Today’s
Readings

First Reading

Malachi 3:1-4

1. 1

   Behold I send my angel, and he shall prepare the way before my face. And presently the Lord, whom you seek, and the angel of the testament, whom you desire, shall come to his temple. Behold he cometh, saith the Lord of hosts.

2. 2

   And who shall be able to think of the day of his coming? and who shall stand to see him? for he is like a refining fire, and like the fuller’s herb:

3. 3

   And he shall sit refining and cleansing the silver, and he shall purify the sons of Levi, and shall refine them as gold, and as silver, and they shall offer sacrifices to the Lord in justice.

4. 4

   And the sacrifice of Juda and of Jerusalem shall please the Lord, as in the days of old, and in the ancient years.

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

Responsorial Psalm

Psalm 24:7, 8, 9, 10

1. 7

   Lift up your gates, O ye princes, and be ye lifted up, O eternal gates: and the King of Glory shall enter in.

2. 8

   Who is this King of Glory? the Lord who is strong and mighty: the Lord mighty in battle.

3. 9

   Lift up your gates, O ye princes, and be ye lifted up, O eternal gates: and the King of Glory shall enter in.

4. 10

   Who is this King of Glory? the Lord of hosts, he is the King of Glory.

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

Second Reading

Hebrews 2:14-18

1. 14

   Therefore because the children are partakers of flesh and blood, he also himself in like manner hath been partaker of the same: that, through death, he might destroy him who had the empire of death, that is to say, the devil:

2. 15

   And might deliver them, who through the fear of death were all their lifetime subject to servitude.

3. 16

   For no where doth he take hold of the angels: but of the seed of Abraham he taketh hold.

4. 17

   Wherefore it behoved him in all things to be made like unto his brethren, that he might become a merciful and faithful priest before God, that he might be a propitiation for the sins of the people.

5. 18

   For in that, wherein he himself hath suffered and been tempted, he is able to succour them also that are tempted.

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

Gospel

Luke 2:22-40 or 2:22-32

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