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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.

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Weekday

First Reading

1 John 4:11-18

11Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.

12No man has ever seen God; if we love one another, God abides in us and his love is perfected in us.

13By this we know that we abide in him and he in us, because he has given us of his own Spirit.

14And we have seen and testify that the Father has sent his Son as the Savior of the world.

15Whoever confesses that Jesus is the Son of God, God abides in him, and he in God.

16So we know and believe the love God has for us. God is love, and he who abides in love abides in God, and God abides in him.

17In this is love perfected with us, that we may have confidence for the day of judgment, because as he is so are we in this world.

18There is no fear in love, but perfect love casts out fear. For fear has to do with punishment, and he who fears is not perfected in love.

Responsorial Psalm

Psalms 72:1-2, 10, 12-13

1Give the king thy justice, O God, and thy righteousness to the royal son!

2May he judge thy people with righteousness, and thy poor with justice!

10May the kings of Tarshish and of the isles render him tribute, may the kings of Sheba and Seba bring gifts!

12For he delivers the needy when he calls, the poor and him who has no helper.

13He has pity on the weak and the needy, and saves the lives of the needy.

Gospel

Mark 6:45-52

45Immediately he made his disciples get into the boat and go before him to the other side, to Beth-saʹida, while he dismissed the crowd.

46And after he had taken leave of them, he went up into the hills to pray.

47And when evening came, the boat was out on the sea, and he was alone on the land.

48And he saw that they were distressed in rowing, for the wind was against them. And about the fourth watch of the night he came to them, walking on the sea. He meant to pass by them,

49but when they saw him walking on the sea they thought it was a ghost, and cried out;

50for they all saw him, and were terrified. But immediately he spoke to them and said, “Take heart, it is I; have no fear.”

51And he got into the boat with them and the wind ceased. And they were utterly astounded,

52for they did not understand about the loaves, but their hearts were hardened.