus said to his disciples: If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me.

2. 25

   For he that will save his life, shall lose it: and he that shall lose his life for my sake, shall find it.

3. 26

   For what doth it profit a man, if he gain the whole world, and suffer the loss of his own soul? Or what exchange shall a man give for his soul?

4. 27

   For the Son of man shall come in the glory of his Father with his angels: and then will he render to every man according to his works.

5. 28

   Amen I say to you, there are some of them that stand here, that shall not taste death, till they see the Son of man coming in his kingdom.

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