Today’s
Readings

First Reading

Acts 6:8-10; 7:54-59

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Responsorial Psalm

Psalm 31:3cd-4, 6 and 8ab, 16bc and 17

1. 3

   Bow down thy ear to me: make haste to deliver me. Be thou unto me a God, a protector, and a house of refuge, to save me.

2. 4

   For thou art my strength and my refuge; and for thy name’s sake thou wilt lead me, and nourish me.

3. 6

   Into thy hands I commend my spirit: thou hast redeemed me, O Lord, the God of truth.

4. 8

   I will be glad and rejoice in thy mercy. For thou best regarded my humility, thou hast saved my soul out of distresses.

5. 16

   My lots are in thy hands. Deliver me out of the hands of my enemies; and from them that persecute me.

6. 17

   Make thy face to shine upon thy servant; save me in thy mercy.

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

Gospel

Matthew 10:17-22

1. 17

   But beware of men. For they will deliver you up in councils, and they will scourge you in their synagogues.

2. 18

   And you shall be brought before governors, and before kings for my sake, for a testimony to them and to the Gentiles:

3. 19

   But when they shall deliver you up, take no thought how or what to speak: for it shall be given you in that hour what to speak.

4. 20

   For it is not you that speak, but the Spirit of your Father that speaketh in you.

5. 21

   The brother also shall deliver up the brother to death, and the father the son: and the children shall rise up against their parents, and shall put them to death.

6. 22

   And you shall be hated by all men for my name’s sake: but he that shall persevere unto the end, he shall be saved.

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