Today’s
Readings

First Reading

1 Corinthians 9:16-19, 22b-27

1. 16

   For if I preach the gospel, it is no glory to me, for a necessity lieth upon me: for woe is unto me if I preach not the gospel.

2. 17

   For if I do this thing willingly, I have a reward: but if against my will, a dispensation is committed to me:

3. 18

   What is my reward then? That preaching the gospel, I may deliver the gospel without charge, that I abuse not my power in the gospel.

4. 19

   For whereas I was free as to all, I made myself the servant of all, that I might gain the more.

5. 22

   To the weak I became weak, that I might gain the weak. I became all things to all men, that I might save all.

6. 23

   And I do all things for the gospel's sake: that I may be made partaker thereof.

7. 24

   Know you not that they that run in the race, all run indeed, but one receiveth the prize ? So run that you may obtain.

8. 25

   And every one that striveth for the mastery, refraineth himself from all things: and they indeed that they may receive a corruptible crown; but we an incorruptible one.

9. 26

   I therefore so run, not as at an uncertainty: I so fight, not as one beating the air:

10. 27

    But I chastise my body, and bring it into subjection: lest perhaps, when I have preached to others, I myself should become a castaway.

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Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition · public domain

Responsorial Psalm

Psalm 84:3, 4, 5-6, 12

1. 3

   my soul longeth and fainteth for the courts of the Lord. My heart and my flesh have rejoiced in the living God.

2. 4

   For the sparrow hath found herself a house, and the turtle a nest for herself where she may lay her young ones: Thy altars, O Lord of hosts, my king and my God.

3. 5

   Blessed are they that dwell in thy house, O Lord: they shall praise thee for ever and ever.

4. 6

   Blessed is the man whose help is from thee: in his heart he hath disposed to ascend by steps,

5. 12

   For God loveth mercy and truth: the Lord will give grace and glory.

Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition · public domain

Gospel

Luke 6:39-42

1. 39

   And he spoke also to them a similitude: Can the blind lead the blind? do they not both fall into the ditch?

2. 40

   The disciple is not above his master: but every one shall be perfect, if he be as his master.

3. 41

   And why seest thou the mote in thy brother's eye: but the beam that is in thy own eye thou considerest not?

4. 42

   Or how canst thou say to thy brother: Brother, let me pull the mote out of thy eye, when thou thyself seest not the beam in thy own eye? Hypocrite, cast first the beam out of thy own eye; and then shalt thou see clearly to take out the mote from thy brother's eye.

Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition · public domain