Daily Mass and Readings
Can’t make it to Holy Mass? EWTN offers the daily readings to enable viewers to accompany the Mass of the day as it is televised. They are also the perfect way to find time in your day for spiritual reflection. Listen, watch, or read from the comfort of your home. Our Catholic Daily Reading includes the readings of the day, along with online videos, and is a resource for all who desire to live a life of faith that is pleasing to our Lord.
Tuesday, May 17, 2016
* Select a date from the calendar to view readings | Calendar access for the visually impaired
Share
The video for this date is not available; if it's a recent date, please check back soon. View most recent video
Follow Along with the Daily Mass
Get the Global Televised Mass Guide eBook delivered to your inbox and celebrate the universal beauty of the Mass!
The Global Televised Mass Guide, with text in English and Latin, guides you through the daily Mass offered at EWTN.
Fr. Joseph Mary Wolfe says, “This little booklet has been put together for you, to help you join the Universal Church throughout the world in singing the praises of the Lord as we pray and sing together, united in the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass via EWTN.”
St. Paschal Baylon, OFM, Religious (Memorial)
First Option
Second Option
First Reading
James 4:1-10
1What causes wars, and what causes fightings among you? Is it not your passions that are at war in your members?
2You desire and do not have; so you kill. And you covet and cannot obtain; so you fight and wage war. You do not have, because you do not ask.
3You ask and do not receive, because you ask wrongly, to spend it on your passions.
4Unfaithful creatures! Do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Therefore whoever wishes to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.
5Or do you suppose it is in vain that the scripture says, “He yearns jealously over the spirit which he has made to dwell in us”?
6But he gives more grace; therefore it says, “God opposes the proud, but gives grace to the humble.”
7Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil and he will flee from you.
8Draw near to God and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you men of double mind.
9Be wretched and mourn and weep. Let your laughter be turned to mourning and your joy to dejection.
10Humble yourselves before the Lord and he will exalt you.
Responsorial Psalm
Psalms 55:7-11, 23
6And I say, “O that I had wings like a dove! I would fly away and be at rest;
7yea, I would wander afar, I would lodge in the wilderness, Selah
8I would haste to find me a shelter from the raging wind and tempest.”
9Destroy their plans, O Lord, confuse their tongues; for I see violence and strife in the city.
10Day and night they go around it on its walls; and mischief and trouble are within it,
22Cast your burden on the LORD, and he will sustain you; he will never permit the righteous to be moved.
Gospel
Mark 9:30-37
30They went on from there and passed through Galilee. And he would not have any one know it;
31for he was teaching his disciples, saying to them, “The Son of man will be delivered into the hands of men, and they will kill him; and when he is killed, after three days he will rise.”
32But they did not understand the saying, and they were afraid to ask him.
33And they came to Caperʹna-um; and when he was in the house he asked them, “What were you discussing on the way?”
34But they were silent; for on the way they had discussed with one another who was the greatest.
35And he sat down and called the twelve; and he said to them, “If any one would be first, he must be last of all and servant of all.”
36And he took a child, and put him in the midst of them; and taking him in his arms, he said to them,
37“Whoever receives one such child in my name receives me; and whoever receives me, receives not me but him who sent me.”
From the Franciscan Lectionary
First Reading
1 Corinthians 1:26-31
26For consider your call, brethren; not many of you were wise according to worldly standards, not many were powerful, not many were of noble birth;
27but God chose what is foolish in the world to shame the wise, God chose what is weak in the world to shame the strong,
28God chose what is low and despised in the world, even things that are not, to bring to nothing things that are,
29so that no human being might boast in the presence of God.
30He is the source of your life in Christ Jesus, whom God made our wisdom, our righteousness and sanctification and redemption;
31therefore, as it is written, “Let him who boasts, boast of the Lord.”
Responsorial Psalm
Psalms 34:2-7, 9-11
1I will bless the LORD at all times; his praise shall continually be in my mouth.
2My soul makes its boast in the LORD; let the afflicted hear and be glad.
3O magnify the LORD with me, and let us exalt his name together!
4I sought the LORD, and he answered me, and delivered me from all my fears.
5Look to him, and be radiant; so your faces shall never be ashamed.
6This poor man cried, and the LORD heard him, and saved him out of all his troubles.
8O taste and see that the LORD is good! Happy is the man who takes refuge in him!
9O fear the LORD, you his saints, for those who fear him have no want!
10The young lions suffer want and hunger; but those who seek the LORD lack no good thing.
Gospel
Matthew 11:25-30
25At that time Jesus declared, “I thank thee, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that thou hast hidden these things from the wise and understanding and revealed them to babes;
26yea, Father, for such was thy gracious will.
27All things have been delivered to me by my Father; and no one knows the Son except the Father, and no one knows the Father except the Son and any one to whom the Son chooses to reveal him.
28Come to me, all who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.
29Take my yoke upon you, and learn from me; for I am gentle and lowly in heart, and you will find rest for your souls.
30For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.”