Daily Readings | Fr. Arockia Ramesh

First Reading

Ruth 2:1-3, 8-11; 4:13-17

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Responsorial Psalm

1
Blessed are all they that fear the Lord: that walk in his ways.
2
For thou shalt eat the labours of thy hands: blessed art thou, and it shall be well with thee.
3
Thy wife as a fruitful vine, on the sides of thy house.
4
Behold, thus shall the man be blessed that feareth the Lord.
5
May the Lord bless thee out of Sion: and mayest thou see the good things of Jerusalem all the days of thy life.

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

Gospel

1
Then Jesus spoke to the multitudes and to his disciples,
2
Saying: The scribes and the Pharisees have sitten on the chair of Moses.
3
All things therefore whatsoever they shall say to you, observe and do: but according to their works do ye not; for they say, and do not.
4
For they bind heavy and insupportable burdens, and lay them on men’s shoulders; but with a finger of their own they will not move them.
5
And all their works they do for to be seen of men. For they make their phylacteries broad, and enlarge their fringes.
6
And they love the first places at feasts, and the first chairs in the synagogues,
7
And salutations in the market place, and to be called by men, Rabbi.
8
But be not you called Rabbi. For one is your master; and all you are brethren.
9
And call none your father upon earth; for one is your father, who is in heaven.
10
Neither be ye called masters; for one is you master, Christ.
11
He that is the greatest among you shall be your servant.
12
And whosoever shall exalt himself shall be humbled: and he that shall humble himself shall be exalted.

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