Today’s
Readings

First Reading

Philemon 7-20

Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition · public domain

Responsorial Psalm

Psalm 146:7, 8-9a, 9bc-10

1. 7

   They shall publish the memory of the abundance of thy sweetness: and shall rejoice in thy justice.

2. 8

   The Lord is gracious and merciful: patient and plenteous in mercy.

3. 9

   The Lord is sweet to all: and his tender mercies are over all his works.

4. 10

   Let all thy works, O lord, praise thee: and let thy saints bless thee.

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Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition · public domain

Gospel

Luke 17:20-25

1. 20

   And being asked by the Pharisees, when the kingdom of God should come? he answered them, and said: The kingdom of God cometh not with observation:

2. 21

   Neither shall they say: Behold here, or behold there. For lo, the kingdom of God is within you.

3. 22

   And he said to his disciples: The days will come, when you shall desire to see one day of the Son of man; and you shall not see it.

4. 23

   And they will say to you: See here, and see there. Go ye not after, nor follow them:

5. 24

   For as the lightening that lighteneth from under heaven, shineth unto the parts that are under heaven, so shall the Son of man be in his day.

6. 25

   But first he must suffer many things, and be rejected by this generation.

Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition · public domain