Today’s
Readings

First Reading

Exodus 33:7-11; 34:5b-9, 28

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Responsorial Psalm

Psalm 103:6-7, 8-9, 10-11, 12-13

1. 6

   The Lord doth mercies, and judgment for all that suffer wrong.

2. 7

   He hath made his ways known to Moses: his wills to the children of Israel.

3. 8

   The ford is compassionate and merciful: longsuffering and plenteous in mercy.

4. 9

   He will not always be angry: nor will he threaten for ever.

5. 10

   He hath not dealt with us according to our sins: nor rewarded us according to our iniquities.

6. 11

   For according to the height of the heaven above the earth: he hath strengthened his mercy towards them that fear him.

7. 12

   As far as the east is from the west, so far hath he removed our iniquities from us.

8. 13

   As a father hath compassion on his children, so hath the Lord compassion on them that fear him:

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

Gospel

Matthew 13:36-43

1. 36

   Then having sent away the multitudes, he came into the house, and his disciples came to him, saying: Expound to us the parable of the cockle of the field.

2. 37

   Who made answer and said to them: He that soweth the good seed, is the Son of man.

3. 38

   And the field, is the world. And the good seed are the children of the kingdom. And the cockle, are the children of the wicked one.

4. 39

   And the enemy that sowed them, is the devil. But the harvest is the end of the world. And the reapers are the angels.

5. 40

   Even as cockle therefore is gathered up, and burnt with fire: so shall it be at the end of the world.

6. 41

   The Son of man shall send his angels, and they shall gather out of his kingdom all scandals, and them that work iniquity.

7. 42

   And shall cast them into the furnace of fire: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

8. 43

   Then shall the just shine as the sun, in the kingdom of their Father. He that hath ears to hear, let him hear.

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