Today’s
Readings

First Reading

Daniel 7:9-10, 13-14

1. 9

   I beheld till thrones were placed, and the Ancient of days sat: his garment was white as snow, and the hair of his head like clean wool: his throne like flames of fire: the wheels of it like a burning fire.

2. 10

   A swift stream of fire issued forth from before him: thousands of thousands ministered to him, and ten thousand times a hundred thousand stood before him: the judgment sat, and the books were opened.

3. 13

   I beheld therefore in the vision of the night, and lo, one like the son of man came with the clouds of heaven, and he came even to the Ancient of days: and they presented him before him.

4. 14

   And he gave him power, and glory, and a kingdom: and all peoples, tribes and tongues shall serve him: his power is an everlasting power that shall not be taken away: and his kingdom that shall not be destroyed.

Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition · public domain

Responsorial Psalm

Psalm 138:1-2ab, 2cde-3, 4-5

1. 1

   Upon the rivers of Babylon, there we sat and wept: when we remembered Sion:

2. 2

   On the willows in the midst thereof we hung up our instruments.

3. 3

   For there they that led us into captivity required of us the words of songs. And they that carried us away, said: Sing ye to us a hymn of the songs of Sion.

4. 4

   How shall we sing the song of the Lord in a strange land?

5. 5

   If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, let my right hand be forgotten.

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Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition · public domain

Gospel

John 1:47-51

1. 47

   Jesus saw Nathanael coming to him: and he saith of him: Behold an Israelite indeed, in whom there is no guile.

2. 48

   Nathanael saith to him: Whence knowest thou me? Jesus answered, and said to him: Before that Philip called thee, when thou wast under the fig tree, I saw thee.

3. 49

   Nathanael answered him, and said: Rabbi, thou art the Son of God, thou art the King of Israel.

4. 50

   Jesus answered, and said to him: Because I said unto thee, I saw thee under the fig tree, thou believest: greater things than these shalt thou see.

5. 51

   And he saith to him: Amen, amen I say to you, you shall see the heaven opened, and the angels of God ascending and descending upon the Son of man.

Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition · public domain